Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1878-09-10
Valley News Items.

The citizens of Woodstock have q
''hog law" and now they are earnestly
discussing the propriety of having a
''goose law"
Abraham Aleshire, recently a paupe1
in the Page county alms-house, COM
mitted suicide on last Wednesday by
shooting himself through the head with
large Colts revolver.
E. Trott, agent of the Children's Aid
Society of New York, was in Harrison
burg last week, arranging for sending q
number of the boys of the Society to
the farmers of Rockingham.
The bachelor club, of Maurertown,
Shenandoah county, has been broken
up. One of its members has fallen q
victim to the charm of one of Ewes fail
daughters, and the others, taking warn
ing, have fled to parts unknown.
The Valley Normal School at Bridge
water closed last week with a very
pleasant dramatic and musical enter
tainment. Among those taking q
prominent part, we notice the names o.
Misses Laura J. Strasburg and Estice
Beard. of Augusta.
At a recent meeting of the school
trustees of Rockingham county al
Bridgewater, resolutions were passed
requesting the school trustees to estab-
lish schools only where the people of the
district would raise by subscription one
third of the teachers salaries, the Other
two-thirds to be paid by the trustees.
At recent meeting of the stockhold-
ers of the East Rockingham and Page
Fire Insurance Company, all the old
Board of Directors were reelected. with
the exception of A. C. Bear, who had
resigned. Robert A. Gibbons was elect
ed in his place. Col. Mann Splitter was
reelected President, and A. Broadus
Secretary.
One day last week, Mr.. Jacob Fish
water, of Timberville, Rockingham
county, descended into the well OF
Messrs. Zigler Bros. of that place, and
suspecting the presence of foul air, and
feeling badly, concluded to get out. He
started to ascend, and when he had as
cended fifteen to twenty feet he became
insensible and fell to the bottom Of the
well, inf1icting severe liberation of the
scalp. A rope was then passed around
him and he was drawn out of the well.
He remained unconscious over an hour.
We are indebted 10 the Lexington
Gazette for the following items The
Virginia Military Institute has resumed
exercises with fatterfng number of
Cadets in attendance. General Smith
expects many additions during the
month. Several young men who have
engaged quarters are blockaded by the
Southern scourge, but will be present
when the quarantine Is removed and
travel Observation-Disclosures trips on
canal will begin sometime during this
session Of '78J79, of
Washington and Lee University, will
begin ON Thursday, the 10th inst. A
larger number Of students are expected
than was in attendance last session.
Commissioner Steele sold, on the 9Th in
slant, the Jordan Alum Springs for
tbe sum of $14,9O0-the bondholders
under the mortgage being the purchas.
srs.-The crop of tobacco in Rock
bridge is represented to be very fine.
The growth is larger than we have ever
Known it. If the fall continues favora-
Die for maturing and thickening, it will
,e the largest crop to the acreage ever
'aised in the county.-Wesley Woods,
Who lives at the Fair Grounds, sh OF |
himself accidentally on Monday, the
nd instant, causing very painful, but
lot serious wound. He found pistol
n the grounds, and was examining 1t,
vhen it went off, the ball passing in at
is side and ranging round near the
mall of the back.