The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1885-02-19


Store, died on Tuesday of last week.
Hon. VIM. Malone will please accep
our thanks for interesting public docu
ments.
/ Mr.. VIM. Strother, aged about 20. die
in the southeastern portion of Rocking
ham last week.
DR.. w. J. Points, of HarrisOnburg, wa
in the city yesterday, attending the Py
THAN meeting.
Tomorrow night. the meeting of tn
Augusta Building & Loan Co will be hel,
at the Council Chamber.
On Saturday last, c. A. Roller, trustee
purchased the aCourt farm near Staun
ton, containing So acres, for s., $500.
Mr.. B. Frank Eakle and Paul Donovan
son of Capt. John Donovan, returned tt
Staunton from Florida, on Tuesday last
Mr.. Jos. f. Tannehill has succeeded il
filling his ice house at the Fair Ground!
with a first-class article. lit holds l,5Ot
| tons.
The trial of Ely Middlebrook for muir.
der has been set for the next term of the
County Court. commencing on Monday
the 23d.
Rev. Alex. Sprunt. pastor of the An
gusta church, has received call to TIT
pastorate of the Presbyterian church a
Henderson, n. G.
awe had a pleasant call on Wednesday
from Mr.. Berkeley Ward. of WarTenton
Va. a relative of Commonwealth IS At
torney Meade F. White. of this place.
Mr.. Robinson Hanger. formerly Of this
county, having once owned the Hundley
Mill property on Middle River, died ii
Monroe county, Mo-, Feby. 10th of par
alysis.
The Board of Public Works has ap
pointed Mr.. Bartlett Boiling member OF
the Board Of Directors of the Deaf, Dumb
and Blind Institution, rice ID. H. ivy
man, resigned.
We regret to learn that Victoria Fur
mace has blown out and stopped mining
operations as well. We have not heard
the reason for this, but we presume it is
the low price of iron.
An interesting series of meetings have
been held during the past week in the
Lutheran church, and are still in prog
ress. Rev. DIR. Repass, the pastor, is as
sisted by Rev. L. G. NJ. Miller of Salem.
Mrs. j. d. Angles has bought 80 acres
of the Brand farm near Greenville, and
Mrs. M. A. Harvey has purchased part
OF the same tract. Both are preparing to
build.
Mr.. 1sadore Hirsh, the popular clerk with
M. B. Oberdorfer, was married OH the first
of this month in Philadelphia to Miss
Hetta Oswald, daughter of Saml. Os-
wald, Esq. Staunton will be the future
home Of the young couple.
Robert Hopkins, charged with wrecking
train on the Chesapeake and Ohio Rail-
road last June, was acquitted in Rich
mond Friday. A mol pros. was entered in
the case of Robert Whitlock, indicted ON
the same charge.
There seems to be great deal of sick
ness, mainly pneumonia, prevailing around
Harrisonburg, as we learn from the Spirit.
A number of deaths are announced, and
numerous persons, stated to be indisposed.
some slightly and others seriously.
General Manager. C. w. Smith of the
Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad, has declined
the appointment of commissioner of trans
continental pools. He will remain with
the G.. & o., wepresume, where the friends
of the road want him to do.
AT the Y. c. M. A. Hall last Thursday
night, the Association and public were aG-
dressed by Mr.. G. A. Llcklider, of Peters
burg, acting State Secretary. He gave an
interesting and encouraging account of
the work, and created IL very favorable
impression.
Miss Hattie A. Baylor, deaf-mute and
former pupil of the Deaf, Dumb & Blind
Institution here, was married February
4th, at Glade Spring, at the residence of
her father, Col. f. r. Baylor, to Mr.. Louis.
A. Houghton, the deaf -mute editor of the
Tennessee Silent Observer.
To-day, the 10Th inst, at 4 O'Clock in
the afternoon. at the Methodist Protestant.
church in Lynchburg, Rev. DR.. Souther-.
land will unite in marriage DR.. Henry N.
Mohler, of this county. and Miss Bette,
r. Percival, daughter of Mr.. Henry p.
Percival of that city.
Invitations are out for the marriage of
our popular young townsman, Mr.. w. B.
Logan, of the firm of w. r. Tyree & Co.,
to Miss H. Lily Bowers, daughter of Mr..
Jno. Bowers, of Richmond. The cere-
mony will take place at the residence of
the BRIDES father on Tuesday evening next.
Feb. oath.
An interesting revival is in progress at
the Lutheran church, Brownsburg, con-.
Quoted by Rev. J. M. Shreckhise, assisted
by Rev. w. w. Smith of the same church,
and Rev. VIM. McElwee of the Presby-
terrain church. Some fifty persons have
professed conversion, and deep interest
in the meetings is still manifest.
A correspondent sends us the following
address on a valentine, which passed
through the Millboro post Office last week.
We omit the lady's name
To Williamsville, Bath county, want to go,
To Miss A. l.. r & q q, l love her SO:
The two cent stamp l gladly give, and If it
sticks, there, very tile,
know II Will take me through all right,
know that am very tite.
Page Courier: The Rev. G. M. Murray.
Rector of the Episcopal Church in this
place, favored his congregation on last
Sunday morning with beautiful and
forcible discourse from the text, seSeek We
first the Kingdom of God and his right
eousness and all these things shall be
added to you" At night the Rev. Job
Turner, a deaf-mute, preached in his
church, using the sign manual.
The Clover Hill correspondent Of the
Harrisonburg Spirit says: Mr.. Dan. Sny-
der's little child took cold moving up Dry
River to what is known as the old Glad
den house, and on Saturday night the
child died, and on Sunday they started to
bury the child at Mr.. Airey's, or Payne's,
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