The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1882-02-02
Parnassus Items.
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The Detth of Mr.. Thomas Burton, briefly
alluded to in last weeks communication, de-
mands more than passing notice. He was
time-honored. and esteemed citizen Mr.. Bur-
ton was born in Maryland and had been res
ident OF this section for fifty-nine years. He
leaves wife and family of eight children
seventeen grand. children and several great
grand children. The deceased was remarkable
for his vivaclty and was highly esteemed by a
large circle ofacquaintances His funeral took
place from Union Presbyterian church last
Friday, he having become member of that
congregation during the ministry of the late
Rev. J. N Hendren. Rev. l. N. Campbell, the
pastor, officiated at the funeral, delivering an
excellent discourse from the text My peace
give unto YOU
Relagious.-A communion service will be
held at Union church next Sabbath, services
commencing on Friday.
The Sunday afternoon prayer-meetings at
Oak Grove school-house, organized by Mr.
Phillip Fauver, have become very popular and
are very interesting and well attended Six
different denominations are represented in it's
working members and from its increasing at
tendance we are hopeful that much good
will result from these meetings
new feature has been introduced into the
Wednesday evening prayer-meetings at the
Methodist church at this place. A passage of
scripture is selected for cons liberation at each
meeting.
On last Sunday Rev. r. NJ. Williams pastor
OF the M. E. Church, South, of this place,
preached an able sermon on the subject of
Temperance"
Irregular lhails-We do not remember to
have heard at any time such general COM
plant of the irregularity of the mails. Our
reading and letter-receiving public is greatly
Inconvenience. The Stanton papers are
several days behind time in reaching US, and
the newspapers from Richmond and Baltimore
are very irregular in their arrival Our own
postoffice is not to blame for this irregularity.
The fault lies in some one Of the distributing
offices or postal clerk wherever it exists. We
hope it will be speedily corrected for there
is no greater nuisance than irregular mails.
The supper given by the ladies OF Union
church at Parnassus Hall, the evening OF the
9th ult., was well attended. The evening
was devoted to social enjoyment, the supper
being very important feature the occasion.
The DILL of fare included a tempting array of
edibles which were partaken Of with the most
decided evidences Of appreciation. The re-
ceipts were very satisfactory to the committee
ofladies
The sale of the personal property of the
late James A. Klraeofe will take place at the
Frontier" farm near Parnassus,..on Wednes-
day the 10Th inst
Personal.-Mr. Cyrus Hiner, a student at
the Fl Defiance Academy, was brought home
last week very i'll with an attack of malarial
fever. His physician, DR.. Kunkle, reports that
he is convalescing slowly.
Mr.. Ed. Fl. Huffman leaves to-day forj
Indiana with his bride, an interesting daughf
ter Of Mr. John Crum.
RELIGIOUS REvIvAL-We learn from .hs\
Shenandoah Valley that ''the revival at the
Methodist Church in New Market, Rev. Ru-
bpHsh's charge, which has been in progress for
the past twenty days, still continues Some
thirty, mostly young persons, have protessed
religion. Eighteen were received into the
church on Sunday, and eleven since tina. time.
Rev. "A. F. Bouce, Shenandoah Iron Works,
has been present. Rev. sKinzer of Mt. Jack
son, preached sermon last week, to large
congregation"
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