Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1873-03-25
N SPECTATOR AND GENERAL ADVERTISER

Rev. Samuel Brown, on account of ill health,
has resigned charge of New Monmouth Pres
byterian Church, and goes to Bath.....A party
attempted to rob Lexington Bank. but failed.
last week...A correspondent favors McAdamiz-
ing Greenvlle road to Staunton over all schemes
for getting Rockbridge into the world, and says
it will only cost $52, 5OO.........Me who never
went to church started the practice, on hearing
the Nat Bridge, was on fire. The Collcgian
Editors apologize to Prof. Campbell for using
his name, to bolster up the hoax" .........The
build to the memory of Rev James WaddeI,
Wirts Blind Preacher" in Orange.
ROCKINGHAM Landes has the mail
contract from Broadway Depot to Coote store,
at $2l5 per annum......On 18th, the house and
furniture of Rev. }. w. Howe, and several out
buildings near Melrose, was burnt. Loss s.. 900
......Jn no. Ewalt, -four inspector, of Harrison
burg. broke his leg at dance on st. Patrick
day.: Solomon Berry's house, near Cross Keys,
was burned recently, and house belonging to
Mrs. Catherine johnson, 2 miles of Keezletown,
occupied by Mr.. Phillips, on 18th.
SHENANDOAH PAGE. Woodstock is or
gaulzing Shoe Manufacturing Co.........The
new mill, at Mt. Jackson, is under contract.
The house of Mr.. Fadely, near Columbia Fur
nae, was burned recently. Miss Lydia Hotel,
aged 81, died near Woodstock, on 18th inst,
and Jacob CARRIER, Esq, aged 8S, died n ear
Flat Rock, On 6th......Dr Higgins has perma-
nently located at Forrestsvie.. Many public
schools have suspended in Page, for want of
funds......The houses of Pinket, colored, near
Harrisburg, Page CO., and of Jas. b. Hudson,
3 miles east of Luray, were burned recently.
LOWER VALLEY ITEMs.-Jno. Ellis, of Lit
tie Georgetown, committed suicide recently. -.
The Warren Sentinel says no one knows when
u.
Royal to Luray......Dr. Thos. Green, of Win
chester, is dead. The Methodist Revival con-
tinues in Winchester"....Mr Jno. Bryerly, of
Winchester, has gone to Peru, s. A.. Miss
Roberts, daughter Of Joel Roberts, of Jeffer-
son, was burned to death, on 18th inst. ........
Twenty converts in Baptist Church, Winches-
ter recently.
WEST Va. ITEMS. The Elk River r. R. is
soon to be under contract. Prize fighting is
punished as felony in w. Va. DIR. Cotton, of
Charleston, was severely injured, by fall from
his horse, last week......The City Improvement
Ticket was elected in Charleston. .....T Thunder
storms prevail. Immense wharfs are to be
erected at Amandaville, Mouth of Coal River =.
Three furnaces are to be erected at Mouth LOup
Greek, by Pliny Fisk's N. Y. Co... Charles
ton was never improving so FAST The Salt
Furnaces, above Charleston, all soon to be in
full blast. Huntington is to have new Build.
ing Association. ......A Kanawha Coal Dealer
presents Grant a box Of coal......A large new
planning mill is going up in Charleston.........
More corn is grown in Huntington than any
city In the United States, says the West Na-
ginaan.. .......Spring farming is going ahead all
over the State, and wheat looks WELL. The
papers have ''quit their foolishness," about the
Valley joining w. Va......A large immigra ton
is exDected along G.. & O. r. r. this Sprinp
and Summer. New towns are springing up
all along the line. hoop pole trade
fourishes.. 49,. The Cincinnati, Big Sandy and
Huntington Packet Co. have delivered over
1000 tons of through freight for G. & o. r. r.
since lst March, at the Huntington Wharf
Freight and passenger business rapidly increas-
ing and new trains daily put on.
Huntington is excited over City elections...
Jno. jarrett had bis arm and hand broken, in
Charleston Conrier's cylinder press last week..
West Va. will probably buy Salt Sulphur
Springs for SOS, 900 and spend $l5, 1000, to fit it
up for a new Lunatic Asylum. 1.-THE Kanawha
and New Rivers abound in the fuest fsb.......
Union. Monroe co. has charter for Bank =.
James Rigg was shot, and killed by a Mr.. Ra-
duleson, at Kanawha Falls, last week. "Crum-
bled' maple sugar, as white as coffee sugar, of
delicious flavor, tickles the Greenbrier Mdepead-
ent,s ate.....Robt. P. Nickel, Of Fayette CO.,
had red COW, whose color changed to white
found dead Ia his bed, near White Sulphur,
last week. Thomas L. Sydenstriker
married Miss Mamie j. Giksson, of Lewis
burg, March 10Th, and Miss Mollie j. Mays, of
Frankford, died, on 10th. Great activity
prevails in coal, salt and lumber business and
the general tone of the press is hopeful for the
future.