Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1880-04-06

Briefs.

The indications are that the Shenandoah
Valley R. R. will be completed to the Shenan-
doah Iron Works in Page county, on the Rock.
ingham line, by next Fall,
The sale of the personal property Of Joseph
s. Bowman, decd, three miles from Timber
willie, Rockingham county, on Wednesday and
Thursday last, amounted to about 81, 500.
Mr.. Hugh Hamilton, of this county, sold, on
last Saturday, fifteen grade lambs, dropped af-
ter the 18th of last January, the average weight
of which was fifty three pounds.
New brick walls are being put in the Com
mercial Hotel building on the corner of Angus
ia and Frederick streets, occupied and well
kept by Mr.. N M. Cartmell, a hotel keeper OF
"credit and renOwn."
Lightning invariably quickly follows the
roar Of heavens y.-Spirit of the Valley.
The Shirt of the Valley is in as much error in
Its physical philosophy as in its State politics.
That is strange 'lightning' which follows
thunder.
Through Capt. W. L. Bumgardner, the west
Augusta Guard have received an invitation to
attend the Centennial Celebration at Nashville,
on April 9th, lasting to May 10Th, 1880. prize
of 900 is offered to the best and $500 for the I'd
best drilled Infantry Company.
AuG LCeCOTUeT u1dAhttlAS IAoo sAS
State debt question should be made an issue in
the Congressional election and favors the cleo
tion of Capt. John Paul to Congress. What has
a member of Congress, as such to do with the
State debt?
The annual conference of the German Bap-
tasts Tunkers) will be held on the LIST of June
at Lanark, Illinois. At a meeting of the mem
bers of that denomination at Moscow in this
fu on following dele
gates were appointed: Messrs. B. Ami Karicofe,
David Zeigler, and Levi Wenger.
Rev. Thos. Hume, who filled the Baptist pull
pit here SO acceptably before the arrival of the
present Pastor, Rev. J. M. Frost. preached In
the Presbyterian Church in Waynesboro' last
Sunday evening, the Pastor, Rev. Frank Nc
Cutchen, being at Bethel church, aiding Rev.
Jas. Murray on the occasion of communion in
that Church.
The Valley Virgintaaa appeared last Thursday
lin new dress and presents quite handsome
appearance, and is as well pleased as city
belle with a new Easter bonnet We con-
graduate it on its improved appearance, and
hope that its politics will likewise improve
Aside from its political heterodoxy, it has our
best wishes for its success.
1t is not often that lunar rainbows are seen,
butte Saturday night week ago, about nine
o'clock, this unusual spectacle was witnessed
in Waynesboro' in this county, and also at
Covington, Allegheny county. We never saw
but one lunar rainbow, and that was in the ear
ly morning several years ago in the Kanawha
Valley.
March came in like lamb, and in keeping
with Evolutionary custom, went out ike q lion.
Highland Recorder.
The weather in Highland must have differed
greatly from the weather here, or the lion must
have been quite tame one. The weather here
was clear, calm, warm and pleasant-more like
a pet lamb than roaring lion.
A concert will be given at Pleasant View
Church about miles from Staunton on the
Spring Hill road. on Friday and Saturday, the
18th and 18th inst, for the benefit Of the above
named church, which was dedicated a few
months ago. 1t will be conducted under the
management of Prof. j. W. Splitter and being
flor worthy object it is hoped it will be well
patrOniZed.
In his speech at Fluvanna G. H., Capt. John
Paul stated that he had been informed that OF
the S44 appropriated for the Purvis investiga-
tfon, Hon. r. T. w. Duke had received $50. The
correspondence between r. 7. W. Duke, jr.,
and Paul shows that this was mistake, and
that Duke never received cent, having de-
s. M. Teel, sheriff of Albemarle county, receiv-
ed $50 for summoning large number of wit
nesses from remote portions of the county.
On Thursday last Maj. Thos. A. Shumate left
here with forty more colored laborers for the
iowa Coal mines, being restricted to that num-
Der with ten families, though he had succeeded
in engaging the services of greater number
He had no difficulty in securing a number Of
hands of that class, as those who preceded
them seem to be pleased and doing we'll. These
hands are paid $25 per month or so cents pei
ton of coal as they prefer. Taylor Jefferson
colored, who figured here somewhat conspicu.
ously in politics, has removed there, and is
keeping a boarding house for colored miners,
and is knowing wide swath,' and seems tc
he as "happy as big sun-fower.'
Mr. Miller, of Scott county, who has become
10 roous as the curer of diseases by the laying
on of hands, and who is visited by vast num-
,,or. of pattents seeking relief, is small, plain
hooking man, with a good eye, and is swe'
,aorborefap in religious belief. Many who
move visited him, have faith in his miraculous
r,owers Mrs, McFerTin, from near Fincastle
nzb,, recently visited him for relief from sclero
80 disease of the skin with which she
r,os been afflicted for two years, says that, "on
the night she was there twenty other patients
were on hand. seeking relief, and In one corner
ofthe mill wbere the doctor had his "office'
is pile of crutches, taken there by persons
who. after treatment, needed them no longer. .
axan efficient cathartic, a certain cure foi
tJeadaches. Dyspepsia, Bilious attacks, and
,,srfect regulator of the liver, we commend )
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