The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1882-09-21

ton for appellant, and Geo. W, Hansbrough
for appelleeS. =.
Newton Switzer VS. Madison McCulloch,
from Botetourt. Argued for appellant by j.
H. H. Figgatt, and Tor appellee by Frank T.
Glasgow.
Sale of Stauuton Iron Works.
One of the principal manufacturing indus
tries of our city, the Staunton Iron Works has
been sold to Maryland firm, Messrs. Nelson
Beall and r. G. Paul, of Frosthurg. The price
| paid was $l650O cash, and the property was
| cheap at that. The new owners are practical
men, the junior partner having all extended
| anG varied experience in the conduct of a sim
| liar enterprise in the mining districts of Mary
land. The firm has ample capital to back 1t,
and will proceed to the enlargement of the
present works, and the erection of car shops
! near the Chesapeake Il Ohio railroad They
propose to enter largely into the manufacture
of iron generally, paying special attention to
| car trucks and wheels, narrow gauge lOcomo-
lives, engines, boilers, saw mills and the like.
| They will also manufacture the Paul Patent
| Radiator" an invention capable of generating
| about double the heat usually secured from
| radiators of the same size and cost. In addi-
| ton to these special features they will con-
tinue to execute all kinds of smaller jobs in
their line with promptness and in workman
like manner Mr. b. F. Stockton, who has SO
| successfully superintendent the works for the
| last year or two, will continue with the new
| firm us will also the old force generally. In
addition to these the sons of the prOprietors,
| all skilled mechanics, will be connected with
| the establishment and perhaps others. Mr..
| his whole attention to the personal supervis-
| ion of the works.
Most heartily do we welcome Messrs. Beall
and Paul to our city. They represent that
class of population which Staunton needs
more than any other-men of capital, skill
and brains. Their labors will have the effect
of producing, and thereby adding to the COM
| mercial importance and wealth of the place.
| The purchase they have made will prove a
paying investment, for under the most adverse
some percentage on the capital. When sup
piled with new and improved machinery, and
| with its capacities extended to embrace larger
products, its patronage will no doubt increase
| in proportion. There is no finer location for
such an enterprise. For the past year or so it
has run to lis fullest capacity, and then was
scarcely able to keep pace with the demands
made upon it. At the intersection of Compel
ing lines OF railroads, in close proximity to
coal and iron, anG near to those fields of en-
terprise now springing up in every direction
demanding just such stock as this establish
ment will supply, it has future before it full
of promise to the propretors and to the town.
| The sale was negotiated thro' the active ex-
ertions of DR.. Getzendarner, who spares no
pains in the effort to help build up our growing
city.
A. SAD DEATH.-At the residence of her
father, near Brldgewater, on Sunday night
last, Miss Josephine Herring died of typhoid
| fever, aged 10 years. Tue deceased was one of
the brightest and most popular students of the
y
just closed and expected to return this session,
when she would have been a candidate for a
| full diploma. She was neice of Mrs. NJ. II.
Eflinger, with whom she stayed during her
| school days, and had won to herself host of
| warm friends while resident of Stanton
She spent a greater part of the summer at the
Rockbridge Alum, from whence she returned
about a month ago. Shortly after reaching
home she met with an accident which confined
her TO her room for a few days. During that
time she was attacked by brain fever and then
| by typhoid, and the two dread diseases COM
bined terminated her young life It seems
strange that one SO full of health and youthful
| vgor should SO suddenly be called away 1t
is hardly possible to realize the fearful fact and
for many day her friends here will think of
her as one to whom life was all promise, and
who was worthy of all that life could bestow
will think of her just as they saw her last,
picture of health, confidently looking for
ward to future bright with usefulness and
enjoyment. ?,
Her afflicted parents and relatives have our
sincerest sympathies in this dark hour of trial.
SERIOUS SHOPPING On Monday evening
last, George Harris, coloFed, Lying near Mt
Meridian, was seriously aud probably. fatally
shot by his wife, a load Of slugs ffom q shot
gun entering the left side below the ribs. The
cause of the shooting was some difference
about chickens which Harris had sold, and
the wife refused to deliver. The wife had
| not been arrested at the time DIR informant
communicated lhese facts to us.
G. W. & c. H. Berlin, real es,ate agents,
of HarrisOnburg, Va, sold the G. p. Arey
farm, near BridgeWater, Va, to Wm, II.
Green, OF Augusta county, tor IS 900 ,equiva-
lent to cash.
We had the pleasure of a call ON Saturday
last from Prot. James Mitchell, editor of the
Little Rock, Ark. Democrat. He was re.
turning home from the lower Valley, where he
O,aced his daughter at Miss BOIljng's school