The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1891-06-11
SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA NOTES.

mas eleCCeu mayor EllySOn ard colonel
A. S. Buford delegates to the conven-
tioa to be held in Pulaski City, July 10,
to take steps to have Virginia repre-
scented at the Worlds Fair.
Jefferson Hall, of Alexandria, has
COW which he claims to have purchased
in Gordonsvillc on the day Of General
Lees surrender at Appomattox ana
which is still in good condition and
yields from four to five gallons of milk
daily
In the Circuit Court in Washington
yesterday the case of Thomas Wood
against the Richmond and Danville
Railroad Company was taken up fer
trial. MIR. Edmund Burke for the plain
tiff and Messrs Linden Kent and c. c.
Cole for the defendant. This is an
action to recover $50, 900 for injuries
received in the Midland depot yard in
this city in September. 1887, by, as he
claimed, being jostled off car and
having his foot crushed. leg bruised
and being made permanently lame.
An attempt was made last Thursday
night to burn ST. George Church, Fred
eri ;ksburg. Friday morning the janitor
discovered Il lot of burnt paper on the
inside of tho front door and the door
and floor considerably charred. In the
paper, which fortunately failed to burn,
was Il quantity of unburned matches.
Had the matches taken fire it is likely
the whole edifice would have been de-
stroyed.
In Williamsburg yesterday Judge
Farthing rendered his decision in favor
of the petitioner in the case of Mrs.
Caroline ii. Kearns, who recently insti-
tuted habeas corpus proceedings to Sc
cure her release from the Eastern Luna
tic Asylum, whore she claimed to be il
legally detained. The court held that
Mrs. kearns is not insane and should
be discharged. At the request of coun-
sci for respondent the order of discharge
was suspended for thirty days to allow
counsel to prepare 4 petition for writ
Of error, and Mrs. Kearns in the mean
time was admitted to bail in the sum of
one hundred dollars.
The Census Bureau Yesterday made
public advance sheets OF n bulletin in
relation to the minor mineral industries
of the United States by which it was
shown that barium sulphate, or barytcs,
as it is commonly known, was mined in
Virginia last year, lO,7O2 short tons
having been produced. valued at ST. ,29S.
Ochrc was produced in Virginia in 1850,
1,65S tons being mined at value of
1880 was l,9S7 short tons at value of
Sl0G.740, showing the decrease in tho
value of the mineral. Gypsum was
produced in Virginia to tho extent OF
6,S3S short tons at Il value of SEA, 900.
Virginia also produced soapstone to the
extent of 1,2G0 short tons at value of
S42,2j0.
Messrs. O lsrien and Miller have been
at work on the West End of the Clinch
Valley road the past week, dividing the
work of leveling and ballasting with the
construction department. The severe
rains of last week came most inoppor-
tunely for the company, and the through
trains will probably be delayed until
next Sunday.
a few months ago syndicate of New
York capitalists purchased from a COM
pany of Wheeling men large tract of
land in Logan county, supposed to be
underlaid with fine vein of coal The
land was bought at very moderate
price, and the new owners al onco began
an investigation to discover the real
value of the purchase. a geologist
made an examination of the land and
found it to be underlaid with three seams
of coal, one being the Flat Top coking
coal, and another a good quality of
steam coal and the third a vein of
camel coal about four feet thick. The
investment proved more valuable than
the purchasers had hoped, and they at
once commenced preparing to build a
railroad from the Norfolk and Western,
at the mouth of Tug Fork river to Rock
Castle along the Tug river.
About daylight Saturday morning
burglars broke open the iron safes of
Adams & Orrison, merchants, and
Robert & Shoop, implement dealers, at
Front Royal. They got $40. Suspicion
rests on two strangers.
Nj. V. Bachus, a colored Democrat
from Richmond, who had been speak
ing in Newport News for week before
the election, was set upon last Friday
by mob Of infatuated negroes, who
wanted to mob him because Of recreancy
to republicanism. He managed, how
ever. to escape their vengeance.