The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1890-06-26
Miss Lucy Whitehead died on the 18th

Mrs. Nancy Mohler, an aged lady, died |
1T Rockbridge Baths on the 18th.
Prof. D. E. Laird, principal of the
Classical School, died on the
18th in that place.
New York claims population of
/, 200, 900 and Chicago of 100000. The
latter is phenomenal.
Seven Census Enumerators were ar
rested in Minneapolis last week for pad
ding the census returns.
Itisstated that call will be issued soon
for the Democratic State Committee to
meet in Richmond on the Both OF June.
Mr.. Theodore W. Wright and Miss
Mary V. Purvis were married at Mon
treal, Nelson county, ON the 18th of
June.
The Buena Vista Building and I'M
provement Company has recently re-
ceived its safe at Buena Vista, which cost
So, 5O0-a very large one.
Mrs. Grover Cleveland's inheritance
from her grand fathers estate, in Omaha,
is one sixth of $500, 900.
The report that Congressman McADoo,
of New Jersey, intended to take up his
residence at Lynehurg, Va, is emphati-
cally denied by that gentleman.
Rev. Armand Miller, son of Rev. j. l.
Miller, has abandoned his purpose of
going to Japan on missionary work, be-
cause of the i'll health of his wife.
Judge Henry w Thomas, a distin-
guished lawyer, who had served in sew
eral high judicial positions, and at one
time was Lt-Governor of Virginia, is
dead.
Mr.. J. NJ. Marshall, of Hume, Eau
quier county, has three hundred and
ten ewes from which he sold seventeen
hundred and sixty dollars worth OF
lambs and wool.
Misses Edna and Rose Runnels and
Lucy Smith and Mr.. Ed Runnels, OF
Staunton, accompanied by Misses Susie
Terrell and Eva Cash, and Mr.. Lewis
Terrell, of Bloomsbury, paid the Misses
Foutz a flying visit at Rockbridge Baths
last week.
Norfolk does not come up to our eX-
pectation in its population. 1t is given
at about 10000. But we have faith in
the city by the sea. She will number
over 100, 600 in ten years, and in twenty
will go to a quarter of a million. The
South has not fairly started on the patti
of development.
Chicago has doubled her population
within the last decade. 1t is now over a
million, and it is claimed will place hei
second among the cities of the country
if Philadelphia does not figure over her
In another decade, at the present rate Of
increase, Chicago will number more PEG
pie than New York.
Mrs. H. I'll. Riddleberger, wife of the
late Senator Riddleberger, announces il
the last Shenandoah Herald, that she
has taken full and complete charge o.
that paper, and will hereafter have il
conducted as a county political and news
Journal 1t will he Republican as here
tofore.
Josiah Potts and his wife were hung
from the same scaffold at Elko, Nevada
for the murder of Miles Fawcett, in Jan
uary, 1885, The last words of each o
them were, God knows We are limo
cent They displayed great nerve il
the trying ordeal-the woman assisting
to adjust the rope around her neck.
James Lawrenson, died in Baltimore OF
the 23rd, aged 81 years. For 81 consecu
tive years he held a clerkship in thu
Postofflce Department, and as a justice
tue reace administered more oath
than any other officer i'll the district
He was a modest, kindly man, whom
every body respected.
Capt. Brown, well known in contrac
tors circles, and employed at one tim.
with the Masons, Hoge & Shanahan, &c.
was killed at Richmond, KY, on the 18th
by Patrick Costello. They were botl
under Capt. NJ. H. Mccarthy, whose
work is at Speedwell, KY. Costello is ir
all Capt. Brown was from the Valley
Mr.. John Mcclure, son of DR.. Mcclure
of Clark county, was drowned at Hawks
Nest, w. Va, on the 10Th. He was bath
ing in pool, with little Edwin Bledsoe,
son of the late T. A. Bledsoe. The lit
tie fellow got into deep water, and was
threatened with drowning. McGuire
went to his rescue, and after saving him,
sank himself and was drowned.
Mr. Eddy, Vice President of the Nor
felix and Western Railroad, has a sum
mer residence in Massachusetts,. Re
turning from recent visit there, he said:
every body in Massachusetts is talk
ing about Virginia, and there is no
doubt there will be more visitors to this
before
VIM Olden, of Harrisonburg, Va, was
killed near Kerneysville, W. Va. on the
Goth, by falling from freight train. His
body was cut in two. He was on the
train by mistake, as he had bought a
ticket at Shenandoah Junction to Mar
tinsburg, and had gotten on the wrong
train. He had changed to the freight
train to. get to his destination, when the
accident occurred. q u tst4se SEA
F. A. Berlin, son of Geo. W. Berlin,
of Rockingham. was married in East
Oakland, Cal, on the Goth of May, to
Miss Prucilla Smoot. Two thousand invi-
tations were sent out. c. HI. Berlin, the
grOom's brother, and U. S. Surgeon, T.
H. Harnsbergef, Of Harrisonburg,o on duty
at Oakland, on the Iroquois, were pres
ent on the occasion.
Leander Mccormick, of Chicago. has
been visiting in Rockbridge for several
months, and is experimenting the erec-
ton of nine shafts over his deceased rel
atives buried in Rock bridge, to commem-
crate their memories. 1t is very pleas
ing to reflect that affections are thus
kept green and fresh, although the bod
les of the loved ones have long since dis
solved into dust.
Hon. Georg, w. McCreary, Secre
tary of War un Ter President Hayes for
two years, died in Washington on the
23rd, aged So years He resigned the war
portfolio to accept U. S. Judgeship;
and resigned this latter position to ac
cept the place of general counsel for the
Topeka and Santa Fe Rail
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