The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1892-09-02
Virginia Notes.

been killed in Cumberland county.
A car load of Italians and Germans
| passed through Roanoke "Wednesday en-
route to the West.
A small fire in the girls department
at the Miller School, a few days ago.
caused considerable excitement there for
while.
Forty coored laborers left Roanoke
Wednesday for Pttsburg, where they
have secured work in the iron mills of
that place
J. X. Kemper, of Baskerville, Augusta
county, shipped forty-three cattle TINS
week. averaging 1,400 pounds, to Baltl-
more, for the European trade.
A large gang of colored laborers pass
over the Norfolk and Western line daily
en- route to the mines or railroad work III
Southwest Virginia or West Virginia.
A den of rattlesnakes has been dis
covered under St. Andrews Hall. in
Roanoke, and the walls of the under
pinnng will be pulled out TO reach
them.
The Shenandoah Valley Agricultural
Society, John J. Williams, president,
and r. G.. Hollis, secretary, will open
its twenty-third annual fair at Wnches-
ter, Va, on Tuesday. the 18th of Sep
tember and close on Friday the 10Th.
Mrs. Lavinia Fauntleroy, relict Of
the late Dr. John +. Fauntleroy, Of
Loudoun county and sister OF Ed
Turner, Esq, of Fauquier county dled
at her home in LAesburg. Tuesday
night, August 30th, in the seventy-ninth
year of her age.
Mr.. Jefferson NJ. Levy has one oil
painting in his Monticello mansion which
cost $4,000; altogether, the old home
of Thomas Jefferson is now one OF the
most costly furnished in America. To
keep the historical estate in splendid con-
ditiOn is Mr.. Levy's pride.
Sewall r. Waite. a Federal veteran
who has been four years at Hampton,
Va. has been transferred to the Homo
at Togus. Ne. He was a member Of
the First Maine Heavy artillery, was
at General Lees surrender and is
seventy-six years of age.
There is now a prospect that within
twelve months 1000 people will be EN-
plOyed in manufacturing enterprises in
New Alexandria. A big piano factory
will soon be started there. and an Eastern
concern is negotiating TO start shoe
factory to manufacture mems heavy
shoes for the South.
There came very near being a riot at
Manassas on Tuesday night between the
members of a one-hOrse circus and
number of country men. all OF whom
were drunk. Several persons got their
heads cut during the row. The arrival
of the train TO take the circus away pre-
vented further trouble.
Miss Marie Knowles, daughter of Cap
tain Knowles. of the Norfolk and West
ern railroad, while riding in an OK cart
Il T. I'll. -.
Buckingham. stepped out on the tongue
and put her hand on one of the oxen,
when the animal jumped, throwing her
under the cart, breaking her left arm and
badly bruising her shoulder.
There was a wreck on the Washington
Maryland division of the Norfolk and
Western railroad Tuesday night 1T
Riverside. caused by freight train col
liding with Il horse Three cars were
broken up and about forty yards Of
track displaced. Passengers and bag
gage on the north-bound limited express
were transferred.
The soft coal shipments during last
week over the Norfolk and Western
railroad were 80, 043 tons. an increase Of
1865 tons over the shipments Of the
corresponding week of 1891, when the
movement was 1905 tons. The III
crease since January LIST has been 121,-
3SC tons in shipments of l, IO3. 151 tons.
The Albcmarle Association of the Bap-
fist Church, which met last week mt
Bethel church, in Fluyanna, was attend
eG by throng of people The bust
ness Of the Association was very har-
m0niouS and satisfactory. The Scots
Vile Baptist church was the banner
church in contributions. Charlottesville
next. and Hardware next.
Grin. Moler. a well-known farmer. who
resided near Harper's Ferry. died very
81 ddenly of apoplexy last week. He was
stricken while on horseback remarked
10 friends that he believed he was going
t. die and hurried homeward. Reaching
his gate, members of the household lifted
him from the saddle and carried him to
the house, where he soon expired.
The body of Mr. Atwel Johnson.
who died in New Market in 1925, was
disinterred and carried to Marlboro, in
the Lower Valley. last week. 1t was
with some difficulty that the grave was
found as nearly all who were living at
the time of his death are now dead. The
remains consisted of "A few pieces Of
the skull and bones and a very small
part of the bottom of the coffin.
Major i. V. Gaines. who was so badly
a
City by Hon. John Goode. and who wss
an unsuccessful candidate before the
Peoples Party Convention in Lynch
burg on Wednesday. receiving only thir-
teen votes, has created considerable
amusement among the Democrats of the
Lynchburg district by saying in his
speech, secOnding the nomination of Mr.
Cobbs. that The thanked God that the
Democrats would have no chance to
shoot their guns at MIN, which had been
loaded for the purpose, for they had felt
his influence and were sore under it,
The "Swanton' tract of land. con
tanning over 10000 acres, and extenL.ng
from near Altamont on the Baltimore
and Ohio railroad to within few miles
of the old National road,a distance of
nearly thirty miles. has been sold by Gen
eral JOSEPH r. Anderson. of Richmond.
TO MeyleIt NJ. ArmstrOn, of PennSyl-
vania, and AdOlph Segal. General An
ders0n began TO acquire the ownership
OF this property as far back as 1896.
purchasing at that time of his relative.
Governor Francis Thomas, and the Mon
tevue Mining and Manufacturing Com
pany.
A so-called grand rally of the "Peo-
Pies party took place at the Moorinan
warehouse lot, in Lynchburg, Tuesday
night. There was a crowd of about one
hundred and fifty or two hundred people.
composed largely of Democrats. who
went as spectators, partly of negroes
and a few Third party men, Major II.
'. Gaines, of Charlotte, was the orator
o. the occasion. He and the crowd were
III total darkness. except for the occa-
slonal glimmer of distant street light
The crowd could not see the lightning of