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A Good Farm Record.

A correspondent of the Danville Register
recently came across a farmer, MI. William
F. Rippeto, residing near Weyer's Cave, in
this county, who furnishes an example of
industry and thrift worthy of commenda-
tion. Mr. Rippeto is an old soldier of Stone
wall Jacksons brigade, and lost his left
arm in the battle of Gettysburg. That
arm was cut off near the shoulder, and yet
with one arm he cultivates his farm of
forty acres and comfortably supports a
wife and four children. In seeding time
he employs help, but at all other times does
all the farm work himself, and his devoted
wife attends to all the affairs Of the house
and kitchen.
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Railroad Notes.

WHAT 1T COSTS TO LIGHT THE IF. F. W
TRAIN-THE VALLEY RY. LIKELY TO
RUN THROUGH TO BALCONY FALLS OVER
THE R. & A. TRACKS.
From paper ON Electric Lighting in
Train Service read by M. B. Leonard,
superintendent of telegraph of the Chesa-
peake & Ohio Railway, before the recent
convention of railway telegraph superin-
tendents, we extract the following concern
ing the electric lighting of the G. q 0. pas
senger trains: 'sThe Chesapeake & Ohio
vestibule train, Fast Flying Virginian,
running between New Y Ork and Cincinnati
with six cars, is supplied with 11S lamps
divided up thus: Two Pullman coaches
with 80 lamps each, dining car with 26,
day coach 16, combination CAL IS, and the
baggage car three. Up to May l, 1890, the
average cost per lamp for maintenance and
renewals was $1.10 per month; yet where
the exhaust steam is utilized for heating
the train, the cost can be very materially
decreased. MI. Leonard thinks that
eventually the power will be supplied di-
rect from the car axle.
The Buena Vista Advocate says: 1t is
reported here that deal is on hand whereby
the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Company
will run it's trains over the Lexington
Branch of the Chesapeake Ohio road, and
connect at Balcony Falls with the main
line of the James River Division for the
east and west. This arrangement will give
the B. & o. practically through line from
Baltimore to Richmond via Lexington and
Lynchburg. In consideration of this az
rangement the Chesapeake q Ohio is to
have the right of way over line to be
built by the Baltimore & Ohio from Buc-
hanan to Roanoke.
The Big -Four is drawing it's supplies of
cross ties for it's whole system from forests
on the line Of the Chesapeake & Ohio road.
The ties furnished are large and of very
solid growth, and Chief Engineer Irwin is
of the opinion that they will last a third
longer than the cross-ties which the Big
-Four people have been placing under their
tracks in years past.
President M. E. Ingalls,, of the Chesa-
peake & Ohio, is summering with his family
in a cottage near the White Sulphur. He
has his secretary with him and disposes of
a heavy mail every day.
Until Sept. 18th, every Monday, Thurs
day and Saturday, a solid train from Lex
ington will go through to Baltimore on the
Valley Ry. On the same days a parlor car
will come from Baltimore as far as Staun-
ton.
controlling interest in the Chesapeake &
Ohio RY.
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Buena Vista Affairs.
The Buena Vista Advocate of Friday

The Buena Vista Advocate of Friday
contains the following items:
Election of Teachers.-TheS School Trus-
tees on Tuesday night, out of large num-
Der of candidates, elected the following
teachers for the Buena Vista Graded Pub
lie School-Miss Matte Speck of Augusta
county; Miss Maude Mathews Of Albemarle
county, a graduate of the High School at
Staunton, and distinguished musical pu-
pill Of Prof. F. R. Webb at the Virginia
Female Institute; Miss Amelia F. Waesche
Of Rockbridge, who had already been a
teacher in the public schools of Buena
Vista, and Mr.. W. P. Wyer of Warrenton,
Va, graduate Of Richmond College.
Plants Secured.-Rarig & Nichols Of
Columbus, Ohio, have closed a contract to
remove their large boiler and machine plant
from Columbus to Buena Vista to begin
operations in the later town by Jan'y. 1st
1t is said that so families will come with
it.
The sum of $50O,OO0 of the $4,000
capital to the steel plant is stated to have
been secured land New England parties have
promised to take the remainder.
A Home Product.-The Advocate APP
pears in an enlarged form, on good paper
which is made from wood grown near the
town and made into pulp in a paper mill in
the town.
Personal.-Mrs. Gen. J. E. B. Stuart Of
Staunton, was in the city this week.
Capt. Z. H. Rawlings of Vesuvius, has
contracted for the building of a handsome
residence in Buena Vista and will remove
his family here when it is completed.
The congregation Of the Episcopal church
chose vestrymen last Sunday, among whom
was Mr.. J. E. B. Stuart, late of Staunton.
Miss frankie Christian Of Augusta, and
S. Lehman of Staunton, were among the
200 arrivals at the hotel during the past
| week.
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The Staunton Building Company.

A called meeting Of the Board of Direc-
tors of the Staunton Building Company
was held at Covington last week, at which
w. G. Damron was elected General Mama
ger and r. Fl. Brakeman of White Sulphur
Springs, w. Va, an experienced builder,
was appointed Superintendent Of building.
Mr.. Brakeman will have charge of the
She ps in Staunton. General Manager Dam
ron has gone to Bedford City, Va, to close
a business contract with the Greenwood
Land Co. there. At the meeting of the
Board of Directors in Covington PROPOSE
lions offering inducements to the company
to put up branch factories to build houses
under the Carskadon patent, were received
from the land companies at Salem, Bedford
City, Buchanan and Mineral City. The
manager was instructed to carry to close
the negotiations already commenced with
these companies.
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Waynesboro Notes.

The Waynesboro Times of Friday has
the following items:
Nev Build5ngs.- Baptists expect to
commence, this week, the erection of q
church costing several thousand dollars,
opposite the residence of DR.. A. G. Fox on
Main street.
is going up.
Patrchase.-The ingalls, Iron Il Coal Co.
has purchased the Herman Iron property.
Personal.-Among the visitors this
week were N. D. G. Moore, B. Slower,
R. P. Landlord, NJ. NJ. Robertson, Alex.
Hartman, Fl. f. Lyle and J. Med. McCue
of Staunton, and S. D. Harper Of Mt. Sid
ney.
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asst to join her daughters at Atlantic City,

last to join her daughters at Atlantic City
N. J.
MI. G.. NJ. Fifer, with his family, has
returned from Florence, Ala, and has tax
en- a residence on Sears Hill.
Mr.. Alfred Jaffe and his sister, Miss
Charlotte Jaffe, left yesterday for the sea.
shore.
Mrs. Rockwell of Rhode Island, who has
son at Kable's Academy, has returned to
the city from visit to her home.
Miss Clara A. Bib Of Staunton, is visit
ing Miss Laura B. Quay, of 407 West
Grace street, Richmond.
Maj. A. F. Kinney, Paying Teller of the
National Valley Bank, is spending his va
cation at the Rockbridge Alum Springs.
Capt. John McQuaide and Mr.. W. O.
Sydnor of Staunton, were in Norfolk. Sat
urday.
Miss Matte Gillock of Lexington, is
visiting relatives in this city.
Mr.. Walton Shepherd Of Augusta, is Wis
iting in Orange county, Va.
Mrs. Henry Lickliter is visiting friends
in Woodstock
Mr.. J. L. Lindsay Of Basic City, was in
n orfolk last week.
Miss Kate Sohl of Baltimore, is visiting
Miss Julia Haines at No. 129 New st.
Capt. Chas. S. Arnall of Atlanta, Ga, is
in the city.
MI. J. Fl. Woodward left yesterday on
his annual trip North for goods.
Miss May Turney of Missouri, is visit
ing her sister, Mrs. DR.. H. H. Henkel
Mr.. Frank W. Banner Of Richmond, is
visiting his mother at Folly Mills.
MI. Floyd Landlord has returned to the
city from an extended Northern trip.
A correspondent of the Lynchburg Viz
ginian writing from the Bedford Alum
Springs, thus speaks of Mrs. Lottie Baylor
Landrum
cdr. Landrum and wife of Richmond, are
people, and she is possessed of great
beauty. Among all the rest of her attrac-
tiOns, one of my especial admirations is
Mrs. DR.. Landrum, the mother. She is one
of the most beautiful Christian characters [
have ever met with. ever dispensing the small,
sweet courtesies of life as she Journeys on her
way heavenward.'
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Returned Home.

On Saturday afternoon, Gov. Joseph w.
Fifer and wife of Illinois, registered at the
Virginia Hotel on their way back home
from the White Sulphur. They attended
the First Presbyterian church on Sunday
morning and heard the pastor, Rev. DR..
Mcfarland, of whose sermons they are en-
thusiastic admirers. They had heard him
here on the Sunday before. During Sunday
a number of prominent citizens called on the
Governor, and not the least interesting Wis
itor was the venerable Shadrach Jackson,
colored, who had carried brick for the Gov
ernor s father when he built the Presbyte-
rian manse in Staunton nearly half cen
tury ago. The Governor expressed much
pleasure at seeing the old man and had a
pleasant conversation with him. Monday
morning the Governor and his wife took
the Valley train for Washington, desiring
to see by day light the famous Shenandoah
Valley of Virginia.
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Real Estate Transfers.

J. E. Graham to Robt. r. Watkins, new
house and lot on Winthrop street, 81 300.
w. III. II. Lynn to E. W. Shott, small lot
near Lewis street, 800.
VIM. T. Rush, x'or of R. G.. Bickle,
dec d, to Davis A. Kayser, lot On N. Green
ST., near Reservoir, 81 900.
VIM. +. Asst to Staunton Land Go. 60
acres on Northern edge Of town, 1886, 900,
one-fourth cash.
D. A. Kayser to Thornrose Cemetery
Co., lot on N. Green st.
D. A. Kayser to B. T. Bagby, lot on N.
Green St., $500.
D. A. Kayser to Geo. w. Armentrout,
lot on N. Green st, near Reservoir, $500.
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BreYltles.

The regular quarterly meeting of the
Ladies Auxiliary of the Y. M. G. A., is
called for next Monday afternoon, Sept. LIST,
at 5 O'Clock in the Y. M. G. A. parlor. A
full attendance is earnestly requested.
Next Monday, September LIST, the oyster
season opens and ''dozen raw' will be in
order at the restaurants.
The Ladies' Aid Society of Trinity
church will give lawn party in Maj. H.
M. Bell S yard, next Tuesday, from to 10
P. M.
The ladies of Calvary Chapel, Stuart Is
Draft, cleared $177 by the first night of
their lawn party, last Wednesday night.
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Washington & Lee Alumni Association.

ELECTION OF PRESIDENT-THE SCHOLAR
SHIP AwARDED-THE MEMORIAL
BUILDING.
The Staunton and Augusta Association
of Alumni of Washington & Lee Universe
ty met on Monday last in the Supervisors
room at the Court House. The President,
Judge John Howard McCue, having died
since the last meeting, Vice President A.
H. Fultz presided.
The following officers for the ensuing
year were elected-President, A. III. Fultz:
1st Vice President, T. D. Ransom; I'd Vice
President, Samuel r. Pilson, and Secretary
and Treasurer, T. G. Morton.
The Washington & Lee Scholarship in
the gift of this Association was awarded to
James B. Mcclure, son of MI. Thomas
Mcclure. The recipient is a young man
who has already made his mark at Old
Providence Academy, and at the recent
commencement there there gave evidence
of having brilliant future before him.
Messrs. T. G. Morton, C. E. Kemper and
W. N. Wilson were appointed a commit
tee to prepare resolutions on the death of
the lamented President of the Association,
Judge McCue.
MI. J. H. Alexander of Waynesboro, was
elected to membership in the Association.
The following resolution relative to the
Alumni Memorial Hall at the University.
offered by Capt. T. g. Morton, was adop-
ted:
WHEREAS, On the I'd of May, 1890, meet
ing of the Alumni Of Washington & Lee Uni
versity decided that it was of first Importance
that an Alumni Memorial Hall should be
erected as speedily as possible on the Univer-
sity grounds at Lexington; and
Whereas, Committees have been appointed
by that meeting and the General Association
to receive subscriptions for the building of
said Memorial Hall and several thousand
dollars have already been subscribed for that
purpose.
Resol0ed, That this Association earnestly
commend the undertaking, urge all Of its
members to aid it all in their power and here
by appoint committee of three consisting
Of one from the city of Staunton and two from
Augusta county, to solicit subscriptions to be
paid at the earliest convenience of the sub
ScriberS.
Messrs. J. Lewis Bumgardner, w. W.
Sproul and A. G.. Christian were appoint
ed committee under the resolution.
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Big Manufacturing Plants Gong to
Goshen.

A contract has just been signed and COM
pleted for the erection of car works at
Goshen City to employ from 800 to 500
hands, and another contract has been signed
with the Keystone Machine Company OF
Williamsport, Pa, to move their machine
plant to Goshen. This is big work for the
new town, for with the rolling mill now
being erected there and the Victoria Fur
mace, and these additional industries, there
will be about 1000 skilled laborers, in the
new town and it's vicinity. Goshen is going
ahead handsomely.
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MARKETS.
VINDICATOR OFFICE,
STANTON. VA AuouSt 22th

I
STAUNTON, VA. August 28th.
Wheat continues firm with no changes in
price. Corn and oats same as last week.
Hay is barely steady at quotations. There
is not much doing, business being restricted by
light offerings.
A telegram from Baltimore received here
this afternoon says: "Wheat declined from
4 to cents to-day
The Baltimore Sun notices the sale there of
100 bushels OF Maryland wheaton seed
wheat at $1.15 per bushel-the highest price
that wheat has brought there this season. 1t
adds something that all farmers who have
wheat for sale would do we'll to remember /:
''It was stated by a leading merchant that the
chief cause of the high price obtained for this
lot was in the fact that it had been so careful
ly handled before coming to market. He
says one reason farmers do not obtain higher
prices generally for the crop is because the
cereal comes to market full of impurities and
foreign substances that necessarily affect it's
Sale.'
The crop of wheat in Canada seems to have
turned out very differently from that in the
United States. The Canadian Department of
Agriculture has issued bulletin, which esti-
mates that the yield of wheat exceeds that OF
last year by 100000 bushels, that of peas
by 100000 bushels, and that of hay and
clover by nearly 100000 tons. The fruit crop
generally is failure.
The Baltimore Sun of Friday says: ga re-
ported reshipment of 10000 bushels of wheat
from Europe and its resale here was the occa.
sion for some talk on the Corn and Flour
Exchange. Believers in the present values of
wheat said the transaction looked like bear
move to weaken prices
Dun & Co. of New York, in their market
review of last Saturday, :say: "Wheat closes
&c higher than week ago, but the advance
was much greater before the break came. Not
only have exports been arrested, but is 900
bushels of American wheat were reshipped to
this country from, Liverpool, and trades were
in progress for more. Corn rose only lAc and
oats declined 2}4c, but pork products were
shade stronger. Coffee and sugar were held
without break, but cotton fell &c on sales of
100000 bales and oil declined SIC. Exports
OF products from New York for three weeks
of August are % per cent. smaller than last
year, and the recent changes do not yet suffice
to bring exportable staples down to the parity
of foreign prices
GRAIN MARKETS.
RICHMOND, Aug .--Wheat-Longberry good,
sl.O9; common, a7o; Shortberry very good, 81 10:
good sl.0S; common, 81. Corn-47
BALTIMORE, Aug. 27.-Wheat-Southern firm:
Fultz, 95caSlO5 Longberry 81 .O0asl O5 No. 2 sfOs;
steamer No. red. $l.0O; Western weak ana lower;
No. winter red spot and Aug. sl.O214; Sept,
Slo2Aaslo21a; Oct 81 eiasl.0f; Dec sl071aas1 C7s.
Corn-southegA steady; white, 5sa59; yellow,
Sass
CHICAGO, avg, 1,-Wheat-se 81 ,ez77zs, Dec,
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Four Appeals.

At the coming September term of the
Court of Appeals in Staunton, four cases
appealed from the Hastings Court of this
city will be heard-the case of the w. L.
Asylum Us. Abner Shacklett of Harrison
burg; same Us. DR.. McClanahan of Gull
pepper, Adm +; Weaver as. Ayres, Ia case
removed to the Staunton Hastings Court
from Rockbridge), and the case of Meyer,
Rhinehart & Co. of Baltimore as. M. B,
Oberdorfer.
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Clifton Forge.
The Review Of Friday furnishes the fol
IowinU naus from ifs TOWN

The Review of Friday furnishes the fol-
lowing news from it's town:
Engineer Appoimted.-D st. Geo. Fra
ser of Pa, who has been engaged on the
Clifton Forge Company's work, has been
Engineer of the Clifton Forge
Mining and Development Co., formerly the
Charter Oak Co.. and has put corps in
the field laying off the town, which will
cover about 100 acres.
Hand Bloacm OT.-Dorsey Hamilton,
aged eleven, picked up in the road a couple
of dynamite caps. He attempted to drive
them together to make whistle. They
exploded, tearing off his left hand, lace
rating the fingers of his right hand land bad
ly burning his face and breast.
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Meeting to form an Infantry Company

A meeting will be held at the Police
purpose of forming an infantry company
to belong to the I'd Va. Regiment. Col.
Jos. A. Mutton of the regiment will be
present. Staunton should have an infantry
company and there is plenty of the right
sort of material here to make one. Our
young men should attend the meeting to-
morrow night.
A few days ago Capt. S. S. Brooke of the
Roanoke Light Infantry was elected
Lt.-Colonel of the regiment, and Capt. W.
w. Lewis of the Pocahontas Rifles was
chosen Major.
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Neat Uniforms.

The conductors on the street cars presen-
ted neat and attractive appearance on
Monday in their new uniforms. The uni
form is gray suit, including sack coat
with brass buttons,an gray cap, the out
fit closely resembling the government letter
carriers uniform. On the lapel of the coat
is badge which carries with it not only
the authority of a conductor, but also un-
der the city ordinance, the powers of a
policeman,
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Tuesday night about 10 o'clock, q colored
woman stopped Officer Simpson ON the
street and told him that she had just met
s'Doad" Bell, the noted little negro thief, on
the street, and he must have escaped from
jail. The officer went to the Jail and not1-
fed Deputy Sheriff Watts, who was in
charge, Jailer Butcher being in the country
for the night. MI. Watts, who had been in
the County Treasurer Office, adjoining the
Jail, on business, on going to the cell
found that Joe Greedy, thief; Doad Bell,
thief, and Henry Watson, forger, all coIored,
had escaped. Their cell was on the second
floor, the iron cages in the basement in which
they had been confined being so unhealthy
from sewerageand leading water pipes that
the physician had directed them to be
taken out of them. They had punched a
brick out of the wall dividing their cell
from the next. The wall was only single
brick thick, and had been soaked by the
water pipe of the next room for years, and
when one brick was taken out yard OF two
of it crumbled out easily. Under it they
found a rotten joist crumbling to pieces,
and pulling it out they had a clear passage
way down to the boiler room below. The
door of this leading into the yard they broke
open, and then scaling the wall, fled. The
condition of the Jail is such as to defeat
the ends Of justice. The building is thor
oughly insecure, and the only secure places,
the iron cages, cannot be used for hygienic
reasons. The most important criminals may
escape. The Supervisors should visit the
Jail and see the necessity for some change
before the present outlet is repaired. No
officers can hold prisoners unless they are
given a secure building to hold them in.
Decd Bell was caught in Harrisonburg
and brought here yesterday evening.
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On Monday evening, the 18th inst, the
hay-mow of Mr.. J. B. Mason near Spring
Hill, was fired by an incendiary. The fire
communicated to the barn which was also
destroyed.
On the 21st inst, lightning struck and
burned the large barn of Noah Switzer,
being erected on the VIM. Hanger farm near
Koiner's Store, Of which he is a tenant. He
lost his wheat, hay, and farming imple-
ments on which there was no insurance.
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Basic Clty Notes,

The Basic City Advance of yesterday
has the following items:
Water Works.-Holtsclaw Bros. OF
Washington city, have taken the contract tc
erect the city water works in 80 days, Civ.
ing water enough to supply 10000 people,
Liberal to the Charlottesville Basic
City Company has given three building
lots each to the Presbyterian, Methodist
Catholic and Lutheran denominations fol-
church buildings.
Forty houses have been erected in the
city in the last eighty days.
Fine viev from the mew Hotez.-While
visiting Basic City Saturday, Rev. Dr..
Nelson Of Staunton, said that through
all bis wanderings in Italy and
France he had never beheld seen
cry SO grand and beautiful as that
which greeted his vision from the observa-
tory of the new hotel.
Normal Couege.-The new Normal Col
lege opens next Tuesday, President G.. W.
H@nshel has removed his family to Basic
Civ
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Advance of Real Estate IN Staunton.

Our city is showing strong signs of a
healthy boom in real estate. The recent
sales of property on Main street Indicate
that values are increasing. The click lot
brought about $500 pei front foot with a
depth OF only SO feet. The Skating Rink
lot a year ago was considered well sold at
800 per foot, but recently it brought $3.50
per foot and is now desirable at 5000. The
WholeY lot opposite it has advanced SO
per cent. in sixty days,
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Sudden Fail of the Thermometer.

On Friday afternoon about O'Clock, a
black cloud appeared in the West and a
cold wind set in. The thermometer fell
from 500 to $40 in two hours. The cold
snap continued until Sunday morning,
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4 Good Chicken Record.

A resident Of Green street, in Staunton,
had a lot of chickens Matched January 25th,
last. They began to lay June LIST, and then
set and Matched out chickens which are
now nearly as large as cartridges. That is
record hard to match.