Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1872-12-17
NeaO Advertisements.


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SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 1st, 1873.
| will offer for sale to the highest bidder, the
farm known as MARTIAL RETREAT" former
y owned by Col. George Baylor, contain ming
$40 acres lying 63 miles West of Staunton.
and on Bakers Creek" q miles to the left Of
Hebron church.
The land is under an improved state of cult
walton. and well set in grass, with the exception
of Is or 50 acres, which is heavily timbered.
There are two good meadows containing from
IS to 40 acres, through which passes never-fail
ing stream, and so situated that they can be wa
tered during the whole season. The fe ncing
| ed, there being FIVE NEVER-FAILING
| SPRINGS upon it. There is q superior two
| story brick house on the place, containing seven
commodlous rooms, with all the necessary out
buildings-barn, smoke-house dairy &C. all
convenient.
There is also good chopping mill On the
place, with .water-power sufficient for good
| merchant mill
| A young orchard with fine selection Of fruit
is situated near the house. The farm is situated
| in pleasant community, convenient to churches
| and schools.
| Terms of sale-One-fourth cash in hand; the
giving bonds with good security, bearing inter-
est at six per cent from day of sale, and title re-
| tanned as ultimate security for the purchase mo-
| ney.
Sale OF Personal Properfy.-AsI con-
template going West will also sell at the same
tine and place, at public auction, all Of my
| Household and Kitchen Furniture
| consisting of several new bureaus, beds and bed
ding, chairs and carpetlng.
| Also three head of number / work horses, one
yoke of oxen, three excellent mich cows a lot
of colts and calves, new Concord buggy-pole
and shafts-single and double harness, one four
horse wagon, FIVE or six hundred bushels of corn,
seventy acres of wheat and rye, a large lot of
hay, farming implements of all kinds, set of
L 10 81 Eo1
lows, &c.
Terms made known on day of sale
del7-tds GEORGE NJ. BAYLOR.
HAT HI. WELLER has just received a new
w. supply OF Cassimeres,
Metons, Kentucky Jeans, bleached and un-
bleached Dexter Knitting Cottons ali Of which
he proposes to sell very cheap for cash or coun-
try produce.
NTERGENHA-in vacation.--Int the clerks
| y Office of the Circuit Court for the county
of Augusta, December 10th, 1872
| Nicholas K. Trout, Trustee in Deed from Mat
| thlas Schmltt, .. fiaintih,
John T. Towles and Francis his wife, Martha
B. Eskridge, = Walder, and - Valdez, in
FAINT children of Maria Walder. K T. w Duke
and Elizabeth S. his wife legal heirs and repre-
sentatives of William S. Eskridge, deco Defts,
IN CHANCERY
The object of this suit is TO obtain title to q
lot in the city of Staunton sold by said VIM. S..
| Eskridge to said Schmitt.
The defendants. John T. Towles and wife and
- Walder and - Valdez, infant children of
| Maria Valdez, decd, not having entered their
appearance, and it appearing by satisfactory ev-
idence that they are non-residents of this Com
| monwealth, Il is ordered that they do appear
here within one month after due publication of
this notice. and do what is necessary to protect
their interest. Ieste,
| Trout p. q. j. N. RYAN, elk.
| de17-4t
FUSE RECEIVED at w e. Weller's, a
81 very pretty lot of Ladies' Linen Sets,
Ladies' white Nubias and Gum Shoes
and we'll assorted stock of Notions.
COMMISSIONERS SALE OF VmIua-
q bile Real Estate i'm the County of
Augasta.-In pursuance of @ decree of the
Circuit Court of Augusta County, rendered in
the pending Chancery cause of Stout VS.. Kerr
| ct al, on the 9Th day Of June 1872 the under
signed Commissioners appointed Tor the pur-
pose, viii sell at public auction on the premises,
on the
18th day of January 1873, at - o'clock, NJ,
parcel Of land containing about SIX ACRES,
| lying on both sides of Meadow Run, in the coun-
ty of Augusta, within two miles Of the village
of New Hope, and componly known as the
Tilt Hammer Property. There is valuable
| water power on the place, and until the i'm
| provements were swept away by the freshet of
| 1870 various mechanical and manufacturing en-
| terprises were conducted on the property.
| TERMs:-Enough in hand to defray costs of
suit and sale; the residue in three equal install
ments, at nine, eighteen and thirty months the
purchaser giving bonds with approved personal
security bearing Interest from date and the title
| retained SIS ultimate security.
THOS. @. ELDER,
| de 17-4t Commissioners.
500 Yards Rev Esrimss Just received
IUU at W. II. WELLER'S,