The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1894-03-21
VIRGINIA BREvlTlEs

Work will begin this week on the new
courthouse at Leesburg, which will re-
place one that for eighty-hve years has
served for that purpose.
Harry Lackey. of Fairfax county, a
student in an Alexandria school, has
been appointed by the President an
alternate cadet at the naval academy at
Annapolis.
1t is stated that Ex-Governor McKin-
ney has written letter to the effect
that he will not be candidate for tho
Democratic Congressional nomination
from the Fourth district.
An effort is being made in Norfolk to
have Messrs. Moody and Sankey, the
great revivalists, prolong their stay
after Friday, the day of their intended
departure. The meetings are being
largely attended and are increasing in
interest daily.
Charles L. Ward aged 81, native of
Franklin county, who has been a bar
ender in Danville for six months past,
was found dead in his bed Monday
morning. He retired in his usual
was pronounced the case
ichard Hardy, an old and prominent
citizen of Stanton. was struck bv a
Chesapeake and Ohio train, just west Of
that city, on Monday. He confused the
main track and siding and walked di-
rectly in front of the approaching train.
DE was 10: merly uperintendent of the
Staunton gas works.
DR.. j. Knox Thompson, member of
the Virginia Legislature from Dinwiddie
county, died at his home near the
county courthouse Monday morning.
de rsturned home from Richmond last
week upon the adjournment of the
legislature, and day or two ago was
taken i'll. He had been in bad health
for some time.
The application of the Western Union
Telegraph Company for an injunction to
restrain the city of Danville from col
Letting tax of Sc each on the com
pany's poles in that city will not be ar.
court, as had been expected, says the
Lynchburg News. BY agreement of
counsel 1t will 60 over until May.
The charge of stealing a registered
letter preferred rgainst Frank Austin, a
Bedford county mail carrier, whose ar
rest was noted In THE TIMES last week,
has been dismissed for lack of evidence.
Austin told the commissioner at Lynch
burg that he was between II and Is
years old. The postmaster who swore
him in says Austin told him he was
over II years.
The governor has pardoned out of the
penitentiary the following persons:
Albert Firth, of York, serving seven
years for attempted rape; John vii.
liams, of Loudoun, two years for larceny,
and Thomas Johnson, of Essex, two
years for housebre aking. He committed
to three years the sentence of Terry
Sutherland, convicted in Grayson of
murder in the second degree and SEN
fenced to nine years.
w. IL. Boynton, settler from Maine,
tired of the rigors OF the Northern win
ters, has just purchased 200. acre farm
two miles from Staunton, buying from
0. *. Lapham. Mr.. BoynJon's fellow
townsman, A. B. Currier, only few
weeks before had purchased farm in
q colony of recent settlers co ing from
Maine ere.-Staunton special to the
Richmond Dispatch.
Charles L. Campbell, colored man,
living near Marksville, was run over
and killed by train on tho Norfolk and
Western railroad not far from his home
Sunday night. His remains were found
the next morning scattered along the
track for some distance, and it is sup
posed that he was run over by north
bound freight train about IL o'clock. lie
was about 20 years Of age, and was to
have been married on the 22nd proximo.
A healthy flow of Northern capital is
coming into Augusta. To day there was
recorded in the clerks office here deed
conveying the Elizabeth furnace iron
property to Peter McLaren, a wealthy
iron master OF Perth, Canada. The
purchase price named in the deed is
$4,000. This property is a valuable
plant and system of ore beds on the
Chesapeake and Ohio railroad, in West
Augusta. Heretofore Mr.. McLaren had
&C luired thousands of acres of mineral
and timber lands contiguous to his later
purchase.
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