Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1893-04-28
VIRGINIA NOTES.
The Latest News Cleaned From Various
Parts Of the State.

AloAaQQlldt QlOug dSOU StSA'J
was a soldier in the Mexican war ana was
postmaster at Alexandria under PreSiuen'
Bucbanan's administration.
CAPT. W. T. BLAssISGHAM, who was lor
several years keeper Of the Bell ROCK hgn'-
house. but has more recently been ensasou
IN the oyster business at West Point, dleo .-
very suddenly Tuesday morning.
Mps JAMES E. GATES of Dinwiddie county,
died very suddenly She was sitting In
chair at the time the fatal illness cams oH
and died almost Immediately.
Mrs IucErrA CARR. aged eighty-two years.
wss burned to death in Madison county py
hr clothing taking fire.
TERRIFIC storm passed over Buena Flste'
unrooang several houses, blowing down tnS
ond of one of the brick buildings OF the ma
chine works. breaking window panes ana
blowing down trees. No one was nur' Us io'
as heard. .r
A SERIOUS cutting affray occurred az mes'
.ongo bridge, in which man named "ni's
crt man named Marshall In the sloe anu
hack inaicting dangerous wounds. No ar
ress have been made
Tzr trustees of William and Mary College
have agreed TO pay Major H. G. semple
Sc. 400 for services in securing from tne gov
eminent the s64 900 recently appropriated TO
reimburse the college for property used dur
,no the war by the United States. The
amount of the claim for services was placed
as high as s2O, 900 at first. The money re-
ceived from the government will be DO
~ tha 6phOOl In q hlCn~
mond bank.
r. r. JAMES. O young white man OF Han
fax county who was arrested some time
aimee by the United States authorities charg'
ed with robbing the mail had hearing IN
Danyille. and thoroughly established his In
hocence. He was honorably discharged.
John A. RICE. neot the Oldest residents
Of staunton. having been born there seventy
two wears ago. died at his home Oh st. Clair
street. from sudden attack oil vertigo. Mr'
Rice was one of the three forty miners
wno left for the California gold fields, but
.oon returned. During the war he served
eallantly with the Staunton artillery.
: Rev. w. S. Dorset, Millwood, clarke
county. has declined call to the Charles
town Baptist Church.
: THE second trial OF Jefferson Phillips Tor
I the killing of George s. Smith in July, 1891
! is TO toke place at the May term Of the Grim
] inal Court of Alexandria.
GOVERNOR MCKINNEY has pardoned out Oh
!. the penitentiary W. G. Garfield, of Norfolk
! conntv sent there for ten years for robbery.
D1cKENsoY county is to have new court
I, house.
!" DR. w. W. PARKER, a well-known pnysi'
/, clan of Richmond, who has devoted great
- deal of attention to deyising practical lie
!, saving boat thinks he has succeeded IN ac-
d complishing this object. He has one ouua
r. which he will exhibit to Secretary e the
:. Navy Herbert and other naval officers at Old
!. Point. Dr. Parker's boat is % feet long, !
le feet beam and high in the clear. 1t Is con-
r structed of galvanized iron from top to bot
70 tom There are six oars besides the stern
M oar This little craft, has, the Doctor says
E. been subjected to underthrow in the SURF LOT
10 ten days without taking in bit ol water
m Its builders believe that the boat is the most
b. nerfect lfe-saver yet produced. He expects
le to convince the distinguished naval Objects
: at Old Point of the fact.
/. fri understood that without any legal
ID compulson the owners of the property In
Petersburg heretofore exempted from NUM-
cipal taxation under ordinance OF the com
mon council as new industries have, since
the repeal of that ordinance in accordance
with the decisions of the courts, voluntarily
J come forward and paid their taxes for 1892,
and will pay them in future as on other prop
az erty Among these exempted properties
IN were the silk mills, ice and trunk factories
ID and similar new industries.
ut AT Pocahontas, Lewis Payne. a lad OF
ut seventeen, shot and instantly killed his
Ms brother-in-law, John Waugh. 1t seems that
OF Waugh was abusing his wife, when his
in brother-in-aw interfered, and in the struggle
that ensued killed him. Payne was ar
rs rested.
re STACY H. sNowDEN has sold part Of "Wel-
as as incton" and part of "Collingwood' farms,
TO IN lower Fairfax county, about one hundred
be and thirty acres Of land, together with Col
ny lingwood dwellings, to Gen. E. Cory Delany,
he Of Pennsylvania.
Or, The handbook issue by the Virginia board
- OF agriculture, giving lnlOIhotiOH Al ANe~
,a35 a3 70 the resources climate and other matters
,ar supposed to be of interest to prospective
he settlers, will be ready by June l. About
az q. 900 copies OF this work will be sent out
e Mr.. CALVIN HowLANDs, a well-to'do farm .
er Of King George county, who fought he
forest fire near Edge Hill ten days ago, 10
now totally blind, and it is thought that bis
A. sight cannot be restored. The flames were
rapidly approaching his barn, and In des-
perate effort to save his property he rushed
OF into the fire so that the intense heat and
C over exertion paralyzed the optic nerves.
oe TIE Richmond Chamber of Commerce has
10 decided to make fight to have the head
quarters of the internal revenue department
brought back to Richmond
ld AN immense locomotive, the property OF
n the Chesapeake Ohio Railroad Company,
IS. was recently sent to Chicago, where 1t will
te be exhibited al the Worlds Fair Its number
g. was $50, weight 145, 900 pounds, with ca
VI pacity for holding $500 gallons Of water.
It was built at the Richmond Locomotive
Works.
Mr.. John W. Hogeland, an old and we'll
known citizen Of Loudoun, died while en-