Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1874-06-26
WaynesbOrO Affairs.
Correspondence of the Staunton Vindicator.1
WAYNEsBoRo, VA, I
June oath, 1874. !

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WAYNEsBoRo, VA, /
June oath, 1874.
For one who has not visited our village
for month or two. it would now be dlll-
cult to recognize the Waylesboro OF Old
The town has put on a great many airs
since the revival of the charter of corpora
ton, and the Improvement has been very
great: SO great that even those who were
disposed to oppose anything like an incor-
pOrated town are compelled to confess that
the change has been very beneficial to all.
Instead of the miserable roads filled with
mudhOles, rocks, trash, &C.. we now nave
something like streets, as the greater por-
tion of the principal ones have been clean
ed up, nicely graded, and provided with
cutters sufficient to keep them properly
drained. Our pavements, too, or fatnef
sidewalks, are also receiving the attention
of the street commissioner, and one can
perambulate the town extensively without
fear of broken bones.
For years past it has been customary to
place, where the sidewalks ought to have
been, all porches, wagons; buggles, lumber,
plows, and such articles as could be we'll
gotten together. Now, however, such IS
not the case, as eight feet on each SIDE OF
the streets is to be kept clear OF all oD-
structions, and the above mentioned nun
SdIlCtS, Will UIiG CACCDGIOil VI oli0 POAoiiSp3
are placed near the middle OF the street,
thus adding greatly to the beauties and at
fractions of our drives. Surely this evil
ought to be remedied, and / trust our au-
thorities will look to it, and devise some
plan of Kidding our streets OF such UNI
slightly objects
A mania for painting seems to have seiZ-
ed the majority of the property owners.
and on Main street, especially, large
| number Of residences have been tastefully
painted, and everything looks as fresh and
as new as possible.
Our hotels and boarding houses are IA
pidly filling with visitors for the summer,
and the prospects are that the town will
have larger number of strangers this
season than at any time since the war.
| Our principal hotel had all of it's looms
| engaged months ago.
| The Methodist church is rapidly APP
| preaching completion, and presents very
| handsome appe arance c The contractor
| who has the building of the new PreSbyte-
rian church, is progressing rapidly in MAX
ing his brick, and i'll a short time, with
average weather, will be enabled to COM
mence building. The Baptists have pur,
chased the old Methodist church, and will
able place of worship. Commencing with
very few members. this church has increas.
ed it's numbers rapidly. DR.. Manly and
Rev. Mr.. Hough, preached to large con-
gregations last week, and on Saturday bap-
tised six persons. On Sunday the colored
Baptists baptised five.
Business in the matrimonial line has
been remarkably lively in our vicinity re-
cently-tive marriages having taken place
within less than a week.
The Changers are still on the increase in
} hi NfNntro ,,f4 H,1,. yrrf
had meeting on Saturday last, and re-
csived number Of new members. [ have
it from good authority that they do not
permit their boys to play an old fashioned
game of marbles, as itnecessitates the use
of a S'middle-man." Marble-hearted Gran
| gers!
Prof. G. H. Withrow, of Danville Col
lege. KY, with his lady, is spending the
| summer with u.s. TERENCE.