The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1892-06-24
VIRGINIA NOTES.

Woodstock Herald: The Liberty Iron
Company shipped their first carload of
pig iron last week. They are turning
out good grades and the furnace is
doing remarkably we'll.
Edwin f. Hall, of Lychburg, en-
ployed by the Western Union Telegram
Company as foreman of construction,
was killed on the Norfolk and Western
railroad Friday.
James A. Walker Camp Of Confeder-
ale Veterans, of Pulaski, will celebrate
the anniversary of the first battle of
Manassas, in which many of it's men,
bers received their baptism Of fire" on
July 81.
Harry +. Smooth, of the circuit court
of jefferson county, w. Va, was tried
and convicted in the first degree for
numbering Miss Terrell at Shepherds
town a few months since. The trial oc
CURED at Charlestown.
The degree of doctor Of divinity was
conferred on ii. NJ. DuBose, editor of
Inns Denny, of Vanderbilt University,
at the recent Emory and Henry com
mencement.
The 2sth will be memorial day in
Portsmouth. The battle ship Texas,
the first ever built in the South, will
be launched and the John w. Daniel
Club will celebrate their fourth ami
versary with parade and banquet.
William D. Couch, one OF the Oldest
residents of Lynchburg, died in that
city Thursday, aged eighty-two. He
was for forty years n leading merchant
OF Buchanan, and represented the
county OF Botetourt in the legislature,
sessions 1s52'53.
The Confederate monument to be
erected by the x.Confederates of Isle of
Wight county will be placed on the
plateau just in front of and outside tie
court green. The site is good one,
and now for the effortto raise the funds.
Suffolk Herald.
S. n. Hardwick, recently of the
Georgia Central road, has been APP
pointed assistant general passenger
agent OF the Richmond and Danville
railroad. His headquarters will be in
Washington, ID. c., and he will be in
charge of the business of the road in
the East.
Col. A. S. Buford, president of the
State organization. has issued circular
urging the board of supervisors OF cities
and towns Of Virginia to make such ap-
preparations as they shall deem proper
for the furtherance Of the interest at the
coming exposition OF the Worlds Fair
in Chicago.
The Clifton Forge Valley Virginia
says the Chesapeake and Ohio made a
trial shipment of twelve cars of vege.
tables from Norfolk to Chicago last
week This freight left Norfolk on the
evening of May 10Th, arrived at Clifton
Forge at SAT a. m. on the 30th. left
at $50, and made No as time west of
Clifton Forge, arriving at Hinton, a dis
lance of eighty miles. at $40 a. M,
making the run in two hours and forty
minutes. AT the same rate it would |
have arrived in Chicago Monday even
ing
DR.. Andrew w. Christian, of Rich
mond. died at his home there on Sun
day, aged about 50 years.
The work of transferring the State
treasurer's Office at Richmond into a
fire proof and burglar proof vault has
been practically finished.
A handsome monument was unveiled
TO the Confederate dead of Clarke at
Old Chapel, near Berryville, on Satur.
day. CJl. r. H. Lee delivered the adj
dress
Gen. Thomas l.. Rosser has bought
the Scott property, in Charlottesville,
for $1,000. The property is in the heart
of the city, but the buildings are of lit
tie value.
Bishop Randolph confirmed a promi-
nent Baptist minister from Abingdon,
in the Episcopal Church in Wa.renton
on Sunday, who will shortly go into the
Episcopal ministry.
Delegates in favor of Mr.. C. A. Swan
son, of Chatham, were elected Saturday
in all the districts of Pttsylvania
county to the Fifth District Democratic
Congressional convention.
Rev. Samuel c. Clopton who has been
pastor OF the Clay Street baptist Church
in Richmond since it's organization,
seventeen years ago. has accepted a call
to the Parker Memorial Church in An
niston, Ala.
Mr. w. W. Rollins and Miss Susan
Cook and Mr.. BENJAMIN II. Henderson
and Miss Nettie NJ. Henderson, all of
King George county, were married at
Mountain View Chapel, in that county
on the 18th.
The Governor Yesterday refused to
pardon j w. w. Bradley, convicted dur
ing the November, in $50, n the Loudon
county court, for an assault with intent
to kill, and sent to the pcnitentiary for
q term Of three years and ten months.
Mis-. Ann Pyne Chandler, wife of Mr..
Il. X. Chandler, of Newport News, and
daughter of the late Dr. BENJAMIN An.
derson, Of Caroline county, died on the
10th in the sanitarium Of DR.. Mason, at
Chatham. N. ", whittier she had gone
for medical treatment.