Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1902-06-13
LIVE NEWS OF THE
OLD DOMINION.
Latest Happenings Cleaned From All
Over the State.
NEW CONSTITUTION is ADOPTED.
Site for Arch Finally Dissatisfaction Was
Made 10 Accordance With Wishes Of Mrs.
Jefferson Davls-Lynchburg to Have Big
Cigar Factory-Lltte Boy Drowned-Paint'
ers Quit Work at Navy Yard.

| virginia pensions. James w. Dou-
ley, Staunton, $40; Benjamin H. Love,
National Soldiers Home, Elizabeth
City, So; John Brent, Broad Run Sta
ton, So; Jared D. Lounsbery, Norfolk,
$12; William Cole, National Soldiers
Home, Elizabeth City, $I2; Martha A.
Harris, Quillin, So; Daniel Kaarstetter,
National Soldiers Home, Elizabeth
City, S. George Ashby, Accomac, $I2
Robert Turner, Fincastle, $40; Henry
Williams, Newport News, $3.50; James
Sanders, dead, Portsmouth, $I2; Frank
Smith, Portsmouth, 81; Louisa SAM
ders, Portsmouth, So; Richard Long,
Norfolk, $I2; Frederick Jones, Favor,
| Sc; VIM. Montague Roye, Lanesville,
So; Jacob Upperman, National Military
Home, Elizabeth City, So.
The new constitution was finally
adopted by the convention, the vote
being 90 to 10. All the Democratic
| members voted for the instrument, as
also did two Republcans-Messrs. Mum
dy and Walter. The body adjourned
until June IS, and in the interim the
constitution will be engrossed, and. upon
reassembling, the convention Will cer-
tify it to the proper authorities.
The selection of boards of registra-
ton is completed.
| The main work of the convention be-
fore the adjournment was the liking OF
the terms of Circuit and County Court
clerks. The present County Court clerks
are continued as clerks of the counties
after January I, 1904, until January I,
1906.
An amendment was adopted provld-
ing that in November, 1903, there shall
be clerks elected in all the counties ex-
cepted for terms of five years, so as to
make them conform to those OF the
others in the State In the course OF
| the discussion of this subject Judge
| Green, of Danville, created a sensation
by furious verbal attack on Alvah H.
Martin, clerk of the Court of Norfolk
County, saying he was an octopus who
had spread out his tentacles and cir
rupted everything within his reach from
the Virginia Legislature down to the
politicians of Norfolk county"
The board of directors of the JEFF
ferson Davis Monument Association has
Welded absolutely to the wishes of Mrs.
! Davis in regard to the arch to be erected
to the memory of her husband. lhey
have not done so in very pleasant
frame of mind, however. A telegram
was sent Mrs. Davis asking whether she
would prefer the monument erected at
Twelfth and Broad streets, or in Mon
roe Park, a quiet, pretty place in the
western portion of the city. A reply
was expected Immediately and the ladies
assembled to receive it. After remain
ing in session four hours and Mrs. Da-
Wis giving no sign they grew angry and
some wished to go ahead and consult
their own wishes. Cooler counsels pre-
vailed, however and recourse was had
to the long distance telephone. A rep
resentative of Mrs. Davis was finally
gotten to the New York end, and it was
ascertaned that Monroe Park was her
choice The ladies thereupon recon-
vened and chose Monroe Park, but also
adopted a resolution making it clear
that the will of Mrs. Davis and not
their own was being done. Considerable
criticism is being made of the ladies tor
choosing the design of Louis A. Guide
brod, of New York. Competent art
critics say that the only design really
worthy of notice was that submitted
/ by Waldo Story. The others are pro-
nounced extremely poor.
The American Cigar Company,
branch of the American Tobacco Com
! pany, has accepted the proposition of the
i tynchburg Industrial Association, and
| will establish in that city cigar factory
similar to those already in operation IN
Richmond, Petersburg and Danvllle.
| The company will begin with 800 or 400
hands, mostly white girls, and will grad.
TALLY work tip to 1900. The Industrial
! Association is to pay the rent of the
factory building for the company for
two years, and it is probable the lyey
Owen Snuff Company's late factory will
be used for the business.
! The Anti Saloon League of Virginia
is preparing to establish temperance Sa.
looms in various portions of the State.
| They will consist of reading rooms. par.
lors and soft drink counters. Several
have already been established, and there
! has been a decrease Of drunkenness in
those localities.
Twenty-Five frst-class painters quit
| work at the navy-yard, Norfolk. rather
than be dsrated. They were told that
in order to be retained they must regis
ter as second-class mechanics. Secretary
! of the Navy Moody recently rescnded
,, the DISAGREEMENT order and the painters
will ask an official investigation.
Ground was broken at Charleston for
the new $4,000 hotel. which will be built
by County Clerk Z. w. Stanton and
associates The location is on Summers
street. fronting on that street and the
custom-house lot.
Governor Montague granted pardons
to James I. Davis, serving term Of II
years for assault in Pittsylvania county,
and Joseph Clark, serving nine years for
attempted assault in Alexandria.
Mrs. L. H. Rinker has received
check for $3.50, a gift from Thomas F.
RYAN. Of New York, for the monument
to be erected in Our Soldiers Cemetery,
at Mount Jackson.
Tidings from Albemarle county are to
the effect that COL A. L. Rives, father Of
Princess Troubetzkoi, who has been crit
icaly i'll of appendicitis, has improved
somewhat.
Kanawha Lodge l. o. O. F., of
Charleston, has let the contract for fine
new temple, to be erected on the lot
owned by the order, corner of Capitol
and State streets.
While at play on the wharf at Wish
arts Point, Earl aged three years, son
of Gilley Bunting, proprietor of the
Wishart's Point Hotel, fell overheard
and was drowned
The grand jury Of Buchanan county
returned indictments against II: c. King,