The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1890-10-03
VIRGINIA NOTES.
A Presbyterian Church was organize,
at Pamplin City Sunday.

n hIItSOyterluu lnurcn was organized
at Pamplin City Sunday.
Senator Daniel spoke in Baltimore
last night before the Crescent Demo-
cratic Club of that city.
L. Robert Edmunds, member of the
Black Horse Cavalry during tho late
war, died ut his country residence, near
CASANOVA, Saturday evening.
Tho slaughter of sora Tuesday along
the marshes of the James river and it's.
tributaries is said to have bcen the
greatest in the history OF sora shooting
Governor Mckinney has issued writs
for elections to be held in November at
the time of the election of Congressman
to I'LL three vacancies in the Senate
from the Fifth, Eleventh and Thirty
sixth districts, and two in the House,
from Carroll and Brunswick counties.
Emmett Pyle, son of C. H. Pyle, real
estate agent of Petersburg, was found
Wednesday morning lying unconscious
In the marsh near that city, He had
gone hunting with a friend, who re-
turned, saying he had left Pyle down the
river. Everything was done to save
Pyle, but he died the same afternoon.
1t is supposed he became exhausted and
fell by tho wayside, and that the inclem-
cncy OF the weather FASTENED his death.
Walter Williams, Petersburg brick
layer, aged 30, committed suicide by
drinking large quantity of laudanum.
Williams had been dissipating for some
time. and had been on terms of intimacy
with woman twenty years his senior.
During September the cotton receipts
at Norfolk were CT, 4S4 bales. Norfolk's
direct exports in September, 20,059. Last
year they were only 2.05s bales.
The case Of Rev. j. Il. Sturgis, late of
Trinity Church, Richmond, is expected
to como up before the Methodist Confer
ence when it meets this year at Lynch
burg. Last spring Mr.. Sturgis was sus-
pended by court of inquiry for alleged
improper conduct. lie was given a re-
hearing and was acquitted Of any intcn-
tional wrong-doing.
1t is stated here upon good authority
that the bondholders' committee. known
as the Olcott committee. now undertake
ing to settle the Virginia State debt.
have received up to date So, 900, 900, in
Guiding many tax-reccivabln bonds.
The will of Mr.. Lewis NJ Griffin.
whose suicide took place in Richmond
carly Monday morning, was admitted to
probate in the Chancery Court ycstcr-
day. The estate. it is estimated, will
ncJ ABOUT SI2,UUU. ne VIII. which was
written by the testator himself. bears
date July a3. He leaves one-thrd of
his property to Miss Nellie Rogers,
whom he was to have married October
II.
observation-disclosures John e. Massey
was married Wednesday TO Miss Matte
McCrcery, of Turnbull, in Monroe
county, Ala. Rev. DIR. Hawthorne, of
the Atlanta Baptist Church, performed
the ceremony. Mr.. and Mrs. Massey
will soon be in Virginia. The lieuten-
ant-governor was very bright and happy,
frequently Observing, in response to
congratulations, that he had come ''to
rob Alabama of one of it's fairest flowers
and transplant her to Virginia"
Captains r. S. Eckles, George c. Gill
and e. O. Altwcll, the new passenger
conductors on the Norfolk and Western
railroad, who succeed Captains Thomas
j. Lassiter, Henry Whyte and Frank NJ.
Smith, wont on duty Wednesday. Cap
tain Eclles came up from Norfolk in the
morning and Captain Gill came from
Crcwe. Thursday night Captain Atwell
came up from Norfolk and took his
train.