The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1883-08-16

andoah.
DR.. Magnus L. Stribling. Of Ohio, is Wis
iting his sister, Mrs. N. X. Trout, OF this
city.
Miss Lizzie Goodies school for children
will commence its session in the early
part Of September.
Judge T. J.. Lewis passed through
staunton on Tuesday for Lynwood, the
residence of his brother, Hon. John F.
| Lewis.
The Spectator seems to be greatly 'wor-
ried,' about the meeting Oh Saturday. Keep
COOL The worrying part will come on
It'll of November
The ladies of Loeb Willow Church.
Churchville, will give lawn party onight
A band of music will be present, and a
happy time is assured to all who attend.
Prof J. II. Turner, Principal Of Luther
vile Seminary, Nd, and Mrs. Luther A..
Fox, of Roanoke College, with their fam
lilies, are visiting Bishop Glossbrenner at
| Churchville.
| The annual reunion of the veterans of
Company Z will take place at Thinking
Springs, on Friday next, and be followed
on Saturday by picnic. These are al
ways occasions OF great pleasure.
Mr.. John Nisewander. aged about 60
years, died suddenly, of heart disease, on
Sunday of last week whilst lying on a
| lounge at his residence, three miles north
of Harrisonburg.
The Valley Mutual Life Association has
established well fitted office for the
printing exclusively of its own work. 1t
is in charge of Mr. Root. an experienced
and excellent job printer.
Ben Brock, a well known colorcd man
living just east Of town, was run over and
killed by a train on the G. 81 o. road last
Thursday night. 1t is thought that he had
been drinking, and laid down on the track.
Capt. j. A. Carpenter has sufficiently
conyalesed from his recent illness to be
able to leave for Snowhill Md He will re-
turn as soon as he is strong enough to at
tend to business.
The barn of S. H. Burnett, near Green
vile, was burned Monday night, together
with a quantity of grain, &c. The loss
is estimated at s., 600 No insurance. 1t
was an incendiary S work.
w. w. Gibbs, formerly the efficient and
popular manager of the w Il. Telegraph
oA;oa ;c nour in ohorra of thn r & n ofiioa
Mr.. De Berry, the former manager of the
3. IL o., has been transferred to a post on
the main line of the road.
On Tuesday, Rev. Jno. Croll, who for
| pastor of the Lutheran church, left for his
home in Middletown, Pa. He will make
the entire trip of 225 miles in a private
conveyance.
On Saturday last, whilst threshing the
crop of Messrs. Hugh A. S. Hamilton and
Geo. w. Bateman, near Baskerville, the
steam thresher of Messrs. Warner q Sheets
took fire and was badly damaged. 1t was
insured. The straw stack and about two
hundred bushels of wheat were consumed.
DIR. j. M. Trotter is spending few days
in Stanton. He has just returned from
Europe, where he was engaged in looking
up an immense estate belonging to the
TrotterS of America. The Doctor feels
encouraged at the prospect of realizing the
fortune.
Little Roland, five years old, son of Mr.
d. N. Wilson of Churchyille, fell off the
porch last week and received serious
injuries, fracturing the frontal bone and
bruising his face and shoulders. DR.. H.
III. Henkle rendered the necessary service
and he is recovering.
Capt. w. H. Chapman, special agent of
the Treasury Department, of late on duty
at Atlanta, Ca, was in the city on last
Saturday. He made, on the 18th, the
transfer of the Internal Revenue Office of
this district from Harrisonburg to Staun-
ton and from the official control of B. B.
Bolts. Esq, the late Collector, to that of
w. E. Craig, Esq.,, the new Collector.
The next fair of the Piedmont Agri-
cultural Society at Culpeper on Sept. IL,
u, IL, bids fair to be the most attractive
and best this Society have ever held. Some
of the finest horses in Virginia will be
there, and the racing promises to be I'M
usually fine. A new feature, viz: series
of match games of base ball will draw a
large crowd. Several 'snines' have already
entered for the handsome prize offered
the champion club. We are indebted to
the Secretary for ticket.
The 81 900 purse for the great race of
Thursday at the B. A. Fair is to be a ''Cit-
liens purse,'' and the Directory of the
Fair Association subscribed $3.50 to it con-
ditional upon the Citizens of Staunton
making up the remaining $3.50. The sec
Rotary is ready to receive contributions to
this object and the small amount now re-
naming ought certainly to be speedily sub
scribed. Such feature as this important
race, which will draw an immense number
of visitors to the exposition, ought not to
fail for the want of the amount required,
and we feel sure will not.
THE CoLORED TEACHERS INSTITUTE,
during the past week, has been engaged in
the discussion of a number of interesting