Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1885-03-25
Personals,

Hon. Jefferson Davis is quite i'll with acute
| rheumatism.
President Cleveland was 4S years old last
Wednesday, the 18th.
On last Sunday the 22nd. Emperor william
| of Germany was IS years old.
Miss Mary c. Lee. daughter of the late Gen.
Robert E. Lee, is at the Sanford House, San
| ford. Fla
| Mr.. John Kelly, of New York, with his wife
! and two children left that city, Saturday, for
Virginia.
Representative Richardson, OF Tennessee, will
be the tallest man in the new Congress- He is
about seven feet high.
John B. Manning, brother of Secretary
Manning, is mentioned in Buffalo for the col
lectorship of that port.
| The widow of the late Cyrus Mccormick, of
Chicago. has given sll 600 to Tusculum College,
near Greenville. Tenn.
| Henry T. Chanfrau, the commedian, was
married in Pittsburg, Pa, Sunday to Miss Sa-
| die Fulton of that city.
Mr.. Walter A. Picker of this city, was re-
| Gently graduated in medicine at the University
| of Maryland in Baltimore.
Messrs, Frank G. Hartman and Charles Rus
misell were recently graduated at Dunsmore's
Business College of this city.
The Council of waynesboro has elected Mr..
P. Kilian to act as Mayor of that town in the
place of DR.. w. j. Jones, resigned.
Miss Susan Warner. the author of 80 ueechy,"
| the wide. Wide World.' and other popular
publications, died last Wednesday the 18th,
| aged 6S years.
Mr., Ashby Woods. son of Mr.. George NJ.
do
ated at the Maryland College of Surgeons and
Physicians in Baltimore.
VIM. T. Creighton. Esq, rising literary !
man and promising lawyer ,f Wilmington,
Clinton county, Ohio. is on visit to Col. and
Mrs Peyton at Steephill, near Staunton.
MIR. VIM. F. Summerson has sold. his excel |
lent farm. near swoope's Depot, containing 26o
acres. TO Mr.. George W Hevener, Jr.. of Poca-
hontas county, w. Va, for the sum of $4,000.
At meeting of Staunton Lodge, No. As, I. |
o. o. F., on last Thursday night Charles G. |
Wheat, Esq, was elected the Representative of
that Lodge to the Grand Lodge of Virginia, |
which will meet in the city of Norfolk April
Nth, 1885.
James Mullen, until recently the assistant of
ex Senator David Davis in the management of
his extensive landed interests in Central lii
HUE SulCiuo SdbuINdG dG bcCdbui,
in that State, by blowing his brains out with a
revolver.
Mrs. Bunkley. of smithfeld, left for the
New Orleans Exposition on Thurs day over the
Norfolk and Western Railroad al d while on
the train. between Lynchburg and Bristol. she
was taken suddenly ill and died before medical
assistance could be had.
Miss Mary Helen Ferguson, of the New York
Hotel Boston her friends Misses Bertha yon
Hillern and Maria J c. Beckett, the landscape
PAINTERS who spend their summers at their
studio at Strasburg, Shenandoah county. Va.
Invitations are out for the MARI age. at Yo-
kohoma Japan, April 14th of Miss Carrie Bal
lsgh to Dr. F w Harren. Miss Ballagh is
missionary daughter of Rev. J. H Ballagh |
who has charge of the mission arg field in ia
pan, and is a graduate of the Augusta Female |
Seminary here.
Mr.. Ellis Mills, formerly of this city, now of |
Washington City, called to S. We us last Satur-
day. We were pleased to see him looking SO
well. He is doing well in Washington, and |
will do well wherever he may, choose to go into |
business He is well equippt I'd for a successful |
newspaper man.
We are sorry to announce that Hon. Thomas |
s. Bocock is quite feeble and the fear is that he
will never be able to take parT in public meet
ings again. He has presd ed over many DELHI |
erative bodies, the last being that of the Con- |
vention in this city that n ominated Hon. John |
R. Tucker for Congress.
Capt. James Strain, of the Fourteenth Viz
ginia Cavalry during the war, who resides |
about two miles from Brpwnsburg, Rockbridge
county, who had been suffering for some weeks |
with catarrahl fever, aught fresh cold which |
resulted in pneumonia, from which he is now
suffering. 1t is hops ID and supposed that the |
crisis has passed and that he will recover.
DIR. Kenton r. T rlmble. son Of Mr.. James
Trlmble, of Monterey, Highland county, who |
had previously be en- graduated in Medicine at |
the University of Virginia, was graduated re-
Gently at the Bellevue Medical College of New
York. AS there is SO much sickness in his ma |
tive county at this time, it will furnish a good
field for the application OF his medical knowl-
edge. |