Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1885-12-25

Burr. Up Deer-ShootiDg-A Neil-Equippsd
Furnace-Personal NoIss.
Correspondence OF the Richmond Dispatch.l
GLEN WILTON, }
BOTET0URT COUNTY. I
December "a, 1885. y
A fatal accident happened at Princess
furnace here few days ago--the only
violent death occurring here since this
furnace went into blast.
A colored man named Felix Richard
son, standing at the foot of the elevator
which carries stock to the top of the
stack, sixty feet high, stuck his head
between two cross-beams to give mes
sage to the foreman within just as the
descending elevator reached that point.
The heavy cage caught his head, crush
ing his skull and breaking his neck.
The obstruction stopping the elevator,
the man below looked up and was hor-
rifed to see the negro's mangled head
and starting eyes just above him. lie
gave the signal to raise the elevator,
when, without having uttered a sound,
the poor man dropped back dead.
His body was carried to his friends at
Elk Hill, on the Richmond and Ale
ghany railroad, in Goochland county.
lie was regarded as the best hand on
the works.
Another singular and almost fatal
accident occurred here yesterday. Dir.
benjamin Gore, the farm manager, was
lifting large three-hOrse harrow upon
the wagon, when it slipped and fell
teeth-foremost upon him, bearing him
to the ground. lie struggled out from
under the harrow, bleeding profasely
from wound in the neck. DR.. Arthur
NJ. Walkup being summoned, found
that tooth of the harrow had pene-
trated Mr.. Cores neck, scraping the
carotic artery and inflicting CHASTITY
wound. The Doctor said if the tooth
had been sharper it would have cut the
artery, and the man would have died
where he fell. The wound is quite a
dangerous one.
Mr.. 0. b. Wood, residing near here,
lost 800 in a peculiar and unlooked-for
way not long since. lie had just placed a
roll Of bank-notes to that amount in his
bureau-drawer. closed, locked it, and
turned away, when he observed flames
and smoke issuing from the drawer.
Hastily unfastening it, he found that a
box Of matches had been exploded and
his money, which was lying by them,
was entirely consumed, together with
some papers. The loss was one he is
i'll able to sustain.
Mr. Jack Accord, Of Clifton Forge,
did some Of the best deer. shooting the
other day that the hunters in this Sec
ton can tell of. lie and Mr.. Lemon.
of Allegheny, were " stlll-hunting " in
the mountains near Longdale, not being
in sight of each other, when Lemon
started two fine does from their bed I'M
der the sunny side of ledge. The
deer ran up the mountain and came
within two hundred and fifty yards and
in sight of Accord, one running about
fifty yards behind the other. The
huntsman fred with a Winchester re-
peating rife several times at the fore
most doe and killed it. lie then sent
several balls after the other, when 1t
also fell. Both animals were struck
more than once, and now Jack Accord
is counted the champion shot of the
valley.
Ex.State-Treasurer C. NJ. Reynolds,
who resides on his fine place near here,
will start with his family the lst of
January to spend the winter IN Florida,
at his place on Indian river, which he
is planting in pineapples, said to be the
best. paying of Florida crops. 1t is
hoped that he will send the Dispatch
some more OF his readable letters from
the land of flowers this winter.
The Princess" furnace is located
on 900 acres of land, which the pro-
prietor, Mr.. ID. 5. Cook, Of Penn
sylvania, purchased of Captain Rey-
nolds. 1t is one of the most complete
and conveniently arranged little IRON
working establishments the writer has
ever seen. The furnace is right on the
Richmond and Allegheny railroad, and
the loading and unloading is done from
the cars on the side track right
upon the yard Of the furnace.
The mines are only about a mile
distant, and the ore is brought
on narrow.guage railroad-one
stout little engine doing all the hauling.
except for the limestone, which is
brought in wagons about a quarter of a
mile from quarry on the river. The
water is pumped from the river into the
works, and from 80 to 35 tons of iron
made per day, at an outlay as small
perhaps as that Of any other furnace in
the South. Mr.. 7. ID. Kauhett, Of
Pennsylvania, who came here some thir-
teen years ago, is the general manager.
He has become thoroughly identified
with the interests Of the community,
and is valuable citizen, an elder in the
Presbyterian church at the furnace, and
superintendent of the Sunday school.
The church building is a very pretty
new structure, built in the Queen Anne
style by Mr.. Cook and Captain G. NJ.
Reynolds, at a cost Of about $4,000,
and the old Locust Bottom congregation
worships in it. 1t is to-day being hand
somely decorated for Christmas-eve.
VoX.