The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1891-02-12
SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA NEWS S.

site has been selected and the work of
construction will be begun at an early
date as possible. The Methodists,
Episcopalians, and Catholics will also
build churches upon the sites donated
them by the Basic City Company some
time during the present year.
The forests of Indiana, the fifth lum-
ber-produoing State in the Union, have
now been reduced to 100000 acres, or
about one-tenth of the total area. They
contain, according to Professor s. Coul-
ter, LOG species of trees, belonging to
twenty-four orders. The sugar maple,
found in every county, is tho most uni
formly distributed. Geological forma-
tions are assumed to have little effect
on the distribution of trees over so linn
tied surface, but the main influences
are difference of elevation, the course
of the streams, and the location of the
swamps.
Rev. j. e. Bushnell, OF Roanoke, Va,
ono of the leading ministers of the
South, is in the city. Mr.. Bushnell ex-
poets to commence the publication of
the Southern Evangelist within few
weeks, religious paper for general cir
culation all over the Southland. lie is
arranging with the publishers of this
paper and the Lutheran Evangelist to
have the mechanical work done here.
The new publication will be an import
ant one and will have a very large cir
culation from the start. Mr. Bushnell
occupies several important positions in
religious and educational fields
Springfield CO., Republican.
Work has begun on the excavation
for the gas plant on Broad street in
Bristol. The company have from now
70 No. 10 a.. ef, 4 L t.
by that time Bristol will have better
and moro lights than she ever had.
The Radford Enterprise says: The
New River Mineral Company are find
ing some difficulty in securing the
at that place. 1t is our impression, we
are sorry to state, that the quantity of
hematite ore is owindling.
A force of hands are at work on the
Danville and East Tennessee road near
Buffum's Mills. The number will be
increased from day to day until they
are strung out all along the line from
Bristol to Damascus.
Messrs. c. w. Pike and Jos. Caldwell,
jr., have recently bought large tract
of timber land north of Max Meadows
and will put up saw mills upon their
property and do quito an extensive
lumber business this summer Mr..
Pike has already bought the mill ma
chinery.
Messrs. Carnahan e Calico, Of Wythe-
vile, sold last week to Mr.. Geo. Sim
hermann, OF Cripple Creek, very valu-
able and beautiful farm in Burk's Gar
den. The property consists of about fif-
teen hundred acres of splendid farm
land, and seventeen hundred acres Of
mountain land, which is said to contain
some valuable deposits of iron ore. The
price paid by Mr.. Simmerman was forty
five thousand dollars cash.
A joint meeting of the stockholders Of
the Winston, n. c., Electric Light and
Motive Power Company and the Wins
ton-Salem Street Railway Company was
held in that city Monday afternoon for
the organization under the consolidated
charter recently granted by the present
session of the legislature. The organ
ization was perfected under the name of
tho Winston-Salem Railway and Elec-
trio Company Tho following are the
officers elected for the new company,
ness as heretofore: president, j. H. Nc
Clement; vice-president, E. L. Hawks;
secretary and treasurer, w. II. Mason.
Mr.. Ii. S. Cooper, Of New York, general
manager for the new company, has ar
rived and entered upon tho duties as
signed him.
The Norfolk and Western employs
over one hundred men at Pulaski-and
the shops are not built yet.
Pulaski station shows receipts of
5000 per month.
Alexandria has for some time past
been getting out of the old ruts in which
it has moved for nearly century in the
management Of municipal affairs. Re-
Gently the city council passed an ordi-
nonco requiring all physicians to report
deaths and making burial-permit nee
eessary before the body can be buried.
Then came an ordinance requiring a
permit for the erection and improve
ment of houses and tho building of
fence around them during the process of
erection. Several other changes to the
modern style of running a city have re-
Gently been adopted, and the latest
change is proposal recently made to
create police board to take charge OF
the police force and police matters.
The Pocahontas Coal Company have
filed bill in the clerks office of the
Hastings Court at Norfolk for claim
against the Atlantic and Danville rail
road for steaming coal furnished to tho
amount of S7,6l2.6O.
Fredericksburg needs city engineer,
wants one badly and p. d. q.-Free
Lance.
POOR OLD BAILEY.
The Overworked Station Keeper mt Inst
Loses His Mental Balance.