The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1891-07-03
SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA NOTES.

LEXINGTON, Va, Juno 30.-It has
been officially announced that General
Jubal A. Early has accepted the invita-
of the Monument Committee as the
orator on the occasion of the unwilling
of the jackson monument, at Lexing-
ton, July 21. His subject will be the
military Achievements and Character
Of Andrew jackson"
Tho two upper stories of tn Lynch
burg drug mill were burned last Satur-
day morning.
Ernest Clark, brakeman on q freight
train, jumped off the train, about five
miles east Of Lceshurg, thinking it was
derailed. He rolled under the train and
was instantly killed.
Granville j. Minter, OF Henry county,
was ploughing near a ravine when his
horse fell over and dragged him along.
lie struck q rock and fractured his
skull and is not expected to recover.
Tuesday afternoon the dwelling house
OF Misses Bette and Josie Urquhart, in
Campbell county, near Lynch's station,
was totally destroyed by fire, with
nearly everything belonging to the
ladies. Tho origin of the fire is un-
known.
Aaron Morgan, colore6. Of this CITY,
! deposited tho sum of Sl,4OO in ono of
viz Oohho JGoICIQdy, UCluS IuC amount
sent him from Washington on pension
account. Aaron was a slave of the late
Richard Morgan, of Campbell county, be-
fore and for tho greater period of tho
war, but when Hunter came to Lynch
burg the Yankees captured him and
made him help them fight. Aaron was
wounded in tho head, and it was this
fortunate circumstance that entitled
him to place on the federal pension
roll and air. Jim Wright got him there
The Sl,+4o already received by Aaron
represents back pay" lie will re-
celvc hereafter sig per month as one Of
the patriots who helped save the union.
-Lynchburg News.
Samuel Fontaine, of Henry county,
died of cholcramorbus, caused by cat
ing cucumbers.
Rodney Davis, q well-known citizen
of Lincoln, Loudoun county, died last
week, aged 81 years.
The Allegheny Mining and Develop
ment Company, of Clifton Forge, has
authorized its executive committee to
close contract for the erection Of a roll
ing mill and nail mill in Clifton Forge.
The friends Of Ex-Unitcd States Mar
shall Thomas w. Scott will give big
| picnic iii his honor at Charlotte Court
House next Saturday. Captain Scott is
candidate for the State senate to sue
coed the late Senator w. II. Wood.
At tho meeting of tho Front Royal
Land Company recently, four new were
substituted for four old directors. Mr.
Henry Downing was reelected presi-
dent.
Tho trial of Robert Bland colored, at
! Warrenton yesterday for shooting John
Lcgg at The Plains several months
since, resulted in verdict of murder in
tho second degree, with a sentence of
eighteen years in the pcnitentiary.
In the city circuit court of Richmond,
Judge Wexford has set aside the verdict
in tho case of Miller against the Rich
mond and Danville Railroad Company.
Miller obtained "a Judgment last week
for injuries alleged to have been re-
| ceivcd on said road
A protest has been made at tho Post
Office Department against the change in
the route from Fredericksburg to Col
onial Beach, recently mentioned. It is
| stated that as Colonial Beach will get q
full service by steamer this service is
not needed. The department believes,
however, tho change to be in tho in
terest of the people resident at Colonial
Beach and between that place and King
George Court House.
The first Catholic Church IN West
morcland county is going to be built
there at The Hague. The cornerstone
was laid last week, and the work will
be pushed ahead and the building be
completed and dedicated the first week
in September. 1t is q remarkable fact
that during the $50 years since the
first settlement in that section, with
the exception of Catholic Church in
the county Of Lancaster, and that of
very recent date, this church in process
OF erection at Tho Hague will be the
hrst and only one to date in the North
ern Neck of Virginia. Many of the cit
liens are pleased that they have at last
been able to establish a house of wor-
ship of this denomination in that Sec
| ton.
The mayor of Red ford City fines boys
$40 for bathing in the public reservoir
William Merchant, who lives near
Marion killed an enormous rattlesnake
in his house day or two ago.
Harvey Mullins and several of his
gang OF moonshiners, who have long
dehed the officers of the law in Nc
Dowell and Raleigh counties, w. Va.
have been captured and lodged in jail.
The late decision of the Court of APP
! peals at Wythevillo seems finally to
settle the proposition that through
| freight trains can run at will on Sunday
and that local trains cannot
Alexander Young, of Grayson county,
was bitten by spider fow days ago.
and has boon committed to the lunatic
asylum at Marion, having become in
sane from the effects of the bite.
MAYORS COURT
| The following cases were disposcd of