The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1892-07-26
virginia Notes

1r..rrrovC averns will be offered for sale
/ In September.
The Virginia Midland hhS added one man
10 each OF its section forces.
The mercury registered 100 degrees in the
sbada al stanton Sunday being the not
| test day there for several years
Falix Gibson. aged seventeen wears,
-,.nyest son of Colonel J. CHtlett Gibson.
/ If Cnlpeper. died suddenly Thursday morn
1 ing -,
Hon Josiah Patterson, of Tennessee. will
os5ress the Democrats of fredericksburg
! tonight. Other speakers will also be pres
ent.
r r. Lyon, mattress manufacturer OF
Tvnobburp. had his ullfractured Mednes-
day by the explosion Of cylinder IN his
factory.
Rev. Mr. Saunders. of Radford. has been
called to the pastOrate 81 tho Baptlst
churches Of Washington. SperTyVIle' ana
Flint Hill.
Returping from court-day at Fincastle.
Va. July 18th, William Gray shot John Bar
Ton dead and made widow and thirteen
orphan children.
The Middleburg camp-meetipg will be
held at the "Old Benton Camp Ground in
Ioudoun county. beginning August 18th and
continuing until August goth.
Clifton Forge is 10 have a Young Mons
Christian Association building 10 cost So
COO OF this sum President Ingalls,, OF the
Chesapeake and Ohio road, contributed
$4,000
The brass cannon ordered by the John S.
Barbour Democratic Club of Portsmouth,
from the Great Western Gun Works at
Pittsburg. has arrived and will do efeo-
tive service in the way of Democratic sa-
lutes during the campaign.
At q recent meeting Of the town council
OF Ninton, William Lunsford was elected
solicitor and George b. hcLane treasurer.
The charge Of incorporation OF funds
against ex- Mayor Giles Gum. were pro-
nouuced malicious and groundless.
At meeting OF the stockholders Of the
Rockbridge Company ut Glasgow Thursday
presided over by the president. General
Fitz Lee. two propositions from Northern
capitalists TO take hold and complete the
original plans are reported 10 have been
before the meeting. The meeting adjourned
TO August 18th without definite action.
The corr crop throughout Tidewater is re-
ported 10 be n O deplorable condition. Jw-
ing 10 the wholesale ravages Of the corn
worm The fodder and bud are first at
tackled, and then the worm moves down.
ward and burrows into the stalk at the
crop is infested, and the yield will be very
seriously affected.
Mr. John Lynch. formerly a representa-
tive IN Congress from Maine. but moro re-
Gently resident of the District of Colum-
ba died suddenly Of heart disease in Port
land. Maine. on Thursday. Mr.. Lynch was
one of the original projectors Of the West
Lynchburg Zinc Works and leading
spirit in that enterprise.
Mrs. Graham, an old lady living near
townsville Church, in the Catawba Valley
whilst sorting ears of corn IN crib last
week. was bitten in the left thumb by a
copperhead moccasn. A doctor was sent
for from Cbristiansburg. who has been in
constant attendance, out the arm and
breasts of the sufferer are still so terribly
swollen that 1t Is feared gangrene will set IN.
An old Hampden-Sidney College man,
who WAS there in 1913, when DR.. Green. the
father OF Mrs. Adlai T. Stevenson. was pres
ident. says of the two daughters. that
Julia. who became Mrs. j. q. Scott of
Bloomington. H.. was 8 years old. and
Ietitia, who married Mr.. Stevenson. was
years old. and adds: Governor Mckinney,
Prof. G. H. Winston. Mr. w. 7. Darlington
and others of Dr. Green's old students in
Richmond will certainly recall little fish,
as she was known 10 the boys"