The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1892-02-05
FRIDAY. FEBRUARY 8. 1892.
We Us SNMNAKY.

Both houses Of the General Assembly were in
session.-The Female Lawyers bill de-
feated-A bill to Incorporate the Prison Re
form Association onered.-The Lien Supply
bill discussed.-Tbe Kent Till will be reported
adversely General ill discussed in
committee.-Ihe annual meeting of the A. p.
V. A, will be held.-Mr. Isaac Newton died
There was a donkey party NJ Mr. Robert E.
Richsrdson's.-Severa legislative committees
met.-The Transparent Ice-Works destroyed
by fire.
The Winchester Gun Club wins in a contest
with the stanton Gun Club.-The county jail
of Augusta will be renovated and enlarged
Superintendent of Public Schools OF Stanton
will visit Boston TO Investigate the industrial
schools of that city.-Staunton city council
has authorized the issue OF bonds for street i'm
provements.-Mayor Bowles. of Clifton Forge,
has been reversed by the county court for the
first time in the course OF a term Of twenty
three years.-The Baptist Missionary Confer
ence met at Culpeper Courthouse.-Ihere will
lie a reunion of Bethel Academy graduates
i. Shelton lcolored) has been convicted Of rob
bing b. S. c5erson's store in Prince William
county and sentenced to iye years in the
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Of the stockhold-
ers of the Buena Vista Cashmere Mills
Petitions ara circulating in Loudoun addressed
10 the General Assembly and asking for higher
lcense.-Death Of Mr.. Walter Johns near Je-
tersyille.-Death in Powhatan county of Mr..
Richard J. Owen. who had lived under the adj
mi1isrrrrrr1r75fS President.-The Char
.Sttesyille street railwaNine will be heightened
. and improved.-Nr W. * Kent Of Charlottes-
Vile, is i'll with erysipelas.SIb Portsmouth
living at Norfolk. has been ord cred 10 {1e West
Indies on her winter cruise Contract for we
Artesian wells at the Norfolk navy-yard has
been given out to William b. Andrews & Broth
or, of New York.-Marriag6 of Mr.. Kenneth
w. Harris and Miss Hattie Hunnicutt, of Bran
bleton.-The Norfolk and Western railroad
has rented the Stevens building in Nor
folk. 49, Committees of the Legislature
visit the colored asylum At Petersburg.-
NORTH CAROLINA.
Mrs. Louisa Harris was burned to death near
Weldon-Mr. Branch. a prominent citizen Of
Enfield. fell in his we'll, but was rescued in time
10 save his life.-A number OF railroads were
built in North Carolina during 1s01-Roanoke
and Southern railroad is now running through
trains from Winston to Iioahoke.-A coffee
huller has been inyentedby a citizen OF Win
ston.-Revenue collections in Fourth district
for January amount to $4,000.
GENERAL
The Richmond Terminal committee plan is
being kept back until the market is more fav-
orable TO receive it.-Chesapeake and Ohio
earnings for the fourth week in January show
an increase.-The steamship Button. which
arrived at New York yesterday from Brazilian
ports, had yellow fever on board.-No traces
Of the mail pouches stolen from the New YORK
postofice have been discovered number Of
contract laborers and foreign paupers are being
sant hack to Europe.-Ex-Presiden Cleveland
has returned to his home at Lakewood, Nj
5. V. White again appeared on the floor Of
the Stock Exchange yesterday.-A fatal
freight wreck occurred on the Baltimore and
Ohio road near Piedmont, w. Va, Wednesday
night-Five prisoners overDowered the jaiier
at Henderson. n. c., yesterday and escaped
Murderer Fitzsimmons cut his throat in jail at
New Orleans Yesterday and viii probably die
The Anti Pinkerton bill passed the New
York Assembly yesterday.-The New York
Chamber of Commerce has appointed a COM
mittee to raise funds TO convey food 10 the
starving people of Russia.-The Nebraska
gubernatorial imbroglio has resulted into a
waiting game.-Judge Wilson made an argu-
ment in the silver brick case before the Dis
trict Supreme Court yesterday.-it is reported
that the stranded steamship Elder will be
sayed.-Russel Sage. Jr.. died in New York
yesterday.-One Of the largest han1s in Paris
IS in financial trouble.-The funeral Of Rev.
Alr. Spurgoon took place Observation-Disclosures
neer Snyder was killed by the accidental dis
charge of a pistol in the hands of q friend at
Hinton, W. Va.