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Tragedy on the ohesqpeaRa : 9sS Railroad
A NEGRO RAvIsHER TAKEN FROM THE
EXPRESS TRAIN AND HUNG.

A NEGRO RAVISHER TAKEN FROM THE
EXPRESS TRAIN AND HUNG.
The Eastern bound passenger train on
the G.. q o. road which arrived here on
Wednesday was behind time. A passen-
W who was carried on board OF it at Hunt
11n,ssea had been taken out OF the cars at
Mon and hung. His offence was
~ 49, 49, =, @SSsnpt upon lady VIII Oh may re-
10y Meath Mart Lee, The criminal
was d nula'ss native of Richmond, in
lne elhpioy lheM Of MI. l. J. settle, near
kaha"ha falis' he had been living with
Mr.. S. several years aud had baen often
left as the protector astha familv in Mr.
SIS absence. On Monday n,a,,r weak in
the absence of Mr.. Settle hseent into the
room where Mrs. Settle and hss tbree chill
dren were sitting and got lighs, saving
he wanted to write letter. About Us or
in the morning he entered the aparJN
where Mrs. S. aud her three Gil ldren VIZ
sleeping and grasped her by the throat at
tempting at the same time to suppress her
screams by thrusting q gag into her mouth.
Her teeth were broken out and ier tongue
and tonsils badly torn. Her resistance was
so determined and her cries SO loud that
the negro fled from the house 10 the river
where he started off in d Skiff Dut which
he soon abandoned, and took to the wooi S.
On the following Saturday Ie was cap
tured at Parkersburg, W. Va, from
whence he was carried by steamer to
Huntington. There he was met by the
sheriff Of Fayette, who starte' with him
in the train on the way to Fayette county,
Tuesday night. At midnight the train
reached Cannelton stati"n, where
the news had arrived in adv zee, and a
large crowd of psrsons, composed of mi
ners, farmers, and colored people, were as
stmbled. 1t had been. proposed 60 burn the
negro, but it was decided to rang him.
The mob, numbering over Il TIL 'usand per-
sons. surrounded the train When it drew
up to the station. aud the cars were board
ed and the negro taken. He was carried
to a tree near the station and nere hung
He confessed his attempt, and , ii he was
induced to desist by the cries OF the little
children in the room with til liz mother
He seemed while sitting in thv car to be
| i'll deadly terror of being taken back &c
| Fayette.
| The injuries Of Mrs. Settle, it is feared
will result fatally.
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-&>ND~G--

IMPROVEMENTS AT MIDDLEBROoK.-
This Augusta village is looking up as a
business place. We see that two new
warehouses have been erected by McCorkle
Bros, and P. B. Hogshead The former
is of concrete, and one OF the largest in
the Valley. 1t is S4X26 feet, and has in
addition to this a lumber room. 36x12 and
All Office 12x1S. 1t has a capacious cellar,
and rests on a foundation OF solid rock.
The front is of glass, with spacious show
windows. 1t was built by w. FL. Peters,
Of Dayton, Rockingham. The enterprislng
firm which has erected this building has
been doing bushes in Middlebrock since
1870. Tie warehouse of T. B. lIogshead is
of frame and is 22X44 feet in dimension.
Messrs. Clenmer Il Hngsiiead, of Middle
brook are also about to erect warehouse
of concrete.
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Mysterious Disappearance Of Father
Two Children.
sther and

Last Wednesday afternoon there stepped
off the Western train on the q. " y. ROAD
a plainly dressed woman of forty, holding
bv the hand little boy of five and lnqulr-
ing the way to the former residence Oh
Henry T. Beall, a few miles South OF the
CITY. 1t was Mrs. Beall and her story was
full of distress. Eighg years ago her nus
band, H. T. Beall, and herself moved from
Allegheny CO., Md, his native place, TO
Staunton, where they staid year, Ill the
meantime look around for farm. They
finally purchased a nice place of Mr.. II. z.
Dickerson and settled. They have been
married nearly twenty years and have four
boys, ranging from five to eighteen years
wears of age. Lately Mr.. Baall, who is
fifty two years Of age, determined to go West
having previously been to that section,
and settle in the Northern part IF Kansas
near the Nebraska line. He sold his place
for g. $50 cash to Mr.. A Court and received
TIL money and on Monday week, after
having their baggage checked to st.
Josepa, Mo, left by the g. Il o. road for
Kansas with his wife aud the three young
est boys. They arrived vt Cincinnati We'd
nesday and Stopped at the Railroad Hotel
corner Of Front and Broadway streets.
| On Thursday night Mr.. Baall paid the
hotel bill purposing TO leave next day
and next morning after finishing his break
fast went down into the Office being fol-
lowed by his two bays, aged nine and
eleven years, the youngest boy being sick
up stairs. 1t was the Fourth of July and
] the streets we're full OF people. Mrs. Beall
heard nothing of her husband or the two
boys again that day and Saturday morning
informed the police who searched and ad-
vertised for them. TIE only thing she
has heard was the remark of gentleman at
the hotel that he had IN them start to-
wards the river. Mrs. i. was left without
baggage it having gone on to St. Joseph
and without money and the Mayor of Gin
cinnati on Monday furnished tickets back
to Sta union for her and her little boy.
Mrs Beall can form no idea of what has
becom of her husband and two boys and
is in great distress as we'll as poverty. She
went on her arrival no re to the residence
of Mr.. Bruff near her Old home where she
now is.
Mrs. Beall yesterday evening received a
letter from detective in Cincinnati, say
ing that Mr.. B IS whereabouts was known,
and for S. a day he would hunt him out
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SUMMER ENJoYMENTs This after
noon the StuneWall Band go to Hebron
Churc. in Nelson county, near Alton de-
pot to attend lawn party given for that
church. There will be several addresses
and among the speakers named are Rev
DR.. Manly, of Staunton; Senator Smith,
of Nelson, and it is stated Senator John
W. Daniel, of Aynchhurg, will be there.
The ladies OF Mint Spring and Vicinity
will give an all day basket picnic on Sat
urday the 10Th inst. There will be several
addresses and all are invited to come and
bring their. baskets. 1t is a coed recrea-
tion for the last day of tired week for
city people.
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Rev. Jno. E. Massey, who is on a toul

Rev. Jno. E. Massey, who is on a tour
of the Virginia court houses, spoke at
Spottsylvania G. H. last Friday night in
opposition to the debt settlement bill, to
what the Fredericksburg "Star" says Was
s'an unsympathizing audience of twenty.
five PERSONS Mr.. Massey reminds us OF
a physician of fine attachments wasting
valuable time in galvanizing corpse, and
we never hear him on adjustment that we
don't regret that his ability is not turned
to the discovery and advocacy OF some
great measure that would build up the
State
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SHORTHAND WKITING.-The art OF
shorthand writing by which verbatim re-
porting is done. has become quite popular
as study with our young mel, largely We
think because Mr.. Theodore F. Shuey, the
official stenographer of the Senate, is cit
lien and resident of August. Already
we have two profcients in it-Mr Ellis
Mills, an attache of this 'offlc, ), to whose
skill the public were indebted for the let
tiers in The breach Of promise case tried
in the Circuit Court, the counsel declining
to furnish them to the press-and Mr.. W.
.Towberman, Of the county, /, son of Mr.
John Towberman, from whom "e lately re
ceived an excellent report Of a sermon,
made by the Photographic system of short
hand
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Political Notes.

The President, who has just pardoned a
lot of colossal whiskey thieves in Chicago,
is terribly distressed lest the failure of the
brigadiers to provide for United States
marshals will result in the escape of some
petty moonshiners. Every patriot must
feel profound pity for the President
Chicago Times.
It is not to Mr.. Charles Fosters dis
credit, says the New York ''eun," that ne
formerly kept store in Fost"rM Bat 1t
is his everlasting misfortune that the ex-
igencies of trade kept him behind his coun-
ter at a time when General Ewing and
General Rice were lighting in the held ior
the preservation of the Union.
Gen, A. Saunders Piatt says that he in
tends to stick as the greenback candidate
for Governor Of Ohio, and that he WILL cam
vass the State thoroughly SO far as III his
power.
There are many indications that Gen.
Butler will make another attemrt to cap
ture the State convention Of Massachu-
setts Dem crats and. secure the regular
| Democratic nomination for the governor
ship. He has already captured number
of township and county organizations.
Hon. J. NJ. Bennett, Hon. W. E. Ar
mold, and Hon. Il. d. Camden-all lead
| ing Democrats in West Virginia, and two
| o, them we'll known in RichmOnd-have
declared themselves for Tilden and Hen
bricks in 1885, Richmond Dispatch.
| It is rather remarkable, considering the
relationship existing between Sherman AND
his SOM n-law, Senator Don Cameron, that
| the latter has just announced himself In
favor of Grant, and that Sherman is no,
even his second choice.
The answer Senator Conkling gave
when asked to make some speeches in Ohio
is this: 'sMr. Monroe, the course of Presi.
dent Hayes for the past two years ha'
made it extremely difficult to keep New
York in the Republican column. l will
have all I can do, backcapped as am BY
the Hayes policy, to hold my own State. J
have no time /. go to Ohio. The Presi
themselves"
U. s. Grant. Jr., has been interviewed
about the third-term question. Speaking
Of his father, the son Of the same remark
ed; ''Wcll, if his friends urge him, he viii
most likely let matters take their natura
c,urse."
"A gentleman Just from New York, WHIT
SAW Mr. Tilden on the day lie left, say
that gentleman expressed the warmes
hopes for the election of Gen. Ewing, il
Ohio. To a suggestion that Mr.. Ewing
financial ideas were not in accord Will
his. Mr.. Tilden is represented to have re
piled that made no matter, he Away
wanted Democrats elected.
The Hon. Alex. H. Stephens left fo
home this afternoon. Mr.. Stephens is il
very poor health and. spirits. He does moi
expect to return to Washington before thu
next December session. In conversation
with your correspondent, before his de
parture, Mr.. Stephens said that in hi
opinion the Democratic party to-day stoot
in a better position before the countr.
than it had at any time since the periot
Of the war.-Wash. Cor. Baltimore San
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a CHANCE FOR A Coop INVESTMENT
-r=On Monday next there will be sale of
property in Staunton. which in a short
time will be a fortune to the men who in
vest in it. 1t is owned by Maj. E. Nc
Mahon, and is described fully in an adj
vertlseMent in another column. Apart
from the store rooms offered for sale there
is the beautiful suburban property known
as the "Tate place." Zeal estate is on the
eve of d "boom" as the dealers call it. and
that described in Maj. Mems annonnce..
ment is good Investment for rise.
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A LARGE FowrUNE.-The Danville
News" learns that Mrs. Ragsdale of that
county has received the pleasing INTEL,
gence that She his fallen heir to 81 ,OOas0 900.
The estate is valued at Sc, 900, 0QA md there
are six legatees, one of them bling Mrs.
McGilvray, wife OF Rev. W. B. McGilvray
formerly of Augusta county aid now of
RiahnOnd
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ADOPTING THE TEXAS. Mode OF AR
BrrRATIoN. Last Friday Marshal Harris
and Wesley jackson, two colored property
owners of Brownsburg, Rockbridge, had q
dispute about property and opened Are or
each other with revolver aAd double
barrel shot gun. Marshal Harris waa
wounded in the breast and head, -Four
shots ia al were fired,
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WaYnesboro Aft airs.
THE FOURTH OF JULY-LAWN PARTY
GENERAL ITEMS.

THE FOURTH OF JULY-LAWN PARTY
GENERAL. ITEMS.
At an early hour Friday people began to
gather on the streets from all parts of the
neighborhood. About eleven o'clock pro-
cession OF nearly a hundred colored people,
consisting Of men, women and children
marched through Second street to grove
near town to participa g in the pleasure of
a picnic. AS evening drew near the en-
thusiasm OF the lawn PARTY, gotten up by
the Methodist church, prevailed far and
near, while the ladies and gentlemen of,
the committee were busily engaged pre-
pairing for the repast, and adornment Of
he lawn at Mr.. ]. B. Taylor's. There
were hearts made sad by the threatening
clouds which were then approaching from
the west. There was no rain, however,
but the zephyrs being strong would not
admit lighting the many Chinese lam
terms which we're tastefully arranged IN
clusters round about tile grounds. There
was chandelier of twelve beautiful Ian
terms sixty-eight feet above the ground
which would have presented beautiful
SiSut, COulu GHey have DeG0 ulum IudC0Q.
Notwithstanding the unfavorable evening
there was a large turn out from town and
county and numb-r from Albemarle
and Nelson, the gross eceipts of the even
ing were $3.50 of which S115 was clear
profit. The music from the Charlottes-
will band was good.
The Tribune" has terminated it's brief
but very creditable existence, much to the,
regret of many citizens; paper is q lagsax.
ry; want Of patronage s a fatal malady-
always kills. 1t is the sincere de-
sire of the friends of the late editor that
his labors will be more abundantly rewar-
ded in the new enterprise on which he
enters.
Church Notes.-Communion will be ad-
ministered at the Waynesboro Presbyte-
rian church next Sabbath. The pastor will
be assisted by Rev. D. B. Ewing, D. d.
Wlaess.-Mr. Thomas Bruce, son of our
townsman, Geo. A. Bruce, Esq, and part
ner in the firm of Antrim & Bruce, is,
Frustrated by disease which confines him
to his bed-his friends are very anxious
about him.
The town council has elected the follow
ing Ulcers of the corporation for the en-
suing year: Jas. A. Patterson, Mayor;
Chas. r. Haynes, Clerk, and Philip Kill
liam, Treasurer. Geo. A. Bruce. DR.. w.
J. Jones and W. Withlow, members elect
of the Council, were sworn in.
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A Brief Honeymoon.
FEARING HER PARENTS ANGER YOUNG
BRIDE COMMITS SUICIDE.

FEARING HER PARENTS ANGER A YOUNG
BRIDE COMMITS SUICIDE.
Miss Mary Holt was the daughter of
Jacob Holt, man of wealth and promi-
nence and one of the most respected citi-
zens of Perry township, KY. She was in the
prime of her young life, intelligent, Gull
tured and refined, respected by all, admir-
ed by many and most fondly loved by one
James Ashburn, worthy young man,
living on farm near by. Between him
self and Mary there had sprung up an at
tachment, which, beginning in joy, has
been the death of one and will be a life
long blight on the other.
The family of the young lady were averse
to hel attachment to this young man and
had provided what they deemed a more
eligible sutton, who was expected to ar
rive in a short time to claim the hand OF
the youn.. lady against her will, but at the
bidding of her parents. To ecure them
selves against the rigor of parental de-
mands, the young people resolved upon
private marriage, which was solemnZtd
by Esquire Waldrip about three weeks
ago, only a few trusted friends being pres
and only met occasionally i'll company with
a sister OF the you G wife.
On last Saturday Mr.. Ashburn cOmmu-
nicated to his wife the fact that their Sc
cret rad been divulged, and that it would
BIZ impossible to keep it from her parents.
S le declared that she would die before she
would face the ST I'm of parental indigna-
ton such u communication would bring
upon her, while he endtavOred to diSsuade
and comfort her. Immediately on her re-
turn home, however, she went to her room
and swallowed d dose OF strychnine, and
ia thirty minutes she Was a corpse. The
young husband, in the agony Of his grief,
declared THAT they should not be long par
ted, but was closely watched by anxious
friends.
On Sunday he was informed by his cou-
sin, in whose care he had been left, that
the funeral procession would pass the
house soon, al d was asked it he would go.
He replied that he would. and directed the
young man to go and get the horses ready.
Hardly had his companion left the room
when the report OF a pistol Was heard, aud
hurrying back he found young Ashburn on
the floor, welterlng in his own blood. The
muzzle OF the pistol bad been placed almost
against his forehead, but in the excite
| ment of his crazy grief the range had been
| too low, and the ball, ranging downward
! had lodged in his face without inilicting a
necessarily fatal wound. lie is now under
| the care of physicians who entertain strong
| hopes of his recovery. Should he recover
he will be removed as soon as possible from
the sorrowful associations of his present
home and taken to Indiana, where he for
merly lived.
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CHURCH DEDICATION The dedication
of the New Port, Augusta county, Colored
Baptist Church will take place on the Goth
of July. Elder j. Herndoa Moderator Of
the Shiloh Association, will preach the
dedication sermon.
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CHILDREN KILLED BY LIGHTNING

CHILDREN KILLED BY LIGHTNING
In an arbor beneath d tree in front of the
pretty cottage Of their father in Morrissa-
MIA, N. Y, last Sunday afternoon sat two
little daughters Of Mr.. Weswell reading a
book of nursery rhymes: Their father
came to the cottage door and called to
them to enter the house and take shelter
from a coming storm. Just at that mo-
ment an intensely bright flash of lightning
struck one of the trees and shot downward
stripping the bark off the tree. When the
father recovered from the binding light
he found his two daughters dead where
they Sat- The clothes of both were badly
burned and their shoes were torn off their
feet. The father and MOI her are prostra-
ted with grief at their terrible affection.
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The first State election this year will be
that Of Kentucky, on August 4th. The
others come IN order as follows: Califor-
MIA, September 3, State and judicial. Off
GERS, four Congressman and legislature
Maine, September g, State officers and leg
islature; Ohio and Iowa. October Z, State
officers in part and legislature; Maryland,
Massachusetts. Minnesota. Mississippi,
New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania,
Virginia and Wisconsin, elect legislatures
in November. Governors elected in all
the States named except Mississippi, New
Jersey, Virginia, Pennsylvania and Wis
cOnSin.
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Acc1DENT.-Geo. Jenkins, a brakeman
on the 9. & o. road, was badly crushed
between two cars at Coalburgh, Tuesday
week. His injuries were internal and it
was feared of grave character.
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Y. N. G. A. Notes
THE GREENvILLE ASSOCIATION.

THE GREENvILL.E OClATION.
Soon after the organization Il this asso-
ciation-some eighteen months ago-the
members inaugurated Sunday school in
the pines" south of Greenvile, (about 8
miles) among a population that had been
heretofore deprived almost entirely OF all
gospel privileges. The interest and number
of scholars steadily increased all through
last summer, and the members Of the As
ISOLATION were so much encouraged that
they are keeping the school iii successful
operation this summer. Ii the mean
time seeing the necessity for a House of
Worship in that field, they have under ma
ny difficulties, erected a small but neat
and comforta Bile chapel, which they pro-
pose to dedicate next Sunday, the 18th
inst, and cordially invite til. il brethren
of the sister associations and their chris
tian friends and public generally to unite
with them in the services of tie day
The dedicatory sermon will he preached
at II A. M, by Rev. W. B. McGilvray, Of
Richmond. After a short intermission
a thanksgiving meeting in the chapel
when short addresses will BIZ made by
invited guests and others.
CONFERENCE OF AUGUSTA Y. M. C.
ASSOCIATION.
The Y. M. G. A. Dire ctory, at their sit
ting Monday night, took undef considera-
ton the matter of the County Convention.
Letters were read from the different AS
sociations i'll the county, mHnfesting a
hearty concurrence il the serene, one,
that at Fishersville, having already elect
ed delegates. Two delegates will be elect
ed by each Association. The time for
holding the convention was discussed, and
the Sth, 9th and 10th Of August, seeming
to be the most convenient for he brethren
from the county, those days were fixed
upon. and a committee consisting of
Messrs. Mcllhany, Hoover, Hamilton,
Ransom, Peck, and Nelson was appointed
to select questions for discussion, CORE
spond with the visiting Associations and
perfect the arrangements.
The committee of arrangements and re-
ception, appointed by the chair, consists
Of the following gentlemen: Messrs. II. G.
Morton, Jno. W. Todd, G.. G.. Gooch, G..
p. Baker, G L. Cooke and j. VI. Newton.
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Senator Thurman, of Ohio. has gone to
the New England States for his summer
tour. One blast on his red bandanna at
the foot of Bunker Hill would strike ter
ror into the hearts of the Massachusetts
Republicans, a suggestion that is well
worth the old Vlrginian's consideration.
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The Washington correspondent of the
New York "Herald,' Mr.. Nordhoff, a
writer very far from being Democrat, in
reviewing the debates in the Democratic
struggle with the Republican President,
says as the result of his review that 1.-The
Republicans uttered foolish cry of revo-
luton early in the session, but your cor
respondent, whose duty it has been to
watch all the tedious debates of the extra
session and WHO has not failed to expose
to you the folly and weakness Of the Dem
ocrats, has seen nothing on the Democrat
ic side even among the worst elements of
that party which at all compares for wick
edness of purpose, for desperation and evil
spirit with the course and temper of the
leading Republican Senators during this
debate" And that is the judgment of the
country.
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Five boys from South Carolina carried
off five of the prizes at Union Colege,
Schenectady, n. =, last week.
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1t makes an American farmers mouth
water to read that last Friday M. Lefere,
Minister of the Interior of France, an
nounced in cabinet meeting that, in conse-
quence of bad crop. that republic will
have to purchase foreign grain to the
amount of one hundred millions of dollars.
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DEATH OF A GOOD WOMAN.-The re-
mains of Mrs. Mary A. Gilman, who died
in Washington on Tuesday last, aged Y
years, reached here on yesterday morning
to be inferred in the City Cemetery. The
funeral took place from the Baptist church
at 5 O'Clock in the evening and was attend
ed by large concourse of relatives and
friends. She was the relict of the late
Granville Gilman and the mother of Col.
Williams Gilman. who with his sister
accompanied the remains to this place.
F3edericksburU NetDs.
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WHAT A STRANGER SAW IN DREAM
The tragic death of Mrs. ROLAND at Nj
agara Falls a few days ago-an occurrence
which happened when the lady reached
down at the edge of Que of the islands
called the Three Sisters, to dip up cup
of water from the rapids and fell In and
was carried over the cataract-was all
seen in a dream, even to minute particu-
lals, two nights before the accident hap
pened, by person in this city-a stranger
to the unfortunate lady. She related the
story before the accident occurred.-Hart-
ford (Ct) Times.