The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1892-03-03
VIRGINIA NOTES.

Work will begin soon on the electric
railway at Fredericksburg.
Remains of a mastodon were recently
found in the Dismal Swamp.
Pulaski has now moro than 1000 popu-
lation, and some are claiming the hust-
ings court number.
An onyx mino. of large dimensions
and superior quality, has been discov-
cred near Harrisonburg.
Jacob Blaine, probably the Oldest
white citizen of Halifax county, died
Tuesday last, aged ninety-one years.
The high trestle being built at the
new furnace at Iron Gate collapsed,
seriously injuring e. c. Smith, general
foreman.
James Madison Petigrew, the oldest
business man in Lexington, died Thurs
day. He was lieutenant in the Confed
crate army.
Fishermen along New River complain
that the washing of iron ore has been
very destructive to the famous catfish
once so plentiful in that stream.
Candidates for the mayoralty in
Lynchburg are becoming very numerous,
and it is thought there will be dozen
in the race before the primary comes off.
ANEW industry in Iarrisonburg is
the manufacture of tannic acid, which
is used in tanning hides. Large guam
titles of chestnut oak are used in the
process.
The annual meeting OF the Virginia
Conference of the United Brethren
Church will DO held at Berkeley Springs,
W. Va, on the first Wednesday in
March.
Samuel II. Lewis. ST., one of the most
prominent men in Rockingham county,
was struck by a train at Linwood, on
the Shenandoah Valley railroad, and
killed.
Designs have been made for the monu-
ment which the Ladies' Memorial Asso-
citation at Charlottesville proposes to
erect in memory of the Confederates
buried at the University.
AT Allisonia, in Southwestern Vir-
ginia. Clark Ruth was killed in a fight
with Fayette Warden. Warden claims
that no did the shooting in self-defense,
as Ruth was attacking him with a knife
A number of young men in the lower
part of Spottsylvania and upper part Of
Caroline counties have had several sue
cessful fox hunts recently. The last
one occurred few days ago and fine
sport was afforded, resulting in the cap
ture of two foxes.
The entire family of Mr.. Thomas
Crowder, including himself, was poison
ed at Farmville by eating cake in
which arsenic was used instead ofcream
of tartar.
White and colored burglars entered
Whealley's store, Gwymess Island,
Mathews county, and carried of a large
quantity of goods and tho cash in tho
money drawers. a negro man and a
white woman named Foster have been
arrested and have given up the plumber
The little log cabin at Dora Furnace
in which Coz Floyd commenced his
married life is still preserved. /; is a
modest structure, but built of good
logs, and was thoroughly we'll chinlsed
originally 1t has been moved n few
feet from its former position in order to
dress" with its companion homes of
the laborers, and. though scores of wears
their senior, it bids fair to outlive them
all.
1t is expected that another party of
the colored sect known as the mo Meet
Eaters" will soon leave Petersburg to
take up their abode at Berkeley with
the pioneers who left for that place
few days ago. There are over 100
members OF this society who believe
that abstalning from meat-eating is
essential to salvation, and that such
abstcntion will secure all of the bless
1nGs of the future life and great length
of life in this world.