The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1885-09-24
South River items.
reported for the vrRG1SrAN

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| Last week Mr.. Chas. Brooks started on
horseback to Rockbridge county. When
| he got to some point near Greenyille. his
horse took sick, and Mr.. B. had to leave
the horse and return home. When he
reached Greenville the next day he found
his horse dead. He doesn't know what
caused the death.
George Alexander was driving up his
horses to water few days ago, when one
Of them whirled and kicked another on
the leg, breaking it in two places. The
crippled animal was fine one, valued at
5000. TO put it out of suffering Mr.. A.
caused it to be killed.
John A. Whitesell had fine COW choked
to death by trying to swallow an apple,
last week.
w. Arnall, living on Hickory Hill, lost
cow the same week, from eating acorns,
Of which there is large crop.
Hog cholera still prevails in the eastern
portion of our district. Many farmers
have lost all the hogs they had.
There was general knock-down and
drag. out fight among the colored people
at Kiddsville on Saturday night last
Quite a number of arrests were made and
Squire Churchman held court in Fishers
vile Monday to try the cases. He sent
two-Marshal McLain and Alex. Dickin-
son to Jail, and exacted $25 fine from the
rest Of the gang.
The g. and 0. Il. r. could put money in
their own treasury and greatly accommo-
date the travelling public by putting a
shifting engine on the road to work at
Waynesboro and Staunton AS the mat
ter now stands the local freight trains have
an enormous amount of work to do. Much
more than should be exacted from that
number of hands. If the company would
put an engine on to do the shifting at these
two points it would facilitate travel be-
tween Charlottesville and Staunton. 1
am sure that if there were train running
regularly at s or 8 o'clock, from Waynes-
boro to Staunton, the number of tickets
sold would compensate the company for
the cost of the extra engine and the run
ming of the regular freight, besides giving
them handsomesproft on the outlay.
Among those whosare engaged in push !
ing forward the interests of the G. and 0.
r. R., are Capts. M. Lynn, and Henry
Vosseur, with their respective crews
These two captains leave no stone I'M
turned to advance the interests of their
employers and the public. They are both |
popular and deserve to be.promoted.
Mr.. VIM. Kinney, the proprietor of the |
Star Saloon of your city, has concluded to |
make an addition to his saloon. He phas
about completed work on on one Of the
largest dining rooms in the Valley, and |
when he opens which he will do in Octo-
Der, he will have the best restaurant in the
Valley. Mr.. Kinney proposes to keep
night dodgers, as well as those who desire
meals. He has secured one of the best
cooks in Virginia. Take him up one side
and down the other 'Uncle Billy will be
without rival in the city of Staunton
and without superior in the State.
The old American Hotel has undergone
such trausnsorgryfcation since falling
into the hands of Messrs. Fitz & Wood
ward that you wouldn't take it for the
same place. 1t has been thoroughly re-
fitted in every sense of the word. You
may travel from Toronto to Galveston,
and you will not find a better hotel than
the Hale House Nice beds, excellent ia
BILE fare, polite servants, hospitabls pro-
prietors and, in fact, everything FIRST
CLASS is found at the Hale House.
ROVER.