Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1882-12-12

Personals.
J. E Guy, ESQ. has gone to Florida to spend
some months.
Audit 9. Brown Allen and wife and three
children have removed to Richmond.
VIM. J. Nelson. Esq ia on a visit to Missis
sippi. He will be absent several weeks.
Our readers will be pleased to learn that
Judge Henry G. Allen. who has had a protract.
slEpeli Of illness. is now recovering. q
Mrs. John Crawford, who has been visiting
Mrs L. P. Henkel. of New Market. has gone t.
Woodstock to visit her tighter, Mrs.. Hitt
Bird.
We are pleased to announce that deputy
sheriff. Braxton Slower. who has been i'll with
fever. is now convalescent, with hopes ofspeedy
recovery.
Last week. VIM. Patrick. Esq. of this city.
was in Lewisburg, W. Va. visiting his sister.
Miss Belle Patrick. at the Female Institute OF
that place.
Mr.. j. W. Morrison and wife. of this city. have
gone to Florida, for the benefit of the health
the former who has been In delicate health for
some time.
Graham d. Harris, son Of Hon. John T. Har.
ris, is located in Chicago, where he is success
fully practicing the legal profession. He ha,
our best wishes for his success.
Rev. VIM. 8. Perry. of Rockingham. has
gone to Jacksonville. Florida. to spend n.
winter for the benefit of his he.lth. For num-
Der OF years he has spent the winter in thu
land Of flowers.
Miss B. Blanche Gilbert daughter of the late
Rev. John L. Gilbert, of the Baltimore Con
ference, IL going to labor In the Mexican Mis-
sion. Miss Gilbert was for several terms prin
cipal Of the johnson Female College at Union
Monroe county, W. Va.
Bv deere OF the President of the French
republic. 'ated November 7th. 1884. the grad.
of Chevalier in the Legion of Honor has bee
conferred on Capt,in st. George Tucker NJ sOr
"a virginian by birth) for fifteen years servic,
and sixteen campaigns.
The Shens ndoah Valley says that "Mr. VIM
J. Diugiedine, who was at his fathers near Mt
Jackson, some time ago, sick of Typhoid fever
has, we are 81 d to say entirely recovered and
again resumed his former position As clerk IL
the Rockingham Bank, Harrisonburg Va"
Mr.. n. H. Fultx. Of this county. has been pro
NOTED 10 the position. In the Revenue Office q
Harrisonburg which Mr.. VIM. B. McChesney
resently resigned. MIR. r. r. Andrews, lately
stationed at Greenvisle. succeeds Mr.. Fultx.-
We wish these gentlemen the best success in
their business.
We are pleased 10 state that our young friend
VIM. q. Hardy has been elected TO q clerk
ship in the Valley Mutual ofiice. His expert
ence in the County Clerks ONCE and after
wards as assistant commissioner in chancery
with Judge j. w. Green Smith, has we'll quail
fed him for this laborious and responsible Pc
sition.
The many friends In this county of Dr. p. L
Murphy will be pleased to learn that he hs
been appointed Superintendent OF the Stat
Lunatic Asylum at Morgantown. N. G. Dr.
Murphy has made many friends since his resi-
dence In our county and whilst we regret hi
departure. we wish him success in his new
field OF labor.
Our irrepressible citizen. Maj N. II. Hotcb
kiss. took dinner. on the 9Th inst, the 63rd ali
neversary of his birth, with his friend Bunnel
editor OF the Dansuiile Advertiser, of New York
Though So years OF age. he is younger thai
many who are only thirty years of ,ge. H
seems to have found the fount Of youth 70
which Ponce de Leon searched in vain. Ma.
he live to witness the burial OF the wandering
jew.
Mr.. W. B. McChasney, son Of DR.. VIM. &
McChesney Of this city, who for the past sew
eral years has held the position of Deputy Col
lector in the Revenue office. in Harri- onbuIg
under B 3. Bolts, Esq. resigned that Office tn
nrst of December. and ON Tuesdsy last lef
Harrisonburg for Aberdeen. Brown county
Dakota Territory, where he will mate his fu
ture home. He Is quite worthy and p0puls
young man, and has our best wishes for hi
success In his Western home.