The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1894-03-20
VIRGINIA BREvITlEs.

VIRGINIA BREvlTIEs.
The Pulaski News Review states that
the prospects for an iron foundry at that
place are very good.
Two colored children were burned to
death by the destruction of house in
Norfolk county Saturday.
Hon. James w. Marshall has formally
announced himself candidate for re-
election to Congress from the Ninth
district.
Mr.. Cash Cologne, of Marshall, has
been appointed general storekeeper in
the internal revenue service under
Captain Ham Shepherd, and has entered
on the discharge OF his duties.
The Buena Visa Wagon Works have
been sold at public auction to G. L.
Chase, of baltimore. A strong company
will be organized to put new machinery
into the plant and start it up.
Peter Compton, brakeman on the
Baltimore and Ohio, had his legs so
badly crushed as to require amputa tion
and cause death by falling under the
company's cars at Maruinsburg, w. Va,
Saturday.
Mansfield Marshall, the father OF
Congressman James w. Marshall, of
the ninth Virginia district, died at Day
ton, near Harrisonburg, on Friday,
aged about 70 years, from the effects
OF q cancer. The funeral occurred Sun
day.
turf association has been formed ct
Norfolk and all the stock was promptly
taken by the sport. loving element of
Norfolk and Portsmouth. The track is
nearly completed, the buildings are
going up rapidly and everyt thing will be
in readiness for he spring season.
Among the requests of Mrs. Mary
Hemingway, who recently died in Bos.
ton, leaving SIS, 1000, 600, was valuable
farm in Massachusetts to the Hampton,
Va, Institute. Mrs. Hemingway had
been financially assisting other works in
this State up to the time of her death.
jeff Cash and Henry Hall, two of the
negroes implicated in the murder of
Henry Speaks, in King George county,
and placed in the county Jail, have
been released on $500 bail for their ap-
pearance at the next term of the county
court of that county.
The body of Henry Il. Fuqua, the cit
izen OF Petersburg, who has been miss
ing for two weeks past, was found Sat-
urday in the river by some young mon
who were fishing near the old distillery
in Blandford. There was a cut on the
head and another over the eye. The
body was turned over to his family after
an inquest had been held.
negro burglar broke into the house
of Mrs. Jane Morang, on Glasgow street
extended, near Portsmouth,, Friday
night. and tied the hands and feet OF
the lady and placed gag in her mouth.
lie then robbed tho house of money and
other valuables and made his escape.
1t was two hours before a member of
the family found Mrs. Morang and re-
leased her.
The reports from Norfolk are encour-
aging. The mills and factories of that
section OF Virginia are now generally IN
operation, and few of that class of
operatives are out OF employment. The
truckers are employing sheir labor for
tho season, and along the docks the
spring business of the transportation
lines keeps large force OF negro labor
busy day and night.
1t has been definitely settled that the
young woman who jumped from win
dow Of a Baltimore and Ohio train from
Chicago to Wheeling, Friday night,
near Mt. Vernon, Ohio and who was
killed, was Miss Kittie Farnsworth, a
daughter Of DR.. l.. S. B. Farnsworth, a
dentist, Of Buckhannon, w. Va. She
had gone to Chicago last summer and
has since remained there, studying
music and elocution. The cause of her
act is unknown.
The city owns the gas plant, and no
body denies the wisdom of it's owner
snip. All the reasons for it are in easy
view. and all apply with equal force to
the ownership of an electric plant. 1t
seems to us that now Is the time to take
the matter into serious consideration
We are going forward; the day Of cleo
tricity is here. We must have it. The
only question is, How? 1t is in sense
monopoly, in city Of this size.
Should not the city own it? Surely no
one will contend that our people are
better off with a monopoly in private
s?-Charlottesville Progress.
Chamberlain's Eye and Skin Ointment
Is a certain cure for Chronic Sore Eyes,