Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1905-09-08
THE Old DOMINION
Latest News Cleaned From Al Over
The State.

LIT. w. w. MOOrc, preSlucut VI l's
Union Theological Seminary, Richmond,
has been called to Blowing Rock, N. e.,
to the bedside of his son, Francis, who
is i'll with typhoid fever.
! Congressman H. D. Flood predicts
that Congressman Swanson will defeat
Judge Lewis for Governor by at least
$4,000.
The Chautauqua which will be held
September ? to IS in Roanoke will in
cude the Otterbrin Quartet, Miss Edan
George, of Boston; Jahu Dewitt Mil
Ter, DR.. w. L. Davidson, of Washing
ton; DR.. William Sturgeon, Of England;
Rev. Sam P. Jones, Prof. P. NJ. Pear
son, Prof. w. B. Patty, the scientist
in liquid air, radium and wireless teleg-
raphy; Ellsworth Plumstead, Lon J.
Beauchamp, Capt. Richmond Pearson
Hobson and DR.. A. A. Willets.
A family horse driven to buggy by
Mrs. Newton K. Larrick, of Bayfield,,
became frightened at an automobile sew
sral miles west of Winchester and ran
away, throwing out Mrs. Larrick, who
was caught in the reins. Mrs. Larrick,
who was dragged on the ground for a
long distance, was picked up in what
was at first believed to be dying con-
dition, but she finally regained her
senses. She was badly cut and bruised
md suffered severe nervous shock. The
,utomobilists were not caught.
While the syndicate that has under
aiken the extension of the South and
Western Railroad from the Virginia coal
fields to a point on the South Atlantic
coast is busy with the construction work
n the North Carolina mountains, and
also has several forces of men at work
n Southwest Virginia, there is another
project on foot to carry Virginia coal
% the coast by direct route. Henry
K. McHarg, who owns the Virginia
and Southwestern Railroad, has deter
mined to build road from Clinchport
! % the Toms Creek Mines, in Wise coun-
", Va, on practically the same route Sc
Iected by the South and Western peo-
pie. Mr.. McHarg is having his proposed
route surveyed and is said to be accu-
nulating material for construction work.
There is rumor that Mr.. McHarg and
Thomas F. Ryan, whose cash is back
ing the other project, have been in
conference with view to joining capt.
tal and constructing only one road IN
stead of two.
Dr. |. f. Huff and Mr.. Francis, BROTH
er of the late Maurice Francis, who
month ago. was assassinated in Floyd
county while on his way to visit his
sweetheart, have employed Hoge & Penn,
of Roanoke, and Hon. J. c. Wysor, OF
Pulaski, to assist in the prosecution OF
John Richards, the young University
Of Virginia student, who is charged with
the crime The defense has secured the
services of Judge Phlegar, of Christians
burg.
Miss Grace Arents, one of the wealth.
est women OF Richmond, has been op-
Grated on for appendicitis at her hand
some home in that city. Her condition
is favorable. Miss Arents is niece
of the late Major Lewis Ginter, the
tobacco millionaire. She has won a
Statewide reputation by her charities
and church work.
C. C. Williams, of Crewe, freight
conductor on the Norfolk and Western
Railway, was very seriously injured at
Ford's Depot. He was polling some
cars, and, in stepping back on an oppo-
site track, he was struck and knocked
down by a locomotive. The locomotive
ran over his arm and crushed it so badly
that amputation was necessary. VAL
fans was badly bruised about the body
and his condition is critical.
The body of a one-armed unknown
negro was found in the Appomattox
River, near Bates Spring, in Prince
George county, a short distance from
Petersburg. Around the negro's neck
was rope and on him was found re-
volver.
Mr.. Bishop Weaver Stern, Of Harri-
sonburg, and Miss Lucy F. Dovel.
daughter of Mr.. David F. Dovel, of
Alma, were married in the Luray Cav.
ems at Luray. Elder John R. Daily, OF
the Primitive Baptist Church, officiated.
The attendants were Mr.. Floyd Dovel,
of Harrisonburg, and Miss Annie Coff-
man, of Luray. This is the eleventh
marriage that has taken place in the
Caverns since their discovery in 1873.
A recent compilation of the records
of Fairfax county gives some interest
ing data relative to,the wealth of George
Washington. Washington inherited Mt
Vernon from his brother Lawrence in 1884,
but did not commence to reside there
until 1885, at the age of ~ years. At
that time he owned in Virginia and other
States 5o,7o5 acres of land, besides sew
cral thousand acres in Fairfax county
The magnitude of his farming opera
tons in 1857 can be imagined from the
fact that he had $50 acres in grass, 400
acres in oats, 700 acres in wheat and
700 acres in barley, buckwheat and other
cereals. He owned I4o horses, liz cows,
226 oxen, 500 sheep and large number
Of hogs. He employed $50 negro hands.
In 1880 the records show that he slaugh-
;ercd $50 hogs for the use of his family
and servants.
B. J. Megginson, superintendent of the
Newport News and Old Point Railway
Company, was stabbed in the back and
painfully injured by c. W. Burkhead, a
North Caroinian, temporarily residing in
Hampton.
Brooks Robinson, well-known citizen,
If Roanoke, was crushed to death under
pile of lumber at Catogin's lumber
yard, where he was employed. Both legs
we're crushed and death was due to in
crnal injuries. He leaves large fam
is, including two married daughters
Mrs. J. D. Bowers aud Mrs. E. D.
Coleman.
James H. VIM, driver for the Star
Laundry Company, of Danville, was
painfully injured in an elevator accident
at the Hotel Burton. Vim had placed