Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1896-12-30
VIRGINIA NEWS.

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Lynchburg is considering the practi-
cability of having public library.
The wife of Mr.. John P. Branch a
Richmond banker, died in Munich on
the Goth inst.
Gen. Fitzhugh Lee arrived in Havana
on the 25th. He was accompanied by
his wife and daughter.
Mrs. Page, mother OF Judge r. M.
Page, of Abingdon, died in that town
Tuesday last.
Mr.. William Wright, a native of
Rockbridge county. died recently in
the Indian Territory.
A party of huntsman from Blacks
burg went to Craig county a few days
ago deer hunting and killed thirteen
deer and fine black bear.
A New York capitalist is ready to
submit proposition to lease the gas
works in Richmond, which are owned
by the city.
Mr.. Atwell Barrow died at his resi-
dence in Frederick county, near the
Warren line, on Tuesday of last week,
at an advanced age.
Abram King. a respectable >colored
man, was murdered near Norfolk last
week. His wife and her paramour are
held on suspicion.
At Petersburg last week the Acade-
my of Music, which cost $4,000, was
sold for $4,000. The purchaser will
convert it into tobacco stemmery.
Mr.. Minatree Fowlkes a Richmond
lawyer, was badly beaten by Walter
E. Brauer, a merchant of that city, one
day last week. The trouble grew out
of a business misunderstanding.
Mr.. Chas. Daniel and Miss Eliza
Rives Payne were married at Warren
ton on the 22d inst Mr.. Daniel is an
Englishman, and Miss Payne occupies
a very high social position.
Robert L. Northern died very sud
denly at Lexington Thursday. He had
not been in good health for many
years. owing to a wound received dur
ing the war.
A little colored boy was run over by
the shifting engine of the q. u ..
yards at Richmond on Monday of last
week, and his head severed from his
body.
Fire Wednesday night destroyed the
office building at Moss Neck, Spottsyl
vania county, occupied as headquar-
ters by Stonwall Jackson before the
battle of Fredericksburg.
A dispatch from Richmond says
There is movement on foot to bring
out Col. A. s. Buford for the democrat
ic nomination for Governor. Among
those who are conspicuous in this are
some of the stalwart free silver leaders.
Major David H. Bennett, of Blacks
burg, Montgomery county, a gallant
Confederate, who rose from a private
in the ranks to a majorship in the
famous Stonewall Brigade, died Tues
day last.
MIRA L. Washburn of New York,
has purchased Hog Island on James
River. consisting of $500 acres of the
very finest farming land IN Virginia
for $3.50, 900, and will use it as truck
farm.
Gov. O'Ferrall pardoned six persons
out Of the penitentiary last week. One
was Mary Barnes, sister of Pokey
Barnes, whose trial with Mary Aber
nathy, for completely in the murder of
Mrs. Pollard, created SO much excite
ment a year or SO ago. Pokey Barnes
and Mary Abernaty were acquitted.
Rev. Frank P. Berkeley has accepted
the call recently extended to him by
the Flint Hill, Rappahannock county,
Baptist church, and will commence his |
pastorate the fourth Saturday and
Sunday in January. He Is expected to |
NOVA 70 Hint Hill IN Gnr;po
The wife of Rev. DR. James R. Ora |
ham, pastor of the Kent Street Pres |
byterian church, Winchester. suffered |
a slight stroke of paralysis Wednesday |
evening. Mrs. Graham is a niece of |
Hon. John Randolph Tucker, of Lex
ington.
Trinity Methodist Church, Lexing-l
ton. has purchased from Mr.. r. E. Hut
ton the new residence recently erected
by him ON Lewis street, next to Jack
son avenue, to be used as a church |
parsonage. The price paid for it was
$4,000. DIR. Wightman and his family
are now occupyingit.
Near Front Royal on the 22d, Robert
Marshall, grand nephew of Chief
Justice Marshall, was burned to death.
He had for many years been in the
employ OF the British government as
a civil engineer. A lamp by his bed
side set the clothes on fire and he was
before the fire was discov-
cred.
There are rumors of rich gold finds
near Musselman's in Stafford county.
The ore taken from the mines in said
to be very rich. This, together with
the recent discovery of coal mine in
the same county and rich vein of rare
granite in Spottsylvania. gives boom
to mineral interests in that section.
Hon. VIM Lovenstein, president pro I
tenn of the Va. Senate, died in Rich
mond on last Saturday, the Goth inst. s
Senator Lovensteil was the oldest ]
of the Legislature in point of ..
service. Senator Stubs, of Glouces-
ter, is a close second. Mr.. Lovenstein Il
first entered the Legislature in 1869, :
and, with the exception of one term, +
served in the upper or lower branch of
that body up to the time of his death. 1
A serious cutting ARRAY occurred in
Lynch burg Saturday afternoon on s
Main street, the principals being a col S
bred preacher, Thomas Early, and a
young white man named Dan Broader, c
Known as Buck" Broader The .rou il
Ole started in a barroom, where hard y
words resulted in a general row, in the a
course Of which the colored preacherl
'ut young Broader on the side of the
lead.
Prof. Henry Wilson Smith of Prince
on University, and Miss Isabel David