Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1869-04-09
Valley News.

Valley News.
The wheat crop in this county promises to
be an unusually good one.-W yhviue Die
patch.
The Lexington Gazette says that JOHNNY
Reb, alias Col. Farrar, will deliver his lee
lures, Grip Van Wrinkle" and Lights and
Shadows in Lexington for the benefit of
the Baptist Church Building Fund.
The prospect for fruit in this county is
now very cheering. Although the more
hardy trees put forth their leaves month
since, the blossoms have not, owing to the
! recent cold weather, yet advanced sufficient
ly to be frozen Salem Times
QUALIFIED Edmund Pendleton, lately
appointed Judge of this Circuit, was in town
this week and qualified as Judge before Jus
tice Miller. We notice the highest enco5mi-
ums paid to MIR. Pendleton in the papers of
West Virginia. - Winchester Mews.
LAND sALr.-P. B. Borst, Esq, as COM
missioner in the case of Isaac G. Printz,
decd, sold on the 25th inst, the Home
Farm, situated at the base of the Blue Ridge
mountain, in this county, containing seventy
acres for $50 per acre, equivalent to cash.
John Printz, ST., purchaser This shows
the value of the Blue Ridge land in Page
county.-Page Valley Courier.
ANOTHER SALE.-Mr. George L. Kite
purchased the other day an orchard cover
ing one acre Of land, containing thirty nine
trees, for $3.50. Two years ago the fruit
in this little orchard was worth half that
amount. There is no branch of farming
that will pay better in Page county than
fruit raising, if properly attended to.-Page
IaUey Courier.
The Page Valley Courier publishes card
from j. W. Ashby, the lately appointed
Commonwealth Attorney for Page, in which
he asserts he promptly declined the appoint
ment, which had been made without his So
licitation or consent and concludes by assert
ing that "Virginia's true sons will never
dishonor her escutcheon by perjuring their
souls with this most execrable and damna-
BILE iron clad OATH"
We have this week to chronicle the death
of one of our oldest and best known citizens.
Mr. Robert NJ Mcdowell breathed his last
at o'clock on Sunday evening 28th inst
By his death his family has lost kind and
atfectionate husband and father and the COM
munity one of its best citizens We hope
some one will give us more extended no.
tice of the deceased for our next issue.
Lexington Gazette.
SALE OF PROPERTY NEAR TowN-The
property belonging to tho estate of Col. z.
T. H. Warren, decd, in the vicinity of Har-
risonburg, was sold on Friday last, by Com
missioner, S. R. Allebaugh, Esq, for $40
per acre. There are seventy acres in the
tract, with tolerably good buildings. Pur-
chaser, R. B. Jones, blacksmith. This
sale shows the depressed condition of none
tary affairs here. Rockingham Register.
THE SouppERNoya GRApE.-A writer in
the Rural New Yorker thus writes of the
Scuppernong grape: ''This grape is worth
untold millions to the Southern people il
they will but follow the example of Mr..
Hart, Of Wilmington, N. c., in developing
its culture and the conversion Of its juice
into good wine" We commend this para
graph to the attention of those gentlemen in
this section who propose engags.g in the
culture Of tho grape Winchester Times.
The recent rains and warm sunshine have
had magical effect upon the growing crops
of grain. We have had the pleasure of wit
Messing the improvement of the condition Of
the crops in portion of the lower Valley
within the past few days, and are happy to
say that. the prospect is most promising
one. Fields that, few days ago, presented
a comparatively barren appearance, now
have luxuriant growth. Common
arealth.
ATTORNEY FOR CLARKE AND WARREN
DR.. I. Hayes Shields, the present Common
wealth's Attorney for Frederick county, has
received the appointment of attorney for the
counties of Clarke and Warren. So now the
DR.. has three eonptiea to manage. which
will keep him busy. We should have thought
the resources Of his other learned profession
would have been so called into play by the
necessity of relieving the wounded in the
disastrous battle with Walker and Stone
man to keep his hands full, and leave him
no tine for the lay Winchester Ne~s
IMPORTANT TO MAGIsTRATEs.-Fro the
following order it will be seen that in such
counties as have there quisite number of mag
istrates who can qualify, the senior justice is
ordered without delay to organize courts:
HsAD'oRs. FIRST MILITARY DISTRICT,
sats Of ES1vieia,
Richmond. w., April $, 1859.
! General Orders No. 49, =
Il is the dHty Of the senior magistrate pre-
sent in each equity to comply With paragraph
Q. of General Orders No. SO, from these
Heaquarters. dated March %, 1869 Want
of action will be considered as obstructing
the administration of justice.
By command of
Brevet Major-Gen. WEBB
S. F. CnALFIN,
Assistant Adjutant General.
The following is tho Paragraph referred to
above:
2. If. in any case. the regular day for
holding the county courts, as prescribed in
the Code Of Virginia, shall have passed be-
fore the magistrates appointed from these
headquarters. Or sufficient number thereof
to constitute court, shall have qualified,
said court will assemble and organize as soon
| as may be thereafter, and proceed to the
transaction of public business.
|
APPOINTMENT OF AUDITOR OF PUBLIC Ac-
couNTs--General Webb on Saturday issu-
ID the following order:
"H'D Q'Rs F1Rsr MILITARY Dfsrk1cq,
[ - stSr ATE IN VIpaINIA =.