Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1901-11-15
OLD DOMINION
STATE NEWS.
Mr. Puryis Brings Fine live Stock
From Minnesota.
Big LAND DEAL Al NORFOLK.
A Site for the Plant Of The New Siipyard am
Dock Company-Rey P. B. Nugent Deposea
A Mormon Mobbed by an Angry Party IN
Nottaway County - Judge Lewis Not
Cand date-Other Live Topics.


preparatory to cooking the evening
meal, when her skirts were ignlted and
she was envelopcd in flames. The sklr
was burned from her body from head TO
| foot.
Former Governor Atkinson, of West
Virginia, was selected as presdent OF
the Sewalls Point Shipyard Company.
| George Blackstone, of Baltimore, Is
ce-presidcnt; f. N Rich, of the same
place; X. L. Herbert, of Portsmouth,
| and Caldwell Hardy, of Norfolk, arc
directors.
Bottle shoppers of aluminium will be
manufactured in Norfolk by company
chartered with $4,000 capital. Milton
B. Crowcll, of the Old Dominion Steam
ship Company, will be president.
Rev. P. B. Nugent, formerly Episco'
pal city missionary in Richmond has
been deposcd from the ministry by
Bishop 'Nhittle for doctrinal reasons.
The causes Go not in any way affect his
moral character as distinctly set forth III
the Bishops official statement. For some
time past it has been understood that
Mr.. Nugent entertained doctrinal views
contrary to the Episcopal Church. The
question is believed to have arisen over
infant baptism, in which Mr.. Nugent pro-
fessed he could not believe. That gen
tleman insisting upon adherlng to his
views on the subject, the Bishop was
left no alternative but to depose him.
A party of West Virginia capitalists,
including Ex-Governor Atkinson, State
Treasurer Silman, Mr.. Rummell Hollis
ter and Prof w. H. Anderson were IN
Norfolk for the purpose of consumma-
ting a big deal whereby there will be
purchased a site of 1000 acres on the
Elizabeth river. al Norfolk, on the
Roads, for the establishment OF the
plant of the Norfolk Shipyard and Dry
dock Company in which these gentle
men are largely interested.
Because he is alleged to have villihed
the Masons and Odd-Fellows, a Nor
man elder was mobbed at Blackstone,
Nottaway county. The elder was as
sisted in his meeting by a Mrs. Burcli.
who was present at the Opera House
when the man was attacked. She stood
between the elder and the indignant clti-
zens, dcfying them The Mormon was
given notice to leave town, which he did.
Mr.. George Puryis, who some time
ago purchased several farms in Stafford
county and threw them into one, has Just
bought from the State Experimental Sta
ton of Minnesota, in which State nc
formerly resided, several valuable stand
ard-bred trotting horses for breeding
purposes. He also purchased 10 splendid
registered shorthorn heifers.
The barn and warehouse belonging to
Mr.. George w. Perry, at Sunlight,
Spottsylvania county, together with a
considerable quantity of feed, was de-
stroyed. In the same county Samuel
Jackson, a colored man, lost his barn,
with contents of grain and farming I'M
plements, the loss aggregating $1,000, on
which there was no insurance.
J.. w. Monkey, of Westmoreland conn-
ty, killed wild goose with his rifle. The
goose had a silver tag attached to Its leg
with the inscription IN. Y. DAVIS, o.
ronto, Canada, June !, 1862" The ring
to which the tag was attached was I'M
bedded in the tough skin OF the leg Just
below the knee joint.
Mr.. Charles H. Hurkamp, of Fredcr-
icksburg. has entered his jumper Amarct
ct the New York Horse Show and will
ride him for the worlds championship
there on November %. Amaret already
holds the championship for the South.
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sylvania county, was arrested IN Fred
cricksburg, charged by detective with
having set fire, about one year ago, to
barn belonging to Mrs Mary a. Down
man, three miles from that city.
John Letcher Gay and two companions
while boating on Chowan river saw ard
pursued large buck, which was swim
ming across. The deer was finally ex-
hausted and overtaken and was killed
with a paddle.
Jacob Q. Hines, well-known man of
Shenandoah county, aged Is years.
choked to death on piece of meat while
eating his dinner. During the war he
served in the Thirty-third Regiment of
the Stonewall Brigade.
The Danville and Virginia Copper
Mining Company has been chartered at
Richmond with capital of 100000. 1t
will operate copper mines in Pierson
county, North Carolina.
Rev. A. L. Roper died Thursday at
Simpson, Floyd county, of hcmorrhage
of the lungs. He was son of J. l..
Roper, of the Roper Lumber Company,
of Norfolk.
The cornerstone of the New Court
Street Baptist Church in Portsmouth
was laid with Masonic ceremonies Fri
day. The Grafton was delivered by Rev.
7. w. Porter, of Newport News.
Final arrangements for the presenta.
ton of the silver service to the battlcshiy
Illinois at Old Point have been made
The ceremony will take place shortly
before noon on Saturday, November 10
Mrs. w. A. Bond died in Petersburg
after an illness of two weeks of tuber-
culosis. Before marriage she was Miss
Mazeline Johnston, a daughter of the
late J. Arthur Johnston, OF Petersburg.
The fall session of the United States
District Court for the Western District
of Virginia is in session in Danville. Hon
Edmund Waddell, Jr, judge presiding.
Mr.. Alfred Smith, of Stafford county,
was accidentally shot very badly by
companion while hunting, the entire load
of gun lodging iii his right leg.
Augustus Rowe caught two carp iii
the Potomac river, in Frederick county,
one of which weighed 25M pounds and
the other 70 pounds
Eddie Cain was sentenced to three
wears in the penitentary at Winchester
for shooting Isaac Thomas September
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