Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1888-02-24
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The Committee appointed by the meeting
recently held at Warrenton, Fauquier, to for.
ward some plan to build railroad to run from
| Washington City via Staunton to st. Louis, is
encouraged by the cooperative feeling shown
in Fauquier. A correspondent of the Balti
| more 'tSun" says the old route bed of the
Manassas Gap railroad which was finished
before the war to Gainesville, twelve miles
from Warrenton, is to be utilized.
| The Charlottesville "Jeffersonian" and
Rockingham "Register" denounce as SWIM
| dlers some men who have been playing this
| game on several farmers of those countless
They induce the farmer to sign contract by
! which they agree to furnish him seed oats of
| Sc bushel and clover seed at $40 bushel,
| they agreeing to take his whole crop from the
seed at SEA bushle for oats and $40 bushel for
clover seed. They get the farmers negotiable
| note on this and at once sell it to an innocent
holder. They got the note of Siram Kite of
| Albemarle, for 500. and that of Jno. A. Her.
| ring of Rockingham, for $40. this way. The
"Register' says G. W. Hollar and several
| other Rockingham men were caught that way.
The men said they operated for the "Mary-
land Agricultural Company of Baltimore.
| There is no such company.
Ex-Circuit Judge G.. A. Wingfeld, died in
| Bedford on the 18th inst, in his 80th year.
| He had been a member of the State Constitu-
| tional Convention of 1850, member Of the
| District Court of Appeals, and for twenty five
years Judge of the Sixth Judicial Circuit.
! The Y. M. G. A. of Petersburg are booming
their building since the convention there
| They propose to build one to cost $25, 900.
| Already several thousand dollars have beer
| subscribed by the business men without any
effort on the part of the Association, and soon
| the canvassing committees will go out. The
Ladies' Auxiliary of the Norfolk Association
cleared nearly Four Thousand Dollars by
their bazaar which has just closed. The Asso.
citation there held its first song meeting in
the new building, Sunday, and the Ladies
Auxiliary their first prayer meeting there on
Tuesday. The Norfolk Landmark" says Mr..
| E. T. Dadmun will shortly sever his connec
ton with the Association as General Secr.tary
and go to Omaha in the same capacity.
The trip of Dr. David Hostetter, Vice Pres
ident of the projected South Pennsylvania
Railroad, to California, in desperate effort to
regain lost health, is being anxiously watched
by the life insurance companies all over the
country. His life is insured for $500, 600 and
| but for i'll health setting in he would have
made it million. He travels in his private
car with his physician aud son. His disease
is of the kidneys and bladder ind does not
improve.
The Local Optionists who were badly de-
feated in Botetourt two years ago, held a
meeting last week and resolved upon another
fight this year. Rev. s. B. Stiff is the Presi-
dent of the organization.
.sDo YOU dawnce the lawncers, DR.. BrowD?"
mo. do not dawnce the lawncers.
But when the dawncers' health breaks down
1 sometimes lawnce the dawncers."
Jacob Beier, well known cornet player of
Richmond, died last week. He was the mu
sician who at the Democratic State Conyen-
ton that nominated Gov. Lee, was sitting
the band in trent Of thu platform. At the