Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1874-08-28

CONGRESSIONAL NOMINATIONs.-EX-
Governor Walker was nominated, We'd
nesday, in Richmond and Eppa Hunton
in Alexandria, by the Conservatives, for
Congress.
The Btecher report, it seems, is to be
written by Mr. Winslow, whose country
home is called "Shelter Island" The
name is suggestive. and the sooner the
whole crowd gets there under cover the
better for the morality of the country.
Mary F., daughter OF George G. Pearce,
ten years old, was. drowned at South
Kingston, Mass, on Sunday, while bath
ing. Frank Moulton, son of ''Mutual''
Moulton, was one of the four children
with herr
The Lexington Presbytery, at it's session
on Monday last, granted dissolution of
Dr.. j. w. Pratt and the Lexington Church,
in accordance with the request of Dr..
Pratt.
at was darling George" when bri-
dal party left Omaha; it was ''dear
George" at Chicago; at Detroit it was
'.George,S' and when they reached Niagara
Falls it%was ''Say, you.'
On Sunday before last little son of Mr..
Isaac Wellington, of Pitt county, North
Carolina, while shooting at a snake acct
dentally shot and instantly killed a young
son of Mr., w. B. Phillips.
The Abbeville South Carolina ''Medi-
um'' says that General Sullivan, of Green
vile, in his speech at Camden, arose before
a negro audience and cursed God because
he was not made black
The life of General Lee, written in Paris
by his nephew, MI. Edward Lee Chide,
bears the title Of ''Le General Lee, sd vie
ct ses campagnes.
w. F. Maddox has been appointed mail
route messenger from Lynchburg to Dan
vile, Va, on the Baltimore and Danville
route, vjce Martin Maddox, resigned.
Three small boys, the oldest not over
fourteen, have made in the last four weeks
nearly $50 selling blackberries in the Lex
ington, Va, market.
Mr.. A. D. Chesterman, late member of
the Richmond council, has been elected
superintendent Of the public school of
Huntington, West Virginia.
George T. Hamlet, route mail agent on
the Lynchburg and Danville Railroad, and
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Lynchburg Saturday night.
The Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad Com
pany is roofing in it's new round-house at
Hinton, West Virginia. 1t contains thir-
teen stalls.
Rev. l. s. K. La Care, formerly agent of
the American Sunday School Union, at
Lynchburg, Va, died at Orangeburg,
South Carolina last week
The White Sulphur Springs, in Green
brier county, West Virginia, will be leased
out for apterm of seven years between this
time and the 18th of September.
A new post-ot1ice is established at North
River, Rockingham county, Va, on the
route from Harrisonburg to Staunton,
with John J. Raller as postmaster.
James A. Craig, of Augusta county,
Va, has sold the frankfort Hotel, in
Greenbrier county, W. Va, to Captain W.
B. Reid.
A baptism of child took place at Read
ing. Pa, recently, where the great-great-
grandmother aud the grandfather stood as
sponsors.
Ex-Governor Walker, of Virginia, and a
patty VI 1lleHlS, pttSScu GlllOuRll CiidllOUte
Saturday, to inspect the Kings Mountain
gold mines.
Governor Kemper has refused a second
application for the pardon of John Murphy
convicted of murder in Shenandoah coun-
ty, Va.
T. d. Crawford's half interest in the
Roanoke, Va, Red Sulphur Springs, has
been sold to Drs. Wiley and Berkeley for
10000.
A colored vagrant was sold in Smythe
county, Va, last week, for three months,
for ten cents.
The Democrats of the West Virginia
I'd district, have nominated Charles James
Faulkner, for Congress.
The corner stone of the new Baptist
Church, at Liberty, Va, is to be laid in
September.
Last week lightning struck the tower,
and somewhat damaged it, of Lee Memo
rial Chapel, at Lexington, Virginia.
Hon. Jefferson Davis passed through
Va, Monday ON his way to
the West.
The Good Samaritans of Washington
City, colored, made an excursion to Lees
burg Monday.
Bishop Whittle administers confirmation
at Mt. Jackson, Va, September 4th.
Abram Warwick, Manager of the Gale
go Mills at Richmond, is dead.
The threatened duel between Colonel |
Mosby and Dr.. Payne, was amicably set
led.