The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1892-07-21
RICHMOND PEOPLE.
virginia Notes.

George Redmore q young English resident
of Roanoke. has mysteriously disappeared
and suspicious Of foul play are entertained.
Tho people Of Pulaski are making exten-
sive preparations for their county far:
which will be held at Newborn on the lst OF
September.
The Rev. A. r. Cooke, Of Waynesboro.
Va. has declined the chair of theology and
homilectcs in the Southwestern Presby-
terrain University.
The local-option election held in Fincastle
magisterial district, Botetourt county, last
week. resulted IN a majority Of 32S IN favor
of license to sell liquor
Twenty-Five Of the nest prominent Farm
ers Alliance men in halifax county have
withdrawn from the Third party and re-
turned TO the parties to which they formerly
belonged.
II is now stated that there is no truth in
the reported death OF young Mr.. Booker
and his bride by an accident while crossing
a bridge in buggy in Westmoreland county
recently.
The Stafford board Of supervisors has re-
duced the premium on hawk. owl, mink
and weasel scslps 10 ten cents for old and
five cents for young Of same. Foxes, fifteen
cents for gray and twenty-five cents for red;
one-half price for young of same.
Professor w. s. layton, of Roanoke and
Billy Naly. of Washington. have been
matched to fight for purse of $500. The
battle will occur August 1st, about forty
miles from Washington. Layton is now in
training in that city.
There is a farmer in Alexandria county
who has been steadily hauling brush since
the day of Cleyeand's nomination and will
continue to do 80 till the day OF his election.
whom grand bonfire will be lit and q bar
becue had. such as never has been known
in that country.
Tonight IN Roanoke the Armenian medi-
cal missionary. Dr. j. A. George. whose
home is at the foot Of Mount Ararat, and
who has been in this country for six years
will lecture in native costume upon Ar
menia and the Garden of Eden.o and will
sing in his native tongue.
The grasshoppers in the region about Md
dletown and Stephens City. Loudoun
county, are very destructive this season.
and in some localities amount almost to a
plague. They attack vegetation. particu-
larly the corn. beans ana other vegetables
and leave nothing but the bare stalks and
vines
S. H. McGilvray of the State Department
of Public Instruction. has Just shipped TO
Bedford City. where the Virginia Educa-
tiOnal Association and superintendent
Conference are to meet on tue Doth instant,
specimens Of school work by scholars
throughout the State. These will be on ex-
hibition at Bedford. and promise 10 be very
interesting in that they will show what
progress is being made in the public schools
of Virginia.
Dr. Marcellus Ford died few days ago
in Charlotte county, OF which county he
was native. He was the youngest Of five
brothers. ali of whom had been brave SOL
diers in the war. DR.. Ford was engaged in
tie study of medicine just prior to the war
and graduated in 1862 from the Medical
College of Virginia He at once entered
the service of the Confederate navy as as
sistant surgeon and was captured at the
surrender of New Orleans. He was subse-
Quently exchanged and again entered the
navy as surgeon. in which position he
served through the war. Ii was while in
the service he contracted the disease from
which ne has since been sufferer. and
which was the final cause of his death.