The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1899-05-11
VIRGINIA NEWS.
items of Interest That Have
TRANSFERRED in the Old
Dominion.


Mr.. B. NJ. Greeniaw, a we'll known citi
zens of the MyrtIeville neighborhood, IL
Stafford, died last Tuesday.
The willoughby Spit railway has beer
sold TO the Ocean View company TO
about $4,000.
During a thunder storm last Tncsda!
evening at Marshall, Eanquier county, th'
Methodist church was struck by lightning
and burned down.
The large planning mill of Eanes x Har'
grave. at the head of Fleet street. oppo'
! site CampbelI's bridge. and on the Ches-
terfeld side OF the river, at Petersburg
WAS burned last Tuesday night; loss
100000.
The Kenmore Shoe Company, OF Fred
ericksburg. has determined to double t,e
size of the present factory. When the
change ia completed this plant will WORK
a force of 80 hands.
Rev. DR.. George W. Bagby, pastor OF
the Farmville Baptist church for over
eight years, has rendered his resignation
TO take effect on July LIST. 1t is under
stood he has received a call to Rice ana
Sandy River churches.
By the close score of 6 to ) the Univer-
sitv Of Virginia baseball nine was defeat
ed by Georgetown last Tuesday, for the
second time this year. With the victory
goes the college championship OF the
south.
A monument was dedicated on Cnan-
cellorsville battlefield last Tuesday TO the
memory of the members of the One Hun
dred and Fourteenth Pennsylvania regI-
meut who lost their lives in that LATHE.
The annual session of the Grand Lodge
of virginia Odd Fellows will be held IN
~Lvnchburg, commencing on May 9th. 1t
bids fair to be a largely attended ana
most interesting session, as there are
many important matters to he acted upon
which were left Oger from the last annual
meeting.
Two small girls, children Of George
Coffman and Charles +. Hamrick, living
on Stoney creek, a few miles west of Ed
inburg. were bitten by a pet pig on last
Thursday, which had been bitten by a
rabid dog. On Friday the pig showed
signs Of rabies, and was killed, and the
children were taken to Baltimore foi
treatment.
Captain John f. Noel, OF Jennings
Botetourt county, met with a fear
full death last week while telling a tree.
His body was terribly mangled by being
caught under the tree, and death soon
Captain Noel was up in his
and had served in the Confederate
army. He was Il lifelong Democrat of the
pnrest type, and an honorable, Christian
gentleman. His death is a great blow 10
friends.
Isle of Wight county is greatly excited
over the murder of an unknown white
man whose body was found on the Nor
folk and Western track. The corOner's
Jury returned a verdict OF murder. Three
negroes are in Jail closely guarded. Two
are charged with murder, and the third is
held as a witness. The stranger was
dubbed to death.
Mr. Addison Maupin, president of tho
Board of Visitors of the Virginia school
for the deaf and the blind, has pre-
to the governor his quarterly re-
poet. Mr.. j. N. Stubs, the former pres
ident, in the report for the preceding
quarter, said it was necessary TO go into
debt in order to keep the institution up.
Mr.. Maupin's report is, therefore, of spec
AL interest. lie states that the school is
by - per cent. than ever before,
Dut that it is being kept within the legis-
alive appropriations.
A consolidation of the peanut industry
Of the country Hnder
control of a single company with a capital
IF S. 1000, 900 is about to he effected. The
main Offices and warehouses of the com
,any are to he in Norfolk and shipments
will be made from that point TO the large
of the country, instead OF bein; dis
ributed from New York, as has been the
.ustom in the past. Almost the entire
peanut crop of the country is raised in
The value Of the peanut crop
# the United States annually is estimat-
ID at between $4,000, 900 and $4,000, 600.