The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1891-11-25
VIRGINIA NOTES.


near Richmond Thursday.
Mr.. j. g. Crockett, United States Com
missioner of Carroll county, is dead.
The changing of the University of
Virginia colors navy blue and orange)
to some other colors is talked OF. The
present colors are thought to be too
much like those of other colleges.
Rev. Theron H. Rice, of Alexandria,
has accepted the call to the pastorate
OF the Second Presbyterian Church, to
succeed the Rev. James l.. Vance, who
has taken charge of church in Nor
folk.
Last week several freshmen at the
Richmond College were hazed, and the
punishment inflicted was so severe that
complaints were made to the faculty,
and an investigation is in progress.
The British steamship Plymothian,
loaded with cotton, in putting to sea
from Lambert's Point, after coaling, was
In collision near Craney Island with the
British steamship Victory, coming in
from Europe for cotton. Both ships
had the iron plates forward started and
broke through and were badly dam
aged. The Plymothian YVES cut through
below the water line, and had to be run
ashore to prevent her sinking.
John d. Gilbert, OF Patrick county,
charged with firing on United States
officers, and who was convicted at the
November QSS9) term of the United
States District Court, held in Danville,
has been sentenced to three years hard
labor in the Albany penitentiary.
wealthy Massachusetts syndicate
has purchased 600 acres of valuable
land in Che sterfield county, near Pc
tersburg, and will lay out new town
Rev. j. P. Barrett, of Raleigh, N. c.,
has accepted call to the pastorate of
Providence and Berea Christian
Churches, in Norfolk county.
Charlottesville will issue S25, 900 in
bonds for city improvements.
In the chancerY court, at Richmond,
Messrs. Haythe e Haythe, attorneys at
law, of Buena Vista, counsel for j. E.
b. Stuart and others, of that town,
filed an injunction against the Newport
News, Hampton and Old Point Develop
ment Company. The injunction was
granted by Judge j. Singleton Diggs,
of the corporation court Of Lynchburg.
1t enjoins and restraints the defendant
company from making any sale of the
stock subscribed by the plaintiffs and
from parting in any manner with the
notes mentioned in the bill of COM
plant until the further order of the
court.
Leo Hefin and George Dye are under
arrest at Calverton, Fauonicr county.
charged with being implicated in the
murder of Mrs. Hines and her three
children.
The Dolphin, Fern and Vesuvius are
now undergoing repairs at the Norfolk
navy yard.
An immigra ton society has been or
ganized in Charlottesville, with Dr. s.
Il. Miller as president; A. Russow, vice
president; Mayor S. b. Woods, secretary,
and l.. ID. Aylett, taersurer. and has
purchased tract Of 500 acres of land,
which will be divided into small farms
and sold at reasonable prices to small
farmers, who, it is believed, can be IN
duced to come from Europe. MIR. Miller
was consul at Leipsic under Cleveland,
and has large foreign acquaintance.
From the little station of CovesviIle.
Albemarle, 6.O00 barrels of apples have
just been shipped. mostly to Liverpool.
The dogs of Mr.. P. H. OBannon, of
Rappahannockc county, took S70O in prizes
at the field show in Indiana
At Hume, Fauquier county, few
nights since, Mr.. j. w. Miller had 25
sheep killed by dogs. Two of the dogs
were found and killed.
The Richmond and Danville Railroad
Company has adopted Westinghouse air
brakes, Westinghouse train signals and
Janney coupler on all passenger trains,
and will not haul special or private cars
rendered to it by connecting lines IN
less they are similarly equipped.
A State temperance convention is tn
be held in Richmond December II and 1s.
DR.. II. NJ. Clarkson, of the Cape
Charles quarantine station, has resigned
and returned to his home at New Mar.
ket, Va.
j. Brad Beverly, of Loudoun county,
raised this season on 1S acres of land
$40 bushels of corn.