The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1891-07-24
SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA NOTES.

Will be started up. The electrician in
charge says the cars Will operate
smoothly and without hitch from the
start.
Although the Pocahontas coal fields
haVo only been in operation eight years
1T will be seen, according to the follow
ing statistics, that it stands second in
the list which gives the output OF all the
bituminous districts in the United States
for the year ending June 80, 1891. 1t is
only surpassed by tho Clearfleld, West
crn Pennsylvania, district:
barclay ............... 33,O93
POc3hOntaS.. ..........l o36 oOo
Beech Creek. l.l37. 167
Chesapeake and Ohio l,22S,57
Clearfield .6S3. 3os
Broad Top. ................. 247,253
meeting for organization OF engi-
neerS was called to be held at Graham
on July 4. About twenty members,
civil, mining, mechanical and electrical
engineers, assembled at the Hotel Ora
ham in the evening and formed u perma-
mont organization by clecting the follow
ing officers: President, Is. Jones, of May
bcury; vice president, w. r. Graham, of
Pocahontas; secretary, George Il. Gay,
OF Elkhorn; treasurer, Il. II. Linca-
weaver; executive committee, w. ID.
Il
and ii. Il. Mercur. The association will
be known as the Southwest Virginia
Engineering Club, and will hold regular
stated meetings The next meeting will
be held at Graham on July %, when in
teresting and instructive papers will be
read on different subjects relating to the
engineering profession.
Rev. POsey q. Lester, member Of Con-
gress from the Danville district, who
has been seriously i'll in kentucky for
several weeks, has gotten we'll again.
Chairman Eliyson, OF the State Demo
cratic committee, says he will open
headquarters in Richmond about the
LIST OF September, and from that time
on the canvass will be made red hot.
Senator Daniel will take the stump as
soon as the canvass opens and will visit
every section of the State. His success
Sor is to be chosen next winter. There
is so far no opposition to the Senator
and he will no doubt receive "a unanim-
Gus reelection.
Henry Nj. Smythe has retired from
the Graham headlight and MIR. Thomas
+. Luthcrs succeeds him. Both good
men.
Secretary Tracy told Senator barbour
Saturday that he would send commits
sion to Richmond TO inquire into the al
legged necessity of II moving the monitor
fleet from that city. and would do moth
ing in the matter until that commission
shall make its report.
Earnings of tho Norfolk and Western
for the second week in July show Sl3,-
$40 increase; Ohio and Mississippi, S10,-
2o5 increase; Louisville and Nashville
Sl05,560 increase. Estimated net earn
nf 4
Railroad Company for June. $50. 700;
fixed charges, $4,000 surplus. S14, TOO,
against S57, 900 last year.
DR.. George Magruder, formerly OF
Woodstock, died suddenly at Fort
Worth, Tex, last Sunday morning. He
leaves widow and five children. DR..
hiagruder was surgeon in the Con-
fcderate army; he married q daughter
of Mrs. Ann Powell, of Winchester, and
sister o: Mrs. Ran Tucker, OF licking
ton.
The Pulaski News says that at Rich
Hill Sunday evening Pat Hall shot his
father-in-law, Jack Lilies, probab
fatally The difficulty grow out OF
Halls alleged ill-treatment OF his wife,
who was Lilies danghther.
The Catherine furnace tract OF 5000
acres, near Fredericksburg, has been
purchased by Northern syndicate.
Rev. Isaiah Il. Wallace, one Of the
best-known Baptist preachers in Vir-
GINA, died in Richmond Monday
Mt. Emanuel Matthews, formerly of
Manc hester, died at Mobile. Ala
Mr.. f. Stearns, near Brandy Station.
sold last week to Baltimore party two
hundred head Of fat cattle for cXporta-
ton to Europe for an average SIS per
head. This is the largest sale of cattle
ever made in the county OF Culpcper by
one man. Mr.. j. w. Coons, of Cuipeper
county, also sold about forty head for
the same purpose that averaged 1880
pounds, and were said TO be the best
lot OF cattle ever shipped from Culpeper
at this season of the year. Mr.. Coons
sold these cattle in February last to be
delivered in July, consequently did not
realize as much by five or six hundred
dollars as he would have done if sold
at tho time OF delivery.
AT Fredericksburg on Saturday even
ing while Allie Wright and George
Nash, employees OF Hunters pillow works,
were conveying ladle of melted iron
across the street to the moulding shops,
Nash fell, and the iron running out ran
on the hands and arms of Wright, burn
ing hlm SO badly that amputation of
both hands may be necessary.
The Richmond committee which con.
| ferred with Mrs. jefferson Davis in re-
gard TO the removal Of her husband s
remains to that city have sent a re-
| Spouse to her letter, in which they say:
The people OF Virginia will accept the
trust as sacred one, and the authori-
ties of the city will be careful to obtain
your approval before determining the
exact location OF the grave and the
monument" The committee have re-
ceivcd information that Mrs. Davis will
probably be in Richmond in October,