The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1892-10-06
VIRGINIA NOTES.

OF the $40, 900 to which Richmond is
entitled out of the direct tax fund Com
missioner Smith has paid out about
81 400 and listed about $40, 900 in cases
where the parties who paid the TAX
originally are dead.
at noon Wednesday in tho office of
the time for the opening Of bids by
contractors or the erection of the Mount
Vernon building for Virginia at the
Worlds Fair grounds. No Virginia
contractor seemed disposed to have the
job, and as "a conseq uenco no bids were
received
Bishop Melville 81. Jackson, OF Ala.
bama, are in Rich nond on Tuesday
afternoon and left Wednesday afternoon
for Birmingham. Mr.. Jackson will re-
turn to Richmond ABOUT October 25th,
when he Will make tho opening address
at tho State convention of the chapters
of the brotherhood OF ST. Andrew.
Governor Mckinney has removed the
political disabilities of Nathaniel Moss
(colored), who was sentenced in tho
county court of Norfolk to thirty days
imprisonment in Jail for unlawful as
sault He had been prosecuted Tor un-
lawful cutting, but was found guilty of
unlawful assault. Ever since his re-
lease his conduct has be en- good, and
number OF prominent citizens, among
them the county Judge, asked for tho
removal of his political disabilities.
The Governor refused to parton j. Lips
comb, who in March last at the King
William county court was sentenced to
two years imprisonment in the p"niten-
tiary, having been convicted OF u felony.
DR.. Hunter McGuiro has return. to
Richmond from his European trip.
Mr.. Jthn w. Hammerly, and old and
we'll citizen of Leesburg, died
last Saturday morning, in the "A III year
of his age.
Mr.. Charles Gordon Van Hook, of the
q. geological survey, and NJ ISIS Evelyn
Byrd. eldest daughter OF DR.. R. 2. Page,
Of Berryviile. were married in Grace
Church, Berryville on tho 2lst inst. by
Rev. P. P. Philips.
The eleventh annual meeting of the
| Virginia Pharmaceutical Association
will be held in Petersburg October ii,
unforeseen and unavoidable circum-
stances having rendered it necessary to
change the place OF meeting from Fred
ricksburg, al previously announced.
Grasshoppsrs are doing much damage
in Page county. On some farms the
entire crop has been literally eaten up
by tho myriais Of grasshoppers, and
wherever they began they did not leave
| 80 long as green blade remains. So
far they have not become general, but
here and there throughout the county
| reports of their destructive work have
been received. ana great fta- is enter.
tanned by the farmers for what may be
expected of them. in the futnre.
A committee, consisting OF VIM. NJ
| Flanagan, of Powhatan county, chair
man; a. w. Harris, OF Dinwiddle county,
and Jas. d. Neblitt, of Sussex county,
who were appointed for the purpose at
the Malone Congressman election, held
at Burkeville on Tuesday, are preparing
very lengthy address to the Republi-
can voters OF the Fourth Congressional
district. The address will give in de-
tail the proceedings of the Malone con-
vention, and also that Of the Brady
Langston convention, and will contain
violent structures upon the conduct and
practices OF John Nj. Langston, colored.
and the men who managed the latter
convention and dominated it's proceed
ing. The address will vigorously de-
| fend the course OF the Malone people,
and their position in declining to put a
candidate for Congress in the field. and
kindly referring to the Peoples party
and their candidate in tho Fourth Con-
| gressional district, Col. j. Thomas
| Goode. of Mecklenb burg county.
The Treasury Department has &C
| cepted tho bid of the Buena Vista
Plumbing and House Heating Com
panY to furnish heating and ventilating
| apparatus for the new Chattanooga
public building, at a cost of $4,000.
The jury in the case of tho Lexington
| Development Company against Col
| VIM. M. Patton has failed to agree and
boon discharged. This is thu third
time this wee k that jury has failed To
agree in boom" suit. Judge Nc
Loughlin yesterday continued them all
over TO the February court
All information received at Rich
mond from tho campaign in Virginia
Is encouraging to the Democrats Re
ports show show that some of them who
have heretofore been prominently iden
titled with the Third narty movement
are breaking away from il and return
ing to Democratic allegiance.
At Culpeper early yesterday morning
fire destroyed the grocery store OF
Henry Lightfoot and four other build.
ings in the block, which included the
colored Odd Fellows hall and the town
hall. During the fire keg of powder
| exploded, injuring ono man severely
and knocking several Others down.
-Four of the buildings burned belonged
to L.. =. Nelson and were occupied by
colored people. Had 1t not been for
continued rain on Tuesday and a heavy
one an hour before the fire tho block
OF three story buildings on tho OPPOSITE.
side OF tho streets would have been do
stroyed. AS it is, they are badly dam
aged.