The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1893-06-17
TTRGINI4 WINS YOTEs.

Items Gathered Here and There and
Everywhere Throughout the state.
IT is proposed 10 connect Roanoke ard
Salem by an electric street railway.
\ reunion Of the Black Horse Company
was held at Fauquier Springs on Monday.
The Norfolk and Western railroad IS
making an effort 10 get into Portsmouth.
The Porullsts are stiu determined TO
press Major Mann Page for the Govern
orshiD.
Mrs Robert McConchie died near Beale-
ton. Fauquier, after a lingering Illness,
Tuesday evening at o'clock
j. II. Turner Of RappahannocS county
an assistant Of the United States coast
survey I'm Washington, -. c., died on
Monday.
Mr.. John a. Maddox, Of Fauluier a
a close observer Of such matters, says
that June 10th Of this year is the first day
Of that date without rain for ten years
Minor Bowles. aged seventeen years. sen
Of Major f. J. Bowles. who recently pur-
erased me JENNINGS Stock Farm, near
Leesburg. died on Friday.
Governor Brown of Maryland, has been
asked for a requisition on Virginia for
Captain Gaskins, of the Virginia State
fishery force. on the charge Of shooting
Isaac Sterling.
Wheat, corn and oats are promising I'm
Cu1peper county for this season Of the
year, but the hay crop must necessarily
be a short one. owing to the cold and
backward spring
II. i. Strong, a son Of General Strong,
United States army, who had been living
quietly I'm Lynchburg for some years un-
der the assumed name Of J. c. Stuart,
died there on Tuesday
The small fruit distlery Of Elisha
Orndorf, near Van Buren, Furnace Shen-
andoah county. was destroyed by fire
Sunday night The fire was the work of
an incendiary Loss. about 800.
The truck going forward by the old
Dominion line 10 New York and other
markets is said to be unprecedented I'm the
history of the line, three steamships
a day being sometimes sent out.
Mr. k +. Combs. of Bristersburg
Fauquier, died on Monday. the 5th in
slant. in the eighty-third year Of his age.
and Mr.. Maury Mccoy died suddenly last
Friday, in the thirty-hrst year Of his
age.
A party OF Washington sportsmen have
purchased Of n. 5. Grub a tract Of land
I'm Loudon county. extending down TO the
Potomac river below Harper's Ferry, for
hunting and fishing purposes. They pro-
pose 10 build 5000 clubhouse
The handsome iron bridges across the
Shenandoah at Riverton are now com
pleted. with the exception of the APP
proaches. and 10 is thought that they will
be promptly erected. and Warren county
will soon have the benefit Of these long
needed improvements
The board OF deacons Of the Second
Presbyterian church. of Alexandria. has
increased the salary Of Rev. DR. Rice
the pastor of the church. from 81 800 90
s. 100 per annum. Or. Rice declined last
week a call TO the First Presbyterian
church of Baltimore with a salary Of
5000 and a parsonage.
In the contested election cases from
Mount Gilead district the Loudoun County
Court has adiudged that +. NJ. Myers
and William II. Adams. returned elected
magistrates, were ineligible because OF
being registrars. and awarded certificates
OF election 10 Mason ThrockmortOn and
Allen W. Bowie who received the next
highest number of votes at the election.
The store Of Messrs. Walden x Young.
at Ford's depot, in Dinwidde county.
was broken into night or two ago and
about SS5 worth Of groceries were stolen.
on the same night, at the same place.
and probably by the same parties the
clothing store of Mr. A. S Walden was
broken into and a quantity of clothing
stolen. Thus far there is no clue 10 the
thieves.