The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1891-05-17
SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA NOTES.


children and grandchildren were served
greatest legal battle over viii ever
occurring in West Virginia.
Andrew Kennedy, aged seventy-seven
years, for many years n salesman for
Smith e Curlett, of Baltimore, died at
Staunton. May 2. He was a member of
the old Staunton Artillery, and served
all through the war.
A colored man named Henry Jones,
who was arrested in Parkersburg, w.
Va, Tuesday, as suspect, confessed
in Fayette county.
Thomas McGill, native of Freder-
lcksburg, and Northwestern agent of tho
Chicago Tuesday.
The payroll of the Bertha Zinc Works
at Pulaski City now exceeds S26, 900
monthly, and their capacity is to be
largely increased.
Refreshing rains fell in some of the
southside counties Tuesday.
Hon. Charles T. O'Ferrall will deliver
the address on Confederate Memorial
Day at Winchester, juno 6.
Five hundred Union veterans from
Washington will visit Fredericksburg
May Conditional Decoration Day.
The reports of tho farmers from the
various sections of Campbell as 70 the
damage done by the late frost are some
what conflicting. Some consider the
damage slight; others think that the
fruit crop is greatly damaged, if not
totally destroyed. Tho mischief was
done not merely by the frost, but by the
cold, blasting wind which followed. 1t
is expected that much of tho fruit now
remaining will Nall of, but there will
still BIO good deal left
The jury in tho Stevens murder case
at Fincastle, after being out two days,
brought in verdict Of guilty. and fixed
his term in the penitentiary at eighteen
years.
About two-thirds of the 1876 miles of
track from Elkhorn, West Virginia, to
Ironton, Ohio. has been graded, and the
laying of rails has commenced at Iron
ton and at Kanawha, West Virginia.
Work on the new station of the Ches-
apeake and Ohio railway at Basic CITY
has been begun and the building is to
be completed within thirty days.
Tho contractors for the building of
the National Boulevard at Fredcricks-
burg, arc busy getting out the stone and
will begin work on the roadway this
morning. The work will commence
with twenty-five hands, and the stono
for tho work will DO taken from Hun
ter's Island.
Workmcn arc now engaged in build
ing fifty new houses, scattered in vari-
GUS sections of Bucna Vista. Informa-
ton is given that fully five hundred ad-
ditional buildings are now under con-
tract.
Tho Norfolk and Western railroad
has forco Of men engaged in putting
in side track on the north side of Now
River at Radford to be used by the
American Bridge Company, for storing
material for the bridge works on that
side of the river.
Bishop A. w. Wilson, of tho M. T..
Church, South, will preach tho annual
sermon before the young ladies of Suf-
folk Female Institute on Sunday, Juno
Z, 1891, at p. m.
Tho regular annual meeting of the
Basic City building and Investment
Company was held Tuesday. A divi-
dend of per cent. was declared, paya-
Bile on or before the 18th of July next,
which is really equivalent to s per
cent. pcr annum. An election of oili-
cers for the ensuing year was held, with
tho following result: President, Isaac
Witt; vice prcsident, j. M. Quarlcs; sec
rotary and treasurer, j. l.. Wilson;
manager, j. II. Llghtncr.
The first consignment of machinery
for the cutlery factory at Elkton has
arrived. 1t consists of small articles
intended chiefly for the grinding and
finishing rooms.
A special from Rocky Mount says that
Victoria Hodges, who q year or more
ago shot and killed r. j. Cunningham,
sewing agent who had visited
her house of ill-fame, was tried in the
County Court of Franklin county YES
terday and was found guilty of man
slaughter. Her punishment was fixed
at six years in the pcnitentiary. A
motion for new trial was overruled.
The frosty nights OF last week did
much less damage in and around Wythe-
vile than was at first feared, though
reports from the country Indicate that
a little moro harm has resulted at a
distance from town. The grapes and
t,nderer vegetables were slightly
nipped, but cherries, pears and apples
wero not injured at all.
For the year ended May 1 S435, 575
was spent in Staunton and vicinity in
buildings, factories and development.
Capt. j. G. Boude has sold his farm,
on the southern edge of Lexington, for
$4,000 to syndicate, which will lay it
Off in lots.
benjamin johnson, living near
Lebanon, accidentally shot and killed
himself with gun Wednesday evening
of last week.
kSA Northern party is corresponding
with the Bedford City Company relative
to the removal of his knitting mill to
BEDFORD City.