The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1893-04-01
VIRGINIA. NEWS VOTES.
Items Gathered Here and There and
Everywhere Throughout the State.

Everywhere Throughout the state.
Captain John o. Hanes will rebuild his
hotel at Montvale, recently destroyed by
fire.
DR.. Charles w. Chancellor, Of Balti-
more. who goes TO Havre as United States
consul, was born in Spotsyivania county,
Va. in 1S2.
Rev. l. ]. Norwood, one OF the evan
gelists of this Episcopal diocese. has been
called to take charge OF the churches In
White parish. Fauquier county.
Claude II. Miller, OF Lynchburg, who
was recently examined at Fort McHenry
for admission to West Point, was success
full He recently received from the Sec
rotary OF war his appointment and was
ordered to report at West Point on June
18th.
Michael Buckleman. an old conductor
on the Baltimore and Ohio railroad,
while attempting TO get on an engine
Wednesday, at Harpers Ferry, slipped
and had his left foot so badly crushed
that 1t will have 10 be amputated. He
was taken TO his home in Martinsburg,
W. Va.
The marriage OF Mr. Thomas c. Kin
ney prominent young lawyer OF Staun-
ton, 10 Miss Caroline Hancock Johnson,
daughter OF Colonel William Preston
n, i
and sister OF Mrs. II. St. George Tucker,
OF stanton. will take place in New Or
leans Tuesday, April 18th.
The lumber interests in Dickenson coun-
~ seem TO be on boom now. Large
quantities OF standing timber are owned
by lumber companies and 1t is to be cut
and hauled 10 the streams this spring
and summer and foated out when the
tides come. This will form considera-
BILE industry for the next year.
The fruit trees and strawberry patches
around Norfolk are blooming on the truck
farms and the green stuff, under the
warm rains, is looking very promising
The season will be late, owing to the Sc
we're freezes Of January, but the truckers
all believe the outlook is very favorable
for large yield of everything and a
profitable season ahead unless the chole-
ra scare cuts off the markets The green
peas never looked prettier at this time or
the year. and only a heavy freeze will
spoil a fine crop.
A strange story comes TO Bristol in
letter announcing the death OF Mr. Millen
and Mrs. Emma Snidow, aged seventy
four, also OF Chrisuansburg, from which
IL seems that Mrs. Snidow spoke with
a prophetic tongue. Mrs. Snidow called
to see Mr.. Millen last Saturday. He was
she told him he would get well Il will
die first" said she. Mrs. Sndow re-
turned home, was taken sick, and on Sun
day morning died few hours before Mr..
Millen died.
The moonshiners OF Dickinson county
must be discouraged now, for day or
two since quite "A number Of their best
customers of that place subscribed 10 an
oath to abstain from the use Of all in
toxicating beverages for periods ranging
from four months 10 five years The
moonshiners always have quantity Sc
GREETED in some convenient place there at
every public gathering, and furnish those
who drink with good 'moonshine" at
low figure and risk the consequences.
They care nothing for being indicted
in the county courts. having none OF this
orlds goods out OF which to collect the
fines imposed upon them. and II they
have to go TO jail, most Of them have
wives and children TO operate their dis
ti.lerics while they serve out their time in
Jail.