Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1878-07-30
Valley News Items.


The town of Bridgewater is infested
nth sneak-thieves.
Samuel Sewers, of Rockingham, was
brown from colt one day last week,
nd had his leg broken just above the
nike.
Page county has had law suit about
calf, in which the costs amounted to
bout seventy dollars. That was really |
| dear calf.
Mr.. Leo Wheat recently caught a
arge bass in the Shenandoah, near
which weighed five pounds
and two ounces.
An eight year old son of Samuel Min
nick, living near Plain Mills in Rock
ingham county, fell from swing last
week, breaking both of his fore-arms.
The Winchester shoe factory has been
greatly enlarged to accommodate its in
creasing business. 1t now gives en-
ployment to over sixty workmen, and
is filing numerous orders from the
South and West.
F. Osborn, living near White Post, in
Clarke county, lost his crop of wheat
by fire on Monday. A steam thresher
belonging to Chrisman & Mauzy was
also destroyed. The fire was caused by
a spark from the engine.
Mr.. Charles F. Conrad, son of the late
Robert Y. Conrad of Winchester, de-
signed and carried through the work
by which the great fire in the anthra-
cite mines, near Pittston, Pa, has been
extingaished.
The Normal School at Bridgewater
has opened under very encouraging cir
cumstances. The school opened on
Monday, the 22nd inst, and the num-
Der present was larger than at the COM
mencement of any previous session.
On the 9th of July COW belonging to
John Hill, who resides two miles west
of Dayton, in Rockingham, gave birth
to calf, which weighed III pounds.
and measured 6 feet ia length. The
COW is twelve years old.
The Shenandoah Herald says. The
wheat crop in that county is yielding
largely over the amount anticipated by
the most sanguine, and is more album
dant yield than they have had for years
The same fattering reports of the yield
are received from all parts of the Valley
The report that young Walter Pres
ton, son of James w. Preston, Esq, O.
Abingdon, and nephew of the late Hon
Walter Preston, had murdered his faith
er's oserseer, ana then committed sui
eide, near Kingsport, Temp, is wholly
without foundation. He has been fol
weeks at Seven Mile Ford, in Virginia
-BristoI NeWs.
We learn from the Pegister that MIR
Geo. Chrisman, of Rockingham, fed 9
herd of haifbred Durham cattle, on his
farm in this county, giving them NJ
grain from January Goth, 1873, to July
18th, 1878, less than six months; anC
added in that time to their weight Al
pounds to each head. The cattle were
raised from small Eastern Virgins
| cows.
! The Mt. Crawford correspondent O
the old Commonwealth says;-The
"Bolters" are losing ground in this sec
ton since the true inwardness" was
developed at the boisterous meeting al
the Court house. Sheer madness rules
the hour with tnera-the effect of the
dog star in politics. Beware! "Who4
the gods would destroy they first make
mad"
The Register advises young men te
remain in the Valley, and says:-Rob
ert and Benjamin Meyers, spns OF Mr.
John Meyers, Of Linville, have recently
returned home from west of the Missis
sippi, where they had gone to Locate
They were both somewhat dissatisfied
with the weat, particularly Benjamin,
who became alarmed at the death nlor,
tality in st. Louis and portions of Iowa
during the recent heated term.
The following coincidence is men,
TONED in the Register On Sunday,
July q, 1861, the first battle of Manas-
sas was fought. 6n that day, the Rev.
J. I. Miller preached In the Lutheran
church in Harrisonburg. In the midst
of his sermon he was interrupted by a
report that the yankees were coming"
and such was the excitement that the
whole congregation left the church in
disorder. Sunday, the 2lst inst, was
the 18th anniversary of the fight at Ma
nassas, and of the panic in the Lutheran
church. On that day, Mr.. Miller
preached most excellent sermon to a
congregation embracing a number of
those who were present on the first &C.
casion alluded to. What makes the CO.
incidence striking is the rsct that slr.
Miller is not the pastor OF the church,
but just happened to fill the pulpit on
the occasione referred to.
YELLOW FEvER.-The yellow fever
has made lis appearauce in New Orleans