Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1878-06-25
Valley News Items.

Valley News Items.
Front Royal is going to pave her
streets.
The millers near Winchester are pay.
ing 95 cents for wheat,
Cadet J. R. Richards, jr., Of Warren
county, graduated at West Point In
class of forty.three.
Capt. John Peters, aged 70 years, drop
ped dead in his yard, near Forestville,
shenandoah county, on the 18th inst.
The bridge across North River at Mt.
Crawford has been opened for travel
This is the fourth bridge that has been
erected at this point.
Mr.. James Sullivan, of Harrisonburg
has been appointed deputy for John +.
Lewis, U. s. Marshal, and will have his
headquarters in Southwest Virginia.
The jury in the breach of promise case
of Pitzer vs.. Smoke, which was recently
tried in the Circuit Court of Fred
erick county, rendered verdict for the
plaintiff and fixed her damages at So, $50
We learn from the Mt. Crawford cor
respondence of the Old Cona7'lonaUealth,
that on last Frid ay week, Minor Dean,
of that place, was severely injured by q
horse and wagon running over him,
breaking his jaw boneapd right leg near
the knee.
Now comes the Shenandoah Valley
and tells us about rattlesnake four feet
long, five and half inches in diameter
and the possessor of thirteen rattles.-
We admit the length and the rattles, but
with diameter like that his snaka-ship
must have been a rattlin' good liver, u
sort of John Falstaff snake. Don't
you think you could take of half an inch
from the diameter Mr.. Valteys
Among those receiving honors and
distinctions at Richmond College from
the Valley were VIM. A. Vaughan,
Rockingham, distinguished at the final
examination in the Junior school of
physics, and at both examinations in
school of English; Charles e. Bargle-
baugh, Rockingham, proficient in Sur
veying.
The Shenandoah PaUey says: '"There
is man living near here who has a
very convenient name; you can read or
spell it back ward or forward, aud 1t is
the same-ASA RENNER. Can all
other instance of this kind he found ?"
Yes, Hannah Adams of New Jersey,
who few months ago married Adam
Hannah. Her name is now Hannah
Hannah.
A few days ago one of the convicts on
the canal made his escape from the
guards, and secreted himself in q barn,
taking off all of his penitentiary higgins.
He remained quiet till the landlord spied
him in this condition who on discover
ing him, wished to know what his bust
ness was. He promptly replied, 1.-The
without rag" The farmer sent at
once for an old suit of clothing, and
something for him to eat. Of course he
has not been heard of SINCE. Lexington
Gazette.
The Rockingham Register says:-
president Borst, of the Narrow Guage
made brief visit to our town last week,
and spoke in the most cheering manner
of the way the work is progressing on
his road between Georgetown and Falls
Church.
The same paper says: The insane WO
man, Lizzie Seekford, whose rawlings in
the Jail we detailed last week, was taken
to McGaheysville and commission de
Lanatico inQuiTeado appointed in her
case which will doubtless have her re-
moved to Staunton.
Visitors are already going to Rawley
Springs.
The Charlestown, W. Va. Free Press
Railroad NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.,
Engineers, &c, are making their ap
pearance in town, and railroading is
looking up. The work will soon be I'M
der way. Mr.. Cameron, Chief of Staff
of Messrs. Satterlee & Co., has been here
some days attending to necessary details
for commencement of the important
work, and has impressed the people ia
vorably. Mr.. Satterlee will be here be-
lore CQlS lCeLu TedC1eS Vic eyes VI Iue
reader.
General Myer, otherwise sold Pro-
liabilities" is said to be intensely dis
satisfied with any failures in the daily
average of weather reports, and asserts
that in ten years time success will come.
All such failures come from the ocean
and the northeast. He has, it is report
ed, a plan to anchor six ships at distances
of $50 miles each, just like the lightship
off the Highlands. to put them in tele-
graphic communication with the At
lantic cable, to make them floating har-
bors of refuge, so that any boats crew
on the main channel of commerce could
reach home and shelter within little
more than a hundred miles, and so that
the news of any disaster, any gale, any
low barometer, any storm impending on