The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1893-02-02
VIRGINIA NOTES.

Campbell county will employ forty
convicts to work on the public roads.
The Richmond Y. M. G. A. has called
Secretery George L Bibbitts, Of Lynch
burg, to tho secretaryship at Richmond,
vice Mr.. Bapdlish, resigned.
The board OF agriculture has adopted
! plan whereby moro farmers institutes
will be held and at less cost than here
tofore. 1t Is supposed to hold them in
each congressional district on the ap-
plication OF 100 farmers and the OK
penses Of each is to DO limited to S1O0.
The committee appointed to report on
the advisability Of establishing expert
mental farms was discharged
Mr.. II. C. Tiosley, editor of tho
Stanton VindicatOr, who has been un.
der treatment at the Johns Hopkins
Hospital, Baltimore, for several months,
arrived at home Saturday evening, and
WAS given quito an ovation by his
friends at the Virginia Hotel He is
greatly improved in healt IN and is rain
ing strength rapidly.
Nearly all the buoYs are Como from
the lower part of the bay and are drift
ing out to sea. Eleven buoys were YES
to-day counted adrift and ten of them
are outside the capes.
Three Mormons, with proselytin in
tentions. have been roaming about Char
lottesville latoly. They have been re-
fused the use of the court house and
other public buildings.
George Winters died at Front ROYAL
few days ago aged about eigh ty six
ington county, Md, and two weeks ago
removed to his sons at Front Royal
The oyster fleets of the Norfolk Sec
| tiOn hQy.,o11 hrnlynp Of &ho ;,1
gone down the river to the rocks, and
the packing houses expect to resume
operations early in the week.
The latest cabinet gossip from what
may be considered good sources indi-
Gates that Virginia will not have
Place. 1t seems to be thought most
likely that Mr.. Bissell, of New York,
will be Acknowledgement and not Mr.
j. Randolph Tucker.
| The petition to Mr.. Cleveland for tho
appointment Of Mr.. S. Wexford Corbin
to The position Of Assistant Com mission
er of Agriculture las been endorsed
and signed by all the Virginia electors,
the members of Congress from this State
the members of the Board of Agricul-
ture, the Governor and the other State
officers, many of the most prominent
agriculturists of Virginia and we'll
known bankers of Richmond and other
| cities.
Rev. Father Tiorney, the pastor of
the new Catholic parish In Fairfax and
Londoun counties, will in the spring
take up his residence in Falls Church,
! which is to lie the headquarters OF the
new parish. He will build house on
| the grond recently purchased back of
the st. James Church. Father Tiernev
at present resides in Alexandria.
Mr.. George e. Pickett, son of the late
! Gen. George K. Pickett, is an applicant
fnr the position of paymaster in the
United States Army. He has already
been Endorsed by the entire Virginia
delegation, - Senators, General
Schofeld, commander-in chief, and q
large number of Grand Army posts and
Confederate camps.
The exposition in Richmond last fall
was financial failure. Instead OF
coming out ahead by Sl,10O, as the
executive committee of the society
announced soon after the show closed,
the exposition brought the concern in
debt to the tune Of S3,lS This condi.
ton OF affairs has just been NJ de public.