Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1899-12-15
vIrQinla News.

vIFQinid NEWS.
There is q movement on foot to or.
ganize another fruit company at New
port News.
Rev. DR.. VIM. A. Barr, of Monumen-
tai church, Richmond. has declined the
call from st. Luke's church, Norfolk.
1t is denied in Norfolk that the Van
derbilts are negotiating for the pur-
chase of both the Albemarle and
Chesapeake Canal and the recently
opened Dismal Swamp Canal.
II. w. Straley, of Princeton, w. Va
has presented the Baptist Orphanage
of Virginia with $4,000 in cash. The
orphanage is located at Salem and is
doing a good work.
The Norfolk and Western railroad
is now running twenty-nine of the big
100-ton coal cars to train from Blue
field to Norfolk. The shops at Roam
oke are turning out new cars very
rapidly.
Rev. DIR. j. b. Hawthorne, pastor OF
Grove Avenue Baptist church, preach
ed strong sermon Sunday against
the appointment of a chaplain for the
penitentiarJ, taking the ground that
it would be mixing church and State.
Rev. Fl. NJ. Wharton, president of
Luray College, Va, is offering free
scholarship for one year to any girl OF
young lady who will obtain the largest
number of members to the society
known as 1.-The Sons and Daughters of
the Republic"
Miss Mary G.. Lipscomb died at her
home, III Richmond, On Sunday. Upon
returning from church, she took some
medicine for headache, and expired in
Il few moments. 1t was feared she had
been poisoned The coroner, however,
is of the opinion that death resulted
from apoplexy.
Lenore, a station on the Cumberland
Valley Railroad, about two miles from
Winchester was completely wiped out
by fire last week. The loss will reach
several thousand dollars, most Of which
is covered by insurance. Only a few
months ago Clear Brook, the next sta
ton to Lenore, was totally destroyed
by a supposed incendiary fire.
The largest order for engines ever
placed by the Southern road was re-
ceived Saturday by the Richmond To-
| connective and Machine Works from the
Southern Railway. The order is for
forty one locomotives, thirty of which
are to be heavy freight engines and
the rest passenger engines.
A strange and fatal malady has been
| playing havoc with the horses in Pow
ellis Fort, eight miles from Luray, and
many have died, in some instances
farmers losing all their teams. The
| horse, in most cases. dies in short
time after being stricken All remedies
known have so far failed to check the
disease.
| Letitia Tyler, the oldest inhabitant
of Virginia, died at her home in Rich.
mond Saturday. Her relations say she
| Was 1876 years old, having been born in
New Kent county, 1878. She had great
greats grandchildren. She went to
Richmond fifty years ago With the
family of Mr.. Joshua Williams and
was nurse for many generations In
the Williams family. Her mother
was half breed Indian.
State Railroad Commissioner Hill
has issued an order pr0hi biting the
J Southern Railway officials from chang
| ing a schedule on their valley branch,
as intended for next Sunday, ON the
ground that to do SO would break the
railroad connection between the upper
and lower valley, and so prove extreme
| ly injurious to the business interests of
Winchester and other towns in the
lower valley.
A. L. Warthen, representative from
Warren and Clarke, by being sworn in
as member of the Legislature, will
very likely meet with resistance in his
attempt to hold the office OF Commits
sioner of Revenue for the county of
Warren. 1t will be remembered that
Mr.. Montague, the Attorney General.
is of opinion that Mr.. Warthen can
not hold both offices, and since he has
chosen to serve as legislator, the
question of his eligibility to the other
office will be, it is understood, contest
ed in the courts.