Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1881-07-01
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The congregation Of MoSsey Greek
church have considerably given their pas
tor, Rev. J. w. Rosebro, a month vaca
ton. He is now guest at the Rawley
Springs.
Rev. VIM. E. Baker, who has gone as
far South as Georgia on visit to his
mother-in-law, was to leave last Friday
for home. He is to 60 by rail to Ashville.
N. c., and thence on horseback home.
Miss Eva Baker who has been visiting in
Georgia, returned home on Monday.
Capt. II. II. Riddleberger was in Staun-
ton on Tuesday on his way to Richmond.
He says there will be more people in Wood
stock on the Fourth of July than there
ever have been before. The county people
will be through with their harvest and will
attend the military parade almost en-
masse.
Capt. c. A. Holt and wife, who have
been absent several weeks in Ohio, re-
turned to Virginia last week and after
visiting in Woodstock returned home this
week.
Mr.. Chas. T. Hammond, of Mt. Jack
son, who was taken to Ohio by Superin-
tendent Fitzgerald of the Valley r. R.,
when he went to the Ohio division of the
B. & o. has been transferred to the Valley
railroad telegraph office in Staunton, vice
Mr.. Miller, who has gone to Richmond.
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accommodating gentleman.
At the commencement of Hampden
Sidney College. the degree of D. D. was
conferred on Rev. M. Hale Houston, mis-
sionary to China, and on the Rt Rev.
Bishop Latane of the Reformed Episcopal
church. Gen. Echols, of Staunton, was
elected one of the Trustees Of the College.
Capt. W. A. McCue. with his family,
removed to Willow Spout on Wednesday
last for summer residence.
DR.. Thomas Opie, Of Baltimore, a broth
er Of Capt. John N. Opie of Augusta. was
the President of the Maryland Democratic
State Convention last week.
Rev. Job Turner of the Deaf Mute Mis-
sion Of the P. E. Church, is in Staunton.
He came to be present at the marriage last
night of DR.. Loring Turner of the D., D.
q B. Institution to Miss Gertrude Bear.
daughter of Adam Bear, Esq.,, of Elkton,
Rockingham county. Rev. Mr.. Turner
will prosecute his mission work at the
North this summer under orders from DR..
Gallaudet.
Among the Americans at Heidelberg,
Germany, June 18th, was Miss Minnie
Lyman, of Virginia.
We regret to learn that Samuel x. Kerr,
Esq, well known citizen of the county,
is lying dangerously i'll.
Mr.. P. B. Sublett, of Staunton, left on
Wednesday in company with Mr.. ?. A.
Sublett of Richmond, for Chicago, st.
Louis, Cincinnati and other western cities.
The rapid building of railroads so shifts
the points of trade that our commercial
men have to revise the field in person to
keep up with the changes.
Miss Ella G. Weimar, Of Fauquier, for
merly popular member of the faculty
Of the Augusta Female Seminary, is visit
ing at the residence of Jos. A. Waddell
Esq.
Rev. J. M. P. Atkinson. D. D., Presi-
dent Of Hampden-Sidney College, and his
daughter, Mrs. Alfred Morrison, arrived
in Staunton yesterday, and are guests Of
Hon. a. II. Fl. Stuart.
Mr.. J. ". Morrison, who has been Wis
iting the Rockbridge Baths, returned to
the city yesterday.
Rev. DR.. G. R.Vaughan, of the Univer-
sity of Virginia, will preach at the Sec
ond Presbyterian church on Sunday morn
ing next.
G. M. Dold, Esq Mayor of Lexington,
was in Staunton Saturday returning from
Baltimore, whittier he had been on Valley
Railroad business. Mr.. bold is one of that
little knot of restless gentlemen to whose
tireless persistence Rockbridge will be
more indebted for the building of the Val
ley road within her borders than to any
men that we know of.
Mr.. &. o. Bowen, OF Paris, Texas, who
has been for some time guest of P. A.
Baylor, Esq.,, and made many friends in
our city left for the South on Wednesday.
The Mlneola (Texas) Monitor" speaking
of this gentleman, says:
Mr.. Bowen has for several years had
two drug stores in successful operation ID
Minneola. These houses are at present in
charge of Messrs. N. E. Grammer and
Henry Mobley, bath of whom are well up
in their business, and who take special
pride in pleasing customers. AS for Mr..
Bowen, himself, he has built up an envia-
BILE reputation as business man. Only a
few years ago we knew him as a subordl-
nate salesman, and to-day he is the owner
of ten or dozen fine drug stores. Pluck
and Texas progress did the business.
Mr.. John D. Towberman, who has spent
the winter in Georgia, arrived here on
Wednesday last.
Mr.. N. A. Baylor, formerly Of this coun-
ty and now of Adair county, Mo-, arrived
here on Wednesday. He says thousands
of acres of land IN his county in his adopt
ed state are for sale.
Stribling Springs is rapidly filling up
with visitors. The family of Mr.. Chas.
L. Cook has gone there for the summer.
Many Richmond families are also booked
for the Stribling.
Messrs John W. Stout and Arch. G..
Stuart have left for an excursion as far
north as Canada.
PROPERTY SALEs,-Mr, John Acker. of