The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1892-08-30
virginia Notes.

Virginia Notes
Mrs. DIR. J. A. 'Otey, Of Blacksburg'
died Thursday unexpectedly.
Tho infant son of Captain Herbert, OF
Delaplanc. died Thursday, the lSth' AT
Saluda ~ {.
Mrs Elizabeth Fulton. wife of Captain
W !. Fulton, of Danyille, died at fulasA
Springs Monday.
The house of Mr.. Thomas Francs
Brown. near Lignum, Cupeper county
was burned last week.
Claims FOR destruction Of sheep by
dogs i'm Fauquier county have been palu
i'm full from taxes levied on dogs.
Mr.. ". d. Kulman, Of Round I'M,
I,oudoun county. has pig about eight
wears old with six perfectly formed ears
William Walter Zimmerman, adjuttnt
of the Seventeenth Virginia regiment
during the late war, died recently 81 MIS-
sour.
One thousand acres Of shooting ground
in Currituck Sound, belonging to the Deer
Island Shooting Club, have been sold Tor
$3.50.
Bishop white is still at Clifton
Springs. y. Y, and when heard lrou re-
Gently his health was deci0edly III
proved. -.
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IONS was held i'm Warrenton Friday look,
ING tn the establishment Of National
Bank at that point
The roadhed for the Newport News eX-
tension of the street railway is completed
and the workmeu will begin laying Inc
rails as soon rs they arrive.
Five small engines and tenders bound
for Mexico and the property OF tne NJ
cional MexicanO railroad, passed through
Pulaski going west Friday morning
]. Irwin Stephens, Of Lynchburg a
graduate of the Virginia Military lIsu-
tute. class Of 1892 has been selected rs
a member of the faculty OF the otauh-
ton Military Academy for the coming SEES
sion.
Mrs. DIR. Sydnor, of Strasburg, Va, has
discovered By experiments that the cab-
baQe insect. SO pestiferous ana dcStruc-
tive. is destroyed by an Application oil ho1
soapsuds which in no respect INJURIES the
vegetable.
The Farmville Journal is informed by
Mr. T.. w. Hubbard that the Chesapeake
and Ohio railroad has purchased mat pof-
ton of the Orange and keysyile foad,
bed that it desired for building that Ioad
| to RoSney.
The barn on the estate of the late VII
liam Beverly near Uperyille, Fauquier
county. was burned on Thursday night
/ of last week. All the contents were con
slmcd. consisting of harness, spring
wagon, buggy and hay.
Mr.. p. S. Wise, founder Of the Wise
/ Wagon-Works, which he removed from
/ New Market to Buena Vista, has severed
| his connection with the company, reserE-
/ ing the name of the wagon as formerly
manufactured by himself
The drought still continues in Eau
quier There was some rain on w ed
/ nesday last, hut it did not extend any DIS
4 lance, and was not enough 10 De OF any
material benefit. The farmers from the
| different sections Of The county give
/ gloomy reports of the corn crop.
Minor Bolts Lewis. son of DR.. Shervey
/ Lewis. and grandson of ex-senator John
/ +. Lewis and Of John Minor Bolts, has
/ ben appointed TO succeed J.. I. Broyles,
/ deputy cilector for the Sixth Virginia
| district. removed Mr. Lewis viii qualify
/ at once and remiye the Office to Har-
rissOnburg frim Luray
! Hon. T. H. II. Browne, Of Accomac,
ex-mcmber of Congress, IS dying at Cape
! Charles. His brother, Captain .. A.
/ Browne. a member of the Board of Ag-
/ riculture Of Virginia, and prominently
/ mentioned rs the Peoples party candl-
/ date for Congress for the First district,
/ is seriously ill ut Maiboro.
At recent meeting of the board OF
/ trustees of Emory and Henry College,
| Professor Arthur l.. Walker was elected
/ professor OF ancient languages and Ger
| man. Professor Walker has been teach
/ ing with Dr. Kirkland in the department
| Of Latin in the Vanderbilt University.
| and was at the time Of his election a tel-
| low-elect in the Chicago University.
| A mayors court was recently held on
the streets of Pulaski. The town ser
geant had arrested a negro for carrying
! concealed weapons. II was late III the
evening and as he was going down the
street with his prisoner the mayor met
them and stopped, heard the case, con
fiscatcd the pistol and fined the darky
/ so and costs.
Rev. George r. Barr of the Protestant
| Methodist Church. the oldest citizen Of
| Abingdon: one of the founders Of the Alb
ingdOn Nirginian and for about twenty
| years its chief editor and who was the
! first treasurer of Washington county I'M
der the present Constitution, died Friday
| morning. Mr.. Barr was eighty-two years
| Of age at the time of his death.
Miss Woodward, of Richmond, with
/ Miss Katie GOldsbOrOugh. of Frederick,
| Md. were rowing with Robert Gibson. of
| Sheperdstown. on the Potomac at Tar
light on Tuesday. Miss Woodward was
i'm the act of stepping forward when the
boat capsized, throwing her headtOremOst
into twenty feet of water. twenty-five
yards from shore. Mr.. Gibson rescued
her
Three thousand and five watermelons,
1 ,450 canteloupcs. 900 dozen of sum
mcr corn. 100 bushels of tomatoes and a
barrels of bects were consumed at the
Soldiers Homefor the two weeks ending
Saturday. OF these articles, Messrs. a.
Il. Nichol. of Hampton, furnished 2,23O
watermelons. all the cantcloupes and
beets, j. w. Martin, of Hampton, 40
dozen of corn. and the Home Farm the
balance as well as the tomatoes. and Mr.
J. NJ. Nelson, of Norfolk, 40 water
melons.
Private Elem. S James died from
heart trouble as his country home Deal
Remington, Fauquer county, Oh the 26tl
instant, in the siXty-hrst year of his age
leaving a wife and nine children. Mr.
James volunteered in the Black Hors'
Troop in March, 1862. and from tina
time to the closing scenes at App0matt0,
was present in every engagement il
which that historic company took part
! He always rode with the First FOurs.
at the head of the column, and seemed L
bear a charmed life.
Mrs Ellen Hunter died SATURDAY.
morning ut the home Of her son. Mr.. JOIN
+. Hunter, in Baltimore, aged one hun
bred and two years. Mrs. Hunter was
, native of Baltimore, having been born OF
Thames street. Her father was Edwar,
. / HagthOrpe. and besides herself Their