The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1891-06-07
SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA NOTES.

The Liberty Iron Company's fifty-ton
charcoal furnace, five miles west of
Edinburg, Shenandoah county, is now
In blast and turning out fine quality
OF iron. The company owes the Column
bia and Liberty furnace properties,
Including about 5000 acres Of ore and
wood lands. The ore seems to be in
inexhaustible quantities and of very
fine quality.
The Page Courier has information
that the affairs Of the Valley Land and
Improvement Company are undergoing
a process of betterment to such an OK
tent that its obligations will be met
promptly as they mature. This gives
the Luray boom new lease on life, and
hopes are INDUCED OF the ultimate sue
cess OF its plan. 1t is further under
stood that the company has sold to
New York syndicate the Luray caverns
for S125, 900 cash. 1t has also sold sew
eral tracts Of its land for S72, ZOO and is
negotiating the sale Of the Luray Inn
at handsome price.
Virginia has three sandstone uuarries
which last year produced 7O,SOO cubic
feet, at value of Sl1,5OO, employing
thirty-seven men. Virginia ranks
twenty-ninth in value of such produc-
ton.
Rev. Or. w. T. Hall will deliver the
baccalaureate sermon at Belmont Semi
nary, Bedford City, on Sunday, June Ia.
The Office OF chief engineer of the
Chesapeake and Ohio has been removed
from Cincinnati TO Covington on account
OF the construction of the Warm Spring
line.
The Rev. John p. Tyler, of Charles
Christ Church, N1ilwood, Clarke county,
and he will take charge OF the parish on
the LIST of July.
Vice-president Axtell, of the Chesa-
peako and Ohio railroad, has been
authorized to have prepared specifica-
tions for improvements costing So, OOO,-
600, which his road proposes to make in
and near Richmond, Va.
OThe planning mills and paint shed
buildings at the Basic City car works
are just being completed. Several car
loads of machinery for the plant have
arrived.
Lindsay & Roller have placed with
the Basic City Match Factory Company,
an order for fifty gross of matches-the
very first manufactured by the company.
Lindsay II Roller are enterprising mer-
chants and they believe in getting the
first of the season-even in matches.
Mrs. Mary Ann Graham, of Pulaski
county, who returned from a lunatic
asylum about six weeks ago, killed her
three-year-old son Monday night. When
found the child was lying on his hands
and face, with cord around his neck,
and dead.
DIR. j. p. Logan, a distinguished
physician of Atlanta, Ga, who died
Tuesday, was a native of Botetourt
county, Va, and practiced his profess
sion for several years in Baltimore.
DIR. Peter II. Reamey. one of the best
known physicians of Henry county, died
suddenly in Martinsville Tuesday.
Mrs. Charles A. Rice, mother-in-law
of Col. Il. Is. Berkeley, of Farmvillo,
died in that town Saturday.
The lotsales at Staunton Tuesday and
"Wednesday aggregated over 500, 600.
and Ohio railroad have run their pre-
liminarY line from Wolf Run Shoals via
Bacon Race Church to Maple Valley,
thence down branch through lands of
Milstead, Reuben Reid and Pearson,
crossing Ncabsco run near the residence
OF Oliver Chamberlin, thence through
the lands of Clark Chamberlin, Round,
Allison, Comstock and others to Powell's
run, from whence they crossed the
Quantico run above Dumfric and
thence to Quantico. The surveyors
were fortunate in securing the assist
ance of Mr.. DC Alexander. who is thor
oughly posted in the topography of the
country.
Among tho buildings of consequence
that will be erected in Ilarrisonburg
this summer is the new Jewish syna-
goguo Oh North Main street. Contracts
have been let to Messrs. McAllister IL
Skunk for the carpenter work, and
William Bilhimer for the brick work.
Ground has been broken for the build
ing and its erection will be pushed as
rapidly as possible. Its dimensions are
to be 3Sx5o feet, and its cost about
$1,000. The building committee in
charge is composed of Messrs. William
Loeb, b. Ney and A. II. Heller, and the
plans of the edifice are the work of
these gentlemen. Though chairman of
the committee, Mr.. Loeb comedies the
lions share of the credit for what has
been already accomplished to Mr. b.
Ney. who has boon particularly active
in the matter. The synagogue is ex-
pected to be ready for occupancy by the
middle of September; in any event by
the Bird OF Octo Ger, which is the Jewish
New Year. The dedication of the build
ing will be attended with elaborate
services.
The Washington correspondent of the
Alexander Gazette says: "Cel. John
Powell, who has been a resident of this
city for some years past, recently moved
to Occoquan, and at tho election there
last Thursday was chosen magistrate
The colonel is nearly ninety years DID,
was Justice of the peace in Fairfax
county under the Virginia constitution
of 1920, and was one of the first set of
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