Roanoke daily times. (Roanoke, Va) 1886-1890, 1890-03-05
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ITEMS OF INTERI
RIOUS SUBJ,
THE GOLD MINES OF =
Where the Regatta OF the Virginia
Amateur Oarsmen VIII be Held.
Mayer ElIyson Recommends an
Appropriation.

The Stafford county gold mines are
to be vigorously worked.
G. r. Savers has been appointed
postmaster at Bertha, Wythe county,
vice +. r, Calfee removed.
The Virginia Amateur Oarsmans'
association has selected Richmond,
June 18th, as the place and time for
the next regatta.
Governor Mckinney is having his
hands full of work now. Senators and
delegates are urging him to approve
their bills before Monday.
In addition to his duties as general
SUPERINTENDENT. Mr.. w. II. Green
has been appointed assistant general
manager of the Richmond and Dan
vile railroad.
Mayor Ellyson, of Richmond, re-
commends by message to the Rich
mond council the appropriation of
$4,000 for the expenses of celebrating
the unwilling of the monument to
General r. L. Lee.
President Inman, OF the Richmond
Terminal, has declined to accept the
recent bid of $4,000 of new common
stock. He thinks he can get more
for small amount of stock later on.
After March nth the railway mail
service from Graham to Kelly, on
the Norfolk and Western road, in
Virginia, will be extended from Kelly
by Pounding Mills, Cedar Bluff,
Ratcliff, and Sword creek to Honaker,
increasing the distance 1910 miles.
The two houses OF the Virginia gen.
eral assembly have passed the bill al.
lowing the Virginia, Missouri and
Western railroad, cooperation char
tered under the laws of Tennessee, to
enter the state with their road. The
project is with their connections to
make the line run from Portsmouth,
Va, to New Mexico. The bill was SO
amended as to prohibit the company
from building any lateral branches or
connecting lines in this state not al
lowed under the general law.
The Craig City Improvement COM
pany has its lots nearly all surveyed
and will soon, we learn, put them on
the market. And the New Castle
Land Improvement company, which
has bought all the available land south
of Newcastle, is rushing q large force
in order to have its lots ready by the
time the first named company "OPENS
the ball" These companies are doing
good work in advertising Craig's
wealth and natural advantages to the
outside world.
The well.known detective John
Wren, the head of the national detec-
tive agency of Richmond, which bears
his name, died yesterday morning of
pneumonia at the Exchange Hotel,
Richmond. He was well-known
throughout this section Of the state
and has been engaged on several i'm
portance cases in the Southwest. 1t
was through his instrumentality that
the parties who fired the town OF
Rocky Mount were detected: AS a
detective Jack" Wren stood high,
and he has achieved an enviable re-
putation in his profession, which is
almost national.
Mr.. John w. Chamberlain, the
well-known Washington hotel man,
who has obtained the Governments
permission to erect @ hotel at Old
Point was in Norfolk yesterday. Mr..
Chamberlain has been to Old Point
looking after the work of pulling
down the buildings which now occupy
the site selected for the hotel. He
had plans of the building with him,
which he showed to many OF his Nor
folk friends, and which indicate that
the structure will be very handsome
one. The estimated cost of the build
ing is $5O0,O00 Senator Hurst, of Cal
iifornia, and Mr.. Havemeyer, the
millionaire sugar king, are the largest
stockholders in the company.-Nor-
folk Virginian.