The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1893-01-27
VIRGINIA NOTES.

are now drilling Tor the occasion.
The committee, in New York. of the
distribution Of the new Virginia bonds
are preparing to make the final alloca-
ton OF the securities issued under the
act ofsettlement.
Lieut.-Gov. ]. Hogo Tyler announces
that he will be candidate for tho DOM
ocratic nomination for Governor. It ia
also announced that ex-Attorne y-Gen-
eral Rufus A. Ayers will also be can
didate for the nomination.
Rev. John Jasper, colored, of Rich
mond, Of Sun do move" fame, in an
interview on Saturday, said the colored
people are becoming as worldly minded
as the whites, and the whole human
race so wicked that the Almighty has
sent this severe cold winter as re-
minder to the people that they must do
better. lie predicts that the popula-
ton will be considerably thinned out in
the near future.
In tho hustings court of Richmond
on Friday Mrs. Royal M. Burt was
tried and acquitted of the charge of un-
lawful cohabition with Mr.. Tillar
and the Indictment against the latter
was nolle prosecuted. Their arrest
sensation. Mr.. Burt and Mr.. Tillar
we're then engaged with the Same in
surance company. One night Mr.. Burt
discovered his wife disguised as male
walking the street with Mr.. Tillar. He
followed the couple and saw them enter
Mr.. Tillar's boarding house. A warrant
was sworn out and Mrs. Burt and Mr..
Tillar wore arrested in tho latter's
room. Mrs. Burt's story was that her
husband treated her cruelty and as Mr..
Iillar was the only person in tho city
she knew she went to him for protec-
ton. The disguise was assumed be-
cause she feared her husband and she
did not want him to find out where she
wasstopping.
The Petersburg Index Appeal says:
"Jud ge Rives, OF Prince George county,
was in the city Saturday. The Judge
reports the almost totalloss FIGS shocks
OF peanuts which he had not been able
to house and which have fallen prey
to immense focks OF crows These
birds, he says, arc as thick as bees, and
although. as all hunters know, they are
| very shy and can never be approached
within gunshot, it is now hard to drive
| them off from the peanut shocks by the
continuous discharge of firearms.
William Taylor, an aged man, was
found lying in the pike about one mile
below Shepherdstown, w. Va, on Fri
day evening, dead. He had been in
town during the day and made some
purchases, after which he started for
his home, which was only short dis
lance from where his body was found,
MIR. Taylor served in the Mexican war.
Richard Cross, of Amherst Court House,
died Sunday under an operation per
formed for the purpose of relieving him
| from burns received few DAYS ago He
| had attach nf Unrtinn n
some days age and fell into the fire, re-
ceiviDg the burns which, in the opinion
OF the physicians, rendered the opera
ton necessary.
Messrs Gooch & Waugh have secured
tho contract OF building the Lyman
Railroad from Covington to Dolly Ann
| Mines, distance of three miles. The
road is to be completed in sixty days
This railroad is to furnish ore for the
new furnace at Covington, which is
ready to go in blast.
The Berkely Springs (W Va News
says: "There is not the least doubt that
| G.. Il. Jack, representing company,
has bought the Berkely Springs Hotel,
but complications have arisen and the
whole matter may result in a lawsuit to
place the new purchaser in possession.
Mr.. Jean Livingston, of Amsterdam,
N. V, died at the Home for the Sick,
Danville, Thursday, of consumption.
He came to Danville from Texas about
| five or six weeks ago on his way home,
| but oeing unable to travel farther, and
being without funds, was sent to the
| home.
Tho buzzards and crows are evidentl Y
| great sufferers by the present freeze
A number of these birds are seen with
| in n ;oott % ;o1x
burg. and the crows do not hesitate to
attack grown chicken whenever one
| gets in the way, says The Free Lance,
Of that city.
Cleveland staples, aged five years,
son of John Staples, of Port Royal,
was shot by his brother John, aged ten
| years, last Wednesday morning, while
playing with British bulldog pistol
belonging to Julian Rowley. The ba l
passed through the arm and entered tho
heart. Death was instantaneous.
A number sporting mon have just
concluded a cooking main in Henry
| county. The contest vas between Dan.
Vile and Lynchburg, resulting in q
victory for LYnchburg By a score Of 5
to q.
The store of Lee Moore, Holly grove,
| w. Va, was totally destroyed by fire
on the night Of the 18th. 1t caught
from defective flue and was total
loss, with o insurance Loss, $1,000.
Rev. ]. I. Miller has resigned as
principal Of Won Bora College, Luray,
on account Of tho i'll health of Mrs
Miller. His resignation has been &C
| cepted, to take effect June l. 1898.
One hundred and thirty-five thousand
four hundred and fifty five pounds of
turkey have been shipped from Stsun.
ton this winter. for which the poultry
raise1s received S13,545 so.