Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1896-04-03
VIRGINIA STATE ITEMS.

Fire broke out In the store Of Mrs. Ellers,
on Sixth street, in the town Of West Point,
and destroyed property aggregating in value
about $4,000. The fire spread to the build
ings occupied by Moryitz & Cabe, clOthiers
and general merchandise dealers, and Treate,
Bland & Co., wholesale and retail grocers.
The u ldings were situated in the business
center Of the town, and were probably the
largest establishments in West Point Both
buildings with their contents were practically
destroyed before the flames were gotten I'M
der control. Several other houses were also
damaged by the fire. Moryitz & Cabe car
red a stock valued at $1,000, and Treate,
Bland & Co. s stock was worth about 5000.
There is a movement ON foot in Norfolk to
organize a new Fire Lloyds Association, to
be known rs the Southeastern Fire, Marine
and Inland Lloyds, with headquarters at
Columbia, s. G. The company is to be en-
tlrely composed of wealthy Southern men,
whose commercial ratings shall not be less
than 100000 each. There are to be thirty
underwriters, five each from the states OF
Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina,
Georgia. Florida and Alabama. The Caro-
lima National Bank, of Columbia, S. c., is to
be the depository. This company will not in
any manner be connected with similar organ
izations in the country.
Lee amp OF Confederate Veterans met in
Richmond and discussed the report that tho
government would probably discontinue the
publication of the records OF the late civil
war on account of economy. Resolutions
earnestly opposing the discontinuance were
passed addressed to the senators and repre-
sentaives of Virginia in Congress, instruct
ing them to use every means to prevent 1t.
The resolutions set forth that several volumes
of the series are now ready for the press and
that the information for others has been OBJ
iained at great cost, and that to stop them
would be great loss to the common coun-
try.
Thomas Bailey. white man, aged about
fifty years, and residing near Leemont, went
out in the woods to fell some trees. He failed
to return home at night, and when search
was made for him his lifeless body was found
under large tree, which had fallen across
him. 1t is thought that he was killed in
etantly. He was unmarried, and was living
with q relative.
Issac Jones, of Spottsylvania and John c.
Stanford, of Fanquier, had an alteration re-
sulting in a desperate fight, at the house OF
Mr.. Oscar Almond, near Locust Grove in
Orange county, in which Jones received
istol ball in his left arm and Standford's
head and face were badly hacked and cut
with grubbing hoe. The quarrel was about
woman.
Jcnn W. Uricb, son of Mr.. Vim. H. Urich,
OF Martinsburg, has passed successful ex-
animation for entrance to the West Point
Military Academy
Mr.. r. NJ. Kennedy, who married daugh-
ter OF the lac Judge Joseph II. Sherrard,
died recently at his home in South Carolina
Rev. Mr.. Harlow died at his homo near
Uppervillc, Fauquier country last week. In
early life he was engagedin the active dut-
les of an Episcopal clergyman, but since his
removal to that neghborhood he had Tor
MANY wears lived retired and almost Sc
cluded life.
Mr.. George Mason Leo, son OF Fitzhugh
Lee, has passed. a credita5le examination for
his entrance as a cadet at West Point. This
young gentleman will keep up the military
succession OF the Lee family, which has for
50 long been famous in history.
Lots in the boom town o; Buena Vista, in
Rockbridge county, are coming into demand
and increasing in value. which speaks we'll
for the future prosperity OF tho town.
Contrary to expectation, the farmers say
that, notwithstanding the hard winter Oh
the wheat crop, the young plants are now
looking well, and If there Is favorable
spring that there will be a fair field. The
acreage owing to the long drought last fall
Is small.
The big glass works at Buena Vista have
been reorganized and will soon be placed in
operation. This plant employs large num-
Der of skilled and unskiiled labor and pays
good wages
Hon. Charles S. Hamlin assistant secretary
Of the United States treasury, has accepted
the invitation of the literary societies oil
Washington and lee University 10 address
them on the 18th G. June.