The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1891-09-15
soUTHwE EST VIRGINIA NOTES:


The Democrats of Charlotte county
have nominated John ID. Sheporson for
the house of delegates.
j. L. Wilson will be State senator and
r. M. Burton member of the house from
Farmville district.
President Ingalls,, of the Chesapeake
and Ohio railroad, will build handsome
cottage at che Warm Springs.
Reports from the tobacco sections of
Virginia represent the crop as having
been seriously injured by the recent
heavy rains.
Wilson Schoolcraft, aged 90, shot
himself at his home, near Iandley, w.
Va, yesterday. The bullet entered his
body near the left nipple and passed
into his lung. He cannot recover.
Schoolcraft did not know the pistol was
loaded.
The Farmers Alliance in Fairfax
county receives very little attention
The five cheese factories in Greene
county are now shipping about 15,0uo
pounds of cheese every week.
Christian Bowse. for moro than thirty
years postmaster at Berryville, died
Thursday last, aged ST years.
"Scotlands," a inc farm in tho south
ern part Of Albemarle county, has been
sold to Mr.. Ryson, of Fluvanna county,
for $500.
The through traffic from the West via
Gun berland Gap has become SO heavy
that the Norfolk and Western is unable
to handle 1T over its new Clinch Valley
division.
Gen. Thomas l.. Rosser has declined
Nf &c IT,
ton with the Democratic nomination
for the house OF delegates in Albemarle
county.
The Medical Society of Virginia
meets in annual session in Lynchburp
October 9th to 10th The membership
OF the society embraces about one thou
sand or moro OF Virginia doctors.
Mrs. Elizabeth Daingerfied has been
granted full divorce from Algeman
Daingcrfield by tho Lynchburg court.
At the mothers selection the caro- of
their infant son was given to the child's
grandfather, Captain f. A. Danger
field
At Boydton on the 18th, Ernest He'd
derby XII led his sister by an accidental
discharge OF q gun he was preparing for
an hour of sport. She was coming
around the house unobserved by her
brother, and as she turned the corner
received the fatal shot.
Reports from tho tobacco sections OF
Virginia represent the crop AS having
been seriously injured by the recent
heavy rains.
Wilson Schoolcraft, aged 20. shot him
self at his home near Haniley, w. Va.
yesterday. The bullet entered his BODY
near the left nipple and passed into his
lung. lie cannot recover. Schoolcraft
did not know the pistol was loaded.
Rev. James Il. Dickinson, formerly OF
Richmond, Va, but now of Orange. n.
d., has declined call which offered n
salary of ST 900 in excess of what he is
now receiving as pastor of the North
Orange Bapti 1t Church.
Tho Treasury Department has Sc.
lcctcd as the site for the new public
building at Norfolk the property offered
by n Burruss at the southwest corner
OF Atlantic and Plume streets recon-
mended by the Treasury agent.
The ten-year-old son of Beniaman
kenyon, of Virginia, Fairfax ounty.
was drowned Saturday night while
attempting to cross stream near his
home.
N
c., has been elected pastor of Leigh.
street Baptist Church. Richmond.
The Farmers Alliance, of Prince
George county, Va, has decided to in
volvo itself in politics.
Company. Gen. John Gill, president,
was yesterday made trustee under the
mortgage for the issue of $3.50, I 90 OF
bonds by the Baltimore Traction Com.
pany and also for $1,000, COO bonds OF
the Potomac Valley Railroad Company
OF West Virginia. The first named
bonds are issued to cover the cost of
cable construc ton for the Gilmor street
extension of the traction COMPANY
The bonds bear interest at per cent,
and stand as mortgage lien on all tho
line and equipment of the extension
This work will bo commenced within
the next three weeks by Il. Ii. Smith &,
Co., the contractors.
The issue of 80 900, 600 Of bonds by the
PotJmac Valley railroad of West Vir-
GINA is TO cover the construction of this
road, which is the connecting link be-
tween Wllliamsport, Md, and Cherry
Run, w. Va. The road is being built
by Ryan S Mcdonald, contractors, for
the Western Maryland Railroad Com
pany. 1t will be used as link to con-
meet the Western Maryland, the Balti-
more and Ohio and Heading railroads
and to enable them to interchange coal
and coke traffic between tho East and
West: The grading Of the line is about
completed, and the work of laying the
rails will soon begin. The road is about
fourteen miles long.
The work on the Baltimore AMI Ohio
extension to connect with tho Virginia
Midland railroad at Fairfax Station, in
Virginia, has commenced on the Mary.
land side. The surYeYs for this comma.