The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1883-07-26

taken out license to practice in the city
court.
! Misses Oracle and Georgia OFT, of Harri-
sonburg, are visiting Miss Lucie Miller,
of this city.
MI. and Mrs. NJ p. Mohler, of st. All
bans, w. Va, are on visit to friends IN
this county.
For the quarter ending on July lst, the
inspection of -four by b. F. Fifer, inspect
OF for Staunton, was 4,1S7 barrels,
DR.. II. S. Crockett. Assistant Physician
at the Western Lunatic Asylum, has been
spending some days among his relatives
and friends in Wythe county.
Hon. John 7. Harris and DR.. S. II. Moi
felt were in the city on Monday on their
way to Lynchburg, as delegates at large
from Rockingham county.
Just as the match game of base ball be-
tween the Charlottesville and Staunton
clubs commenced, a heavy rain came up,
which stopped further proceedings.
The Highland Recorder comes to us this
week in an enlarged form and greatly i'm
proved in appearance. 1t is a good local
paper and deserves good patronage.
The next regular meeting of Staunton
Assembly X. of L..wll be held in Odd Eel
lows Hall tomorrow night. ut O'Clock.
A prompt and full attendance is desired.
Ex-Treasurer Jno. f. Hamilton, was
taken violently i'll while eating his dinner
yesterday, and suffered greatly for several
hours. He was much better yesterday
evening.
The Allegheny Tribune of the Goth says ::
1.-THE spirited horse of Gen. Skeen took
fright at the cars one day last week and
dashed off rapidly, throwing and consider
ably bruising him.
Mr. w. NJ. Page. of the well-known to-
bacco firm of W. II. Il NJ. Page, of this
city, accompanied by wife and child, left
yesterday morning. on short visit to his
relatives in Cumberland county.
The Lexington Enterprise states that
Maj. Dorman expects to move with his
family to Staunton very soon. By this re-
moval the Lexington bar will lose one OF its
ablest lawyers. .
Giles Devier, Esq, of the Rockingham
Register, Col, Barbee, of the Journal, Dan1
Dechert, of the Spirit IF the Valley, DR.. j.
B. Webb, and other prominent citizens of
Rockingham were in Staunton on Monday
last.
We are indebted to Thos. S. Davis,
Steward of the DID. & b. Inst, for bas-
>ket of magnificent tomatoes. They are
the finest that have been seen in Stanton
this year, and are but a fair specimen OF a
large crop.
The Firemen intend having u splendid
excursion to Goshen next Wednesday, the
LIST of August. They are making arrange
ments for a happy time, and those who ac-
company them may be assured OF one day
of pleasure unconfned.
Daily service has been ordered on the
route from Dayton to SangerSvile, in
Rockingham county, on the application OF
Hon. John Paul Similar service ought
to be ordered over the entire route to
Staunton, us it was intended to really ac-
commodate thickly settled neighborhoods..
Rev. Father j. Tierney, who was ordain-
ed last month in Rome for the Diocese,
arrived last week in Richmond and will be
stationed there until the return of Bishop
Keane. He will take the place of Rev.
Father w. b. Handley, who comes to
Staunton to spend his vacation.
The biggest humbug in the way of cir
Gus that has visited Staunton since the
war, is the concern that goes by the name
of Nathan's, which exhibited here last
Thursday. 1t is a complete fraud through
out-there being only one or two features
in the entire performance that would be
tolerated by a decent show.
The Clerk of the Corporation Court of
this city received, last week, letter from
the Superintendent of the Penitentiary,
announcing the death on July 18th, 1888, of
Nelson Davis (col'd) of typhoid fever,
whilst working on the Railroad for Messrs.
Mason, Shanahan & Hoge. He was con-
victed in April, 1882, and sentenced to the
penitentiary for three years.
Nathan Gordon, well-kn0wn colored
man of this city, aged 50 years, died very
suddenly on the farm of Judge Fultz Mon
day night. He had been employed i'll thresh-
ing wheat during the day. In the evening
he ate Il hearty supper and afterwards went
to sleep in the hay-loft of the barn. Inthe
morning he was found dead.
We are indebted to Mr.. II. J. Gray, of
this county, for Denver papers containing
graphic accounts of the great Exposition
now being held in that city. The commits
sioner to the exposition representing Ore
gon, is Mr.. Douglas Gray, son of II. j.
Gray, Esq. and young man Of fine talent
who has gained wide reputation as an
analytical chemist in his new State.
The Greenbrier Independent says Mr..
VIM. l.. ArmentrOut, of the Richands,
has recently had quite a reunion OF his
family-his son from Hampden-Sidney
College, his daughter from the Augusta
Female Seminary, accompanied by Mrs.
Burkholder of Stanton, and two sons,
David and Charles, the former from Tex
as and the latter from Arkansas.
A fire broke out in the tobacco store of
S. Walton Coleman, corner of Main and
Augusta Streets, last Saturday night, but
was extinguished before much damage was
done. 1t originated from cOal-oi lamp.
The stock, &c., were considerably in
jured by water. The loss is fully covered
by insurance in the ''Home," OF New
York and Norwich Union" companies,
of which Mr.. Arista Hoge is agent.
Messrs. J. J. Stack and E. L. Powell
have purchased of j. w. Abby, Esq, the
large unfinished three-story brick building
on Augusta street, next to Mays drug
store. The building, when completed, will
cost the purchasers about $4,000. The
lower floor will be occupied by the grocery
establishment of Stack, Splitter e Co., and
the second story by w. E. Craig, Esq, for |
Revenue offices. 1t will he ready for occu-
patton about Sept. list.
w. Brown Reed, son of w. A. Reed. |
Esq.,, of this city, has recently been pro-
NOTED to the management of the b. & o. |
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