The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1902-01-18
NEW HAND BOOK
OF old. VIRGINIA.
Department of Agriculture TO Issue
Fine Volume.
EVERY RESOURCE DISPLAYED
Book to Contain Several Hundred Pages
With Many I.Iustrations-Ren tioa Var
rant lssued-OId Criminal Caught
Up With-Personals.
EVERY RESOURCE DISPLAYED

The department. OF AST1cdltue wa
issue within the next two months "a
handbook of Virginia, which will be the
largest and most complete publication OF
the kind ever sent out about this state.
1t has been five or six years, at least
since e. hand book of Virginia was pup
Iished. That was splendid one for that
time But it will not compare with the
book which is soon to be scattered over
the entire country, displaying by printed
pare and vivid illustration the mar
Vicious wealth and resources of Virginia
Commissioner of Agriculture holner Is
superintending the work He is col
Letting data Hundreds Of letters are
now hu1Tying all over the State asking
for information. pictures of Virginia man
ufactories. public and private buildings
of special Importance and maSnihcence'
Virginia stock, both horses and cattle.
Of fine breeds and high types.
This book. says Mr.. koiner. will con-
tain a full and accurate review OF every
industry in Virginia. So complete VII.
be the volume that a man who knows
nothing OF the State by living - IL, can
gain the clearest conception of what its
wealth is, the nature of it, the resources
Of the State. and conclude from what
he reads what may be expected Of the
future.
Mr.. Koiner will take tive greatest pains
to have the book we'll illustrated. This
will be well done in the sense that the
volume will not only abound in illus
traGons. but they will be real ones. Pho-
tcgraphs of cattle and horses raised and
now owned in Virginia will be used in
making the cuts which will be printed
in the book This is 8, matter OF some
interest, when it is known that many
of the so-called hand-hooks print fancy.
pictures. Not only will the agricultural
resources OF the State be set forth 10
advantage and with scrupulc2s accu'
racy, but the latest reports concerning
the schools, finances, labor Gondltlons,
manufactures and mineral industry VIII
combine TO make the volume @ credit
and a splendid advertisement for the
State.
Virginia bonds have returned to the leJ
Is figure, reached shortly before Christ
mas. They have just gone UP TO tllat
point for the new year. AT and just al
ter Christmas, when the semi-annual IN
terest was being paid out the bonds went
down to 80 II. They have recovered
now, and Judge Dew said yesterday that
quite d number of transfers We're belllS
made People are investing even at that
figure in these bonds, than which none
are regarded safer.
Governor Montague yesterday granted
extradition papers for James H Parker,
who is wanted in Georgia to answer the
charge Of larceny in Fulton county, Ga.
Parker is accused of the theft of q par
of scales and the ENHANCEMENT OF some
financial trusts. Sheriff w. II. Grim, OF
Fulton county, came after the prisoner,
who went to Atlanta ahead OF MN.
]. z. Goode, deputy sheriff of Chester
field county, and ". z. Shelton, treas
urer of Hanover county, werc visitors at
the Auditors Office yesterday.
Governor Montague Thursday issued to
Alabama officers the necessary papers to
secure from Loudoun county Jesse Davis
a negro, who shot to death in November
last Giles Emtiner, a well-llnown young
mar of Elmo county, Alabama.
Davis was Virginia negro. He came
back home. The Alabama officers
couldn't find a trace of him, but few
days ago were notified by consta BILE
of Loudoun county that the fugitive had
been arrested there, and would be held
until he could be taken back TO stand
trial.
Several white persons have applied for
the position of jantor at the Capitol.
This is the Office that old Walker How
ard (colored) held for SO many years. His
son. Percy, is his successor. Now sew
eral white men. who have been pronll-
nently endorsed. are asking the Governor
to give them the position. The Executive
is perplexed Percy is capable, polite
ard thoroughly agreeable person to have
about the Office
The difference between the contractor,
who has the work of paperirg the ENecu-
tive Mansion, and the Painters and Pa
perhangers Union, has been settled. The
workmen Joined tie union. One work
The pat!1er sometimes finds the sand
soft and yielding to his feet. 1t does
not trouble him and he goes on until
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