Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1881-06-14
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Greenville Items.


Greenville Items.
The hotel is full of railroad employees and
other persons. It is well kept by John P. Trib-
bett, and is doing a good business.
A. g. Duncan, native of Albemarle county,
Va. but recently engaged in the mercantile
business In Alabama, has opened in the store
room of the hotel building. one Of the best Sc
lected stock of goods ever brought to this
place. His store will compare favorably with
the best dry goods establishments of your city
He sells for cash, at short profits, and is doing
good business with promising future, as
the best people Of the community are becom-
Ing his patrons. who prefer to buy their goods
here, provided they can get them on as good
terms as in Stanton.
Our little town has been made quite lively in
the last month by the presence OF railroad en-
gineers their families, and hundreds of other
people passing to and from the work of the
road, which Is now in progress from Waynes-
boro' to Lexington.
We have been sanguine, until recently. of the
early resumption of work on the half.hnished
track Of the Valley road between Staunton and
Lexington, or at least, that it would be begun
sometime during the ensuing Summer, but the
prospects seem to grow less promising every
day. The track of thisl road passes directly
through our.village- of the Shenandoah
Valley within less than two miles, right
through, In many places, inexhaustible depos-
It's OF iron. and within convenient distances OF
mines already opened, and celebrated for
abundance and superior quality.
Prof. Fontaine. of the University of Virginia
Is mere Tor the purpose of examining the min
erai and other deposits Of the Blue Ridge
mountain. He seems. also, to give his atten-
ZION TO entomology and mineralogy, as he has, j
understand. a large collection of bugs and 9TH
er insects, picked up in his travels through the
mountains. He Is quiet, unloQuocious, and
ratner modest gentleman, and fear, as he will
necessarily have to rely upon the hospitality
OF the people along the route for board and
lodging, he will fare rather badly. unless he
put on more cheek" and let the people
know who he is. and what his objects are-that
ne Is not a Yankee emissary, sent here to swim
die them in some way.
We have had fine rains in the last fortnight
ana as Consequence the corn and grass are
promising well-the oat crop, however. looks
oaoiy-tne wheat also has been greatly bene-
nted by the recent showers, but, notwithstand-
Ing, we do not expect an average yield.
The nominations by the Readjusters. So
o"nous AoI 0tate oucere, mas created no enthu-
siasm with either Readjusters or Radicals here
abouts. John T. Harris. who will doubtless be
the nominee Of the August Convention for Gov
ernor, VIII beat this mongrel ticket at least
sixty thousand. or II the whole Radical party
should unite with the Mahoneites he will beat
the combination easily ten thousand votes
marx the prediction. And in my humble opin-
Ion, ne 10 the man in the State who can easily
DO II. do not certainly know who 10 the
choice OF District delegates, but this do know,
II they regard the wishes of three-fourths OF
the Conservative voters Of the District, Harris
VIII receive their votos. understand that
Judge harris 10 equally popular in most Of the
Eastern counties, and II the delegates have
been htriy selected - repressnttng the pscplss
Wishes be viii BE- nominated BY acolanno13on.