Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1878-07-16
Virginia News Items.

Hon. Ran. Tucker was serenaded last
week at Lynchburg.
Gen. Early has gone to the Yellow
Sulphur Springs.
| Hon. Ran. Tucker will deliver the
annual address at the Lynchburg Fair.
The new reservoir at Lynchburg will
hold $500, 900 gallons of water, and is
nearly completed.
Decoration day was observed at Alex
andria on last Tuesday with highly in
teresting ceremonies.
The President has appointed Lewis
w. Rose, postmaster at Abingdon and
James II. Matney, at Wytheville.
Gen. James Mcdonald, Secretary of
| the Commonwealth, has appointed Col.
Sherwin McRae, his clerk aud assistant,
vice Mr.. w. E. Binford, deceased
On last Tuesday, Mr.. Sarn'l Sours,
county, had both bones of his left leg
broken just above the ankle by being
thrown from a colt.
The farmers of Albemarle are in com
munication with Mr.. E. Trott, agent of
the Chiidrens' Aid Society of New York,
trying to get company of the boys I'M
uCl 1tS CtslC SCAu w tHAG GUILTY.
Col Ldwin J. Harvie, during the war
member of General Joe Johnston's
staff, has besu appointed to clerkship
in the office of the State Treasurer in
place of Mr.. ]. Henry Eustacs.
A freight train on the Virginia aud
Tennessee railroad, near Big Lick, on
Tuesday, in turning sharp curve, ran
upon tree which had fallen across the
track badly damaging the engine, and
breaking the collar bone of Mr.. Nc
Clanahan, the engineer.
The Danville Meas has lengthy cor
respondence between J. H. ohnston,
who felt aggrieved at Il communication
published in that paper, and W. r. Man
ming, the local editor. Johnston de-
manded the name of the writer, which
was refused, and the parties finally came
to blows.
The people of Madison county will
vote OH the 1st of August upon the
proposition tos authorize the board of
supervisors of the county to subscribe
$50, 900 to the Potomac, Fredericksburg
and Piedmont Railroad, to aid in the
extension of tbs road from Orange thro'
Madison.
The inaugural address of Prof. Thos.
r. Price, of the University of Virginia,
at the recent meeting Of the Virginia
Educational Convention, WAS eloquent
and instructive. He paid beautiful tri-
butes to the memory of DR.. Duncan and
Prof. Jos. A. Turner, of HoIlins Insti-
tute.
The Charlottesville Chronicle says
The Monticello wines are attracting
special attention at the Paris EXPOSE
ton, and are regarded by judges in that
wine-making and wine bibbing locality
as of superior quality. A letter has re-
Gently been received by Mr.. Reierson,
President of the Monticello Company,
from the Commissioner of Agriculture,
who informs him that many inquiries
are made in Paris with reference to the
prices of the wines, and requesting that
a price-lis be Immediately forwarded
This is certainly encouraging to the
which, we trust, may soon be
shipping large quantities of wine to vine
clad France.
We learn from the Nelson Examiner.
that last Monday night, one Of Major
o. Loving's daughters, on retiring,
placed her candle upon one of the bed
posts and lay down upon the bed to
read, and soon fell asleep. Alongside
on the floor, a colored girl was sleeping
upon straw pallet. In some way the
candle fell upon this pallet and set both !
beds on fire The colored girl awoke
and began to scream. This awakened
Miss Loving, who, finding herself sur
rounded by fire, sprang from the bed and
ran down stairs screaming. Maj. Low
ing, who was writing in his office, was
aroused by the screams, ran up stairs
md began at once to fight the fire.
others soon came to his assistance, and |
he fire was put out after burning two
,r three beds and some bedding. Had
he discovery came few minutes later,
he house would have been burned
lown