Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1878-05-17
Personal.

lady who received the golden crown, at
the Virginia Female Institute, two OF
| three sessions ago, will sail for the Paris
| Exposition, June Goth, with a party OF
young ladies in charge Of Miss Mamie
Shaw, Of Princeton, NJ.
| The Richmond correspondent of the
Norfolk LEDGER has found the greatest
| sculptor of America in young man nam.
| ed O'Donovan, at Staunton, and says one
of the coolest and most competent critics
AYERS ODD. s'has the true Phidian genius. D
Judge Il. W. Shelley. Gen. John Echols
and Capt. James Bumgardner, Jr., Of the
Staunton bar. were in Lewisburg. w. Va,
last week.
Mr.. J. ]. Bell, of Augusta county. who
| owns farm south of Culpeper, spent sew
eral days in town this week.-Piednaonl
Neaos.
DR.. Baldwin, Superintendent of the
Western Lunatic Asylum, is in Washing
ton, attending the National association of
tie Superintendent of American Insane
Institutions.
Mr.. Hugh B. Walker, General Agent Of
the Franklin Insurance Company, who has
many friends here, has been for several
days dangerously ill at his residence in
Petersburg. His condition was slightly
improved at last accounts.
Mr.. S. E. Miller, who was the efficient
teacher at Bolivar school the last session,
has accepted position on the staff of Col.
Peyton, at the White Sulphar Springs for
the coming season.
Rev. ". @. Hullihen preached at st.
Paul's Church, LynchbuIg, Tuesday
night, on the occasion of the confirmation
of six persons by the Bishop.
Gov. Holiday is in Washington. He
visited the House and Senate, Tuesday,
and was cordially received by members.
Maj John Marshall McCue has received
patent for artificial ponds or dams.
Rev. E. D. Junkin, D. D., left here on
the 10 A. NJ. train, q. Dc o. R. R., Tues
day morning. He expected to join Rev.
G. S. M. See at Charlottesville. They go
as commissioners Of Lexington Presbytery
to the General Assembly, which meets at
Knoxville on the 18th instant.
Rev. ]. E. Booker, his friends here will
be glad to know, has accepted the call to
the passionate Of the Second Presbyterian
Church in this city. He expects to enter
on his duties early in June, and his lady,
who has many friends in the city. will
accompany him. They will make their
hama rilv OF Tho NIo1or+
Among the visitors to the Paris Exhi-
bition is Miss M. A. Burr, of New York,
former Vice Principal at the Virginia Fee
male Institute, who is making a tour of
Europe with several of her pupils, and
among them little Daisy Gordon, that ex-
ceeding clever child, who used to be such
favorite at the Institute soirees. -.
Mr.. Donald Allen, former City Engineer.
returned to the city Friday, having taken
advantage of the temporary suspension of
the railroad work he is engaged on in
Louisiana, to visit his friends here. Mr..
Allen has recently made the tour of Texas,
and while confirming what is said of the
wonderful growth of that State. says the
ginia would yield more money to farmer.
Col. Hamilton, who married the famous
Confederate spy, ''Belle Boyd" was in the
city this week on business.
On Tuesday last, Superintendent Ave-
rill, of the Valley branch of the B. & o.
r. r. arrived at the Virginia Hotel, in
charge of a party of pretty eXcursionists
from Harrisonburg, consisting of Misses
Bette Clarke, Lalla Thurmond, Kate
Thurmond, Willie Sprinkel. Alice Treber.
Bessie Paul, Ella johnson and Minnie
Shue. The young ladies took coaches and,
under Mr.. AS guidance, visited the pub
lie institutions, and the views in and
around Staunton. Barring the natural
nervousness Of young persons from
small town on their first visit to a city,
the day was spent delightfully."-, and in the
evening the party returned to Harrison
burg.
PROPERTY SALEs.-The old Reservoir
HILL" On the Western suburbs which once
formed part of the old johnson estate,
has been sub-divided into building lots,
and about fifty of them sold off at prices
ranging according to location from $40 to
$113. The purchasers were Messrs. W.
- Beard. E. Hageman, F. Hager, John
Dyer, A. Winston, J. Banks, A Patterson,
W. Perkins, H. Williams, John White,
John Dyer, F. Poindexter, A. F. Acker-
man, Simon Ellis. J. A. Cochran, R. Fl.
Davis, G. E. Gregory, A. w. Grove, J. W.
White, Jack Harris. W. McKeever, Spen-
Ger James, J. H. Campbell, J. W. White,
J. E. Guy, Levi Churchman, Tom Humid
ley, Chas. Snuff, W. Givens, Chas. Nor
ris, Reeves Gait, W. R. Tyree, Joe Scott
and Tom Morton. A four acre space of it
was also purchased by Mr.. A. F. Acker-
man for 81 .OO1. The Kunkle house on