Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1897-10-31
POINTS.
A VERY CURIOUS AND AMUSING
PosT-oFFIcE FIGHT.


Gone 10 England 10 Get n Fortune
The Recent Robbcry-Personal
Notes.
BLACKsBURG. VA, october 3o.-(Spe-
| cial.)-A very curious and quite interest
ing fight is now being waged by Mr..
| Payne. recently appointed postmaster by
Mr.. Mckinley, for even the bare ground
to hold his Office at Pilot. The Office
is In Montgomery. but on the Floyd line.
All the adjacent land is owned by one
property-holder, and objection is made
to Payne's having an office there. First
a building was refused him. To meet
this he had recourse 20 a very unusual
device. He came to Christiansburg and
bought an old omnibus. and hauling 1t
over. established his office in this. He
was notified TO move off the land. He
did so, but put his improvised office on
the side of the public road. Even here,
however. he had no resting-place. for
under Virginia law road passing
through an individuals property can be
used for no other purpose than pubic
highway. An action for unlawful de-
tainer was brought, in which the loca-
ton of the Office was specihcaily de-
scrbed. This was granted, but when
the order was served Mr.. Payne had
merely rolled his office TO little as
lance outside OF the metes and bounds
described in the action. The matter Is
still open, and Mr.. Payne seems TO be
master Of the situation, since, as his
office is on wheels, he has no difficulty
in moving 1t where he VIII, ana can
even place ii in the creek which forms
the boundary between the two counties
The outcome is watched with consider
able interest
Mr.. George Wilson. an attorney at
law at the Christiansburg Bar, is now
In Liverpool, whittier he was sent TO
recover a fortune TO which one OF our
citizens has luckily fallen heir SaIne
wears ago perhaps thirty, an English
man by the name of Harvey came 10
our county and settled. He received
monthly allowance Of fine or ten POUNDS
regularly from England. He finally mar
ried here. and settled with his wife near
the Floyd line. Some months since ne
had a solicitors notice that by the death
Of relative he had come into manu-
some property. 1t was necessary, though
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identified Being in very reduced circum-
stances. friends advanced the money ana
Mr.. Wilson was sent along to look after
his interests.
THE POST OFFICE ROBBERY.
No trace or clue as TO the identity OF
the post-office robber has been obtained.
Mr.. Irvine, an inspector, was here on
Wednesday and examined into the case
II is gratifying to Mr.. Elicit and his
friends to know that his finding was
that due care and diligence were exer-
cised by him and that the inspector
renort will relieve him Of all RESPONSE
tiiitv The inspector does not believe
the robbery to have been the work or
exnerts. but detects the fine hand OF local
talent in it, he thinks.
The canvass of neither political party
7 has been very warm or spirited In the
county this campaign.
CAPTAIN John w. Sumpter VINO -FOUR
J voars since was the able and popular
yenresen,ative OF the county IN the
lover house OF the State Legislature an
nounces himself a candidate Tor the
nosifion of Railroad Commissioner. Mr..
: Sumter was for many years an EN-
| ployee of a railway.
[ State-Secretary Coulter, OF the young
, Mems Christian Association, visited ,nls
week the Virginia POLYTECHNIC lnstltute.
|
.. Association of the institute, ana was
listened TO with great interest and proht
, bv n large audience. The association Oh
/ | the institute is in fine condition this ses-
sion II is we'll Differed, and great IN
terest in it's work is SHOWN py 'he
! students. both old and new.
. The registration this fall was very
light in Blacksburg. only sixteen voters
r were registered and not one OF these
, was a negro.
PERSONAL
Captain John r. Johnson. OF ohris-
, +,ensburp spent a few days here re-
Gently. visiting his daughters, MIS-
s Campbell and Mrs. Price. at their homes
on College HILL ,o
y Mrs. Samuel r. Pritchard anu on MI,
are in South Carolina, where tney "i'
" remain with friends until January t s,t;ro
, Mrs. Persinger. of Salem, - 'iS'''''e
= her friend, Mrs. David c. ShanKs. ,,e
. professor Robert j. Davidson OF IN, ,f'
chemical department, who. with MT. FL FL
lett his assistant has been atte.iuIh as,c or :
sections of the Association OF AmerlC "a
:. Igricultural Chemists in washington -
y tr,rned home on Friday evening, nuGi
~ delehted with his trip. MT. Elicit WIN
e be here on Monday. .,,oroo NJ f,hrts,
= church here. has made upon his parish
n toner's and the community very i"Fo'
~ able impression. -, lin All nc
:. Rev James M. ftOlldudy
~ usual tomorrow his pulpit at the F ,.eo,
10 terrain church. having returned r ii 49,
10 night after an absence OF alnose ~" a.
u weeks in attendance on the synou anu -
" Visiting relatives in orange countS' n,nr
~ Miss Graham, of Lexington, va W.
= has been with the Misses Patton, Ia
! left. and will spend some time III oai''
% Miss Florence Houston. who mas :, pe :,
with her aunts, Misses Martha ana Eii, "a,
Uonston. for some months, mas leiC io'
bar home in Ashland, Ky. -
Mr.. Books of Minneapolis. Minil'' "a, a.
rived last night. and VIII spenu a. io"
c DAYS with his old college chunn anu 'iie''N
n Professor Lingan 5. Randolph: 49,. -.
rs Mr. William Wharton CITY ns A. % ~
ut Radford, and his wife and chllo are tO ~
ne visiting Mrs. Wharton's falner. Sap'aAi
Ne stockton Heth, at white Thorne.
M Mrs Camera and children, OF GaiVeston
al Tex are still detained here by the yer
A. iow-fever epidemic in the south. vi
tuesday she will so 10 Roanoke, Whel'
she will remain until 1t is safe Tor mel
to return home. - ~. -oua,
Work has been commenced on the ronel
aour-mill 10 be built by MT. Harnloi
m Keister and he hopes to nave IL IN ope
q ration by the new year. -.
d, mr. n r. Elicit, OF ChristanspurS wal
~ on the street here Thursday.
s. Mr. Fennell. q representative or New
es york telephone company, has been her'
is this week on business rclattye 70 eetap
ID iishing Telephone exchange In the town
1rha Council granted him the FRANCHISE
ard a. is understood that he VIII at once