Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1873-05-09
VIRGINIA RAILROAD MATTERS. - L

North River Railroad Company, owned oy
Henry McClay of Kentucky, has opened
foe office in ridgewater, Rockingham Co..
Va, hung out an imposing sign and pro-
eeeaed to business The road will be lm.
mediately put under contract to Fort lie
public. The general opinion seems to be
that the Valley Railroad will be running to
staunton by August LIST. The Board OF
Directors of the Shenandoah Valley H. Il.
at a meeting in Philadelphia, made sup
elemental contract with the Central I'M
nroyement Co., giving that corporation
largely increased vote and providing 10
case the road does not pay dividends on its
mortgage bonds, that the contracting party
shall not, under thirty years, have the pow
er to sell the rights, franchises, &c OF the
COMPANY, which secures the road against
being sold out at auction, during that perl
cd, to pay the interest on the Company's
bonds. The Pennsylvania Central Railroad
Company has endorsed the bonds OF the
Shenandoah Valley Company, and ample
funds are now at the command OF the COM
pany to push ahead the work, and we are
informed by a private letter, received IN
Staunton, yesterday, from Shepherdsto"n'
West Virginia, that the road will be let to
contract from Luray to Staunton by the LIST
of June, the company only now wait
ing for the completion Of the location OF
the line between these points The surveys
for Che Cumberland Gap R. R. have been
comuleted. It is 81 miles long, and when
it is completed there will be straight
shoot from Norfolk to Omaha. The Rock
bridge Supervisors have appointed COM
mit.ee to proceed to Baltimore, accompanied
bv Col. Bolivar Christian as legal adviser,
with 80 per cent. Of the bonds Of the coun'
ty of Rockbridge subscribed to the Valley
Railroad Company, and attend Valley
Railroad meeting, to be held on the 10th
day of May next, and to deliver the said
bonds. provided the terms of the subscrip.
tons are fully complied with at the meet
ing.
DEATH OF DR.. W. II. McGUFFEY, OF THE
UN1vERs1rY.-Wm. D. McGufey, D. D.,
LII. D., for Is years Professor Of Moral
Philosophy and Political Economy at the
University of Virginia, died on Sunday
evening last He was native Of Western
Pennsylvania, and graduate Of Washing
ton College, Pa, from which institution he
went into the Presbyterian ministry. He
was afterwards professor In Miami College,
Ohio, and from there was transferred to the
University Of Virginia. His profound
knowledge Of religious subjects exercised a
strong influence in depressing the minds of
the students with belief in the doctrine Of
Christianity Though his lectures on moral
philosophy were revised for publication.
they were never printed, and his only pub
llshea works were McGufey's series of
spoilers and readers He was married
twice, and his second wife, who is daugh-
ter of Dr.. Howard of the University, sur
wives him. His two daughters+-Mr. Hep
burn. wife Of Professor Hepburn, of Miami
University, and Mrs. Stuart, wife of Pro-
fessor Stuart, Of Ohio, are also living. These
ladies were with him during his last illness.
ELECTION OF VIRG1NTAN. William
Allen, professor Of Engineering at Wash
ington and Lee University, who was on
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