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

dllOWcu 10 practlcc law was rejected,
will petition tho present legislature.
The library of Captain w. Gordon
McCabe, of Petersburg, was yesterday
evening seriously damaged by fire.
Loss, 81, 500; insurance, $500.
A. II. Winner, of Smiths Landing,
N. j., has purchased of Mr.. Louch-
heimer all tho timber, together with
the saw mill, on the Gum Spring estate,
for $4,000 cash.
A new bank to be known as the Mart
insvillo Commercial Bank is soon to be
started in Martinsville, with w. d.
Spencer as president and J. P. Lewis as
cashier.
Mr.. w. A. Coles, of New York, who
came to Petersburg recently with
stock of goods which he has been sell
ing at public auction, was taken sud.
denly and seriously i'll at the Hotel
Gary, and his condition is considered
extremely critical.
Charles b. Armentrout, brakeman
on the Chesapeake and Ohio railway,
was knocked from the train by bridge
near Ivy depot Monday, killing him in
stantly.
Five prisoners mado their escape
from the Christiansburg Jail Sunday.
One of them returned Monday and gave
information which may load to the
capture Of the others.
David Spitler's largo barn in Pago
county, with $50 bushels of wheat, four
calves and lot of farming implements,
was burned Sunday night. Loss, So 900;
insurance, $500.
John r. Beadles, we'll. known young
merchant of Manchester, and Miss
Annie Bowie, daughter of the late Viii
liam L. Bowie, of Petersburg, were
married in Petersburg yesterday.
Senator Barbour was for Crisp. Sen
ator Daniel did not express himself.
The first number of tho Virginia
Schoo. Journal will appear in January.
A State temperance convention viii
be held in Richmond December II and
Is,
Rev. Il. d. Garrett, of Austin, Texas,
has been elected pastor of the First
Baptist Church, Petersburg.
Thomas N. Lupton has been elected
mayor of Winchester by the city coun-
Gil, to succeed Mayor Oscar Barr, re-
signed.
Major William Taylor, of Clarke
county, died Friday last after a pro-
tracted illness. He was an oflicer in the
Confederate army.
l. Mrs. Susan Heiskell died in Staunton
Monday, aged eighty-five years. Her
husband. Waldo Ii. Heiskell, dropped
dead few weeks ago.
W. f. Reming ton, formerly of Alex
andria, was killed at Durham, N. c., a
few days ago by the fall of q smoke
stack on which he was working.
Tho Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad
Company has awarded a contract for the
double tracking of the road between
Low Moor and Covington, distance of
eight miles.
General Lees birthday, January 10,
will be observed in Richmond by q
militia parade and Confederate vet
Grams camp fire.
Charlie Mostly, white boy thirteen
years of age, left home last Thursday
morning, December 8, to go to Spring
field School. Richmond. He has not
been homo since.
The dead body of an East India coolie,
supposed to have been sailor on a
british ship, was found on the beech in
Norfolk almost covered with sand. 1t
is not known how the body came there.
Mr.. Samuel Il. Shipplette. merchant
of Mount Crawford, Rockingham county,
Va, died at the Johns Hopkins Hospi-
tai, Baltimore, from tuberculosis. He
was forty-seven years old and leaves a
widow.
VIM. c. Pratt, one of the wealthiest
citizens o. Caroline comfy. died Mon
day, aged eighty-threo years.
Lee Camp of Confederate Veterans of
Alexandria has determined to celebrate
the anniversary of the birth Of Gen. r.
r.. Lee on January 10, 1892, by public
meeting at the Opera House.
A monument in honor of the Con-
federate dead was unveiled at Newport
News Tuesday. Rev. DR.. S. A. Good
win, Of Richmond, and Major Baker =.
Lee delivered addresses.
Norman Gibbons, of Greenville
county, committed suicide Monday by
shooting himself through tho head with
pistol.
Senator Echols. of Augusta, has In
PRODUCED into the Virginia assembly q
bill prohibiting the killing or sale in
the State of any partridges or quail be-
tween the lst day of January and the
18th day of October; or any pheasant or
rufiled grouse or wild turkey between
the LIST day of February and the 18th
day OF September in tho count es west
VI INC DUO hluge, except Tor the year
1891, in the counties of Augusta, High
land, Bath, Allegheny, Rockingham,
Rockbridge the open or hunting sea-
son as to partridge or quail shall close
and terminate on the 10Th day of De-
cember. 1902; and in the counties of the
Blue Ridge, except Prince Edward,
between the 18th day Of January and
the 18th day of October, and in Prince
Ed ward between the 1st day of March
and the 18th day of October.