The Afro-American., 1895-08-31
VIRGINIA AND WEST VIRGINIA
The Latest News Cleaned From Various Parts
Of the statea

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The fve-year-old child OF Mrs Margare
Mcclure, living few miles south of Hunt
ington, was horribly burned by the turning
! on Of large kettle OF boiling water. The
1 little one cannot recover.
| The board of commissioners appointed tc
canvass the railroad vote in Stafford. finding
| it impossible to conclude their labors owino
TO the bad condition OF the registration books
adjourned to have recount on the second
Monday in September at Stafford Court
House.
The new assessment In Essex county shows
a decrease of $11,515.
The electoral board of Lancaster county
has ordered a new registration in that countya
Sora-hunting on the Rapahannock is about
to begin. Birds are reported abundant
The Tidewater Agricultural Association
will hold its annual fair October 1, and 8
at Tappahannock.
1t is officially announced that Victoria
Furnace, located at Goshen, one of the larg-
est and best appointed blast furnace plants in
the South, will 60 into blast between the 1st
and 10th proximo, and when it does get down
to work it will be run to its full capacity
This means employment to hundreds ol
hands and thousands of dollars place. i in c.r-
cula ion in this county.
The industrial revival at Buena Vista con
tnues The furnace ~ in full operation. en-
poying full force OF bands, and in addition
TO this all of the other industries are doing
we'll and have plenty OF work ahead of them.
Business there in all lines is on the increase
and the outlook for the old town is most
promising
Prof. William Spencer CurreI Pb, D., the
newly elected professor OF English in Wash
ington and Lee University, vice Prof. James
A. Harrison, L. L. D., resigned, has arrived
to take charge of his chair.
Miss Rosa Walker, eighteen year-old dau h.
Ter OF Mr.. and Mrs. Ben Walker, who reside
between OIdham's and Village, in Westmore-
land county, WAS instantly killed by lightning
while standing in the kitchen door,
Giles Trinkle, a wsll-known citizen Of Giles
burg He retired the previous night n hiy
usual health.
The dem ocrats OF MiddIesex and Essex
ceuntie, have nominated Mr.. j. r. Segar for
reelection to III House oil Delegates.
Great things are expected OF the coming OF
the Southern Railway Company to Norfolk
and the advent of the system will be appro-
prately celebrated by the merchants and
business men, it is said.
Over one million tons of coal have been
shipped from Lamberts Point piers since
the first OF January, Notwithstanding the
strikes and consequent depression. The East
ern coal feet has not crowded the piers OF
late to the extent the vesse did last spr!GG,
hut as the disturbance in business is all over
the shipments are steadily resuming their
former volume.
Suffolk is moving to organize a company
to establish an electric street railway to take
The placs of the horse cars. Norfolk parties
are at the head of the movement. The initial
construction work on the electric road in
Portamouth has commenced, the sixty days
granted the Pottsville (Pa.) company in
which to commence work expiring next
week. Gllmerton, new town OF 1000 in
habitants at the first locks of Nbe Dl>mal
Swamp canal, expects TO be connected with
Portsmouth by this electric line,
Mr.. Christian Snead, architect, Of Lynch
burg, had a close Gu from a fearful death
while in state of somnRmbulism at his
house on Clay street. He and his father,
Mr.. W. B. Snea1, occupy room in the
second story OF the building on level with
the porch. From the ou;er edge OF this
porch there is a descent OF thirty fee: or
more to the street. About o'clock in the
morning the young man was seen by his
father to get out of his bed and go to the
wind,w. He called to him to awake, but
before he could be reused he had stepped
over the porch railing and fell to III street
Lelow. la his fall he struck a fr4-aarm
wire, which scratched his neck to the chin,
and his right shoulder was dlsIocated when
he struck the ground. Mr.. Snead is subject
to somnambulism, but this acc dent was the
worst Of his experiences. When he struck
the e-alarm wire the bell at the court
house struck 2.
Tne Sixth Virginia Cavalry held its first !
reunion at Fauquier Springs and pc man
ent ore anization was effected. Judge David |!
A. Grimsley, cf Culpeper, its last colonel,
was elected commander. Seventy-five sur
vivors were present. Among the speakers
was Gen. VIM. H. Payne. The next meeting
will be at Upperville, Va.
Five years ago a twelve-year-old son of
3 rnard Hagan, a prominent business man
Il Huntington, myster .ousIy disappeared |
lrom home Ihousan Is OF dollars were
spent in trying to find him, many leading
detectives being put to work on the case, but
to no avail Friday night the boy, now a
stalwart youth Of seventeen, appeared at his !
fathers residence, and none of the family
recognized him for a long whila. There is
great rejoicing in the Hagan hous sehold.
The boy has Travelled all over the United
States under an assumed name.
CHINA CONVERTS KILLED.