The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1891-10-06
SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA NOTES.

there on the 18th of November, o rous-
ing reception.
Two freight trains collided at Coving-
ton Thursday, disabling one engine and
twenty-four cars. w. S. Williamson,
who was stealing ride, was seriously
hurt.
Tho governor Thursday refused to
pardon Sam Lambert, of Appomattox
county, who was sentenced In 1890 to
three years in the penitentiary for
housebreaking.
Rev. j. A. Duncan, pastor Of the
Memorial Methodist Episcopal Church,
South, Lynchburg, has been transferred
to Denver, Col, on account of his wife's
delicate health.
The medical examining board Of Vir-
GINA will meet in Lynchburg on Octo-
Der &. All applicants for certificates to
practice in Virginia must undergo an
examination before it.
Miss Chappalear, who lived near
Delaplano station, in Fauquier county,
and was blind and in weak state of
health, some time ago stumbled over q
bee gum and before assistance reached
her was stung so badly that she died in
few hours.
General William II. f. Lee is danger
ously i'll at his home in Fairfax county,
and is not expected to live.
Alexander Mcdonald, of the Lynch
burg Virginian, is prominently named
for senator from Lynchburg and Camp
bell.
The Democrats of Accomacl county
have nominated S. S. Wilkins and D.
Is. White for the house of delegates.
Kenova, the Ohio river crossing town
Of the Norfolk and Western, is making
fine progress; its recent sale Of lots was
a success; it has secured the extensive
saw mills of the Little Kanawha Lum-
Der Company, the Kenova Transporta-
ton Company has been chartered to
transport passengers and freight on the
Ohio and other rivers, operate ware
houses and advance money on the goods
In such warehouses, having such enter
prising men as John II. Dingee, of Phil
adelphia, in control of it; and is tho
headquarters of the Kenova Land and
Trust Company, of which Chief En-
gineer w. w. Coe, of the Norfolk and
Western, is ono of tho corporators
Like all new Norfolk and Western
towns in which Philadelphia capital is
interested it is bound to prosper.
R. T. West has been nominated by
the Democrats of Sussex for the house.
Colonel O'Ferrall says the Demo
cratic party is in good t. i'm in Virginia.
Mr.. Ii. T. Harris has been nomi mated
for the legislature by the Democrats of
Nelson county.
DR.. j. L. M. Curry will deliver an ad-
dress to the young ladies of the Rich
mond Female Institute next week.
Mr.. X. w. Vanderbilt and his brother
in law we're at Newport News, Rich
mond and Old Point in tho last few
days.
William and Mary opened yesterday
with about IT'S students and others com
ing in on every train. About fifty ar
rived yesterday.
number Of German farmers from
Pennsylvania have gone to Rock bridge
county, where they expect to buy farms
and locate.
1t is believed that Senator T. b. f.
Mills, Republican, of Scott county, will
not run for the legislature, as the ALI
ance has candidate already nomi-
mated.
Mr.. R. c. Mckinney, the only son OF
the governor, is now in Sheridan
county, Wyoming, with his command in
the Geological Survey Corps of the
United States.
Governor Mckinney has appointed
Mr.. William G. Wickham, Jr., of Han
over, as member of the Board of Agri-
culture, in the place of Mr.. Normand
Smith, lately resigned.
The Northern Neck News states that
a party consisting of from twelve to
fifteen men and boys spent the entire
night on Friday last at the month of
Greenvale creek, Rappaha1nock river,
fishing with hook and line, and caught
over 500 trout, some of which weighed
eight pounds each and measured twenty
five inches in length.
Captain Ed. Galloway, who was re-
Gently shot by negro desperate, is
improving rapidly. The surgeons have
removed tho bullet, which was found
lodged in his back, near the spinal
column.
The Pulaski News says: The noun
tains above Clark's Summit are reported
to be full of wild cats, bears and deers,
and as soon as the leaves are we'll off
the trees the hunters hereabout are ex-
pecting to enjoy raro sport.
The wall at Peck crock on the Norf Tx
and Western railroad, is big undertake
ing. 1t will be four thousand seven
hundred feet in length-2, $50 feet on
each bank. 1t will be three and half
feet thick at the base and up to the
water level; then taper to two feet at
the top, where it will be surmounted
with dressed stone Gaping 20 inches
wide. Tho wall will start three feet
below water level and will be twelve
feet in all. Three heavy derricks are
already in place for the work. There
will be nearly six thousand cubic yards
OF masonry in the work. and with the
new iron bridge at Washington avenue
Will call for an expenditure OF S34. 900.
Tho foundation of the Enisnnnal