The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1891-05-12
SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA NOTES.

VI
BRIDES sister, Mrs. NJ. X. Smith. in Rad
ford. Thursday night at $3.50 o'clock by
Rev. Samuel Saunders.
Postmaster General Wanamaker has
sold his storehouse in Shenandoah, Page
county, to John w. Coverstone. of that
place, for $4,000.
j. d. Jacobs saw-mill in Stafford
county was completely destroyed by fire
Friday morning. together with all the
machinery and quantity of lumber.
Loss $4,000, no insurance.
At q meeting of the stockholders of
tho Valley Land and Improvement Com
pany, held at Luray, Saturday, board
of directors and officers were elected as
follows: President, j. Il. Bartlett, of
Baltimore; president, &. C. Mar
shall, of Uniontown, Pa; treasurer, Levi
J. Condor, of Baltimore; secretary,
Thomas Il. McCorkle, of Luray.
Jim Lyles and Margaret Lashley.
found guilty in the hustings' court Of
Danville last March, and sentenced to
be hanged on next Friday, for the MUIR
der OF the latter's husband last October,
have been granite d new trial by the
supreme court and the case will be
heard Noyem GER 5th
The greatest interest is felt here in
the matter of the Virginia and Carolina
railroad, inasmuch as the city of Peters
burg is interested in this road to the
amount OF about ono hundred and fifty
thousand dollars. The general impress
sion is that the road from Ridgeway,
\. C., to Petersburg Will be built by.
John >. Robinson, president of the Sea-
board and Roanoke railroad, as he owns
all the connections from Ridgeway
south, and with the Virginia and Caro-
lima road he would have the shortest all
rail route from Atlanta, Ga, to New
York. Should President Robinson
build the Virginia and Carolina road to
Petersburg, and the Norfolk and West.
ern Company should extend their line
to Richmond, as there is some proba-
bility they will do, then the through
route would be complete. 1t is said
that the Norfolk and Western Company
are contemplating building line from
Crewe or Sutherlands to Richmond
themselves, or from Petersburg to Rich
mond If thse two cities will take half
Of the stock
Large shipments of strawberries were
made by the Norfolk truckers to the
northern market on Saturday, princi-
paily New York and Boston. Reports
from Norfolk county, Princes Anne and
were in better condition and heavy
yield of everything is promised. The
asparagus season this year was never
known to be better, and several Norfolk
county truckers sold $4,000 worth
each.
Governor Mckinney hash pardoned
James Bridget, who was sentenced to
the penitentiary in April, 1889 for three
years for horse stealing in Rappahan-
mock county. Bridget was advanced in
years, his conduct at the penitentiary
has been model of propriety, and his
term would have expired next Novem.
Dor
corps of engineers has been at work
for some days past making the pre-
liminary survey for q railroad from
Shenandoah City to Harrisonburg, tap
ping the Norfolk and Western system
at the former point. This is the first
tangible result of a meeting at Shenan-
doah early in December of representa-
tlves OF the several improveme mt COM
panles OF the two towns most vitality in
terested in the construction of the road.
and in pursuance of a carefully matured
plan to ascertain the most feasible
route. The movement is indirectly for
the formation of the Norfolk and West
ern Company as to route, cost of con.
Struction and proba BILE amount of traffic
that can be secured for the road when
built. systematic statement of the
volume OF business that Harrisonburp
will afford the road is also in course Of
preparation, ard will be submitted in
connection with the report of tho enri-
neerS.
At Front Royal Sunday night Just be-
lore 10 o'clock a very vivid meteor was
seen by many persons passing over that
town rapidly approaching the earth in
the direction of the factories recently
erected there. Within fifteen minutes
the large furniture factory was in
flames from end to end, and was burned
to the ground. 1t is thought that this
meteor struck the building, exploded
and caused the fire. A person passing
the factory little while before saw no
indications of fire and no one had been
in the building during the day.
The organization has about been COM
pleted OF a company with capital of
$4,000 to work the large deposits of
hne ochre on lands under the control of
MT: d. w. Hoffman, situated about one
and half miles from Edenburg,
terrific rain and hail storm passed
over fredericksburg Friday afternoon,
and much damage to fruit in the sur
rounding country has been done. In the
city several trees were blown down, and
for awhile the streets resembled creeks.
the water being in places several feet
deep, and a number of cellars on Main
street were flooded. The hail was about
the size of peas, and was banked up in
sewers two inches deep.
In the case of Thomas j. McCracl,en
tried for the killing of his father and
acquitted by the jury on the ground OF
insanity, Judge Wallace, of Fredericks.