Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1897-01-24
|BLACKSBURG POINTS.
DATE FOR LITERARY SOCIETY
DEBATE SELECTED.
Uhe New Editors of the Gray Jacket.
the Grip Holds on-Many Persons
sick--A story from Giics-other In
tcrcstfng Items.
sercstins Items.

rs the cate iol the annual Ncpdle OF the
Maury Literary Society. The officers and
speakers elected 10 serve on this occa-
sion are as follow: Messrs. III. II. Hurt,
Chatham. Va. president; w. r.. Karr,
Montgomery. FIRST orator; +. a. Seepark,
Richmond. second 'orator. The debaters
gro Messrs. J. l.. Johns. OF Pennsylvania;
J. A. Burruss. OF Richmond; John G.
Geerrant of Montgomery; Lawrence
Priddy. Of Charlotte.
Ar. J. b. Danforth, Of Richmond, Va.
was elected marshal-in-chief.. with a
corps OF efficient and equally handsome
assistants. Music will be furnished by the
excellent college band. under the direction
OF their leader, Mr.. J. r. Harvey.
Owing to delay. occasioned by loss Of
copy, the January edition Of the Gray
Jacket has been delayed for week
With this No. the present corps Of edi-
tors and officers viii lay down the
work, which has been excellently wei
done by them. The two societies elected
recently the following gentlemen as their
SUCCESSORS:
Mr.. Carl Il. Hardy. OF Georgia, editor
fn-chief: Messrs ". x. karr. OF Mont
gomery. and w. H. Bason. OF Charlotte
N c. literary editors. Messis. h. A.
eeepark. OF Richmond. and Howell -
Warren. OF Millsboro', depot local edi-
tors: Mr.. J. I. Johns. exchange editor
Messrs. Lawrence Priddy, OF Charlotte
and IL. c. Elicit. Of Montgomery. busi-
ness managers. This is very able and
active body Of men and will sustain wen
the past high reputation Of their maya
zine among college magazines.
THE GRIP HOLDS ON.
ia CRIME still prevails in the county 20
an alarming extent Scarcely a family
has been spared and frequently the whole
household has been Frustrated with II.
Colonel W. III. Patton, OF the depart
ment OF civil engineering has been con-
fined 10 the house by II for sevefal DAYS
Hon. A. A. Phlegar, OF ChristiansOuis'
has also been quite I'll from II.
Mr. w. X. Davis, n former cadet OF the
virginia Polytechnic Institute. from
Iynchburg, was here this week on Visie
Mr.. Paul Herman. another member or
the class of 1897. has gone into business
ia West Virginia. 1T
Mr.. Joseph Craig. janitor OF the ms
flute. met with a very painful accident q
few DAYS since. While he was winding
Up the gas-machine In the department o.
chemistry the ratchet slipped ana tne
crank. revolving with great force, struck
him violent blows I'm the face and on the
am. His wounds were attended 10 by d.
~. II. Henderson and he is now dong
very well, though no VIII be disabled loI
work for some days. 1t is feared that
the bone In one arm was broken. lie Is a
worthy but poor man. dependent on ms
daily labor. and the enforced cessation
from work comes very hard on him.
The intermediate examinations at the
Institute commenced on yesterday, ana
win continue eight days-a period OF haru
and unremittlng work for all concerned
Mrs. William Lybrook, OF the town, Is
away on a visit TO friends.
Rev. James NJ. Holiday, pastor or the
Presbyterian church has been absent the
greater part Of the week in Salem, where
he was summoned by the Illness Of his
wife and children. When he left he had
himself scarcely recovered from q severe
attack OF the grippe.
New students continue TO arrive at the
Institute. This week two young gentlemen
OF Bedford county-Messrs. Phelps and
McGee-matriculated, and doubtless more
win come before the second term opens,
on February the LIST.
THE DEVIL KILLED.
/ noticed in tho Dispatch Of Sunday last
that the devil had been caught and whip
ped at some place. Giles county can go
one better A gentleman recently from
there reports that just after recent
sanctification meeting the devil was killed
there. He was discovered in the wilds.
The old man had human face, one HUI
man hand, and one like the claw OF
q brown bear; similarly, one foot was
humanity shaped, while the other was
cloven like that of an OK. 1t was endeav-
ored 10 capture his Satanic majesty,
but he fought like tiger, and with his
bear hand tore open the cheek or an
assailant. so II was necessary to kill him.
The millennium is announced as having
certainly come.
A few days ago, just before the recent
severe weather set in, the writer noticed
a very curious phenomenon on mower
ing shrub in his yard. The leaves of the
preceding season had not yet been Killed
but were fresh and green. and on the
same shrub was TO be seen the bloom anu
leaf of a new formation. The leaf was
still in tho embryo stage, but the bloom
was almost perfectly developed. This
cams very near being perennial
t,lant: a fact that one would scarcely
deem credible in our latitude at an eleVa-
ton of 2 200 feet above the sea leVel on the
crest OF the Alleghanies.
Mr.. John ID. Houston IS experiences ~
great diflculty in getting water al ms
tute. one we'll was dug TO deptn OF
about fifty feet when 1t caved In ana nau
40 be abandoned. a second was then
sunk and though he has now gone down
seyepty-two feet. he has failed 10 hhu
water. .,,o vol
Mt James Henderson. of Roanoke val
Isy. who has been visiting irleiiuS i'
salem. has returned home. ,,o,,
Mr.. Eli Haymaker. origihaiiy -,
Montgomery county, but now reSi- go
~ Indiana, is visiting his family, III .no
copnty. after protracted absence OF
number of years in the West. ne nc
slcceeded well In his adopted STATE Du,
ike all true Virginians. his heart e's'
turns TO the old Dominion.
Mr. Robert Walters has hau an 49, go
..,cs,,ectine on his lands on Elliott Greer
tar zinc ore. 1t is reported that soii'
gerry rich ore has been secured, ana II enS
lower stratum comes up TO the suIlaS o.
Indications. the vein will be one 'of grea,
~s,se Not far from here are the eolO
snires which have puzzled many experts
IN the past few years the inhhpitan. =
s,ore Laurel creek have secured py WASH
80 Thousands Of dollars worth OF gold
Miners have come from the far west
ma even from England, to prospect mere
ana have at first sent glowing reports
l.rt later investigation has sent theh
home with lighter pockets and HEAVIER
laarts: and yet the country fellows Sun