Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1893-02-03
VIRGINIA NOTES.
The Latest News Cleaned From Various
Parts Of the State.

Ine Latest News Gleaned from various
Parts of the State.
DIE board of supervisors OF Campo II
county decided at their last meeting to ask
the State for the services of convicts on the
public roads Of the county. After cores
pondence with the superintendent of the
renitentiary it was learned that forty con-
victs would be ssnt to the county upon ap-
plication for the pul pos. named. The super
visors will ask for them on March l.
The congregation of st. Joseph's Catholic
Church, Petersburg expect to begin the
erection Of their new place OF worsh p some
time next Spring. The church, it l. under
stool, is to cost about $4,000. OF this
amount the congregation has about $l3. 0JO,
AMI Bishop Van de Vyver has given his con-
sent for the congre cation to borrow 5000.
NEAR Wakefield the fast train for Rich
mond over the Norfolk and Western Rail-
road struck and xii ed colored idiot named
Caesar Parham. He was rum ing in FROM
of the train, propabIy to gain path short
distance from where the engine overlook
him.
Mr.. H. S. Cooper, Of the Winston Salem
On. CT Street Railway, has been appointed
SUPERINTENDENT Of the Washington, A exam
dria and Mt. Vernon Electric Railway Com
pany.
AxZ.R. Lewis, ST., was fixing sometsing
about his well near Howardsville, Alpe-
marie county, few days ago, he slipped
and was precipitated to the bottom OF the
we'll which i, said to be IS feet deep. he
fell into 10 feet of water and soon 70 anu
climbed up to where be could support n'm-
ss,s mill hi, friends made arrangements 10
get him out.
Cor, w. +. Wickham has not yet heari
from thu conlmunicat ons he sent TO Generai
Mcmahon, of New York, relative to the
Virginia cavalry being signed to the posi-
ton Of honorary escort to Mr.. Cleveland on
the occasion of his sec md inauguration as
president The commandment of the cav
airy will write to General McMahon again
asking if his communication was received
A COUPLE of dogs got into the sheep 10
Of Mr.. L. NJ. Shumate, of Loudoun county
and ont of a flock of twenty-four left only
one sound sheep. Twelve were killed out
right and eleven Others more or less injured
so that ot least four or five will certainly
die.
CHAs. CRAWFORD, Of Mt. Meridian, lost
sva head IF cattle from the lot lie had at
Lvnnwood, Rockingham county Ihey
u,ant n far out on tae ice Of the river and
broke in.
Con. E. V. White was elected PI es!dent OF
N. paonle's National Bank of Leesburg,
vice John D. Baker, resigned. Dr.: {, shii
Low Carter was elected vice-rresident
The school-house at Gala, Botetourt
county, was destroyed by fire few days
@.
r. NJ. PIERCE, of Rockingham county, WA
found ead in his boarding house in Char
l. ttesyiilc.
THE Culpeper Minute Men are ing to the
Inauguration in full Uniform and are now
drilling for the occa ion
AN order was issued at the Roanoke Mach
inc Works directing the force in the machine
shop to work ten hours a day. The increase
in time is on account Of some new locomo'
tive work Icing taken up that was suspended
last fall.
WITH an eye to profitable bus ness next
summer, three citizens of Roanoke have cut
from the river q stack of ice fifteen feet high
forty feet long and twenty te,t wide, ant
will build house over it.
DURING the past year the Monticello Wine
Company at Charlottesville cleared 70 pei
cent. on its capital stock. In the vintage Of
1892 the Company made sixty thousand gal
Ions of wine and one thousand gallons OIL
brandy. A dividend of 6 per cent. was de
clared.
THE buzsards and crows are evidently
great sufferers by the present freez'. A mum
Der of th SO BIRDS are seen within the corpo
ration limits of Fredericksburg, and tht
crows do not hesitate to attack a grown
chicken whenever one gets in the way.
THE contract for the construction of thu
Ho!ston Valley Railroad has been awarded
The extent of road included in the contract
is from Bristol to thu mouth of Big Creek or
the Hoston, distance IF ten m les.
THE seventeenth annual meeting Of thu
Virginia Young Mems Christian Association
will be held in Norfolk February Is to 10. 4
number of distinguished ministers will be il
attendance aLd deliver addresses.