The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1892-05-28
VIRGINIA NOTES.

tuesday afternoon tho west bound
train on the Chesapeake Il Ohio Railway
struck and instantly killed an inmate
of the Soldiers Home at Hampton bv
the name Of Conner, who was fishing on
short trestle over branch of the
Hampton river.
The barn OF John T. Minor, in King
George county. together with the cor.
tents, was burned Friday. Loss esti-
mated $4,000; no insurance.
Rev. DR.. Osborne, of Fauquier county,
has received q call to the rectorship of
the Episcopal Church at Rocky Mount.
N. C.
Benjamin Taylor Warwick. formerly
of Petersburg, and son of Rev b. P.
Warwick, died Monday, in Newark,
Ohio.
Mr.. James e. Schoolheld, wealthy
Methodist layman, has become o re-
vivalist, and is now conducting sue
cessful meeting at Rocky Mount, Frank
lin county.
Miss Mary Curtis Lee. who is now
on visit to her brother, General &. w.
G. Lee, OF Lexington, will sail from
New York Saturday for Europe to spend
the summer.
The survivors of the Seventh Indiana
regiment contemplate making visit to
Petersburg upon the occasion of the ma
tional encam pment in Washington, d.
c., next September.
Judge w. H. Mann, of Nottoway
county, who has been prominently
spoken OF in connection with the vacant
seat in the United States Senate to fill
the uneSpired term Of the late Senator
Barbour, has informed Governor McIIin-
ney that he is not candidate for the
position.
Congressman Simpson, Of Kansas, adj
dressed large audience of Farmers
Alliance men at Warrenton, Monday.
lie said the tariff could not be reformed
He wanted free trade. Delegates were
appointe d to tho Richmond convention,
which elects delegates to the Omaha
| convention. They we're instructed to
put up man for President, but no
name was mentioned.
| Reeves Gait of Staunton, brother of
e. b. Gait, of Salem, has purchased the
interest OF the Stanton Development
Company in the Daily News of that
place. The Development Company
owned forty shares of the stock, the
par value of which is SEA per share.
Mr.. Gait paid $50 per share for his pur-
chase.
\ niCAduurla COuIiIy udu ulneGe6u Dar-
rooms within its limits Wednesday
morning. 10 day it has only five, and
they will soon be thing of the past.
Rumors had been going around that
Judge Chichester was going 10 refuse
| some of the licenses, but wnen all the
fourteen asked were refused, and the
announcement made that none would
be granted, the dealers were all para
lyzed.
An investigation is now going on be-
fore Justice Smith, colored, at Fort Ma
gruder, near Williamsburg, into a case
of supposed poisoning The accused is
woman, and is the widow of the late
Burwell Morris. 1t appears that Nor
ris died very suddenly day or two ago,
and under very suspicious circum-
stances, which led to the arrest of his
wife on the charge of murder. The evil
dence is said to be very strong against
her.
1t is expecled the battle-ship Texas
will be launched at Norfolk the latter
part of June.
The aggregate sales of horses at Har-
risonburg, Monday last. court day,
amounted to over $4,000.
Il .dford has fifteen lawyers who talk
tf ,rming bar association.
Wytheville has organized an Odd Eel
lows Encampment with over twenty
members.