The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1882-12-28

III. howard T. Frazier, Of chicago spent
the noiilay season with his friends and reia-
tiges Of this city
Ran Harrison, Esq, of 'he hynohhnrg bar,
was on q visit 10 his friends and selaives dur
ing Christmas.
Mr. Arthur IIamqn, Contractor on the Valley
r. r . near Lexington was in stanton Tues
day on visit to his mother and sisters.
Major J. c. Green arrived in Staunlon on
Monday list, and left again on Tuesday for
the Southwest, on matters of business.
Samuel NJ. Woodward, Esq, agent OF the
Shenandoah Valley k. r. at Roanoke, spent
the holidays, with his family in this city.
Mr. r. C. Anderson and wife, nee Mss
Katie Gushing, of Richmond spent the hol-
idays AT the residence Of Mrs A 5 father, f.
NJ Gushing, Esq
Dr. ". d. Hopkins has been elected ply
stefan to the poor, by the Council of Harrison
burg, to ill the vacancy orctsionrd 10y the death
! Of the late Or " . Hin.
/ Mr. Charles MgClung, An obi aud highly
respected citizen of this county, residing near
iarriston, was buried al Stone Church on
! TUESDAY last He was aged - years.
Henderson Befl. IT,, is III home from the
University. He met with painful accident
ii short time ago, hting thrown from dog
cart and considerably bruised. lie is Getting
along first rate.
Mr. Chas Wiber, now engaged in the office
OF the Superintendent of the Shenandoah Val
ley r. r., al HagerStown. was. with his tam
lily. visiting friends in Slaunton, during the
holidays
Messrs VIM. S and Jno l. Hughes, of this
city, who for some months past have been Gnu
ployed at the Miller Manual Labor SCHOOL,
i Albemarle county, are spending )he holidays
with their relatives and friends in this city
The Augusta Fire Co. gave their Annual Ball
at the American Hotel last night, and an ele-
CANT affair it was. \ number ofcouples were
present, and the dancing and supper greatly
enjoyed
Monday next. New Years day, being a ma
tional holiday. the Post Office will he closed
to all business, except delivery and dispatch
ing of mails Office hours, on that day, for
delivery, from s. 4. m, to 10 Il. m, and from
81 to ) pm.
The most severe and painful Christmas az
cident we have heard OF was that which be-
fell Mr. Vance Bradford, a most worthy and
excellent mechanic OF this city Whilst ar
ranging fire crackers for his little 'hoy
one of them exploded, the powder burning
the eye of Mr. Bradford. and 50 badly iDiur-
ing it that it is feared the sight will be losa.
The Richmond correspondent of the Peters
burg Iader-Apped has the following: The
early marriage of Miss Whitcombe 10 DIR. W.
Pierrie Nicholson, of Atlanta, Ga, will bring
to the city, as bridesmaids Misses Moss Brown
and Mamie Mccormick of Clarke county;
Misses Catlett and Bell, of Stanton, and Miss
Minnie Gay, of Atlanta, Ga. The nuptials
will he consummated on the 29th inst
Gen John Echols arrived in SStaunton on
Sunday last to spend Christmas with his fam
llv and has returned to bis exlcting duties in
Kentucky The railroad, some 60 miles in
length, making the Southern connection at
Memphis, has been completed. 1t forms an
important and essential link in the great con
tinental scheme of reaching the PacItic coast
by the Chesapeake and Ohio and its connect
ing lines.
Silas Morris, who was implicated in the
murder of David G. Lawson, in Rockingham
several years ago, and sentenced 10 the peni
tertiary for 80 years, has been pardoncd by
the Governor. The incessant and earnest
pleadings of his devoted wife for five years
brought about the result. They passed
through iiaTlisolIsstls5 ~ te>their home
near the Blue Ridge where they propose to
reside hereafter.
Our attention has been called TO the condi-
ton of the bridge below Witt aud Holt's
Mill and the absolute Decessity for its recon
strucion, Several persons spoke to us Mon
day about If, and detailed the inconvenience
to which the travel over that road was sab
i iected, by reason of the impossible condition
of the bridge. We do not know precisely
lwhere the authority rests, whose duty ii is To
Ipace the bridge in Il passable condition but il
lies somewhere, and 1t IS for that particular
locality this paragraph is directed. Only those
~ whose business compels them to pass along
this road realize the full force OF an impassa-
bic highway and they are clamOrous for i'm
mediate steps 10 be taken to correct the evil
!, Mrs. Frances L Willard, of Illinois, Pres
dent of the Women's National Christian TEN
perance Union, will address the ladies of tn,
f city Of Staunton, on Friday evening, the 29th
e at p. m, at the Dung Mems Christian As
ISOLATION Rooms, on the subject embraced ii
the Organization which She represents Al
are invited to attend, and it is hoped there
will he a full audience. Mrs. Willard is a
lady OF arge intellectual force, singularly
devoted to tie work in which she is engaged
and comes with the highest testimonials as tC
e her christian and phianthropic character. HeI
j., mission is one of mercy. and should receive
i the sympathy and Cooperation of the ladies o
stanton.
We learn from the December number O
Hotchkiss' "VIrginias" that Richard $. Mer
ryman, of Md, has leased, for a term Of five
years, from Echols, Bell q Catlett, of Staun
ton, Va, the "Kelley" ore bank, one of the
mines Of the great Ncsuvius non property
near Vesuyius station of Shenandoah Valley
= railroad. Mr.. Meryman is 10 pay royalty
of % cents per ton and TO mine or pay the
. royalty for not less than 1000 tons year
: The ores from this bank are neutral brown
hemattes. and were formerly uselia the Old
Vesuyius furnace
Negotiations are pending for another ore
lease, on this same estate, in Still-house hol-
low. about mile below Vesuvius station,
and very near the S. v Railroad"
: THE BRIDAL AND THE ToMB.-On the
21st inst, Mr.. John r. Chapman, General
Agent for The Singer Manufacturing Com
pany, with headquarters at Staunton, was
mar led at Cherry Hill, Cecil county, Md, to
; Mise Ella Mary Arbuckle, and on the oath
i the bride Of three days, was suddenly stricken
e down and numbered with the dead. The
+ bridal robes were thus suddenly changed for
n t e habiliaments of the tomb, and, glad hearts
q shrOuded in the gloom Of death.