Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1893-05-26
VIRGINIA ITEMS.
The --latest News Cleaned From Various
Parts Of the State

Wa, q VrrTEP, one of the oldest citizens
Of shenandoah county, is dead. Mr. Nettei
was born in Micklesstadt, Germany IN ioO',
and was eighty-eight years, five months ana
soven davs old. He landed at Baltimore
wbei young man Of twenty-seven years
SINCE the refusal of Greenbrier county
oour +, Grant bar-room license at Ron
eeyerte five applications for drug store
,;conee have been presented to the municipal
council, Of that town. The council has
.,i,od tho license foe for drug stores from
s2O to so.
low 7 William Jones has been elected
chaplain at the University OF virginia 70
servo for two years from the beginning Oh
The next sess Oh. He is now the secretary Oh
the home mission board of the southern
poptist Church. with headquarters at Al
lanta, Ga.
DR. J. N. Warwick Byrd died in California
recently of blood poison. He was one OF tn9
nioneers of California, having moved to taa'
State from Bath county, Va, in ls49 or So'
and was a man OF considerable wealth.
Tue Rad.ord Inn, at Radford, recently de-
stroyed by fire. 70 to be rebuilt this summer
at cost of $3O,OOO
THE Enterprise Cooperage Works 10
Goochlaud county, was the scene Of fata
accident the other morning. The sawyer H.
W. Carter, while adjusting Que oil the smailer
beIts was caught around tho legs by the
main 1e-inch belt of the factory and carried
under and over the wheel and thrown some
ten feet against q brick wall. His legs, arm
ond bodv were badly crushed, and he died In
fou, minutes He was about twenty-sn
years old. .u.
WHILE it is not positively known thas Ma
ior Mann Page, the president OF the 'lrgihi"
State Alliance, will allow his name to be useu
in the convention of the peoples party ior
ihe nomination for Governor, it is yet De-
ieved ,het he will be the nominee OF thH
marry. 7. is believed the republicans wou'u
suoport him against rhe demoratie nopins7'
u,vDso,rs mural tablet ia To b9 erected
in ths chapel Of William and Mary ColeSe
g. the memory Of George Wyihe, student ami
.rofessor NJ tiis institution. The dedication
.araroonies will tase place iu June, during
the bi-centennial celebration Of tho coh'ss
The tablet is the gift OF tho Bar Association
of Virginia.
cHAs A. ScHREIEN & Co., of Brooklyn, N.
Y have completed arrangements ior the
establishment of q large tannery at Bristol.
To begin with the tannery is to have a capa-
city of 80, 900 large hides per annum' out is
TO be incre sed from year TO year uh'i' u
reaches a capacity of 10000 hides.
one of the five bodies found day or two
ooo in the drifts of New river, near Blue
stone. had on a shirt marked with the init'ai'
LIMA. well-known young man OF hlch
mond. James NJ. Anderson, has been away
from his home since April IL, and his family
e.ar that he was one of the drowned, as tn
initials form his name.
MISS LILLY KING, OF Upper Clopton, Lon
don. Eng, was drowned in the mill pond
near the celebrated falls ia Falling Spring
Valley. Allegheny county. She, with her
brother. Thomas King, and several Others
were bathing when the accident occurred
Miss King was.a young lady OF most excel
lent character and considerable wealth, and
had devoted her whole life, aided by hel
means in the mission OF redeemlng th'
criminal moor of London, working in connec
tion with Miss Octavia HILL Miss King hao
heen in America only about ten days, having
come on q visit of recuperation to the family
,f w O. luke, in Allegheny county, who
, were English settlers.
THOMAS A. BLAcKFoRD, for two years pas'
commandant and professor at the Augusta
Military Academy, has accepted position as
, commandment and professor at Kenyon Mill
: torv Academy, Gambler, Ohio. Mr.. Black
ford is native OF Lynchburg and q distln
, ouished graduate OF the Virginia Military
J Institute. He is a son OF DR.. Benlamll
Rlackford, superintendent OF the insane asy
lum at Staunton.
Jrnar J. W. MYER and associates, OF Phlla
delphia, have bought the Rockbridge Hot'
. at Glasgow. and made a cash payment
$4,000 thereon. Estimates have been OF
tained as to the cost Of completing the hote
which will be about $4,000.
> REV. V. W. WHEELER, of the Baltimoi
Conference, Methodist Episcopal Cnurc
o. South. has been exhonorated by commhtf
Of ministers from charges involving
ministerial character.
70 Mr.. W. R. SELEcMAN, Of occoquan' nj
le lust completed a reft OF S,OOO twenty-hv
p foot piles to fill a government contract
le dikes in the Rappahannock river.
E. Mrs. MARY L. ARGENBRIeHT, wife oil Ge
lie L. Argenbright, of Augusta county, OH
ID aged SO years.
s. THE Richmond Chamber OF Commerce ~
r requested Judge W. W. Crump to write a nj
tory Of that city. .---