The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1894-04-03
VIRGINIA BREvITlEs.

Nathaniel Chittune, Of Collierstown,
probably the Oldest citizen of Rock.
bridge county, Is dead. He was born in
179S in Goochland county.
An effort is being made at Manchester
to organize q militia company and apply
Forty-eight young men have signiHed
their intention of joining the company.
The eighteen men who constituted
the crews Of the two Maryland
schoJners recently captured for illegal
dredging in Virginia waters were re-
leased Friday at Onancock, Accomac
county.
Rev. c. +. Wormeldorf, q native of
Rockbridge county, and now in attend
ance upon the Union Theological Sem
mary in New York, has rendered his
services to the Southern Presby terian
Church as missionary to Brazil.
Charles Coles, coiored, tried in the
county court of Fsuquier last week for
killing his nephew, Bernard Gibson,
was convicted OF murder in the second
degree and sentenced to sixteen years
and six months in the penitentiary.
Another case OF mistaking the wrong
bottle and giving an infant carbolic acid
for soothing syrup, occurred near Wood
stock Friday night, when the wife Of
William l. Burner, a well-to do farmer,
administered the fatal dose, causing the
infants death in a short time.
The death Of DR.. Beverly St. George
Tucker is announced at Colorado
Springs, Colo. He was son of Beverly
Tucker, OF Virginia. His father was a
stepfather of John Randolph, of Roa-
noke. DR.. Tucker was a surgeon in the
Confederate service.
R. Holt Easley, of Halifax county, has
made an assignment. with liabilities OF
about 800, 900. Mr.. Easley has been a
large operator in lands in Sioux City,
Iowa, and Southwestern Virginia. and
his failure is thought to be due to the
shrinkage in real estate and the collapse
Of the boom times.
Col. w. T. Atkins. OF McKeesburg,
stated at Richmond the other day that
he had received much encouragement
in his candidacy for Congress in the
Fourth district. Colonel Atkins thinks
Mr.. Epes is not candidate for re-elec-
ton and others have stated that he was
tired Of Congressional life.
Levin W. Downing, aged thirty.seven,
brakeman on the New York, Philadel-
phia and Norfolk railroad, fell between
two freight cars Friday morning about
O'Clock, at Mappsburg station, and
was instantly killed, his BODY being
horribly mangled. He leaves wife
and two small children, who reside at
Delmar, Del.
Mrs. Maria Gardner, wife of Rev. DR..
Jas. 5. Gardner, OF Stanton, presiding
elder Of the Rockingham district Meth
odist Episcopal Church, South, died
Sunday aged about so years. She has
been in feeble health for two years past.
Her husband, who was attending the
conference at Frederick sburg, was tele-
graphed for before her death
A sad accident is reported from War
saw, where Mrs. Clark and her 7-year-
old daughter were burned to death last
week. 1t seems that the child, while
playing in the house, caught fire and
tho peril in which it was, ran and
caught it up in her arms, endeavoring
in this way to extinguish the fire. In
stead OF putting out the blaze, which
was burning her child, Mrs. Clark her
self caught, and both were burned to
death.
a special from Lexington to the Rich
mond Times says: A meeting of the
Virginia Tin Mining and Manufacturing
Company was held here last week.
There is prospect of Northern syndi-
cate taking lease on the mines for de-
velopment and an option to buy and
operate the property, should it prove as
valuable as the ores are thought to be.
The mines are located in this county on
Irish crock, on the line of the Shenan-
doah Valley division of the Norfolk
and Western railroad.
A party OF scientists from the bureau
of ethnology and the geographical sur
vey, of Washington, Friday visited
what is said to have been large soap
stone quarry worked by Aborigines. 1t
Is located near Clifton Station, Fairfax
county. A stone chisel, the smallest
ever found, 1t is claimed, was picked up
by one of the party. The chisel and
large number OF soapstone bowls were
brought back to Washington. The
quarry was discovered by Washing
t0nian last month.
BENZ. Earnshaw, Democratic politi-
clan and boss of Wetzel county, w. Va,
has been sentenced to eight years in the
penitentiary. Earnshaw il the man
charged with substituting on Wetzel
county ballots the name of Congressman
Pendleton for that of G. w. Atkinson.
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