The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1891-08-27
SOUTHWES VIRGINIA NOTES.

At rOlnG fleaSant, w. va, tuesday
night Mrs. Mathery, a widow, and NJ.
Z. Taylor, shoemaker, were run over
by freight train and killed
Mr.. d. II. Gibson, of Charlestown,
has been appointed on tho staff of Gov
ernor Fleming, OF West Virginia, with
the rank Of &C lionel.
Marion StaDsbury, Of Fairmount, w.
Ma was killed in a mine Wednesday
while at work by fall of coal.
Camps Of Confederate veterans have
been organized at Bcrryville, Va, and
Martinsburg, w. Va.
e. G. Pendleton purchased the Au-
gusta White Sulphur Springs,ln Au-
gusta county for Sl4, 900
Governor Pattison, Of Pennsylvania,
is expected at the Greenbrier White
SULPHUR Springs to-day.
The Introductory address delivered
by Professor Hall at the jamestown eel
ebra:ion, May 13, 1891, has been issued
in pamphlet form. 1t is model address
of its kind and contains much sound
and interesting information upon
the history of the State.
The educational report at the Straw
berry Baptist Association, which has
been in session at Lynchburg, furnishes
the following interesting figures and
facts: he receipts of the educational
board last year amounted to ST. 292 IA,
and out OF this fifty seven young men
were assisted-forty-cight in Richmond
college and nino at tho Southern Bap-
fist Theological Seminary. The one in
stitution Of tho denomination surpass-
ing all others in interest Is the compile
ton of the Jeter Female Institute, at
Bedford City, and it's full equipment as
school of drst grade for girls.
Miss Eta Goodwin, Of Botetourt
county, who has been for eighteen
months missionary in Chile, has re-
turned to her home owing to the civil
war.
camp Of Confederate veterans has
been organized at Cape Charles with the
following officers: DR.. Frank Fletcher,
president; Captain George Savage. sec
rotary; Leonard Nottingham, treasurer;
i. {. Kelly, doorkeeper. The organiza-
tlon Is to be known as the IIarmanson-
West Camp of Confederate Veterans and
the next meeting will be held in October
at Parksley.
Sam Jones has left Staunton for the
North.
The Pulaski Nows says 1877 buildings
are in course OF erection in that city. the
aggregate cost of which will be about
S5U0,0UO.
Spring and winter in the persons OF
Charles Jones, aged sixteen, and Laura
Albercorn, aged sixty, were married at
kingwood last week.
John Armel, near Bridgeport, lost on
Thursday about 500 bushels Of wheat bv
fire, which was ignited by sparks from
the smokestack of tho steam thrasher.
Walter Peasants, engineer on the
Baltimore and Ohio railroad, died of
typhoid fever at Iarrisonburg Sunday.
Prof. Charles A. Perkins, of Johns
Hopkins University, has been elected
TO the chair in lIampden. Sidney Col.
lege made vacant by the death Of Prof.
Holiday.
petition is in circulation at Char.
louisville recon mendlng Rev. J Francis
Robinson, pastor of Mt. Zion (colored,
Baptist Church, to be United States
minister to Liberia.
The Greenland county Jail is emptv
of criminals, and the crops are the best
in many years Ano her noticeable fact
Is the diminution Of drunkenness at tho
courthouse on court days.
Over four hundred thousand acres OF
coal and lumber land in Greenbrier,
Nicholas, and Fayette counties have
been bought by a syndicate that will
cut the timber and then mine for coal
and iron.
A jury at Farmville gave Monroe
Booker ten years in the penitentiary for
the theft OF pair of pants. Booker be-
longs to the gang OF safe blowers who
have been operating through the State,
and was the fourth member of the gang
to be convicted.
In the aggregate $1,000 has been of.
fered as reward for the arrest and con-
viction of the person who recently fatally
shot d. +. Cornell, of Portsmouth, Ohio,
in Pullman sleeper on the Chesapeake
and Ohio railroad. near Waynesboro
Junction, this State. Mr.. Connell's
family offers $4,000, the Pullman Com
pany $4,000, and the Chesapeake and
Ohio Railroad Company $4,000.
AT Mr.. o. d. Fosters saw mill. near
Bloody Angle" in Spottsylvania
county. one day last week, in saving
pine log two feet in circumference, tho
saw went through the butt end of a
twelve pound shell which was embedded
in the log out of sight. 1t is supposed
that the tree was about nineteen inches
in diameter at the time the she'll was
fired in 1868. as these trees grow about
quarter OF an inch a year.
Charter Filed.
a charter was filed in the clerks Office
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