Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1879-05-23
Personal.

Mr.. Shepherd Gillian, venerable citi.
zen Of Allegheny county, is in the city on
visit to his daughter, Mrs. Shanklin, IL
the West End. lie has reached the ad
vanced age Of ninety-four years, and was
at twenty-siX years old a soldier in the
War of 1872. de has lived during the term
OF every President of the United States.
His daughter has reached the good age OF
sixty years.
The Anderson Enterprise" has the fol-
lowing in its personal column:
Our old friend, Frank Alexander, OF
Of Alexander Il Myers, was in town last
night. He is delighted with our embryo
city. A. NJ. Alderman, of Stanton, Va,
has formed a co-partnership in the lumber
business with VIM. Boa, OF this place. We
welcome Mr.. A. TO our town, and are glad
to learn that he is greatly pleased with our
place and his business prospects.
DR.. r. G. Bowman, formerly of this
city, has purchased a II acre piece of land
adjoining Newmarket, for 81, 100. Several
years ago it yielded the largest wheat crop
in that section.
Messrs. Jno. M. Kinney, Of Staunton, and
Messrs. II. w. DeLong and Oscar Wood
ruff, Of Dansville, n. Y, lett here last week
to try the mountain trout fishing in Au-
gusta and Highland, so well described by
the frst-named gentleman in his letter to
''Forest and Stream" Our northern
friends were delighted with the country
AID tie sport.
The reported death by accident in allie
ghany county, OF Mr.. Charles F. Wise
man turns out to have originated in a
cruel hoax, perpetrated by soMe one send
ing d letter to that effect to his father.
Mr.. Jno. Ell. Wiseman, at MiddlebroOk.
Mr.. w i6eman went out to Allegheny
county, and found his SOL living and at
work.
Col. Peyton S. Coles, of Albemarle, and
DR.. Mckenzie, Of Charlottesville, passed
through here last week, from a brief fish
ing excursion in Augusta and Highland,
in which they captured six hundred trout.
Mr.. J. V. Brooke, Jr., popular and
rising member of the Staunton bar, who
during his residence here has made many
friends both in the city and county, is,
we regret to learn, about to make his home
in Warrenton, Fauquier county, the re-
sidence of his father, Senator Brooke.
Mrs. G. FL. Tipping, who has been SO
successful ia the work of education both
in the Staunton schools and as Principal
of the Lewisburg, W. Va, Female Semi
nary, has leased the Willow Spout Female
Seminary, and will open it in the fall for
the reception of pupils.
The venerable father of Prof. A. J. Tur-
ner died at his residence in Spartansburg,
S. c., on Friday last, having reached the
advanced age OF eighty-niEe years.
The Winchester papers speak in high
terms of the calisthenic exercises at the
Episcopal Female Institute there, taught
by Miss Eleanor G.. Wheat, formerly CT
Staunton.
The names Of Fl. M. McIlhany and T.
G. Morton, of Staunton. appear in the list
OF delegates present at the Y. M. q. A.
convention i'll Baltimore, and IS. Patter-
son and J. r. MYhler, OF Mt. Meridian.
A. Y. Lee. the artist, Of Staunton, was
in Richmond, Wednesday, making
sketches Of tie memorial celebration.
A. M Cowan, an old Stauntonian, sswas
nominated for Mayor by the Conservatives
of Farmyille, Thursday.
J. B. King is appointed postmaster at
Ferrol, Augusta county, vice Eugene W.
Green, resigned.