The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1892-09-01
Virginia Notes.

Clay suited for making vitriied bricks
has been discovered near Roanoke.
BY the LIST of January next the Lynch
burg Cotton Mills will have 2O,OOO SPIN
dies in operation.
The tobacco factory Of w. NJ. Stultz,
at Burnt Chimneys, Henry county, mas
been destroyed by fire.
The Westinghouse and all its contents
OF Mr. Robert Terrell on Hazel rlver,
Culneper county, was burned last week.
An excursion train, composed of four
teen coaches and bringing 1.9OO coiored
excursionists, arrived in Lynchburg from
Danville at noon Monday
Mr.. George C. Truehart. well known
citizen of Appomattox county, died near
Spout Spring Friday, aged slxty-1our
years.
The Methodists at Linden, Warren
county. are building a handsome church
which will be dedicated the 18th OF Sep
tember.
1t is stated that a company of New
York capitalists have completed arrange
ments for erecting fifty houses on the
beach at Willoughby Spit.
The verdict in the case Of Charles Buff
falow. of TazeweI county, convicted of
murder in the second degree, has been
set aside by the judge of the circuit
court
The MarrnsyiTe Bulletin centains a
list of forty new buildings going UP in
that place as just completed, one of
which contains eight stories and one
seven.
A fatal disease has broken out among
IT, English sparrows in Roanoke, and
upwards of eight hundred dead ones
Thprp
Thursday morning.
The crops of corn in Culpeper have
not been materially injured by the late
dry spell. though the dry weather has
had the effect of retarding the farmers
in following and preparing for seeding
their next wheat crops.
J. II. Valentine, an auctioneer of
Lynchburg, sold Tuesday an old family
clock made in 1892, one hundred years
ago 1t was handsome piece of furni-
ture quaint in appearance and valuable
as a relic of an earlier age.
Some sections of King George county
have been without rain many weeks
and, as q consequence, all vegetation Is
wikhering and parching. The corn yield
Will fall below an average, and failow-
ing for wheat is an impossibllty.
The postmaster at Smithheld, Char
lotte county, having accession the other
day to remove roll of papers in his Of
fee. saw what he at first supposed was
a string at one end, but on shaking it
threw out a snake foot long.
At present the Salem Furnace Com
pany is turning out on an average Of one
| hundred tons of pig iron per day, and Is
giving employment TO about 80 labor
! ers The company have sold, and Is TO
! deliver in ten days, 1000 tons TO Phil
| adelphia and Baltimore parties
The Chesapeake Agricultural Fair As
ISOLATION. at Cape Charles, closed It's
! fifth annual exhibition on Saturday last,
| and was a complete success in every
respect except financially Nearly every
dDartment was well represented by iine
| exhibits, and there were two balloon as
| tensions.
Thos II. Flood, oldest son of Major
| John IL. Flood, of Lynchburg, and tray
cling salesman for Timberlake, Wood
son 4 Snead, of that place, died sudden
| ly in Marlin, Texas, Oh Sunday.
! Mr.. John Citation, of Spotsylvania
| county, died at his home last Saturday
morning aged eighty years.
The Shenandoah Baptist Association,
| consisting of twenty churches, includ-
| Ing the territory from Elkton in Rock
ipgham county, Va, to Martinsburg,
w. Va, met in Luray on Wednesday
and will continue in session until Friday.
Mrs Lille Deyereux Blake Iresi-
| dent of the New York Woman's Suf-
frage Association, addressed large au-
dience in Culpeper Tuesday; subject:
Woman, as Wife. Mother and Cit
zen" After the lecture a reception was
rendered Mrs. Blake at the residence
of Colonel Foxhall Daingerfeld.
i Al. ID H. -
| Court, refused to grant the motion of
| plaintiffs in the case of the Construction
and Loan Company of West Clifton
Forge against W. j. and L. Blair Jr.,
to set aside the verdict of the jury in
favor Of the defendants as contrary 10
! law and evidence. The suit was for a
balance of S400 due on $1,000 subscribed
| by the Messrs. Blair, and the verdict of
tho jury entitled the defendants to re-
turn of the 5000 paid in, together with
costs and interest. AS several other
suits brought by the same company
against. citizens of Roanoke hinged on
tins case the verdict gives very general
satisfaction.
There is In the possession of Frank
Ware, negro of Stanton, an aged ac-
count book about two and a half inches
| thick and about ten by twelve inches
in length and breadth, which belonged to
| the Messy Greek Iron Works, operated
in the eastern part of Augusta county
as early as the years 1910 and 1872, the
entries In the book bearing these dates.
But the denominations used are pounds,
shillings, pence, &c. instead of dollars
and cents. Among the names in which
accounts are entered in the book are
those of William Stanton and Beverly
Stanton. after whom Stanton and Bey-
! erly street in that city were named.