The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1892-08-28
VIRGINIA NOTES.

VIRGINIA NOTES.
Several children, white and co,ored,
were bitten by g mad dog in Ports
mouth.
Miss Maggie Yates, daughter OF Mrs.
Mitkiewicz, nee Miss Mary Marshall,
died at Orange on Saturday, aged 10
years.
The Democratic canvass in Virginia
Is In good shape, and the leaders are
we'll pleased with reports coming from
various parts Of the State.
Rev. Peyton H. Hoge has declined
the professorship in the Union Theo-
logical Seminary, near Farmville, and
WILL remain as pastor OF the First Pres
byterian Church, Wilmington, N. c.
Miss Woodward. Of Richmond, with
M ISIS Katie Goldsborough, Of Frederick,
Md, were rowing with Mr.. Robert Glib
son, of Shepherdstown, on the Potomac
at Tarlight on Tuesday. Miss Wood
ward was in the act Of ste piping forward
when the boat capsized, throwing her
headforemost into twenty feet Of water,
twenty-five yards from shore. Mr.. Glib.
son rescued her.
Minor Bolts Lewis, son OF d. Shelley
LOWS, and grandson of ex Senator John
f. LOWS and of John Minor Bolts, ha 8
been appointed to succeed E. Il. Broyles,
deputy collector for the Sixth Virginia
district, removed. Broyles, it will be
remembered, recently shot ID. B. Sny-
der in Luray. Mr.. Lewis will qualify
at once and remove the Office from Luray
to Harrisonburg.
Senator David b. Hill has written a
letter to friend in Richmond in which
he says no is anxious to como to Vir-
GINA and make some speeches during
the canvass, and will do so il he can
DE said he could not state positively
whether or not he will be able to visit
this State, as his plans for speech max
ing are not as yet mapped out. Ho in
qulred as to this situation in Virginia,
and said he hoped the Democrats would
carry it by the old time majority.
Rev. H. Hatcher died last Friday in
Orange county.
Rev. Andrew Broaddus, for many
years pastor of Bowling Green Ba ptist
Church, is critically i'll.
Mrs. Elizabeth Fulton. wife OF Capt.
w. j. Fulton, of Danville, died at Pu-
laski Springs Monday.
Bishop Whittle 10 still at Clifton
Springs, N. Y, and when heard from
recently his health was decidedly i'm
proved.
William Waters Zimmerman, adiutant
OF the Seventeenth Virginia Regiment
during the late war, died recently in
Missouri.
Stonewall Jackson Camp of Confed-
crate Veterans has been organized at
Staunton, with Captain Thomas D.
Ransom as commander.
The Eighty eighth Pennsylvani la
Regiment, which was stationed in
Alexandria during portion of the late
war, will visit that city Septem Der 18th.
Captain John X. Anderson, of Fred.
ericksburg, died Saturday. He com.
manded company in the Thirtieth
Virginia Regiment during the late war.
The body of the late John Wallace,
who was killed during the recent trou-
bles In Tennessee, was brought to New
bern on Monday and buried in the
cemetery there.
Some OF the substantial members OF
the Alliance in Bedford county have
left the the organization because OF the
efforts which ara being made to convert
every lodge into stronghold of Third
partyism.
Hon. Il. Fl. B. Browne, OF Accomac,
OK he Der OF congress, IS dying at Cape
Charles. His brother, Captain o. A.
Browne, member of the board of agri-
culture Of Virginia, and prominently
mentioned as the Peoples party oandi-
date for Congress for the First district,
is seriously i'll.
At an oystermen's mass meeting, held
at Mathews Courthouse Saturday even
ing, resolutions declarative of their de-
termination not to pay the optional
license tax on shaft tongs nor the re-
quired tax On patent tongs were unani-
mously adopted. John b. Donovan, a
prominent lawyer, addressed the meet.
ing and declared this feature Of the law
unconstitutional, as we'll as the leasing
of the public bottoms.