Richmond Times-Dispatch from Richmond, Virginia • 6

LATE TRAIN A BLESSING of $500 each to be given to v' the School Children of America t-i i School Children's Competitive Advertising: Contest No 3296 "Vi if- VV to i Ur' I I TT VA to f-t: V'-J VAt- mf 'V Delay Saved Life of Two Horses Parid Probably of i jju'mgn Livesl AUW AYS THE Ta i roKtJiE I 1 MAYOR CANDIDACY i-rv v- tt Judge Wafton Appoints a'Super-intendent of the Poor for Din--v widdie County A Marriage of the speeches and 'poems being disseminated over ihe country and acknowledged as gems of the highest order The last of tho daughters of Richard Duke of Millwood cording to Captain John Smith there came over or was interested In tha Vlr gmla company a Thomas Stewkley from Menlsh In Somerset Shire England Ilka shen" for could that name have been changed to Stookely? Can any of our genealogical readers give any-' thlng aa to this William Stoakeley's ancestors in England? Tha Btoakley family In this country have connections with the Scotta Nichols Kendalls and others of celebrity if we can get a satisfactory answer to this query we can glvo soma exceedingly Interesting matter concerning the Stoakeleya which' can he traced hack to tha Jamestown settlement To it hTw" Washington D-' Ct Wo propose taking up tha Virginia Presidents in the near future Am only waiting for some English data tp make them complete Correction Mr Ev Lively of 'Aberdeen State of Washington lata proprietor and editor of tha old "Virginia Oasotte" which was established at Williamsburg Va In the samo year Patrick Henry was born thus corrects us ae to an error In the Lindsay article of January 1 1904: "John Summerfleld Lindsay borr at Williamsburg Va 1812 knew him well and all his family His father had two sons and throe daughters John 8 being the elder of the boys Late in life the younger brother died there was no brother afterwards so Robert's Und-a by Governor of Alabama could not possibly hav been his brother John 8 Lindsay up to 1839 was a compositor In the Gazette office at Williamsburg then published by Lively and Harvey Ewing Afterwards he studied at tho Theological Seminary at Alexandria and became an Episcopal minister and waa Installed as chaplain in House of Representatives at Washington His Virginia where ha AM In 1849 hia wife following him in 1830 During the twenty-five years that Mr Duke had lived at Millwood bo had raised a family of ten children five having been bom before he moved there and five afterwards Hia children were: William Johnson Duke who married Miss An demon who died 1878 leaving one eon Richard Duke Esq how clerk of Albomarle Circuit Court Lucy who married David Hood and with him moved to Temeesee Mary Married a Smith Mildred married Christopher Gilmer Sarah was the wife of Harvey Desklna Martha Margaret married Robert Rodea Carroll and Richard Thomas Walker Duke This last son became quits prominent lie was first to born at "Mill-wood1 Juno 8th 1822 Studied law was Commonwealth's attorney in 1 SMt which he held until 1800 Was then elected to tho Forty-first and Forty-second Congress of tho United States after the beginning of tho Civil War entered the Confederate army as colonel of the Forty-sixth Virginia regiment serving gallantly to the end of the war We present a picture of this veteran soldier as he appeared at the Confederate reunion at Richmond In 1800 and as he proudly rode in the column with Are in his eya and enthusiasm in his voles as If going into battle again wearing the short rapier or sword that was one worn by his great-grandfather Dr Thomas Walker of "Castle Hill" The scabbard was gpne but the fin steal Damascus blade with Its bright silver handle is as sliacpand as keen as ever though the point Is broken off Colonel Duke had to surrenderrihls sword when made a prisoner during the war and was compelled tp pay $35 for Its return but he would have paid many times that price to get it back Col Duke died in 1998 leaving two eons Ihe Hon William Duke now member of the Virginia Legislature and Judge Duke Jr of tlie 1 Hustings Court Cahrlottesville a who has iu-lierited much of the literary talent of hfs Illustrious father as a graceful and forcible orator as well as an author and poet of no mean ability many of his brilliant high-grade at gets the benefit' Moines" 111 says: leads us 'about five to one" GROCER FOR THE GREEN PACKAGE i' send us his name and xoc and we will send you package prepaid all communications to "Egg-O-Seo Quincy 111 I' fc-V (Special to Tlis Times-Dlspatch) PETERSBURG VA March 6-The northbound 'passenger train on the Atlantic Coast Line yesterdiy being an hour and half late saved two valuable hortee belonging to Leavell of Hilda Va and probably averted 'wreck Mr Leavell drove his double team to Stony preek and left them in charge of a colored boy while ho went Into a store to warmv 'The boy In the abeence of a heating Stimulant began to warm hli Mir by walking back and forth bee Ida the teem' The hones to keep up the warming process started down tho rail road to meet the northbound train already overdue and their gait was somewhat faater than tha boy could urge himself to go A trestle about it mile from" Stony Creek stopped he team and when the boy arrived the horses legs were hanging between the eills while they cooled of li' The boy could not get them from their position' so he went for Mr Leavell and when tho owner came be found that other help was needed One horse was able to get 'out' unaided while the other Insisted on being bodily removed from his position Tho track was cleared Just before the delayed train arrived the horses were safe and a probable Wreck averted EPWOKTH CONFERENCE Tho Epworth League Conference which will be held In Petersburg March 24th 26th 26th and 27th is expected to be one of tho largest ever held Not only tho Methodists of Petersburg but people of the other denominations as well and tha general public of tha city have taken much Interest in the convention and will contribute toward making It an unqualified success The president the Rev EL DodatUn has about completed the programme which will include addresses from several of the beet speakers In tho country' Each church in the Virginia Conference -Is expected to send delegation besides the pastor of tbe church who Is a member x-offlclo The DaUey Quartette which had an engagement in Petersburg Friday evening will visit the city to-morrow and at 11 o'clock stag at tho First Baptist Church st 8:80 at the samo church tho quartette will give '4 temperance song service the address being delivered by the Rev Taylor at 7:45 o'clock the quartette will conduct a song service at High £tte0tjMathodlst Church CONFIRMED CRIMINAL According to information received by the police authorities Wheeler the young man who Is in' the Petersburg Jail serving a sentence bf eight mouths for stealing overcoats and Jumping board bllh In Petersburjr is a confirmed criminal The Information Is furnished by the Chicago Bureau of Indentlflcatlon and asserts that four years ago Wheeler as Thomas Wilson was arrested at Louis-vllle Ky for grand larceny Nothing was done wfth the case On October 4 1902 ho was arrested in Washington as Thomas Wheeler for petit larceny and sentenced icr one year on four charges with five other cases continued Indefinitely In the office of tho clerk of the courts in Petersburg there was filed for 'recordation this week a mortgage from tho Seaboard Air I4no Railway Company to the Continental Trust Company trustee for $730004)0 1 Mis MaSrburg Robert Gordon of Norfolk was married I what dampening effect upon- the ardor last night at tho home or the brile's of those who deal In Richmond dirt mother in Bank Street I Some trading a good deal of It has been Brown and Toung have I going on but It has been going on In been elected alternate delegates to the well heated office rooms of real estate This sketch Avas made by Robert Ln Roy Shepherd aged seven publlo school Manchester Va 1 1 Wo give a cash prise of $660 for any drawing of this character which we accept and uge All school children can compete Full Instructions on inside of each package Egg-O-Ses telling what to do to get prize and hew to make the drawings Egg-O-See is the only flaked wheat food sold a profit 10c Bkyi a Fnil-SIzid Patkaa Our immense factory enables us to do this and the consumer A Boyer grocer Dcs all other kinds of cereals with ASK YOUR If your grocer does not keep it Address AND WEATHER Real estate dealers as well as people who want to buy Richmond dirt rejotco la tho change of the weather It is true that no kind of weather that doae not- produce earthquakes and actively movable cyclones can charge or move real estate to any greet extent but all the same weather conditions do sometimes hav much to do with the trading and tra (nicking humor of those who buy and sell city jots 1 The weather has been bad enough for some weeks peat and it Is not to he SCRAP BOOKS TO PRESERVE Ht Jr: I The Poems You Ought to Know NOBBY NEAT AND DURABLE prices-" I5c By Mail 35c 25c By Mail 45c TIMES-DISPATCH BUSINESS OFFICE Duke Family We present tbe arms o( the Duke family of England and though the Dukes of Virginia disclaim any connection with the Barons of the old country yet as their family are so ancient and honorable and In such close touch with this latter House of Duke! that we give this escutcheon of tbe family now of Middlesex county being a recent creation of 8ir James Duke sheriff of London 1838 and lord mayor ot the city 1848-'9 at which time he was created -BL The arms represent the mace and collar as worn by the mayor tbe crest being a gryphon arg winged azure in its beak a peacock's feather supporting a sword representing that of the city of 1 London with the motto Gradalim Vin-cemus The name of Duke originally "le Due signifying a belonged tp a fam-- liy of very high standing In Suffolk county England as fir back as Richard II from which tiie Dukes of this country claim their origin The first to emigrate to the colony of Virginia was Colonet Henry Duke of James City county who was a member of Sir Francis Nicholson's council during his term ns Governor from 4698 to 1708 This Colonel Henry Duke was a cousin of Elizabeth Duke the wife of Colonel Nathaniel Baoon the so-called she was a daughter of Blr Ed- ward Duke Baron of Benludl county of Suffolk England thn title to which had become extinct (Sc0 Burke's extinct peerage) Colonel Henry Duke the emigrant had a son also named Henry who settled In Henrico who had a sou named CllVeata iHho settled in Hanover county V1 now embraced In Louisa' Ctavear 00 had several sons one Cllvcars (3d) who moved to Albemarle about 1744 another of Ills sons was Dr Duke living in Louisa 1796 who attended upon fu hie last eick-neas two of hia other aons James and Richard also moved to Albemarle The Duke married early into the family of Burnley deacendanta from an Englishman John Borulcy who came from England before 1771 and lived in Ilunover county eventually his children nlo moved to Albemarle and from them are many of our best citizens now among us one of whom the venerable Mr James Burnley of Charlottesville now verging upon 4hh -nineties but active yrt James Duke became a magistrate ISIS and died 1844 lie married Miss Blggers slater of Colonel Biggera of Richmond hia children lying Richard Horace who went to Misslslpppi Charlotte married Dr Carr and Lucy who married Tlios Ballard Cllvean Duke (3d) died In ISIS and hia son CUvcari (3d) died In 1847 hi Albemarle In 1804 Rlchprd Duke who waa eon of Clivears Duka (2d) married Maria Walker horn 1780 daughter of Thomas Walker Jr of Indian Fields second son of Dr Thomas Walker of "Castle Hill" This Richard Is said to have been a skilled architect building many of the first mills and machinery in tlie county It lS'-l he exchanged the fine estate of "Logan" obtained by his marriage with the Walkers for a largo tract on the west side of the Rlvanna called which nt that time had the largest mills in the county lienee its name not only were there flour and grist mills but also woolen and cotton mills a cotton gin and a large thresher for wheat Richard Duke was a man of great activity quite unlike tho case living horse-lacing fox-hunting ancestry who gave him hie clear blue eyes and thin ruddy skin and genial appearance of the jpl-eal English squire His portrait shows him to have been a strikingly handsome aristocratic looking gentleman It was cnly by persuasion of his brother-in-law SI err! wet her Lewis Walker who had purchased MUlbrook in 1819 from the Minor that with his growing family active busy habits and numerous caused him to make the change by which he could easily enrich himself by Its various Industries The first house at "Millbrook" waa quite old antedating the with spacious hulls large rooms a high Dutch peaked roof with many dormer windows It faced the east and was surrounded by the usual kitchen and negro cabins which in Albemarle always hung on the outskirts of the "great house" Richard Duke was first magistrate in 1S19 then was made sheriff In 1M7 in sold Millbrook and bought Just beyond the University of for i' P- i- COLONEL DUKE As in the War of i86o-'6s agents and over sheet iron wood heaters at home wliere blue maps cover acres of land That is aU good enough as far ae It goes and a trade made ur-der such conditions is sufficiently binding alter the papers era signed but it is when tbs sun shines brightly and the breezes Mow gently and folks can go out and look at the ground they trad upon and examine In open air the quality of the dirt they ere buying that things get lively In the real estate business The improvement In tho weather therefore argues that for some time to come there will be lively business In real estate circles I The leading agents report that they ere already feeling the good effects of open weather and Inquiries for lota for residence purposes are numerous and encouraging The building boom has not passed high water mark yet and In various parts of the city notably In the western sections lots are being bought ard sold at a rapid rate and buildings are going up block at a time Real spring weather will see even increased activity along thee line and real estate agents as well ae builder are looking forward to one of the busiest spring In their line that Richmond ha ever known' RBAL ESTATE SALES With the advent of dear and pleasant weather the real estate agenu of Richmond will be busy The past few days of pleasant weather has already had a stimulating effect Thompson Brown and Company sold at auction last' week for Wallace Brown special commissioner In suit of Wayn vs Wayne the brick property corner Jack-son and First Streets to Mr Car-l-esl for 1900 It's not known a yet whether Mr Carneal bought for himself or was representing others Mcurp Brown and Company will ifll by auction next Wednesday at BdO the frame store and large lot" No 13a North Twenty-seventh Street and two vacant lots adjoining As Church-HII1 property is In good demand no doubt the sale will be well attended rh very desirable property No 41" East Franklin Street will be sold at auction next Thursday at 5 31 by A Cat tin The house Is large and well built end the lot fronts S3 1-2 feet 1 Property Transfers Richmond: Anderson special commissioner to Fitzgerald 49 feet cn north side of Cedar Street IS feet east of Buchanan to correct error $5 James Briers and wife to Catharine 8 wife of William Hartley 40 feet tin north Side of Cedar Street 123 feet east ol Buchanan $556 Walter Christian clerk of Hustings Court to Robert Dos well 18 feet on north side ef Chaffin Street In name of Robert Freeman for taxes Robert Doe well to Harlow 16 if 45 i i 1 Giving money to Bcgga) to buy FOOD and LODGtG Methodist InstitutoTickes EACH TICKET good fbia MEAL and TWO TICKER for LODGING 20 TISKETS FOR $1 ON SALE atV TIMES-DISPATCH BUSINESS OFFICE BUDGET COMING MONDAY NIGHT Heavy Work Mapped Out at the City' Trouble at the City Hall will begln tm mdrrow night when the adnual budget for 1904 will bo read to the "Council for tha first time The matter may cause some discussion but it will likely bo adopted as it came from the Finanoe Committee 1 Zt will not bo available for distribution among th various departments until the Board passes upon it on Tuesday night -of next week' but the committee will bo- gin to figure on spending the amounts allotted to them as soon as tha contents i of the coveted paper ere mad piddle "The Committee On Water will moot to- morrow night at 7 JO o'clock ind will endeavor to frame their report on the subject of electrolytic damage to tho water pipes to be presented to th Coun- 1 cil during the evening The Committee on James River Xm- provement will meet at noon to-morrow' board tlie new dredge "Fulton In or- er to teat the capacity of the machine A 'large number of other committees will iqeet during the week Mr Kerns Now Well The friends of Mr Cleveland Kerns will be glad to learn that he has entirely recovered from hie recent Illness Mr Kerns was operated cm Mr appendicitis by Drs Johnston and Mann at -the Memorial Hospital on February 8th and wee discharged on March Id Mr Kerne Is a brother of Mr Kerns of tbe Postoffice Department end re- sides at No 2241 Venable Street it i r- feet on north elds of Chaffin Street $21842 A Parrish end wife to Mattie Jenkins 40 feet on west side ot Seventeenth Street 128 2-2 feet south of Brown $)) 1 Virginia Fire and Marin Insurance Company to David and John Currie 7 1-2 feet on north aide of Franklin Street 10B 1-2 feet west of Eighth 15000 Henrico: Commonwealth of Virginia to Thomas Brown lot 286 In sddl-Ucn Fitzgerald and wife tO'Jxmes Briars 40 fest on north side of Cedar Street between Buchanan and James $750 Benjamin Jackson to' Rosa Jackson1 20 feet on west side of Goddln 8treef $3 Mattie end John Kemple to Florence wife of Walter 8 Doughty St feet on north side of Cary Street 150 feet west of Rowland $630 IL Nash special commissioner to William T- James 40 feet on north side of Cedar Street 8080 Regina Ruble Xo Seaboard 'Air Line Railway 60x223 feet on Sledd Street and part of Sledd Street 81200 Sallle and Joseph Taylor to Washington Bottom 40x330 fast on Williamsburg Road near Seven Pines 8200 Susie Tompkins's trustee and others to Thomas Jones 217 acres on Hermitage Road five miles from Richmond Henry 8 WallerstSIn and wife to Samuel A Kidd 27-5-6 feet on Nineteenth Street northwest coper of $1260 Hit by a Derrick (Special to The Times-Dispatch) SALISBURY March 5-Messrs George Gant and Latvson Roger employes of Aties quarry In Rowan county were seriously Injured by the falling of a large derrick this afternoon' and the' former wee struck on th head and Is not expected to live th latter may recover Ad sense of the best sort Be today's Want Ad Page and Other Oenis TT is sufficient guarantee7 of Hu 1 QUALITY of an Article to knout that it utfis 1 bought at Gait's This fact has been conceded by all for over one hunched (100) yars cy AU correspondence given prompt end careful attention Goods sent on approval to all responsible fcxpress prepaid Galt Bro Established Overdo Century' Jewellers Slhrarsmltlis Stationers 1107 Pennsylvania Avenue WoshlngionDC: Mrs Mildred Wirt Gilmer wife of Georgs Christopher Gilmer brother of Governor Thomas Gilmer or Virginia' died In 1900 at the home of her son the present Commonwealth's attorney for the city of Charlotteevllle Mr Frank Gilmer Mrs Gilmer was In iter eightieth year having outlived all of her brothers and slaters did not long survlce its owner being entirely destroyed by fire in 1848 and In 1830 the extensive mills were also burnt nothing now being left of the old home but the ecliool house tho trees even having been felled or died out the farm divided and sold olf and above the old dam which once supplied tha mills stands an Iron bridge of the Southern Railway as It crosses the north fork of tke Rlvanna Such are the change of the many old homesteads fn Virginia which are fast crumbling away Queries and Answers From "Thsd Fowke AgnesvtUe Va "In the Towke article (December 20th) Frances Fowke Is mentioned but no son Now this fiery old Gerurd had a son Chandler and thla Chandler (No 1) had a eon Chandler (No who was I born May 3 1732 and married Miss Har- risen of Fauquier ho died February 48 I IM0 and left two sons Thomas and I John Thomas Fowke waa born June 1 i 1770 John born March 14 1778 died 1849 Can you help me find out anything of i tlit first Chandler son of Gerard about 1(40 1 would appreciate It?" Answer: The Fowke sketch waa taken from one kindly furnished by Mrs Charles Harper Anderson of Toy Al-trmarle county if you will correspond Grand Lodge of Odd-Fellows which will meet In Lynchburg May lUtli The ifov George Booker has returned from Lynchburg where be wee called by the illness of his stater Miss Fannie Booker Miss Booker Is very Ill with pneumonia i-'v In a local paper to-day Mayor William Jones announces his candidacy for re-election to tho office of Mayor Judge Waiter A- Watson has appointed Clarke auperintendent of tho poor for Dinw ie county to fill the unexptred term of the late Boisaeau who recently committed suicide THE VALUS OF CHARCOAL Few People Know How Useful It le In Preaervlng Health and Beauty Nearly everybody knows that charcoal the ratest nnd must efficient disinfectant and purifier nature ouT few realize its value when token Into the human system- for tho same cleansing purpose Charcoal is A remedy that the more you take of It the better 'It is not a drug at ull but' simply -absorbs tbe gares and Impurities always present In the stomach and Intestines and carries them out of the system Charcoal sweetens the breath after smoking drlnklns or after eating onion enu other odorohs vegetables Charcoal effectually clean and 1m-ptovea the complexion' it whitens the teeth and furtnSr ecu as a natural and eminently safe cathartic It absorbs the injurious gases whlrh collect in the stomach and bowels it dirinfects the mouth and throat from the poieon of catarrh All druggint sell charcoal In one form or another but probably the best charcoal end the most for the money Is ln Stuart's Absorbent Lozenges! they are composed of the finest powdered Willow charcoal and mother 1 harmless antlsep-t'Cfe In tablet form or rather In' the form of large pleasant tasting losenges the charcoal being mixed with honey The doily use of thee lozenges will seem tell In a much Improved condition cf the general health better complexity sweeter breath end purqr Mood end the beauty of It is that no possible harm can result from their continued use tut on the contrary great benefit A Buffalo physician in speaking of the benefits or charcoal sgjra: "i advise Stcart Absorbent Lozengedj to ell patients suffering from gas ln stomach ana bowels and to clear the complexion and purify the breath mouth and throat I also believe the liver Is greatly benefited by the dally use of them they cost but twenty-five conta a box at drug store end although in -some sns patent preparation yet 1 believe I get morn end better charcoal In Absorbent Lozenges then in any the ordinary charcoal tablets' father was the village blacksmith In Williamsburg at the time by nama Thomas LJndsay who wba tho grandfather of Rev Oscar Bunting (now of Petersburg Va) now a minister of the Virginia Episcopal Church whose mother Is the eldest daughter of the said Thomas Lindsay The Rev -Mr Bunting I am told Is a fire and acceptable minister" We were led in error in the above through the Encyclopedia of American Biography of the Nineteenth Century and sm glad our correspondent has set us right CATRON BARNETT were Acquitted They Killed Ausbun and I II Nickels Election Judges to The Tim: -Dispatch) GATE CITY VA March 5-J Catron and Barnett on trial at Joneevilie charged with killing" Aiixbtin and 1 -1 Nickels election Judges at Fair view on election day last November were acquitted by tha to-day The defendants were held on the charge of killing Ausbun and admitted to bail The Jury woe utit two hours before a verdict was reached re-toruing to tlie court room at 2:3 Tin? double murder and the subsequent because of existing feeling A of the most distinguished law- n'- part of Vlrgliiin -i il ViOern the trul J'im crl-d woa to tlu tffect that Ur-gtln thu shoot ng 1 morcy a Friend to you? See to-day's Want Ad -V h' TV with her she will doubles aid you os i 'm vc aroused tho most Intense fee'-tolcrUl much valuable data irg between the Demcrats and Republics irglnla families which have not ftrfdt county)- from a heree a access to Tlie conrt-of-arms with crest n-igo ot venue was venue was granted to Lee What Shall We Have for Dessert? This question arises in the family very day Let us answer it to-day Try a delicious and healthful dessert pared in two minutes No boiling! no balds rt add boilingf water and set to eool Lemon Orange Hasp- heiry sad Strawberry Get a package St TOUT grocefS to-day Xo cts Kjewitwwiiywg WVWa of a bee on thlstki comes nearer that cf thf House of Kcrgnuson and Dalrym-ple Uilh fsimiilee of whom -ire In crimlry ruble uij olrcipoiid- know something of wn- ho to have Leen the first of that tamlly to have ever from Ecglka about IW7 Ae- It' ft V-t.