Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1900-05-18
NEWS ITEMS.

Dr. hunter McGulre continues TO
improve.
John ID. Rockfeller's estimated in
come is $75, 100000 year.
One Accomack trucker will ship
about 100000 quarts of straw berries
this season.
Richmond this week is crowded
with visitors to the Carnival. All
parts of the state are well represen-
ted.
Last year there were shipped from
Northampton county by rail 306,613
barrels of Irish potatoes, and lS2, GAL
barrels of sweets, besides other trucks.
William Lee (colored) was
taken from the jail ut Hinton,
w. Va, on last Faiday night and
lynched, for the usual offence, by a
mob of one hundred.
Large crowds heard Rev. DIR. Il.
De Witt Talmage preach in Edin-
burgh, Scotland, last Sunday. While
in Europe he will continue to pub
fish his sermons in this country.
Almost 200 delegates are in atten-
dance upon the Southern Baptist
Convention, which is this week in
session at Hot Springs, Ark. Four
teen States are represented in the
gathering.
One of the largest rockfish ever
seen in the vicinity of Norfolk was
caught several days ago off Ocean
View. The fish weighed over 100
pounds ard was captured with hook
and line after Il hard struggle.
While the price of paper keeps
advancing, the price of newspapers
remains liked and una!tered. And
yet some orators continue to spout
about the awful tyranny of the press.
South Fr0mingham Mass News.
L. q. Rathbone, director general
of ports for Cuba, has been removed
for negligence in permitting Nicely
and his gang to loot the public treas
ury. 1t is said now that the short
age will amount to nearly a half
million dollars.
There were 5OO,OOO,00O fowls IN
the United States last year aud the
number of eggs laid was estimated
at about 1,450,0O0.O00 dozen, or a
total of l7,4O0,000,0O0. The value
of these fowls and their product is
set down at $42O,O0O,O0O.
Peter Rich, colored, near Warsaw,
plonghed up a powder horn contain
ing some old coin. In all there
were twenty odd dollars in silver and
gold, of both American and Spanish
coins dating as far back as l774.
The horn was almost thoroughly de-
cayed apd the money scattered.
The Baltimore Meas, one of the
most progressive papers in the coun-
try, has correspondent travelling IN
the south visiting all the manufac-
turing centres, and in descriptive
articles in the NeacS bringing to the
notice of the world the phenomenal
progress the South is making in in
dustrial matters.
A dead man was caught in a fish
trap recently at Mia, Northum ber-
land county. On his person were
found papers, one of which was a re-
ceipt signed 81. III. Goslee & Bro.,'
The body was evidently that of a
sailor and the papers indicated that
he had served on the schooners Nv
M. Summers" and "Sarah Tyler"
This fall for the fifth time in his.
tory, the occupant of the White
House will be opposed for reelection
by the candidate whom he defeated
four years before. 1t is significan
that on each of the four former oc-
casions, the man in the White House
has been defeated. After November
Sth there will be five cases of this
instead of four.
At the recent meeting of the
Grand Lodge !. o. o. +. of Virginia al
Hot Springs, Va, the following officers
were elected for the coming year: w,
L. Baldwin as Grad Master, w. ID.
Hill as Grand Warden, Rev. r. Ern-
est Northen as Deputy Grand Mas
ter and Rev. j. j. Scherer as Grand
Chaplain. The reelection of II.
Wiley Davis and John w. Ferguson
for Secretary and Treasurer, respec-
lively, was matter of course. Mr..
Charles ID. Fox, of Roanoke, was
elected as Grand Representative to
J the Sovereign Grand Lodge.