Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1896-03-06
While everlasting ages roll
Eternal love shall feast their soul
And scenes Of bliss forever new
Rise In succession to their view.


Among the most Important measures gu
acted by the General Assembly are the three
intended to reduce the criminal expenses OF
tho State. One of them limits the fees OF
Commonwealth attorneys, the effect OF
which, it is claimed, will tend to prevent the
prosecuting officers from making felony
Eases of those which are properly misde-
meanors. tits claimed that this bill will el-
feet q considerable saving to the State. An
cSaer of the same class is that requiring the
penitentiary to send the guards OF the instltu-
ton after prisoners when convicted, instead
of allowing this servic to be performed by
the sheriff and charged for. This legislation
will. it is asserted, save the Commonwealth
many thousand dollars annually
Another bill OF general interest passed at
ihis session is that permitting the University
of Virginia to issue bonds to meet the OK
penses incident to the rebuilding OF the
rotunda and other structures at that jnstitu-
tion recently destroyed by fire.
The Virginia Iron and Railway Company
a strong corporation, doing business at
Goshen. on the main line OF the Chesapeake
and Ohio Railway, has gone into the hands OF
receiver, VIM. J. Mahoney, its former gen.
eral manager, being appointed by the court
This corporation operated the Victoria iur-
mace, one Of the largest and most yaiuaD'e
iron plants in o South, which cost about
$500 900, and was originally built by English
capital. The plant is one Of the most COM
blete In the country, and after years OF idic-
ness. after costly modern improvements were
added it went into blast loss than year
ago, employing a large force OF men. In
addition to its furnace plant it owned ana
operated some ten miles OF railway to its
rich iron ore deposits and fuxins quarrles
near the famous Rockbridge Alum Springs,
the well-known summer san'tarium. Inc
property of the corporation is well worth
$500, 900. even at this period OF financial de-
preston. while It's liabilities are less than
1926. O03. 1t first mortgage bonds amount to
900. 900. and the balance of its Indebtedness
Is we'll secured, and there are ample assets TO
meet all of its obligations and leave han l.
some surplus. The reason for a rec liver Is
that owing to the financial depression and
business inactivity and a failure to MAKE Its
collections, the interest on its bonls cNI-i
not DO promptly met.
William Lifford, an aged and well-known
farmer of near Dalville, was instantly killed
by the falling Of a tree. Mr.. Liiford was at
tending to some teamwork while very high
wind prevailed. A large tree near which he
was standing was blown down, falling upon
the unfortunate man. His skull was crushed
and his neck broken Mr. Lifford was eigh-
ty years OF age.
The Confederate White House, thoroughly
renovated and restored in detail, as it APP
peared from 1861 to 1865, was thrown open
to the public for the first time as Confed-
crate Museum. February %, besides being
Washington's Birthday, is the anniversary
of the Inauguration OF President Jefferson
Davis, and was, thesefore, chosen as the day
for the first public reception. The officers oil
The Confederate Memorial and Literary Sc
ciety. under whose auspices the building was
restored, comprised the reception committee.
The various rooms were adorned with hags,
pictures and relics and presented an attrac-
tive appearance. During the morning hours
Streams of people, many OF them visitors
from other States, visited the museum, and
by midday several thousand persons had
passed through the building.
Information comes from Tanglers Island
In the Chesapeake bay, Of the capsizing oil
the oyster transport pungy Transport and
and the drowning of three, and probably
four persons. Those known to be drowned
were Capt. Tubman B. Pruit, the owner OF
the boat; Harrison Crockett, his father-in'
law. and colored man whose name cannot
lie ascertained. Pruit, Crockett and ore co..
ored man were seen clinging to the sides o.
the capsized pungy, but one after the othel
was washed off 10y the strong. sea before re-
lief could reach them. 1t is thought that an-
other colorcd man was on the Inflated boa
at the time. as he had left another boat II
Washington to return to the Island on The
Transport. the disaster was witnessed by
many people on the island, who had recog
nized the boat as she was approaching thu
entrance to the harbor. Crockett was abou
fifty years old, AMI Pratt about thirty. Boil
were highly respected citizens ot-JtAe island
Their bodies have not yetl5cen recovered
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