Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1893-08-04
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The board of supervisors Of Stafford county
have organized by the reelection of Mr..
| james o. Lee as chairman. The following
tax levy for 1893 was adopted Fl ty cents
capitation, 50 cents on the 500. Valuation
for county levy road tax as follows: Aqua
district, 20 cents on the 500, the other three
districts Is cents each bridge levy. rs cents
on the 300 schools, 10 cents on the 500 for
county purposes district 10 cents on the
800, except Falmouth, which was laid at 6
cents on the : 90.
THE movement to organize a society for
the prevention OF cruelty TO animals in
Fredericksburg meets with the hearty APP
proval and cooperation OF all citizens. A
charter is now being prepared and the cleo
ton of officers will take place soon.
The statement in a Cincinnati paper that
the (hesapeake and Ohio Railway is behind
In its payments to the coal operators along
its line i, denied entirely ty the officers in
Richmond. The auditors figures, which are
all ready for the annual statement, show that
the amount due the c. al men is about $780,
coo. instead of from enc and half TO two
millions, as stated. The amount named ia
not more than is usually carried over in
every monthly settlement The entire float
irg debt of the road is shown ly the auditors
figures to be less than one million dollars.
The design for the statue OF the Confeder-
ate private soldier to be erecfed in Richmond
represents an infsntryman standing at ease,
with the but Of bis musket resting on
ctump. with barrel TO the rear and muzz.e on
line with the top OF his hat.
EXTENSIVE preparations are now being
made by the Lutheran congregation OF Wood
stock for convention of the Sunday Schools
Of the Virginia Synod, to meet there August
LIST to 4th, and mass-meeting and reunion
Mt the fair grounds August 4th.
GOVERNOR McCoRKLE, OF West Virginia.
has appointed II. A. Robson, OF Fayette
county, mine inspector.
JOHN G. PHILLIPS. one of the best-known
citizens of Alexandria, is dead.
A SPECIAL from Warrenton says: "Miss
Bessie Stone. eldest daughter of Thomas G
Stone. committed suicide at an early hour at
her home. near Warrenton, by shooting her
self in the mouth with pistol She and hei
father had a quarrel the day before and re-
uewed it. when she went to her room and
ended her life
MICHAEL WALSH, a workman on the new
City Hall at Richmond, fell through an eleva-
tor of that building and was badly injured.
His fall was from the third floor TO the
ground. distance probably Of sixty feet.
THE Roanoke city council is bent on re-
trenchment and reform, and to accomplish
this has reduced the fire department far be-
low the cost OF maintenance and caused a
dismissal of the special policemen which re-
duces the working force to an insufficient
number of men to adequately guard the lives
and property Of citizens. There is some talk
among nremen of disbanding the volunteer
department and allowing the city 10 reor-
ganize it on paid basis.
In reply to the petition sent by the Sum-
roer School OF Methods to the board OF Flsl-
tors of the University of Virginia asking that
the doors of that institution be thrown open
10 women, Miss Corrinne Harrison has re-
ceived letter stating that the board has re-
ferred the subject to the faculty, which will
report to the board at its meeting in June,
1894. 1t is understood that there is only
small minority of the professors who do not
seem TO consider it wise, and most OF the
faculty and board OF visitors are anxious TO
promote the higher education of women, but
are deferred from opening the doors by the
very considerable expense attendant on do
Ing So
A fire at Prospect Depot, in Prince Edward
county, destro ed three torres. The losses
were as follows: E. S. Taylor Co., $1,000,
insured for 1925 Hubbard Bro $500, no
insurance H. NJ. Brlghtwell, $1,000, insur-
ance on building $1,000, stock of whisky
saved.
A fire in South Portsmouth destroyed the
grocery store OF Richard Gug, the boarding
house OF L. L. Foster rooms of the John W.
Daniel Democratic Club, the cigar store OF
James Knight and the bareer shop OF Ed
ward BRYAN. The buildings and stocks were
only partly insured The fire was ircen-