Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1878-12-10
Valley News Items.

Valley News Items.
On last Tuesday morning, Mrs. J. II.
Van Pelt of Rockingham was slightly
paralyzed.
A new postoffice has been established
al Willow Grove, on the Valley Pike,
in Shenandoah county-George Moore,
Postmaster.
Since the enactment Of the "duck"
and "goose" laws in New Market and
Woodstock the Editors of the papers in
those villages seem afraid to visit each
| other.
On last Tuesday evening, young
man named Hoffman, of Strasburg, was
accidentally killed at the iron ore mine
at Larkin Lake, in Warren county, by
the falling of a heavy mass of earth.
About 81 900 bushels of wheat have
already been shipped this season from
Summit Point, w. Va, a station on the
Baltimore & Ohio railroad, and two
thirds of which was raised in Clarke
county.
Mr.. Morgan Moore, of Shenandoah
county, was thrown from his buggy
last Monday evening, and his leg was
fractured between the knee and ankle.
1t is thought that he was not otherwise
injured.
We learn from a private letter, says
the Page Courier, that P. B. Borst, ESQ.,,
President of the Narrow Gauge rail-
road, has purchased in Philadelphia the
iron for his road from Georgetown to
Falls church.
The Page Courier, in a CHASTITY face
tious humor, urges that the coroner
should summon a jury to set upon the
"ghastly skeleton" found in "dark
gulch" in the recently discovered cave
near Luray.
The Spirit of the Valley says that it
is not often that Otter's are caught in
these parts, for the breed seems to have
run out, but the other day Joe Crist, of
TImberville, trapped one. Last year
Joe's father caught one.
The Spirit of the Valley of last Satur-
day says: AS we go to press we learn
of the drowning in Linville creek, on
Thursday, near Wenger's Mill, of Clara
q Good, colored. Full particulars have
+ not reached us at this writing.
: On last Friday the Moffett Register
had been in operation just one year in
], Lexington, and has yielded So, 1855. 90,
/, to which adding the specific tax makes
= a total revenue of SO, 1888 43 from liquor
in that place.
Diphtheria is prevailing in the lower
part Of Page county, and several cases
g have resulted fatally in the neighbor-
+ hood of Rileysville. This disease is al
9 so prevailing in the neighborhood Of
: Woodstock, but there has been, as yet,
= no;cases in the town.
Moody, the great preacher, says that
> "Christ would hush every harp in heav-
en- nytime to hear poor sinner pray
: If sinners would pray as loud as some
: christians seem to think it necessary to
do. there would be no need ''to hush
the harps" in heayen.-Page Courier.
The new Thinker church, at Timber
vile, Rockingham county, is rapidly
approaching completion, and when fin
: ished will be credit to the church and
: the mechanics engaged in its construc-
e ton. It is two stories high and its
Y dimensions "A K 40 feet.
e There are but three soldiers of the
s Mexican war living in Lexington, J,
e Fl. Crocken, w. r. Wilbourn, and Maj
8 J. 3. Dorman. The two first called on
;. Gen. Johnston at Prof. Whites while
:, there, and talked over their soldier life
|. thirty years ago.
:, On Sunday of last week Willard, aged
l 2 years, son of Alex. Fl. Keyser, neal
Honeyville, Page county, was so badly
burned by its clothes catching fire that
p death ensued The mother was away
> from home on visit, and the father
> was, at the time of the accident, at the
= barn feeding his stock.
= The County Treasurer states that up
;, to Saturday last about $4,000 of the
taxes of Rockingham county for 1875
> were paid. This is over two-fifths
which is pretty good showing for hard
times. More has been paid to December
LIST this year than was paid last year.
About $4,000 has SO far this year been
paid in coupons.-Old Commonwealth
Prof. G. B. Percy, who has had charge
+ of the School of Engineering in Wash
o ington & Lee University the past three
Y or four years, has rendered his resigna-
: tson, and will leave Lexington about
Y the first of January. Fiattering propo-
= sitions have been made to him by rail
3 road company in Tennessee, which he
will accept.
We learn from the Shenandoah Tal-
leg that several weeks ago, the upper
stone, or runner, of the chopping mill,
at Newport, Page county, burst. One
half of the stone passed out at one side
of the house, sweeping out some of the
studding and weather boarding, and
! the other half crushed the -four chest
I and part of the huslz frame, and lodged
in part of the frame. It barely es
capped, in its passage, the miller, Mr..
: Roudabush. II seems that the stone
, had been cracked on one side into the
o eye, by falling in the river during the
great fresh, and had not been banded"
At the laying of the cornerstone OF
: the Lee monument at Lexington recent
| / ly, the Executive Committee of the Lee
r Memorial Association reported amount
e realized, $4,000; amount expended,
$4,000. Of this amount $4,000 has
been paid to the artist. Cash in hand,
$1,000. Amount to be yet raised, be-
!, tween 5000 and $4,000. It will be seen
: that the sum Of s14, 500 has been pad to
I the sculptor, and that the remainder