Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1895-12-27
VIRGINIA AND WEST VIRGINIA,
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the State
Judge Henry E. Blair, of Roanoke Circuit
ourt, entered decree directing the sale
If the Salem furnace property The bill for
he foreclosure was filed by the Fidelity In
,urance Trust and Safe Deposit Company, OF
Philadelphia. which is the trustee named in
he mortgage.
The Bonsaek Machine Company recently
wrote to the factories in Cuba using their
.igarette machines, instrJcting them to place
On each machine United States flag and
ard upon which is to be written notice
stating that such machine is the personal
property of the Donslck Machine Company
Il Virginia, U. S. A., and that any damage
lone to it would have to be paid for.
The Virginia Peanut Association an as5o-
,iation which controlled the peanut output
# Norfolk and vicinity for the two years OF
Is existence, is no MORE 1t was dissolved
,ecaused its memter could not agree upon
/ future line Of action. The association was
such character as to require unanimlty
lnong it's membert, bit all that was un1ni-
nous at the meeting was that dissolution was
ne only proper course, and each member
will now take care of itself. The association
vas formed September 1, 1893, being COM
posed Of twelve companies. 1t controlled
lie peanut on pat Of the State, and was a
trust in its nature. twas dissolved because
all agreement as to the future prices could
lot be reached.
The Merchants and Miners Transporta-
ton Company has purchased the tug Apollo,
of Baltimore, which the company now has at
work in and around together with two
new covered barges. This outfit is used to
transfer the Merchant and Miners Transpor-
tation Southern Railway freight between
Norfolk and Primers Point. Tho freight
was formerly handled by the Merchants and
Miners TRANSPORTATION Company at West
Point. Va. and their steamers WI now DIS
continue going to that place. This company
will. as with other transportation companies
ployed at Norfolk.
The Southern Railway made its FIRST report
10 the Norfolk Cotton Exchange, the receipts
being 593 taies over tieir road. The New
York. Boston and Clyde Line steamers now
touch regularly at Primers Point.
Dr. W. s. Christian, Of Middlesex county,
who was colonel Of the Fifty-hfth Virginia
Infantry during the late war; will be the ora
tor at the anniversary of Gen. r. E. Lees
birthday. to be observed in Alexandria, jan
uary 20. under the auspices OF Lee Camp
Confederate Veterans. Other speeches will
be made on the occasion and Judge Critcher
will respond to the toast, The Cavalry.
Mr.. John Rennie. wel-known quarryman,
of Granite in Chesterfield county, disap-
peared from his home under circumstances
which cause his friends to fear he has met
with some serious accident. On that night
he was preparing to join some intimate COM
pauions in seeing the old year out, since
which time he has not been seen or heard Of.
During the past year 6,7;0,535 pounds OF
manufactured tobacco were exported from
Petersburg; during 1894 the exports were
1905. 5S7 pounds; increase during 1898, 754,
1913 pounds.
Gen. stith Boiling, President Of the To-
bacco Association of Petersburg, says that
there will not be more than so per cent. of
crop of tobacco raised in this section this
wear. The crop of 1895, General Boiling
said. was about one million pounds
The directors Of the West Virginia North
ern Railroad have announced their intention
of extending that road from Kingwood. IN
Preston county, to Morgantown, Monongaia
county. over the "Black Bottle route, which
was laid out several years ago. The road
will be gun In the spring. The road will bt
twenty miles long, and will cut directly
through a territory of which the Baltimore
and Ohio now makes q, circuit.
Mr.. Joseph Randall, one Of the Oldest resi-
dents of Shephardstown and ono Of its hes
known men. died at his home, about three
miles west OF that city in the ninetieth yea
of his age. In his earlier years Mr.. Randall
was a contractor and stonemason. lie Dull
several locks on the Chesapeake and Ohi'
canal and did a great deal of work in tn
construction of the Baltimore AMI Ohio Rail
road lie also dill the handsome cut stone
work on the Shepherd College property AM
at the Wild Goose farm Of the late Henr
Shepherd. The turnpike from Jefferson t.
Frederick, Nd, was constructed by him.