Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1873-03-28
Ghe UindiGatur.
Friday Morning, March 2S, 1873.


County Court The March term of the conn
tv court commenced on Monday last, Judge Jno.
N He pdren presiding. The following is sum-
mary of the business
ADMINISTRATORS.
The will of Jno Teaford was admitted to pro-
hate with Epbraim Geeding, Executor. The
will Of W. W Donaghe, Sr., was partly proven.
D. W. Coiner qualified as administrator, with
the will annexed. of Christian Staubus. VIM.
S. King was appointed guardian Of Jennie E. V.
Ward, and Henry H. Bishop was appointed
guardian of Virginia c.. Luther NJ and Albert
Snyder Josiah Neff was appointed guardian
of Francis B. Ochiltree
NorARIEs PUBLIC.
T. A. Bledsoe, N. P. Catlett, A. S. Turk,
esey Kinney, G.. NJ. Harrison, W. B. McChes
ey, J. B. Woodward, ). W. Baldwin, James
Bumgardner, Jr., W. A Burnett, J. H. Carson,
H. H. Peck and E. NJ. Cushing, renewed their
bonds, as notaries public under the act OF
March 9th.
TENDER CONSCIENCE.
Harry McCutchen, colored, was put on trial
house Of Col. Sam uel A. East, near Spring Hill.
1t appeared from the evidence that Harry entered
the meat house and took piece of meat and the
next night came again, got the key and las he
claimed) carried the meat back, because, as he
said, his conscience hurt him so bad. He had
never stolen before and he would rather die than
steal But unfortunately, when he went to replace
l., &c pdar
science was so far ahead of that exhibited by the
late George Washington in his earlier days.
that the jury let Mr.. McCutchen off with two
months in Jail.
ROADS, sc.
The application of D. J Shaw to close pub
with Judgment to NJ. A. McCombe, contestant,
with costs. The petition of NJ. A. McCombe
for road was granted, on condition that the
petitioner pay to D. J. Shaw $l2O land damages.
Rev. Thomas Leitch, colored, of the Baptist
s,urch, was authori zed to solemnize marriages,
&c.
There were Is cases on the motion, road and
'chancery docket disposed Of. The court ad-
.journed on yesterday
COMPLETION OF THE LAST TUNNEL'-On Mon
day plight about IL O clock the famous Lewis tun-
mel on the Chesapeake Ohio R. R. was pierced.
1t is 4 900 feet long, and was commenced in Is "a
by the State. Six contractors have had the
work in charge, and have had to throw up th cir
contracts on account of the difficulties they en-
countered but G R. Mason the veteran con-
tractor finished the tunnel. tits bored through
hard sand stone and WI! require no arching.-
The completion of the tunnel by June 18th is
now ensured About four hundred feet only of
bottom remain to be excavated and the tempo
rary track can then be dispensed with. When
the contractors, Messrs Mason Hoge, took hold
of this work in last May, there was heading
of |, 900 feet to drive. Half of this, perhaps
was down grade. The workmen had 10 keep
three pun ps going to carry the water to the top
of the shaft, and about So, 900 gallons were
pumped out daily. More than once the water
gained so on the pumps that the laborers were
driven out The lines of the engineers met with
in a few inches of their calculations, and we now
have daylight through. There was qutea spree
by the laborers in glori6cation over the result
PERsoNAL.-Gen. John Echols left Staunt ar
on Saturday. The Louisville Courier las
week had very high editorial compliment
upon speech of Gen. E., before the railroad
committee of the Kentucky Senate in the mat
ter of the Big Sandy Railroad.
tits said that Mr. Dabney Maupin of this coun-
ty has inherited large fortune from England.
: Senator Lewis and Hon. John T. Harris pass
ed through here on Tuesday evening on their
way to their residences in Rockingham.
Mr.. Geo. L. Peyton, one of the proprietors of
the White Sulpur Springs, was in the city yes
terday. He is making active preparations for
the coming campaign.
Rev. E. P. Phelps, of the Virginia NJ. E. Con-
ference, and presiding elder of the Richmond
disscict, arrived on the cars, Tuesday evening.
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