Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1889-05-17

Personal.

Culpeper, is still confined to his bed.
Mrs. Gen. j. E. Roller of Harrisonbure
who was stricken with paralysis on Sunda
night of last week, died on Monday last.
Capt. JAS A. Patterson of Waynesboro
: was in Roanoke last week.
The Rockbridge News has the followin!
: personals: Miss Lucy Walker of Staun
ton, is the guest OF Miss Annie Mcbride
Miss Lizzie McKemy of Augusta county
} is visiting Mrs. j. d. Anderson.
Dr.. Zach. J. Walker of Rockbridge, will
his wife, has just returned from visit tt
Florida.
Mrs. John T. Stuart of Raphine, was
among party who visited the q. S. Mon
itors, lying below Richmond, last week.
MI. Baxter Slower, has been visiting his
brother, Dr.. j. M. A. Slower, at Broadway
Mrs. Louisa Summers of Rika, Colorado
with her three children, is visiting hel
aunt, Mrs. JohnE. Johnson, No. IA ST.
Clair street. She brought with her some
products of the processes of silver smelling
which are curiosities.
Rev. j. E. Booker of Hebron Church has
been presented with a suit of clothes and a
saddle, by club of young people of his con-
gregation.
Judge Paul's U. S. District Court is in
session at Harrisonburg. Among the petit
jurors summoned to it were-P. T. Burk-
holder, J. H. Crawford, E. A. Fulcher, of
Augusta, and among the Grand Jurors
were NJ. f. Gilkeson, J. A. Frenger, J. r.
Kemper and j. N. Noble, of Augusta.
Nh. Samuel M. Donald of Florence. is
visiting his old home in Augusta. He is
warmly welcomed, for he was one of her
most popular citizens.
Mrs. Dr.. III. H. Henkel left this week to
spend the summer months with her father
in Missouri.
In business edition of the Pana Oil J
Palladium,we see that among the prominent
men there, is w. M. Smith of Augusta
county, who went west thirty three years
ago. He is the proprietor of large marble
and granite works in Pana.
MI. J. L. Grooms has been appointed
postmaster at Mt. Sidney, Augusta, in
place of A. L. Grooms resigned.
Mrs. J. w. Frost of Warenburg, Mo-,
formerly Miss Effie Buck of Augusta,
who, with her little son, has been spending
some weeks with her mother, Mrs. n. 1.
Buck at Mt. Scion, left for home on Tues
day evening.
Among the delegates appointed by the
Southern Baptist Convention to the Baptist
Anniversary at Boston, is Rev. J. NJ. Frost,
former pastor of the Staunton Baptist
church.
Maj. Jos. n. Woodward left yesterday, to
take charge of the Healing Springs in Bath
county, for the coming season.
Flour Inspector J. G. Whitlock, who has
been very i'll, has recovered sufficiently to
be in town this week. He thinks he will be
able to attend to business next week,
though he looks greatly weakened by his
illness.
Prof. +. W. Hamer of the Augusta Fee
male Seminary, with his family, will spend
the summer vacation in Germany. He has
secured staterooms on steamer for the
party.
Maj. j. Marshall McCue has presented to
the County of Augusta, an abstract of the
record books of Orange county, (of which
Augusta once formed part, very valu-
able in tracing Augusta land titles.
B. M. McCue of Staunton was registered
at the Exchange Hotel in Richmond. Tues
day.
Mr.. Jno. M. Carroll left yesterday to fill
his usual summer post in the management
at the Caldwell House, near the White Sui
phur Springs.
DR.. Benz. Blackboard, Superintendent of
the W. L. Asylum, was in Lynchburg,
Monday.
The Charlottesville Jeffersonian says:
NH. J. W. Smith has gone to Waynesboro,
where he will put in Waddell's station midi
Gator, and from there he will go to Licking
ton to assist MI. w. H. Waddell in prepar-
ing for the test of the electric signal
In the list of the long-term teachers at
the d., d. & B. Institution, recently pub
lished, the name of MI. Talbot B. Coleman.
for twenty years the competent and faithful
teacher of painting, was inadvertently
omitted.
A marriage license was issued in Wash
mgton City, on Tuesday, to Mr. II. A. S.
Hamilton of Augusta county, Va, and
Miss Grace A. Harmon of Charles county.
Nd.
The next Coffee of the Ladies Auxilia-
ry of the Y. M. G. A., will be held at the
residence of Mrs. B. f. Cootes, No. % S.
Church street, next Thursday, from 5 to 7
P. M.
Messrs. W. H. Wolfe and G. w. S. Tur-
ner OF Staunton, have opened a real estate
office at Buena Vista.
One of the handsomest pieces of civil en-
glneerlng work we have seen is the plat of
the property of John Kelly at the Allegha-
ny Chalybeate Springs in West Va. lust
completed by MI. c. w. Oltmann of Staun-
ton.
Florence, Ala, has so many Staunton
and Augusta people in it's population that
It's personals look almost like they belonged
to Staunton paper. The last Florence
Wave has the following:
Judge w A. Hudson and wife, returned
last night from their trip to New York.
cdr. Stephen Harnsberger, who has been
visiting Ohio, in the interest of Florence
returned here Sunday evening, after a very
pleasant and successful trip.
1.-The regular monthly meeting of the Y NJ
G. A, which took place in the Methodist
church Sunday night was largely attended
Every seat in the large auditorium was occu-
pied. The meeting was led by Mr.. NJ w.
Camper. Rev. Dr.. John A. Preston by re-