The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1893-04-05
VIRGINIA NEWS NOTES.
Items Gathered Here and There and
Every here Throughout the s,st.

In the Immediate vicinity Of Freder-
| icksburg are some twenty or more gold
| mines.
The Rev. J. T. Crabtree. long connected
with Roanoke College. has accepted the
princpalship Of high school at Lancas-
| ter. S. G.
b. b. Smith was thrown from wagon
near Warm Springs Wednesday, and re-
ceived injuries which caused his death
the next day.
The report that all the Marylanders
confined in Accomac county jail for al
legged dredging had been released turns
out to be untrue.
Mrs. Lucian NJ. Fewel died at the
home of her son. Mr.. c. Il. Brawner, in
Manassas, on Monday last of cancer, in
the sixty-third year Of her age
An unusually large acreage is being
prepared for corn in Wythe county
Owing TO the many severe freezes the
prospects for a fine wheat crop are not
fiattering.
DIR. George Wiley. of Abingdon, has
been appointed physician and surgeon to
the Mathieson AlkaH Works at Saltville,
and will move TO the latter place I'm the
near future.
Mr.. Elliot Roosevelt, of New York, has
purchased S2S 900 of the stock of the Ex-
change Park. at Abingdon. Mr. Roosevelt
has large business interests in Southwest
ern Virginia.
T.. l.. Selecman, Of Prince William
county, has sold 200 acres of timber land
in Fairfax county, near Occoquan, for
$1,000, and sixty acres in Prince William,
near Occoquan for $1,000.
At Bristol Friday a man named Pointer
was fined four dollars for circulating false
reports about two married ladies. Being
short Of cash. he will have to work the
fine out in the chain-gang.
George r. Justis, Jr.. aged eighteen
years. was convicted in Onancock on the
charge of criminaly assaulting Annie X.
Dix, a girl of eleven. and his punishment
was fixed at three years in the penten-
tiary.
A few days ago a present OF a chame-
leon was received by a young lady Of
Petersburg from friend in Florida. The
little reptile has caused a decided sensa-
ton among those to whom II has been
shown in its Variegated colors. Some
nervous persons shiver at the sight Of
anything like a reptile; others are de
lighted and have sent orders for one TO
wear in their hats or on their scarfs.
Joseph Taylor alias William Robinson,
young negro desperado who went from
Virginia three years ago. and now at the
age of nineteen has a record Of two dead
men and two seriously wounded. was ar
rested at Fairmont. Marion county, w.
We. last week on a requisitiOn from the |
Governor of Pennsylvania. where Taylor |
killed a colored man, and followed II |
up by shooting another the next morning. |
John Gray was tried in the county |
court at Abingdon Friday. and given five |
years I'm the penitentiary. Gray was ar
rested in Bristol on "Roberson's Row" |
last winter. at the same time Richards |
and Cadet were arrested. They all be-
longed TO the same gang and had been
depredations in Bristol and |
county for some time. The
crime for which Gray gets five years
was the robbing Of Nost's store, at Lindell,
some months ago.
There lives near Rural Retreat a family
that has. perhaps, an unprecedented chain
of descendancy. Three grandfathers-
Bradley Meredith, aged nnety-three: j.
Dennis Meredith. aged siXty-four; Dorius
Meredith aged forty-four; DOrius Mere
1iths daughter, Virginia S. Suavely. aged
twenty-five. and her child, aged six
months All enjoy good health. and live
under the same roof The child's mother.
grandfather. great-grandfather and great
great grandfather comprise this long chain
Of living descendants.