Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1885-09-09
Personal.


Mr.. and Mrs. John Rodgers, of Augusta. are
visiting friends in Highland.
| Gov. Cameron, his wife and three children
visited the Luray Cave last Wednesday.
| Mrs. sallie Henkel. of New Market. is on a
visit to her son Mr.. A. G. Hsnkel at Waynes-
boro'.
Mr.. Chas. 8. Rice, of New Market, has gone to
Waynesboro' to act as clerk for Messrs Killian
& Henkel.
| Ex-Gov. VIM. Smith, of Warrenton Fauquier
county, celebrated the eighty-ninth anniver-
| sary Of his birth last Sunday.
Miss Addie L. Howell. who has been visiting
| f riends in this city, left for her.home in Mem
phis, Tennessee, last Monday night.
| Miss Mary Koogler and her brother Mr.. MIL
ton Koogler. of summerdean. Augusta county,
are visiting Mr.. W. Cunningham and other
| friends In Monterey.
Mr.. Edward 8. sublett left the city yesterday
to enter upon his duties as assistant teacher in
| the Kenmore High School, Amherst c. II.
Three students Tor the school accompanied
| him.
The Highland Recorder says that Miss PANE
| liza Gilmore, daughter of Capt. s. A. Gilmore. OF
Mill Gap has gone to McGaheysville. Rocking
with relatives.
News has been received at Warrenton. Va,
by friends of Col. John 8. Mosby. late Consul to
Hong Kong, China, that he has opened law
office in San Francisco. CAL. and will make his
permanent home on the Pacific coast.
Rev. John A. Preston, OF Thinking Spring
Church in this county, preached several times
In Franklin, Pendleton co., w. w.. last week,
He had charge of the church there before be-
coming the Pastor at Tirkliag Spring.
Mr.. James Newman, formerly manager OF
Burke's Billiard Saloon in this place, who was
found dead in the bed in Richmond last Thurs
day morning-having been suffocated by escap-
ing gas in his room-was buried in Thornrose
Cemetery in this city last Saturday at IL O'Clock.
Mrs. Patsey Feamster died in Lewisburg, W.
Va the End inst, in the S9th year Of her age.
The Independent says: 'tHer sufferings, which
were slight and of short duration, were but the
natural sequence OF old age. She leaves six
children and host Of grand and great grand
children to mourn her DEATH
The Highland Recorder says that on Saturday
week, little David Propst. seven or eight years
DID, a child of Mr.. Emanuel Propst who lives
near Monterey, died after intense suffering,
from the effects OF wound received by run
ming nail into his foot week before. He is
said to have been very bright and promising
child
We had pleasant call last Friday afternoon
from Mr.. Leander J. Mccormick, Of Chicago,
the gentleman who presented the large teles-
cope to the University OF Virginia He is
brother of the late Cyrus H. Mccormick, and
the son of the late Robert Mccormick, the in
ventor of the world-renowned Mccormick
Reaper. He had been for many years assocat-
ed with his brother before his brothers death
in the manufacture of the Mccormick Reapers,
of which 5000 were manufactured last year,
and $1,000 this year.
In Grace Memorial Church in Lexington on
Tuesday of last week, Rev. R. j. Mcbride, DID,,
united in marriage Prof. Jas. A. Harrison, of
Washington & Lee University, and Miss Lizzie
Stuart Letchs~, daughter of the late Gov. John
Letcher.
In the same church on Wednesday. Rev. T.
L. Preston, DID, Pastor of the Presbyterian
church of Lexington, performed the marriage
ceremony of Mr.. VIM. Armistead Pendleton
and Miss Mary Alexander Bruce, daughter of
Alexander Bruce, ESQ.,. of Halifax county, and
granddaughter of Judge Francis T. Anderson,
Of Lexington.