The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1893-05-19
YfRGIyI4 NEWS NOTES.
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Items Gathered Here and There and
Evcrywhcre Throughout the state.
A sleeve pile lighthouse IS being con-
structed ira Baltimore for Pages Rock
The Bel Telephone Company Will es-
tablish line between Roanoke and
Salem. a distance OF six and % half miles.
Mrs. Charles Stewart died sunday at
her home near Mount Pleasant I'm spot
sylvauia county aged eiehty-two years.
The fisheries ON the lower Chesapeake
are now doing a hourishiug business, and
hauling viii continue AN the summer
AIR. ~. =. johnston. Of Fredericksburg.
purchased 90 public auction the Co"hrrd
farm near Masons mills, in Orange
county, for N.--J
1Ir. James r. Bcrrcy, son Of the late j..
j. Berrey. died Tuesday at Fredericks-
burr, at the home of his sisters, OF COM
gestion of the brain. aged forty five
Mr.. Floyd McNew. merchant Of Pu-
lash city, I'm attempting TO put some eye
water in his eye. made a mistake in The
bottle and used carbolic acid a physi-
clan was sent Tor and prescribed. but it
is not thought possible 20 save the sight.
Colonel Basil Brawner long delegate
William county, died in Alexandria sun
day in the niuety-third year of his age.
he was prominent in politics before the
war as q Democratic leader. Tie was
prominent member NJ the Methodist Epis-
copal Church, South.
According 20 the Religious Herald there
are five counties iu Virginia which have
not "a single Baptist church or minister iu
Ga.
anal. Dickinson. Richmond and Shenan-
doah with a population of forty thou
sand.
The two ships just contracted for by
the old Dominion steamship line win Doe
the fastest ships running ou the Atlantic
coast. Their running time between New
York and Norfolk viii be sixteen and
seventeen hours ana the passenger ac-
commouauous Wil Doe as elegant and
sumpuOus as artistic skill and taste can
devise.
Tn the wreck on the Norfolk and West
ern read near SiX-A1ile Bridge. Monday
NIGHT, in which Fireman Macune was
killed. the following were injured: o..
w. Goolsby. engineer OF CroWc. "a seri-
Gus injury of the knee; O.. IT, Calhoun.
scalp and facial wounds and q fracture
of the bone of one foot, William Decker
son. of AppomattoN. superficial wounds
ON the head ana face; John Johnson (c0l-
ored, of pittsyyanil county, a brake
man. seriously seaided an over John
son win hardly recover
A sad case of restitution was BROUGHT
% the notice of the Alexandria police
Monday ni-ht whom John j.. Newton.
who has totally lost the use of his lower
limbs. and his family. consisting OF "a
Wife and five children. applied at the
policc-stat0u for lodgings. which wa.
cheerfuly given them Newton is from
MccllenDurg county, where he lost hls
an in fire % short time ago. They have
q horse and wagon. and are trying 90 |
make their way 90 friends in Chester.
i1. one Of the large rooms an the sta /
ton was put az the disposal of the family. /
and they were made as comfortable as /
possible.
IL IS rumorod that there are some sus-
picious circumstances surrounding the |
death - George w. Allison. whose mutia- |
ted remains We're found scattered along |
the Norfolk and Western railroad from
Seven Nile Ford 20 Wythcville. last Satur-
day morning. Allison Is said 10 have been !
an important witness I'm a case pending |
M the United Stntes court at Abingdon |
and there is % suspicion that those against |
whom he was TO appear put him out Of /
thc way and placed his body I'm front of /
% train in order % make il appear that /
he had met bis fate I'm that way.