The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1891-03-28
SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA NOTES.

A charter has been granted by the
city court Of Staunton to the Daily
News Printing Company. The company
is formed for the purpose of conducting
general publishing, printing and sta
tionory business, with capital stock of
not less than 81 200 nor more than $685.
600. divided into shares of S25 each,
with the right to hold as much as fifty
acres Of land. Staunton is to be the
principal office of said company, and
the officers selected to manage the bust
ness are G. G. Gooch, presidents; Thomas
D. Ransom, vice. president; George l..
urer, and the above with Isaac Witt, w.
p. Tams and o. Il. Caldwell constitute
the directors.
ALEXANDRIA, March 27.-lSpeciall-
Several of the LAWYERS here are going
into the direct tax refunding business
with the vim of pension sharks. Circu-
lars have been sent out to several hun
dred here, offering to collect these
claims at IS per cent. About SEQ, 900
will probably. como to Alexandrians,
and yesterday young lawyer, who q
week or two ago was begging for the
appointment of Alexandria correspond
emit Of Washington paper at SIS per
week, told me he represented clients
with receipts representing $500.
There is valuable deposit of white
quartz sand owned by DIR. Lewis E.
Colt, OF Alexandria county. This de-
posit has been pronounced by leading
men in the china and glassware manu-
facture in New Jersey. Baltimore and
elsewhere as of the finest quality. This
ipexhaustible deposit is but seven miles
from Alexandria city and within $50
feet of the tracks of tho w. & O. divi-
sion of the Richmond and Danville rail
road.
Mr.. Tom Caldwell, son of Mr.
Joseph w. Caldwell, a prominent lawyer
and old resident of Wytheville, is dead.
He was young man of exceptional
mental endowments and unusual cul-
ture. He was bachelor of law of the
University of Virginia, and for several
years a successful practitioner at the
Norfolk bar. Less than year ago he
returned to his home in Wythevillc on
account of his health, and since that
time he has been an invalid.
The Toms Creek correspondent of
the Montgomery Democrat writes the
following about Col. j. Hampton Hoge:
I'VE are pleased to hear that Col. Hoge
has recently, by speculation, made
nearly 100000. lie is the Democratic
candidate for commemorative attorney,
and trusts as much for success to his
record when formerly Commonwealth's
attorney as to party strength or per-
sonal popularity. He will be remem-
bered as an able and active prosecutor"
A few months since Mr.. Alfred Carter
OF Loudoun county, died, and in his will
directed what provision should be made
with $4,000 locked in his desk. The
desk, it appears, was an old piece of
furniture, and had been taken out of
the house several weeks before Mr.
Carter's death and thrown aside in the
garden, but when opened the money
was found just as it had been left by
the deceased.
The tannery belonging to Saum,
Boyer 6 Co., at Edinburg, Shenandoah
county, was destroyed by fire on Tues
day. The building containing a large
lot of finished leather, green hides, oil,
ETC., along with bark mill and lot
of valuable machinists tools, was de-
stroyed, causing a loss of $500 or
$4,000. Upon this there is an insurance
Of $1,000 on stock and other property,
5000 on tools, and 5000 on the building.
syndicate of New Jersey capitalists
on Friday last consummated the pur-
chase of 1,400 building lots at Clare
mont, on James river, belonging to Mrs.
j. Frank Mancha. Mrs. Mancha re-
serves "tho villa" with about 200 town
lots adjoining it. The same syndicate
also contracted for the purchase of =, 500
acres of improved and unimproved' land
in Claremont and 5000 acres in Ray
mond and Bartlett.
The Tin Mining Company are making
preparations to go right along with the
work of developing their valuable prop
erty near Berryville, Virginia. The ex-
posures thus far made warrant the in
ference that there is an iXexhaustible
body of the tin-bearing rock in the tract
owned by the company. The tin hill is
300 feet above the surrounding tract,
and is supposed to be compact mass of
the metal-bearing stone. Already Sec
tiOns across the hill moro than a hun
dred feet in length have been cut and
shaft 40 feet deep has been sunk.
Three spans of the Rivermont bridge,
at Lynchburg, extending from the Main
street abutment to the opposite side of
Blackwater creek, are about finished.
On Mondoy sixteen additional workmen
arrived from Wilmington, Del, and it
is thought that the structure will be
pushed to completion by April 90.
The estimated wealth OF the Virginia
Coal and Iron company is as follows:
Samuel Dickson, S5O0,oOO; John S.
Wontz, S5t0,000; A. w. Leisenrieg,
Sl,000.000; NJ. S. Kemmerer, $1,000, 900;
John c. Bullitt, 81 900, 900; T.. Is. Leisen-
rieg, SO, 00O,OO0; Robert II. Sayre, So, OOO,-
600; Samuel Thomas, S5,OOO,OJO. Total,
100000.
Lillian Lewis.
Below is what the papers say of Lii
liam Lewis who will appear here Mon.
day night in Credit Lorraine" for Mr..