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Show mvstk; msm. Interesting News and Notes Gathered Prom the Various Secret Society Lodge Booms. THE ROYAL ARCANUM REGENT. Something About the Life and Work of Hon. Legh E. Watts In anil Out ' of the Order. Tho Hon. Legh H. Watts, the supremo regent of the Royal Arcanum, is an honored , ran of the Old Dominion, says The Buffalo , Express. He was born In Portsmouth, Va., Dec. 13. 1843. He was educated at Norfolk academy and the University Universi-ty of Virginia. Ho served in the Confederate Con-federate army during dur-ing the war, and since its close has l)C8n closeiy engaged en-gaged in the practice prac-tice of his chosen prof ess ion the law in his native city. He has held mnnv and varied important civic of- KCH R. watts, j lices. He is the president of the National I bank at Portsmouth. For four years be was judge of tho corporation court of Portsmouth, and for many years has been 1 ho president of its council. He has been; several times a presidential elector of Virginia Vir-ginia upon tho Democratic ticket. Ho has for more than ten years been a devoted member of the order. A chart.tr member of Portsmouth council. No. 237, instituted Jan. 3, 187!), lie became its first resent. Ho was a member of his grand council in the yeur 18S0, and ws elected In 1ss3ns supreme representative, and was re-elected in 1883. In 1885 he was unanimously un-animously elected supreme orator, and j was promoted from that office by nn- j aniimms election in 1687 to the otllceof supremo vico regent, and at the last session of the supreme council was selected, by a vote of entire and hearty unanimity, as the loader of the Arcanum hosts for the year 1889-00. |