The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1882-03-09

The new Board OF Directors meets at the
Asylum to-day.
The Virginia Conference Of the U. B. Church
convened at Dayton yesterday.
We return thanks to Hon. I. G. Fowler,
Speaker of the House of Delegates for public
documents
We are in lebtea to Hon. J. F. Dezenlnrf
for public documents, for which he will please
accept our thanks.
There is an unmailahle letter in the Middle
brook post office addressed to Miss Allula A.
V Kennedy. box II, Staunton, Va, due cts.
DR. ]. NJ. Warren. of Harrisonhurg, has be-
C. me associated with DR.. W. Fl. Prison, in the
practice OF medicine in the vicinity of New
Hope.
Hon. Phiander Herring, representative in
the Legislature from Rockingham, was in
Staunton on Saturday, returning to Richmond
from brief visit home.
Mr. VIM. A. Bowles, last year the principal
of the Staunton high school, is now in the
city, on visit, after an extended sojourn in
the South.
Miss Kyrch, late the popular telegraph op-
orator of the Western Union line at Harrison
burg, has been transferred to the Waynesboro
office of the company, in this county.
MIR. R Ashby Houslour son of Samuel A.
Houshour, ESQ, of this city, has accepted
clerkship IN the Taylor Hotel, at Winchester.
He has many friends in Stanton who wish
him every success.
| Hsqhland Recorder-Mr. A, W. Campbell
sold, privately, ON Tuesday last, his farm lying
on Head of Jackson's River, to Mr.. s. A. Por-
ter, for $4,000. Mr.. Campbell informs US that
he has no intention of removing from the
county.
The enterprising firm of Clinedinst & Bo-
dell of this city, have established branch OF
their carriage mandatory in Lexington. The
people of Rockbridge Can now secure the best
of vehicles, finished in the finest STYLE at man
ufacturers prices.
The Kanawha Tyibune.-Hepry S. Walker
and wife have returned from their visit to Vir-
ginia We understand their recently pur-
chased farm in Rockingham has been rented
to an excellent tenant. We are glad to know
that their residence will be continued in Ka-
nawha.
Mai. II. D. Whicomb was among the dis
tingulshed civil engineers, whose opinion was
asked by the United States Senate Committee
on Commerce, as to the practicability OF
Eads Inter Ocean Ship railway, for the pur-
pose of Transporting ships and their cargoes
across the 1sthmus.
The annual session of the Baltimore Con-
ference NJ. E. Church, South, met in Freder-
icksburg yesterday, the 9Th. Revs DIR. }. 5
Martin. presiding elder, and DR.. Hough, in
charge of Staunton Station, are in attendance
1t is the universal wish of this community
charges.
The Board of Directors have elected Mr.
Eugene Pevlon, superintendent of the Rock
bridge Alum Springs for the approaching SEA
son Mr. Peyton is an experienced and popu-
lar hotel manager with an extensive acquain
lance throughout the States. and his judicouS
management Il no doubt add to the deserved
popularity of the Rockbrdge Alum.
We regret to learn that DR.. A. NJ. Newman
of Harrisonburg, has been confined to hl'
room for the past eight or ten days, by illnt IS
He was somewhat better at last account. DR.
Newman is one of the old time gentlemen who
has given his time and capacities to the State
in the Legislature, and in Constitutional
, Convention of 1861, and is held in high es
TEEN for his integrity intelligence and SOUND
judgment.
Last week, Mr.. W. A. Gushing, of the firm
of Elder, Nelson & Cushings, returned from
an extensive trip through Pennsylvania. He
reports considerable and growing inquiry fol
Virginia lands among the farmers of the Key
stone State, and from representations made to
him, is persuaded that there will be large
emigration from that State to this in the
spring. The people of the North are just be-
: ginning to appreciate the advantages which
the South possesses over the West, by reason
of its climate, proximity to market and the
settled condition of its society, schools &c.
and from this on we may expect large pro
portion of the population and money which
have heretofore found their hating place neal
the frontier.