The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1891-07-22
SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA NOTES.


The Tazewell county alliance has
nominated Oscar Moore, of Abb's Val
ley, for the house of delegates from that
county. Moore is grandson of Cap
tain James Moore, who, with his family,
was massacred by the Indians during
the early settlement Of Virginia. He
is Democrat in politics and the Demo-
cratic party will mako no nomination.
Pay Clerk James Van Vrankin, held
for robbery in the provisions and cloth
ing department OF tho Norfolk navy
yard, is now in close confinement on the
frigate Franklin in one of the petty Of
iicers' rooms, OH the berth deck. and q
sentry in front OF the door. lie is al
lowed to see no one.
Walter Brooks, negro preacher from
Washington, imported into Danville by
the prohibitionists to help them in Sc
curing the negro vote, was pelted with
rotten eggs while making speech Mon
day night.
Colonel F. ii. Fries, says the Balti-
moro Sun, president of the North Caro-
lima Construction Company, which is
building the Roanoke and Southern
railroad, was in Baltimore Wednesday.
The Mercantile Trust and Deposit Com
pany are the financial agents of the
road, and Colonel Fries and General
John Gill were arranging some financial
matters connected with the construc-
ton. Colonel Fries says that work on
the second division OF the road, from
Martinsvillc to Roanoke, sixty miles
long, is being rapidly pushed This
division is about four-fifths graded and
tho work of laying rails is going on at
the rate of onc-half mile a day from
Roanoke to Rocky Mount, and from
Martinsvillc to Rocky Mount. The
rails on this division arc sixty pound
steel rails and the work is being done in
a through manner. Sixty miles of the
Roanoke and Southern are completed
and i'll operation from Winston, N c.,
to Martinsv;lle, Va. The entire route
to Roanoke will be completed some
time in the fall. The road opens up n
rich and growing section of country.
Mr.. S. e. Jones, the county superin-
tendent OF Sunday-schools has decided
that the County Sunday-School Conven-
ton is to be held in buchanan 1T the
baptist Church on August 26 and 81.
Mrs. Jacob Ezekiel, mother of tho
American sculptor, Ezekiel died sud
denly at Old Point on Friday.
The mackerel fleet operating OIL the
Virginia coast is said to be doing fine
business this season.
Charles l.. Respass has boon appointed
night keeper at Cape Charles, and
Charles T. Bohannon has been appointed
keeper OF the lightship at Bush's Bluff.
Mr.. w. j. Neblett, OF Lunenburg
county, for many years prominent
lawyer died a few days ago.
Mrs. Sallic Brock, widow OF Archibald
Brock, died in Rockingham county last
MI
Hon. Richard ii. Cockeville, for a
number of years judge of the county
court of Alexandria and Fairfax. died
in Washington Tuesday.
Miss Rhoda Tabor Wesley died at her
residence, near News Ferry, Halifax
county, Thursday, aged one hundred
and five years.
at the July term of the county court
OF Charlotte county, Henrietta Murrell
and Catherine Jackson, colorcd we're
sentenced to be hanged-the former for
the murder of two little children, who
were burned TO death while asleep in
their beds by the prisoner when their
mother was away from home, and the
latter for tho murder of her own child
by drowning it in Il creek.
j. ~. Nicltels, prominent citizen of
Bristol, is dead.
Congressman O'Ferrall is i'll at his
residence i'll Iarrisonburg.
a large meeting of citizens OF Staun
ton was held last Saturday evening, at
which committee was appointed to
confer with the authorities Of the Nor
folk and Western railroad in regard to
the construction of a railroad from
Staunton to Stuarts Draft, on the Nor
folk and Western road, a distance Of
eleven miles.