Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1882-10-13
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Union Theological Seminary is lying
dangerously i'll of typhoid fever.
Maj. Jed Hotchkiss left Oh Saturday fol
Boston on the invitation of the Appalach-
ian Club of that city to deliver before them
on Wednesday, lecture on the 'Moun-
talns of Virginia. On yesterday he was
to address the Society Of Arts, of the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology on
the life and works of the late Prof. w. B.
Rogers.
Rev. A. II. Hamilton Of Mt. Carmel,
has taken his wife to Baltimore for medi-
cal treatment. His little son who has Just
| been undergoing treatment In the same
city for his eyes has been much improved.
DR.. E. G. Fisher, for so many years the
physician OF tie male department in the
W. L. Asylum, is visiting his relatives in
this city.
Col. w. A. Sitlin9ton. prominent Re-
adjuster- Democrat of Bath, was in the city
on Monday. He reports that county al:
all right for Massey and OFerrall.
Mr.. Alexander Hartman who has been
On6o6SA IVA = yOuA Puot III A0lttO0A OuAu-
ing in Colorado. is visiting his mother at
Aillbrook. Mr.. ALERT Hartman, who has
been also engaged in the same work will
visit the East in q few days. Mr.. Edward
V. Hartman will leave for Colorado next
week.
DIR. J. Newton McChesney, of the Board
of Health of New York City is on visit
home. He reports that the small pox there
has disappeared.
Mr.. Daniel of Waynesboro, has gone to
Kentucky on visit to his brothsr-in-law
DR.. Warwick Trice, who is quite ill.
Rev. 1. N. Campbell Of Augusta. re-
Gently chosen pastor OF the Presbyterian
church at Strasburg. will also serve the
church at Mt. jackson.
On Friday evening last at dusk, as a
party were returning from an excursion to
Elllott's Knob, the horse ridden by Miss
Alice Reid fell in going up Main Street
near Coalter. throwing and severely bruis-
ing his rider.
Mr.. John McChesney, Treasurer Of
Brown county, Dakota, and Cashier Of
one OF the banks at Aberdeen in that
county, is ON a visit home. He gives a
most interesting account of the wonder
full growth and progress of Dakota. The
Gown of Aberdeen in which he lives,
though only fourteen monthe old, has nine
hundred Inhabitants, three banks and two
newspapers. He says the wheat crop of
| Brown county this season averaged thirty
| three bushels to the acre.
Miss Lucy Bazzle of Ohio, and Miss
| Crawford of Aug usta, are visiting friends
in Harrsonburg.
| Miss Elicit of Richmond, is visiting her
friend, Mrs. Fl. II a'Court, near Staun-
| ton.
Mr.. A. ]. Wall. Of HarTisonburg. has
been appointed Deputy U. S. Marshal for
Auausta, Highland. Bath and other couu-
| ties
Mr.. E. M. Cushing will exhibit at the
fair next week Duchess pear weighing
one pound and five ounces from tree in
his own yard at West Fad. Our old friend
H. Z. Kindig will have to look to his
laurels This same tree has before pro-
duced pears within AL ounce of this weight
which took the premiums at the Rich
mond. Lynchburg and Stanton fairs.
Mr.. W. A. Pratt, Civil Engineer. form
erly of Augusta, has just received and de-
clined fattering offer from company to
erect IA bridge over the Magdalena river at
Bogota, in the Republic OF Colombia. Mr..
P is in the employ Of the b. q o. r. r.
Co., and has just completed q bridge
over the Yenphiagheny at Connelsville.
Pa, said to 'b- the Fl est piece If masonry
| on the lines # tt is great road. Mr.. p
| is now at Weston. w. Va.
| Mr.. ThOs. W. sparrow, Civil Engineer,
son of the late DIR. Sparrow of the Theo-
logical Seminary at Alexandria, is visiting
his friel d. in this city. Mr.. Sparrow is
Amazon river for the Peruvian govern
the engineer who made the survey of the
ment and afterwards for the U. s. govern
ment. 1t is his system of river survey
that our government has adopted Mr.
Sparrow has just located all the wharfage
of the G. Il y. ut Newport News.
The Page Courier speaks in high terms
1T the work of an artist there, MIR. Geo.
| W. Haines, who has just finished monu-
| ument for the establishment of Capt. J. G.
Marquis. OF Staunton.
Col. Bridgland, Ia te U. S. Consul at
Havre, was in the city Wednesday. on his
way to Lexington. He had an imported
Clydesdale horse. which, If our farmers
could have seen it, would have convinced
them of the value of breeding large horses
in our Valley instead of small ones.
WEDDlNGs.-On Tuesday morning last
at O'Clock. at the residence of her faith
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