The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1891-01-31
VIRGINIA NOTES.

.. ID. Parsons was seriously wounded
Wednesday night at Staunton in a
difhculty with young man named
Newman. Newman used u knife and
inflicted serious wound in the abdo-
men. Parsons is q nephew of Colonel
FL. G. Parsons, of Natural Bridge.
Tho State Agricultural Society has
elected Col. a. ). Buford as president
in place of Major a. II. Drcwry. who
| declined. Col. Buford has accented,
| Senator John l.. Hurt was made first
vice-president.
Mr.. Gould proposes to take n long
trip to the South or perhaps the South.
west. His friends say his objective
point Is really some Southern coast city,
where he proposes to rest. He is said
to be tired ont by his work in connec.
ton with the Union Pacific deal and the
formation Of the Western Taffic Associa-
ton. MIR. Gould tells his friends that
he has not worked so hard in fifteen
years as nc has in the last sixty DAYS.
Just when he will leave is not stated.
1t is said he may go next week
ABINGDON, Jan. 2T.-The directors of
the Damascus railroad are in session
this morning, having under condider-
alton the letting to contract of four
miles OF the grading, extending from
the Abingdon depot to Cummings Sum
init, south of the knobs. This would
I'LL the gap between this town and the
grading already donoby the company.
1t is said tfat Mr.. William Mills, a late
successful contractor on the Russell
section of the Clinch Valley extension
OF the Norfolk and Western, is anxious
to take the contract. Mr. Scatter, pro-
prietor of the big survey beyond Da-
mascus' Is said to have subscribed ten
thousand dollars TO the stock of tho
company, and the Abingdon Develop
ment Company twenty thousand moro.
The ninth annual report of the West
Virginia Central and Pittsburg Railway
Company shows the net receipts for the
year TO have been Si24, 101, expenditures
S263, 56+.59; net earnings SlGO.536.41
The net profit from the mines operated
by the company was SlO4, 7S4.43 The
total earnings for the year were $685.
32o-s4. After d"ducting all fixed and
other charges the road shows net earn
lngs to tho amount of SOL, O7552.
1t is reported that General Alexander
Will resign the presidency of the Gcor-
gia Central. This has attracted consid
cradle attention in Wow of the fact that
important changes in the companv's
management have been contemplated
for some time. 1t is Il part of the gcn-
cral plan of the Richmond Terminal
Company to consolidate the manage
mcnt of the different lines under one
head. General Alexander is to be
general manager of the whole Rich
mond Terminal system. It is said that
MIR. Gould is particularly interested in
the work of solidifying and unifying the
system.
The Nashville and Cumberland Gan
railroad line will be built, and contracts
at once given out for the work The
line will connect at it's Eartern terminal
with the Louisville and Nashville and
tho Norfolk and Western railroad, re-
ducing the distance from Nashville TO
New York one hundred and forty miles.
Pulaski Advertiser: Why should not
Pulaski and Radford unite in build
ing dummy line between the two
points? Such limo could be built
at cost OF probably $4,000 per
mile and ought to pay as an investment
from the word go. The most feasible
would he by way of Newbern, the county
seat; thence down the McAdam to
lngle's ferry, whore bridge piers are al
ready IN essc. and the river could be
crossed at comparatively small cost.
This route need not exceed altogether
ten or twelve miles in length The dis
lance from the junction here to New
bern is four miles and tho grade excol-
lent; from Newbern to New river, a
distance Of six miles, the grade is
equally as good.
Radford Enterprise: The effort to
establish telephone exchange in Rad
ford has been renewed with vigor. Tho
Radford Land and Improvement Com
pany has guaranteed the minimum
number OF subscribers required, which
Is thirty. The necessary number of
takers has not yet been secured, and
every business man should sub>cribe to
at least one instrument in order to Sc.
cure this needed improvement.
Radford Enterprise: One of the most
important public improvements now be-
ing added to Railroads advantages is the
building of the iron bridge across the
New river 10 West Radford. The con-
slant booming heard by our people dur
ing the past week, which very much re-
semb!cd the sound Of artillery practice,
has been made by tho blasting at the
bridge approaches on the opposite side
of the river. The read on that side will
be built along the face of the bluff above
the river and lead up to the rolling land
where lies one of the prcttiest sites for
city that could well be found. The
bridge will be forty feet wide. consist
ing of a roadway thirty feet wide with
iive-foot walk on each side.
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