Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1891-04-24

The commissioner frevenue Roanoke
estimates the population Of that CRY AZ
90 500.
A farmer in Fluvanna county reports
having eve which has raised blk lambs
in twelve months.
Forty FIVE indictments against moon
sinners were returned IN the United
States court at Danville last Friday.
A contract has been awarded Ger ihe
construction of Baptist church ut Roam
oke to cost Sl5, 800 exclusive Of the LOT Oh
which it is to be erected.
William Lipcombe a prominent Camp
bell county farmer. was ihiowr ir'm his
horse and dragged by one foot foga quar-
ter of n mile and killed. He was seventy
years old.
Malvern Hill farm, the scene Of the
bloody battle by that name, has just
been sold. 1t contains 734 acres. and was
sold for sly $50. w. II. Hale, Of New York
Is the purchaser.
Contracts have been closed whereby
the Essex Yarn Mills, OF Newark, y. D.,
will be removed at once to Roanoke. Tie
company will he reorgaaized urder the
name of the Virginia Blanket bills, With
100000 capital.
Mrs. James Bush has sold her farm OF
l24 acres, near Waynesboro, August q
county, to Col. ". w. Wi>hars for $50
600. South Buena Vista, formerly known
as the Crist farm, has been sold to a syn
| dictate for $74 COO.
In Petersburg, Thursday night, Miss
Annie Hand, aged ninty-two years COM
mitted suicide by taking poison. SIG
had been in very feeble health, and for
some time past had also been suif-rirg
from injuries received by fall
Lucy Long, one Of General r. i. Lees
riding horses-the one presented him by
J. Z. B. Stuart, died few days ago. She
received all the honors of decent burial
on the farm, three miles flOm Lexington,
where she has been kept at the expense
of the estate. She was thlri! years
old.
Some time ago party If revenue Of
GERS raided an illicit disil.iery ope .ic" I'D
Patrick county by Rufus Turler farmer
Law in ambush and fired on the party.
wonnding one of them. Farmer was tried
at Danvllle, IN the United States court,
found guilty, and his pnnishm ut fixed ~
five years in the Albany pcnltcntiary.
At Boyce, Va, burglars supplied them-
selves with sledGes from nci-Hboiihs
blacksmith shop Sunday night and ba''cr-
ed down the door of the store OF aie.7is.
Pare g. Garvin. They then bic" the
safe TO pieces with dynamite and took
$50 in cash. Several hundred dollars -
checks were left untouched. bnt a small
lot of merchandise was appropriated.
Near Foster Falls in Southwestern Viz
pinia. last week, a number oi toiofed
tramps assaulted AID severely beat sam
mel Brown an inciicnsiye white man.
Brown swore cut a variant ard went
with officer Stone To- arrest his assiiiAnis,
when a desperate fight en.u'd, during
which Joe Bains, one Of the nesiocs, shot
Brown three times. Though desperately
woundded, Brown returned the fac, hiii-
ing Bains Instantly. Irjwn lh.n stlggei-
ed few feet, fell ard dicd IN ief miu-
utes.
Last year a Boston Company lease. iae
Irish creek I'm Mines IN k'cHniia-e
county. for two years, with the privilege
of bIyiyg the property At The expiration
of that time for SlS3 000 The company
went to work to develop the mine, ana u
is said the ore contains three per cent? o'
fine tin, and they are now erecting WORKS
for the reduction OF the ore, which Ni.
cost $50, 900, and give omulot meat 90
more than hundred hands.
This action of the company woH.d $50 % 30
TO indicate that they have secured q
profitable plant, and have made up taeif
minds to work it for all il is worth
Another company is being organized fog
the purpose and development OF lands IN
the same vicinity, where it is believed
rich deposits Of tin exist.