The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1896-02-01
yPsET BIDS ar GLfsGOW.
Judge wexford Holds Court in Lexington.
Baseball.


LEXINGTON. VA. Jan 3i.-Speciai -
Judge Paul. of the United States District
decree i'm the case Of the Glasgow. Va.
decree in the case of the Glasgow Va
sale. and the parties interested having
put i'm upset bids. the property Is ordered
10 be offered 10 public sale again. IL VIII
be remembered that month or more ago
this sale attracted considerable attention
by the remarkable prices reported. Prop
erty worth several thousand dollars went
for a song. and great blocks OF lots that
in boom days brought thousands upon
thousands OF dollars. simply knocked out
at little or nothing.
The upset bids put In are by parties in
terested in the property, and whose pur-
pose il is understood is TO form syndi-
cate and hold the property for better
days.
Judge Beverly r. Wexford. OF Rich
nond. presided at a special term of the
Circuit Court of Rockbridge held here
yesterday In the case of J. X. Edmond
son, trustee Of the Bank of Lexington
We. G. NJ. Figgatt ct ais. The sales of
property recently made I'm this case that
belonged 10 Figgatt were confirmed.
The late rains have replenished the
mountain springs and the water famine
that has so near caught this section is
now a thing OF the past, and water is now
in great abundance.
Rev. j. H. Taylor, ID. D.. of the Salem
Baptist church. formerly the pastor of the
Lexington Baptist church, is booked for
a lecture here next week for the church
fund TO build new lecture room.
The weather during the past few days
has been more like spring than the dead
Of winter The thermometer has been up
in the SOS at times. and such fine weather
as we are now having can't last long.
and the local weather prophets tell us
that this kind of weather is a bad sign
and that severe weather will surely fol-
low
The new colored Baptist church. located
on lower Main street. which. when com-
plcted will cost over $4,000, has an en-
rolled membership OF 40 and is growing.
\ valuable magnancse mine near We
suvius. I'm this county. is being developed
by Northern capitalists The deposit gives
promise To equal that of Crimoro in Au-
susta county.
The farmers say that the prospects for
a wheat crop next June are more than
gloomy The crop now shows up to be
the most inferior known in the Valley
for years.
Preston a small colored boy a; Rock
bridge Baths. in this county fell from a
log across a stream and was drowned
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cred.
The baseball team for 20 at Washing
ION and Lee University will be an un-
usually strong one. and already the boys
are In practice on a small scale for the
coming season. OF last years team all
the men are here except one and there
are some twenty other applicants for po-
sitiorfs on the team. There are several
line players In Washington and Lee Uni
Versity this year who have made good
records on the diamond with other col
lege teams.
The farmers and stock raisers Of this
section Of the valley have all at once dis
covered that 10 raise stock properly is
20 have them de-horncd. and as result.
many OF the stock raisers and farmers are
having the horns Of their cattle removed.
The matter has raised question as 10
the expediency OF such practice. and the
local papers are discussing IL with much
good logic on both sides OF the question
The Buena Vista furnace. which has
been closed down for ten days or more
for the want Of ore, will resume opera
ton. The middle OF next week. is is hoped
During the past week business, news.
and In fact everything has been very
dull.