The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1891-02-11
VIRGINIA NEWS OTES.

CoWpieteu. IL is q beautiful building,
conveniently arranged for WORK, and
1tted up Tor the comfort Of employees.
a large number Of girls are at work
there.
The Twin City Iron Company, of
| Front Royal, have located the site for
their furnace and are making every Of
fort to open up operations actively in
the spring.
few weeks since Judge w. w. Will
!oughby, the attorney for the Combined
saw and Planer Company, who had APP
pied to the Corporation Court of this
city for charter for that company, re-
4 fused to pay the charter tax on the
4 ground that such tax could only DO col
4 !eoted ON charters granted by the Legis-
lature, and not on those granted by the
4 courts. Judge Willoughby now asks
4 the Court Of Appeals to grant q manda-
mus to compel Secretary Of Common
wealth Ii. w. Flournoy to record the
j charter OF that company. This notice
was served on the secretary on Satur-
4 dey evening. 1t sets forth that this
company obtained a charter from tho
Corpo, alton Court, of Alexandria, on OF
= about January 8, 1891. Their capital
A stock is fixed tS2, 000, 900, the tax upon
! which is $500. Before the secretary can
4 record this charter the law requires
y for them, shall produce the auditors
4 certificate that the tax has been paid
i into his office. This the petitioners re-
4 fused TO do, alleging that the law i'm
4 posing 1t Is unconstitutional. IL the
4 case Is carried to the court the whole
Il merits of the legal questions involved
3will DO ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Gazette.
Il The State Real Estate Exchange organ
A lzad at Roanoke last month elected our
townsman, Captain A. Robinson, treas
4urer. This selection does honor to
ARadford as we'll as to tho exchange.
81 1t is rumored that the Black Marble
Il works on Black Creek at the southern
8boundary of Roanoke county, will open
Bout soon with full force OF hands, and
5Tthat they expect to dress up their own
8material. They are getting out some
Every nice stone at this time. They will
n 10 short time put in another steam
4adrill and channeler. 1t is also rumored
q that quarry will BIO in operation at
&C! L. Fringer's and another at j. w.
ii PARIS, for fluXing on the West End
u Roanoke) furnace; and also that they
Evil put lime kilns at tho quarries.
;aThey have leased c. +. Fringer's rock
Il aQarry for the term of 100 years, and
MJ w. PARIS for 10 years. They pay
~ cents royalty on the ton of rock. They
ID ape TO go to work in 90 days from tho
= Jay of lease of PARIS rock.
i Experiments on the French railways
n show that the resistance of tho atmos-
9phere to the motion of high speed trains
y amounts often to half the total resist
II aimee. Two engines of which the re-
a distance was measured separately and
Mound to be 1913 pounds per ton at 81
@sniles per hour, were coupled together
land again tried. The resistance fell
H 70 14.3 pounds per ton. The second en-
CINE was masked by the first. 1t may
pe argued from this that by suitable
5Sdaptation of the front of q locomotive,
81 Electrical or otherwise, saving of
7gErom to 10 per cent. of the effective
#power could be made.
aas The rooms Of The Beverley Club at
'taunton, were opened last week to it's
~ snemberS. There are six rooms, includ-
81 ing parlor, supper room, reading room,
a lard room, and billiard and pool rooms
n Che floors are covered with Brussels
81 iarpeting, and the entire furniture is of
antique oak. The furniture of the par
"a Jor gives an idea of the costiliness and
y character of the rest. There, two of
Il dhe chairs cost SIS, ten others cost sl6O,
= End there is a sofa that cost $40. There
His billiard table and pool table of
81 antique oak, said to be tho handsomest
4 ver shipped to Virginia by the Bruins
ayick-Blake Collender Company The
81 severley Club commenced it's existence
81 Ftth the following organization: Board
#At governors, A. C. Gordon, M. n.
W Bradley, Robert W. Burke, William
II satrick, Frank b. Berkeley, Edward
#aichols, w. L. Olivier, and j. l. Bum
81 GARDNER; officers: A. c. Gordon, presi-
#i3ent; James Bumgardner, Jr., vice-pres-
|a8sent; w. Is. McChesney, secretary, and
81 /. c. Shields, treasurer.
q Mr.. Moses Joy, Jr., manager Of tho
81 foston Tin Mining Company, who since
81 ahst April have been opening up the
"a lash Tin Mines on Irish Creek, was in
S1sfuena Vista last week on his way to
tish Crock. Mr.. Joy states that tho
Il Company is encouraged that all the in
s4i ications are favorable to the conclu-
83glon that there may be valuable de-
"a fttosits of tin on the property. Col. j. Il.
of Baltimore, who owns the
u tIobcrt Grant and Polly Campbell prop
#3itty, adjoining that of the Boston Tin
&3 lining Company, expecis to organize
s pint stock company and develop tin
@ lEoperty on a large scale this spring
# Hill erect small furnace for him in
8 hitch to test his ore.
sslII Abingdon is in the midst CT q build.
~ lhg boom-greater than was ever before
~ slhown in her history. The large brick
"A 4Edition to the Martha Washington
}AiIbllege has only recently been com
~ IN eted while the work on the three
81 Sorry addition to Stoncwall Jackson
"a Institute is yet withouta roof and ready
81 dir the work on the interior. The dozen
8}Eetty residences of the Development
which have been erected in
5a| o, west end addition still require tho