Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1893-03-24
VIRGINIA NOTES.
The Latest News Cleaned From Various
Parts of the State,

Parts OF tne pVALe'
GOVERNOR Mckinney has announced tns
s,pointmsnt by him Of toe following phJsi-
cisns a. msmbers of the State Board OK
health: Raleigh Martin, Of Chatham; tanl
r Barringsr, Of the University Of Virginia;
James Par, ish, Of Portsmouth; Root. D.
Pr ston, Of Marion, Smyth county; huSn
M T.vlor L,udon B. Edwards and Paul
A. Irving, of Richmond.
]. A. MARSHALL, Jr., Oh the fIalns,
Farouier county, has sold the Medley farm
raar Hume. to James r. Green fer SSOVV.
The farm contains about $50 acres. CaPO'
w c. Marshall has sold l75 acres OIL CT the
Cleveland farm, adjoining Medley, to Jas
R. Green at $3.50 per acre, and T. 3. Mad
dux has sold hi, farm near Hitch, to Fay
cite Baggerly for the sum Of 5000
TaK steam saw and bending mills OF
Henry z. Shimp, at Rainswood, were burn
ed. No insurance.
v,1r occurred in Blankford, suou,D
% plt"r.,uro aiH- completely destroying tne
large three-s;ory brick building o"neS r~.; ~
occnnied by Capt. Winfield Lanler aS ...h. -,
Ioo~ 9''ap md nlace Of business. The tire caus"'
on the r, Of and burned down
Ar Iron Gate. Kemper Canada Sno' az AnS
4rt,lIv wounded Alexander Powell Do,"
~, ara co,ored and were employed at '0e 'piA' M
',o,.vs -, at that ace. Canada made us
cape. .ou he's already
iN .i,on o,o and ,25O,OOO more will be
needed to comnlete it.
THE Norfolk and Western will construct
four.mile branch road from the main line
Of the Oaio extension up the right fork OF
Twelve Pole Creek 10 affoid four new coa'
mines facilities for shipping their output
THE annual meeting of the stockholders OK
the D nv lie Savings Bank, Loan and In
proving Company Was held at Danville. Inc
Affairs of the company were reported In
aourishing condition, and it was deter
mined to add an insurance agency to the
pre- ent business.
Both Of the Richmond playhouses will
probably To sold this year. The theatre
is to be disposed Of at public auction in
April if not sold privately before that time.
The Academy of Music is in the hands OF
receiver, and sale may be made in the
course of several months
TEE barn of Newton Dovel, near Alma,
Page county, was burned, together with
farming implement, grain etc.
BUNcoMBE county will vote on the i'sre
Of $3.50 900 of bonls for road improvements.
A PRESBYTERIAN church is to be built at
Rural Retreat, Smyth county.
An old colored man named Aleck Rose
and his son, living on the opposite side oi
the river Just below Buena Vista, crossed
over in boat to get some supplies. They
made two trips safely, but In making thu
third the boat was washed over the dan
and two men drowned.
GROUND was broken at Pocahontas, Tor
water works system, which, when completes
will be one of the finest Of its kind in th
State. A reservoir will be constructed witt
1,0OO. 0OO-gallon capacity. The water vii
be pure spring water from the mountains
THE Potomac Short Line Railroad, K
run few miles in Morgan county, was IN
corporated at Charleston with the principal
Office at Berkeley Springs and $4,000 capi
tai. T. H. B. Dawson, Of Berkely Springs
and others are the incorporators.
MELVILLE HUTCHINSON, one OF the bes
known citizens of Loudoun county, died last
week.
A CAMP OF Sons of Confederate Veterans
IS being organized at Charlottesville.
JAS. NJ. ToTTEN, at one time clerk OF thu
: Circuit Court Of Mcdowell county, was ruE
over on the Norfolk and Western Road an'
killed.
MR. c. P. JACK paid $22,5O0 far th'
Berkeley Springs Hotel. This does not in
clude 10 acres of land belonging to the hote
company.
The Norfolk and Western has increased
the force OF car-builders at the Roanok
machine works.
MRS. ANNA LINN, Of Palatine, MarioI
t county, died aged 93 years.
n MRS. WIN. CARPENTER, of Culpeper. die
: very suddenly while preparing dinner
: MRS. SARAH LAM died in nottingham
county, aged ninety years.