Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1883-06-19
Personals.


IIHon. John T. Harris was in the city yester-
day.
Col. Geo. L. Peyton spent few days in the
city last week.
Hon. A. H. H. Stuart has been elected one Of
the Trustees of the Jefferson Monument Asso-
citation Of Virginia.
Mr.. Harry F. sIaven, of Monterey, Highland
county, Va, has gone to Greensboro, N u,
where he will spend the summer.
Miss Bette Lackey, OF Fancy Hill. Rock
bridge county, is on visit to her relations, Mr.
and Mrs. ]. A. Templeton, Of this city.
Mr.. W. A. Bowles, SUPERINTENDENT of the City
Public Schools, will leave tomorrow for the
Blue Ridge Springs where he will spend sew
eral months.
John w, Harris, ESQ.,, of the Lewisburg. W.
We. Bar. started last week on trip to Europe.
At New York City, he will take passage on the
steamship, Baltic.
Rev. B. NJ Smith, D. D.. of Union Theologi-
cal Seminary, and his wife, are visiting the
family of their son-in-law Rev. J. w. Rose
bro at Lewisburg, W. Va.
On the 18th inst, Mr.. B. A. Weller. formerly
of Waynesboro', in this county, but recently Of
Cincinnati, Ohio, was married to Miss Brent
Pierce, of Christiansburg. Va
Miss Belle Patrick, a sister OF VIM. Patrick,
ESQ., Of this city. who is a teacher in the Lew
isburg Female Institute, Of which Rev. M. L.
Lacy is Principal, returned 10 this county last
week.
Mr.. T. P. Hamilton, of this county, brother
of County Treasurer, John Ed. Hamilton, has
been appointed clerk in the First Auditors
Office at Richmond, vice John Alexander, of
Albemarle, resigned
Rev. j. N. Craig, of Holly Springs, Miss, for
merly Of Augusta county has accepted the po-
sition of Secretary of Home Missions, to which
he was elected by the General Assembly Of the
Southern Presbyterian church.
In consequence OF delicate health, DIR. Baxter
Fishburne, who went to China a few years
SINCE has returned to this country, and ar
rived at Waynesboro' on Saturday week, where
it is hoped his health will be recruited.
Prof James R. Thornton, of Central Univer-
sity Kentucky, son OF Mrs. NJ. L. Thornton,
matron of the Augusta Female Seminary for
the past session, has been elected to the Chair
OF Mathematics at Hampden Sidney College
Mr.. VIM. A. Snyder and son, Mr.. John II.
Snyder, of Taylor county, Iowa, are visiting
friends and relations in Greenbrier. The first
named gentleman is native of Pendleton
county, W. Va and has been absent in the
West for q years.
Dr. Halter II. Henkel, of the firm of Dls. A.
M. & H. n. Henkel, is now in New York city
visiting the wards of Bellevue Hospital with
his nephew, DR.. Casper o. Miller, who is on
the staff of that institution, one of the
'house" surgeons and physicians. DIR. Henkel
is there with view of acquiring all new points
that he can in medicine and surgery, and will
remain there several weeks yet.
Capt. T. G. Morton, of the Vi1tdicatOr, returned
home last Saturday, after prolonged trip to
Texas and other Southern States. Whilst in
Lodge of knights of Honor at Austin, Texas,
he secured the policies of the Supreme Treasu-
rer, Judge Robert ]. Breckenridge, and the Su-
perior Reporter, B. F. Nelson, Of Louisville, in
the Staunton Life Association of this city.
The Charlestown, Jefferson county, W. Va,
Free Press OF last Thursday says 1--WE are
pleased to see in our town Mr.. Henry A. Walk
er, one of Staunton's nobemen. He is here
as a participant in happy Hymeneal ceremo-
ny elsewhere noted" The reference is to the
marriage of Mr.. VIM. P. Campbell, of Cum
berland, Nd, and Miss Mary Woods Duke, at
which the attendants were miss Nellie
Campbell and Mr.. Somers Hunter, of Martins
burg; Miss Essie Burton and Mr.. John Camp
bell; Miss Claudia Pendleton, of Cumberland
and Mr.. Henry A. Walker, of Staunton Miss
Mary Campbell and Mr.. Harry K. Duke; Miss
Annie VanarEdale, of Baltimore. and Mr.. Hen
~ Campbell; and Miss Janet Woods, of Staun-
ton. and Mr.. w. c. White"