Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1880-03-12
Personal.

Mr.. VIM. B. McChesney, Of Harrison
burg. was in Staunton Monday, looking
we'll. but not yet fully recovered from the
effects of his fall.
Maj. J. Marshall McCue, of Nelson, was
inthe city this week.
Mr.. j. E. A. Gibbs, of Rockbridge, pass.
ed through Staunton recently ion his way
to Florida, with his wife and daughter to
spend the winter.
Our old friend, S. B. Allen, ESQ.,, Of Au.
gusta, was in Charlottesville on Monday
Mr.. Allen is no stranger to the place, hav-
! ing served an apprenticeship to the print
| ing business in the Office of the Charlottes-
vile Advocate when a youth. He is
now a substantial Augusta farmer, and
since we left that county has figured prom
| inently in politics as red-hOt Readjuster.
That 8 the worst thing weknOw of Brown,
and we would fain hope that his politics
will improve as he grows Older.-CahGr-
lottesuille Chronicle.
On Thursday night the Stonewall Bril-
gade Band serenaded Miss Lottie Baylor,
pupil at the Augusta Female Seminary,
and daughter of the gallant Col. Will s..
H. Baylor, who fell at the head of the old
Stonewall Brigade.
Mr.. w. Bos johnson, who has been for
some time in Texas has returned to the
city.
Mr.. VIM. G.. Kinney. the clever young
law student in the Office OF Messrs
Shelley & Bumgardner, has just returned
from an extended trip through some of
the Western States on business for his
employers. He went as far as Racine,
Wisconsin. In the extensive machine
shops Of J. Case Il Co., which he visited
in that city and whose traction engine has
attracted SO much attention here, he says
there are 400 of those engines building.
The manufacturers represented the sup
ply of such timber as they we're using as
being nearly exhausted in that portion of
the country and they had begun to draw
from the lumber forests of West Virginia
which they consider inexhaustible.
From the Leadville, (Colorado) Demo
craft we are pleased to see, that William
Hartman, formerly a citizen of this city
clerk for 1. Witt & Bro, and son-in-law IF
our respected townsman, R. Hawkins,
Esq has opened a hat store 10 that city
under the style of Clayton & Hartman. and
that the firm has a Brilliant prospect of
doing an extensive business.
Mr.. Bud Miller, the well liked express
agent of the B. 4 o. Company, on the
Valley railroad, who was injured in rail
road accident last September, has arrive d
home, his leg having been amputated at
Washington. The railroad company has
been very attentive to him and will, we
learn, furnish him with suitable position
directly he is ready for work.
The Grand Lodge of knights of Honor
at Norfolk last week elected Mr.. T. q.
Morton, of Staunton, Vice Grand Dicta
tor of that order. Mr.. M. has been also
appointed Deputy Grand. Dictator for this
district.
It is due to Mr.. John NJ. Carroll, City
Treasurer, to say that the arrears of 1875,
reported by Auditor Massey, had no ref.
erence to him, and to Mr.. Carroll's pre- de-
cessor to say that the arrears were the re-
suit of an uneredited delinquent list and
that his accounts with the State have been
fully settled with the State:
Mr.. John Ramsey, an old and we'll
known citizen and father of MIR. VIM.
Ramsey, the Farmer at the W. L. Asylum,
died on Friday last, of cancer of the hip.
at his residence near Hermitage.
Capt. Thos. D. Ransom is taking respite
from his professional duties in visit to
his father in Jefferson county. West Va.
He left the city Tuesday, and will be ab
sent probably about two weeks.