Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1879-05-02
Personal.

Personal.
DR.. j. Alexander Waddell, of Staunton
has been appointed delegate to represen
the Virginia Medical Society in thu
American Medical Association, whicl
meets at Atlanta, Ga, on the 9th of May
Rev. Geo. W. Finley, of Romney, W
Va, was in the city this week on a visi
, to his brother-in-law, Rev. J. E. Booker
and to his cousin, Mrs. Charles Grattan
Mr.. Finley daring the civil war was al
officer in the 18th Virginia Infantry and ;
| gallant soldier.
Mr.. John McChesney, son of DR.. VIM
S. McChesney, is in the city on visit tt
his father. He has been filling a position
in the office of the McCormic Agriculture
works at Chicago, and las just been pro
noted to more important one in thu
branch of the same at Minneapolis, Mimi
Mr.. P. d. Delany, Of the Harr sonbure
commonwealth" just one of the best pa
pers in the state take it in any gifts depart.
ments, was in town Monday, thinking
he had smelt the carnage of a debt settle
ment debate on court day. He returned
to his lovely village on the banks Of the
Valley Railroad a disappointed man.
"Tom Gordon' writes from Wyoming
Territory to the Alexandria ''Gazette:"
Everybody I meet, who knows 1 am
from Virginia, enquiries about Bledsoe
Harman. He has got more friends out
no, hor r ha olrooHy
met $4,000 persons. who want to know
where and how he is, and still they come.
He must be q brick-Or a whole pile OF
bricks"
We may volunteer the information that
Col, BleGsoe Hartman is at present at Mill
brook in this county, the former residence
of the late Col M. G.. Harman. If being
one of the best informed and most enter
tanning conversationalists ofhis day makes
brick than the correspondent is right in
thinking that he is whole pile of them.
DIR. T. 81. Il. Brown, editor of the Bridge
water Enterprise" was in the city Mon
day. The town of Bridgewater ought to
pension him, he can talk stranger IN
five minutes into wishing to 60 there to
live. He said one thing which as far as
Stanton is concerned is discreditably
correct and that is that the hamlet of
Bridgewater manufactures and sells twice
as much as our city does. 1t IS true
it..
The Anderson, W. Va, "Enterprise'
says that Mr.. A. F. Alderman. lately one
Of Staunton's well known dry goods mer-
chants has been in that town prospecting
with an eye to business there.
Marshal Showalter, son Of Jacob
showalter, who moved from Augusta
to Pochahontas county, West Virginia,
several years ago was crushed to death
last week by a falling tree.
Mr. Arch u. Stuart, son of Hon. A. H.
II. Stuart, left on Tuesday last by the
Valley Railroad for Denver, Colorado, on
tour to the Western portion of this
country. Another citizen of stanton,
Mr.. N. K.'Trout, Jr., is located in the
same State. and is, We hear, enjoying fine
health.
DR.. Robt. S. Hamilton, superintendent
OF the Public Schools of Staunton, has
been appointed one of the lecturers and
examiners of the Valley Normal Institute,
to be held at Bridgewater this summer.
At the session of Winchester Presby-
terry in Woodstock, last week, Rev. j. E.
Booker, of Stanton, was invited to sit as
corresponding member.
To tho Hor
burg Commonwealth that Judge Chas
T. O'Ferrall wife is lying dangerously ill.
DR.. VIM. A. Frazier. son of VIM.
Frazier, ESQ.,, of this city, who is the AS
sistant Surgeon at the st. Louis Eye and
Ear Infrmary, has been at home recently
on a brief visit to his father. He is ma
king his mark as specialist early in life
MIR. J. M. Ferguson, formerly Of WaJ-
nesboro and now editor of the A derson,
W.. Va, Enterprise" was in the city
this week. He is one of those West Vir-
ginians that believe in trading with Old
Virginia, if the advantages are equal, and
we wish the new State was full of such.
A reference to our marriage column will
show why Mr.. Thomas A. Bledsoe, the
popular cashier Of the National Valley
Bank, went west the other day. Few
men will receive heartier congratulations
| upon their return from a similar Journey
Tonight a concert is to be given at
Harrisonburg for the benefit of the Bap-
list church there. under the direction of
Prof. A. ]. Turner, at which Mrs. Bum
gardner, Miss Daniels and Miss Cora Tur-
ner, of Stanton, have kindly volunteered
| to assist.
| Mr.. N. M. Cartmell, who gave up the
American Hotel yesterday, will, we Learn,
be manager at the White Sulphur Springs
| this summer.
MINISTER TAKEN CHARGE.-Rev. F.
IL 10 1F Nj,