Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1894-09-30
LIGHTS FROM LEXINGTON.
Fall Blizzard In Neutrality-suspicious.
and General Notes

LEXINGTON, VA. September 70
(Special.)-The county and town have been
visited for the past few days by a regu-
lar fall blizzard the thermometer going
as low as % degrees some nights. There
would have been frost had the clouds not
hung low. Fires and light wraps were
found very pleasant.
Messrs. W. +. Pierson, J. Il. Spencer.
ana Henry Pitzer were bass-fshing at
Rope Ferry, when Mr.. Pierson hooked
a one-and-a-half pound bass 1t broke
the line above the cork and went swim
ming down the river, the cork bobbing
up and down. Pitzer jumped into the
stream and for 100 yards followed the
fish swimming, when he at last grabbed
the cork and safely landed the bass.
Wilson Mackey. a veteran coon-hunter.
while out hunting on Lick run, at the
loot Of Short hill. caught coon. which,
being examined, was found to be per-
fectly white in color, except a yellow
streak down the backbone. A white
coon Is a very rare animal.
James j. Kimberyn, OF Cincinnati. mas
a force OF hands ebgaged in opening up
a quarry OF orna dental stone on land
he recently purcell sed from James Is.
Rapp. near Rapp3 Mill on South Buffalo.
Mr.. Kimberlin slipped a sample load OF
1000 pounds OF fhe stone to Cincinnati
for examination.
COMING BACK.
Quite a number of the colored people
who have left during the past few months
to work in the coal-mineS about Con-
nellsville, Pa, are returning. They state
that after they had been there some
time the managers reduced their wages.
and that their expenses for living con-
sumed all they received. They prefer
Old Virginia.
At meetings OF the Electoral Board OF
Rockbridge county, consisting of Colonel
). c. Shields and Messrs. William $.
Hopkins and VI. w. Paxton. held re-
Gently, arrangements were made to carry
out at the election on November 9th the
provisions OF the new Virginia election
law commonly known as the Walton
law. The board appointed the following
constablos for the eighteen precincts In
Rockbridge, as provided by that law:
Lexington, Jaues ID. Anderson; Hart
socks Shop, John G. Cress: Glasgow,
Frank II. Brockenbrough; Glenwood,
John y. Haynes; Natural Bridge. George
W. Hardy; oak Bank. J. Fulton Tomp-
kins: Hamllton's Schoolhouse, William
F. Johnston; COllierstown. Charles O.
McCorkle; Smiths Mil. Andrew j. hays
lett. Big spring MIL, tHdlFo 'hhNs-o'
RoclIbridge Baths. John T. MoGufiin;
Goshen, Joseph X Bell; Kennedy's MIL
John ID. Snyder; Brownsburg. James +.
Wade Fairfield. Horat!o T. Paxton; Ce-
dar Hill. Frank l., McClung; Raphius.
BENJAMIN c. Rawlings; Campbelfs MIL.
William Il. Grant. A. r. Agner was APP
pointed Judge OF election at Gosheh III
place of T.. w. Holt, resigned.
The booths 10 be used have been or
dered from a firm in Richmond, and are
expected to arrive mere about OCTOBER
| 9th
The Circuit Court directed the sale On
the real and personal property OK the
! Buena Vista Iron Company. which In
/ cludes the furnace. by Commissioners
Pendleton, Anderson, and Winborne.
unless within sixty days the company
NAYS the Fidelity Insurance and Sate De-
posit Company 10000. with interest IRON
! Iune I. 1891. The court refused to con-
b hrrn the sale OF the Savernake property
70 Lord Bruce, Of England. for $50:
Mrs. Thomas Williamson and Miss Mary
| Mercer williamson. OF Danville. are the
| guests OF Mrs. Edward l.. Graham.
Colonel Robert Catlett and family nave
gone TO Charlotte county to spend
month.
Mr.. Greenlee Senseney. of Charleston
S. c.. is visiting his father, MIR. james
| Senseney.
! Mr.. and Mrs. w. F. Gray and child
of Fort Worth, Tex, are Visiting Irlehu'
nere.