The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1890-07-12
GLASGOW.
New Railroad Dcpots-A Child swallow.
Concentrated Lye.

GLASGOW, Va, July l1.-lspecial. "A
Lynchburg gentleman has just purchased q
corner lot on Fitz Lee and Eighth streets,
on which he will put up $500 drug store,
for which he paid $1,000.
Hon. W. A. Anderson. counsel for the
ROckbridge Company, and Professor j. X.
Proctor, State ge0logisi Of Kentucky, have
been sent to London. England. 90 treat with
the English syndicate and explain the
titles TO the iron properties Of the company.
They sailed from New York on the 18th
inst, and reached London on the lS,h.
EN-GOycrnOr Lee has gone 10 New York,
rs The president OF the Pitisburg aud Virgil
MIA Railroad, TO consult with Mr.. Francis
o. French, president OF the Manhattan Trust
Company, who is promoter OF that line,
and who is just back from London, where
he went 10 close the negotiations with the
syndicate that will build that road The
president thinks Mr.. French has closed the
deal, and that the SSO00.0O0 of bonds for
that line will be floated at once in London
and this country FOR the immediate con-
etructiOn Of the road. The sum Of SjO0,O0O
has been paid up for the survey OF the road.
The soliciting committee Of the Presby-
terian Church is at work 10 raise the 81, 900
for the erection Of their house Of worship,
and are meeting with success.
Last Sunday at Trinity and It. Johns
Protestant Episcopal churches the rector,
Rev. j. p. Lawrence. preached morning and
night. At Trinity in the morning the holy
communion was administered.
The new Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad
depot is open for business, both passenger
and freight. and express and telegraph
Offices are operative there. The building ls
a pretty structure. with modern accOmmO-
datiOns OF the combination design, with
broad platforms, sidmgs, Nc.
Assi.tant-Chief Eng giHeer Of the Shenan-
dOah Valley Railroad, and Mr.. Thomas
Egan. supervisor Of the Third division Of
that line. were here last week. and selected
the location for the passenger and freight
depot OF that road at the north end Of the
Blue Ridge Road and let the contract to W.
u. Bethel for its immediate construction.
The building will be the standard Of that
line, combination with passenger, freight.
express and telegraph Offices.
4 cOlOred baby here, a few days ago, IN
the absence Of its mother, found a box Of
concentrated I've in the house and deyOured
a portion OF the lye. Dr. ". 4. Picker at
tended the case. and the child lives.
4 new supply of water has been discOv-
cred about two miles in the gorge of the
Rlue Ridge Mountains walled in by the
massive cliffs sixty feet in diameter and
from ten TO forty feet deep at an elevation
Of several hundred feet above this place.
The system Of wdter-wOrks now in opera
tion here consists of 1900 feet of mains,
with supply pipes in the alley lines.
A little brother of Agent :. NJ. Alyis. OF
the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway, a few
days ago was painfully hurt by the pre-
mature discharge OF dynamite cap with
which he was playing.
Captain Robert L. Lee. who was elected
pres ident Of the Commercial Bank OF Gia--
cow, having been forced TO decline that DO
stion on account OF other business engage
ments previously made, Colonel Robert
Cattlett, the secretary Of the Rock bridge
Company, has been elected to that position.
and has accepted the trust.
Machinery for the manufacture Of terra
Gotta. tile and friedrich will be pat UP in
the Bethel brick-works, and the capacity of
the brick kilns enlarged.
Rev. 4. p. BOude is absent in Lexington.
General John G.. Meem is back again.
$. O. Campbell, treasurer of Lexington,
was in the city last week.
Mr.. John Ndir, Of Chicago, H.. Is here-
visiting his brother. Postmaster Nair.
Miss Carrie Michie is visiting her sister,
Mrs. W. G. Mathews.
Cadet Robert Jordan, of the Virginia
Military Institute is guest of his grand
father Major r. J. Echos.
Miss Laura Echos is visiting friends here.
Thomas :. White is at CObb's Island,
curing himself in the salt sea weayes.
The Greenlce mines, IN ArnOld's valley,
are being developed under the direction OF
az expert Scotch mining engineer.