Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1895-02-15
VIRGINIA AND WEST VIRGINIA
The Latest News Cleaned From VariolI Parsi
of the fitate5.


1t is proposed to construct trolley line
from Farmvie to Keysviile, via Hampden'
Sidney College.
DIR. +. N. Talalerro, Virginian by birth
and a graduate of the University OF Virginia,
died recently of consumption at Aiken, 5. Z.
For several years he had been a successful
physiciaL at Hicksville, Long Island, N. Y.
At coored dance 10 Culpeper, row &C.
Cured over womar- John QuarleS, one OF
the enraged parties, left the scene Of the
trouble. but soon returned with shot gun
and deliberately blew William Bundy's head
nearly of. Qualres was arrested.
W. H. Sprouse was run over on the South
err ! ailraod near Charlottesville, and in
SANITY killed.
An Effigy b airing the legend THE Honor.
able ). ayor' was 'ouni hanging to trol.e5
wire near the university Oh arlottesvilr. 1t
is Supposed TO have been q prank OF some
students. The mayor had fired five or six
students on the charge of di,orderly conduct
at the Opera House.
Rev Theron H. Rec, pastor Of the Second
PRESBYTERIAN Church in Alexandria. Las re-
ceiyel call to th Frs Presbyterian Church
at Ma con Ga. This IS the third call Mr.. CO
has received durin, the two years and hal
he Is been in Alexandria-the first coming
FROM Baltimore, the second from Nashville
and the third from Macon.
The county OF Mcdowell, W. Va, which
was so long cut off from business centres.
now opened by the Norfolk and Western Rail
road. can boast of finer Jail and courthouse
than can be found in any county In the old
safe. and its inexhaustibe resources in coal
and timber make it one OF the wealthest
counties in either State.
Lee Camp o. Confederate Veterans, Of Rich
mond, adopted resolution providing for the
appointment OF committee to seek the CO.
opera ion OF other bodies OF Confedera vet
eran5 and al of til Grand Army o; the Re.
publ in the mat er Of securing an appro-
priatiou from Congress FIR the establishment
of a national park at Appomat!ox, where
General Lee surrendered.
In n criminal court in West Virginia George
Washington, Stonewall Jackson and Christie
pher Columbus have all bsen sentenced TO
terms in the pcni entiary of that State. The
convic are all coiored.
MIR. James William Burns died in ParkeIs-
burg. He was for a nuLaDer OF years engaged
in the hardware business at Fairmont Mr..
Burns was Born at Westerlport, Md.
Lee Camp o. Confederate Veterans, OF Rich
mord, adopted resolution providing for the
npI ointmen OF a committee to ask the CO.
81 era ion OF other bodies OF Conledera vet
Grams and also Of TIL Grand Army OF the Re
pubI c in the mat er OF securing an appro-
pri ,tioa fir ON Congress f,r the establishment
Of national park at Appomat.ox, where
General Lee surrendere Tho que 'tlon
has leen under consid ration in Richmond
for some time, and 1t is elieyed that those
pushing the sch. me will also obtain the in
dor cment OF the G. A. r. when it meets in
Loui vile this year, It's proposed to interes
eve Confede ate camp in the country in the
matter, have them send delegates or COM
mitiee3 10 confer with the commit ees OF Lee
and Pickett amps, and such Ieple5 nta;llos
OF the G A r a may lie appointed tbs
connection, and to then formulate COM
mission whose duty it shall he 10 pres, the
matter through Congress.
Mr.. Joseph L. Las AIDE, county SURVEYOR
of Chesterfield county, was found at Dry
Bridge Station. a out ten miles from Rich
mond on the Southern Railway, in an IN
conscious condition and nearly dead from
expo ure 1t is presumed that Mr.. LaSpade
got off the tran at Dry Bridge and in trying
to mount h S horse, which bad been sent to
the st tien and left, l'll off and hurt himself.
Mr.. LaSpdde at last accounts was in a SEMI
Gonsc Gus condition; AMI both legs ar5 SO
badly frostbitten that they will probably
have to be amputated.
The counsel for Stale Superintendent OF
Public Schools, Hon. John E. Massey filed
their dec alton in Norfolk, in their suit for
libel against the Pilot Publishing Company
for so, 900 damages. The declaration has
twenty counts, and it takes rs pages clio e.
ly typeylitten paper to reci.e his grievances.