Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1883-05-11

| Personal.
/ Mr.. SEQ. F. Mills. member of the. U. s.
Senate shorthand corps, left on Wed
nesday for Hamilton, Ohio, where he has
professional engagement with the Niles
| Tool Manufacturing 20.
Mrs. Mary Liz Mcneil, wife of State
Senator Mcneil, of West Virginia who
/ has been visiting her sister Mrs. VIM. A.
Burnett, has returned to her home in Po-
| cahontas county.
DIR. E. D. Arbuckle, of Waynesboro, has
been visiting relations in Greenbrier coun.
ty, W. Va.
John B. Gougl the noted temperance
lecturer has written a letter to- the
Women 8 Christian Temperance Union of
Staunton, regretting that ill health pre-
vents his lecturing IN Stauuton. He says
the same cause has forced him to cancel
several engagements already made.
The Richmond papers notice the arrest
OF DR.. Howard Cowan, well known mu-
stefan and physician Of that city. charged
with being about to fight a duel. DIR.
Cowan is native of, and has many &C
qnalntances in Stanton. The police took
him and his alleged second out of vehi-
Gle just AS they were starting for the place
of hostile meeting.
john II. Dinneen, Esq of the Rich
mond bar, is on visit to his Stanton
friends.
MIS-. E'iZ beth Baskins, widow of the
late Capt. James H. lsaskins, arrived here
Oh the 5h inst, from Lancaster, Texas,
where she has been living for nine years
past. She is now visiting IN the Church
vile neighborhood
Hon. John T. Harris left here yesterday
morning for Atlanta, Ca, on a three
weeks visit to his brother there.
Mayor J. T.. Beckham of Alexandra,
was re-nomina:ed at the Democratic pri-
mary there on Monday. BY vote of two
to one over his competitor. Mayor Beck
ham is brother-ii.-la of Capt. W. H.
Fowle of Staunton.
A. M. Bruce, Esq.,, of Danville, former
II one of our best known business men, is
visiting Stanton and receiving cordial
welcome.
The annual address before the Literary
Societies of the University of West Virgin
ia is to be delivered in June next, by Maj.
Jed hotchkiss.
Mr.. j. w. Riswick, we'll known in the
Valley, IN connection with the manufac-
tnre of wool, died last week.
Capt John ]. Williams, who has many
friends in Stanton, has resigned the
command of the Winchester Light r.
fantrv. Capt. Jos. A. Mutton is elected
to succeed him.
F. p. Cord has been promoted to pas
senger conductor ON the Shenandoah Val
ley Road. vice Capt. Daueherty, deceast d.
John Goode. lit goes awku ardly to call
little ohnnie Goode "Mr."), who in thrs 9
years has risen from messenger in the
Staunton telegraph Office to manager of an
Office with thirteen operators on the
Wabash, st. Louis & Pacific R. R., is now
on visit to bis father, DR.. W, H. Goode.
John is now tall and good-looBing spe-
cimen of the American of the West and
makes creditable showing Of what Vir-
ginians can do when transplanted to the
West.
Messrs. Hol Alexander and Eugene
Peyton have returned from very sue
cessful tour of the western cities in the in
terest of the Rockbrldge Alum Springs.
| STOCK NOTES.-The thoroughbred
short horn heifer "Mattie the 6th'' that
won the first prize at the Augusta county
fair last fall, has been sold by Maj. Geo.
Chrlsman. of Rockingham. to Mr.. J. T.
Daniel, of Rappahanock. Mr.. Daniel has
also purchased other improved stock in
the Valley.
MIR G. Julian Pratt, Of Walnut Grove
stock farm in this county, has, in the last
few days sold and shipped to Augusta.
Ca, three Jersey heifers.
@Messrs. Hugh A. S. Hamilton, A. M.
Bowman, President of the Augusta Coun-
ty Faiz, and e. Julian Pratt. its Secretary,
were in Roanoke last Thursday, attending
the Live Stock Convention. The Roanoke
Association for the Exhibition of Live
Stock was organized, and among the
Directors chosen was Nj A. M. Bowman.
Augusta county farmers should not fail
to read the advertisement in this paper of
Burnley & Co.'S. monthly stock sale at
Charlottesville, May 18th. Several hum
dred head of stock will be put up.
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