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nell.
Miss Annie Rideuour, of this county, has
been appointed a copyist in the Pension Oh
fee at $500.
Mr. H. P. Deahl, of Berryville, recently
lost 500 from his pocket 1t was an untor-
tuuate deal
MIA. Yates has threshed his crop OF
wheat. and it turned out over twenty-one
bushels 70 the acre.
MIA. Mason Of the Hagerstown bar
addressed the W. L. Wilson Club OF tins
town on Friday night last.
DIV. Simmons recently bought two
lots at Roanoke q. 5000 each, and few days
after sold the two for $500
Frank d. Bying,on, Of this county, has
been promoted from copyist at 5000 to clerk
st 81 600 in the Pension office.
Mr. Harry C. Getzeudanner, Of sheP-
herdstown, boughta lot in Roanoke for $500
last February and has just sold it for 3, goo.
Special rates viii be issued by the rail
roads 70 those who wish 70 attend the lot
sales at Goshen on the 9th and 10Th Of Oc-
to5er.
Mr.. F. b. Souders has three plum trees in
his garden in full bloom. This is the sec
ond time this season that they have put
forth their bloom.
AIessrs Washington * Alexander prompt
ly paid 81 400 to Mr. Washington Benner,
whose barn was recently burued-insured
in Peabody, of Wheeling.
W. w. 3. Gallaher and John Burns have
been elected as delegate and alternate, re-
spectiyely, to attend the synod Of Virginia
At Stauuton on the DIST instant.
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Mr.. F. L. Beller has contracted to erect
an Office building for Mr. Briscoe B. Bouldin,
al Shendun. Va, and Messrs Earushaw x
Dooley viii DO the tin roofing for it.
Judge Beckwith has returned from brief
visit to Lancaster, Pa, where he placed
nearly five hundred shares of the Charles
town Mining aud Improvement stock.
Miss Ellen Douglass Henry, sister of the
late Mrs. W. L. Webb, died in Georgetown
last week and was inferred in the Episcopal
graveyard tn this town on Friday last
John Chestnut, Of Martinsburg, has been
granted a patent on a car coupling. Now,
ifi, had been an improved burr for grist
mill his chances would be as good SIS old
wheat
Mr.. Samuel Duncan, in jumping from the
Winchesteracc0mmodaiion at SummitPoint
Thursday night week, was thrown with great
violence 20 the ground and sustained severe
bruises.
The Shenandoah Valley Railroad was
sold at Roanoke on Tuesday-the Norfolk
d Western becoming the purchasers at
S7lO0OOOOO. The indebtedness is about
Sl6O00O00.
Rev. W. W. Grimes, a graduate of Storsr
Coleze. and for a long time a teacher in
san Antonio, Texas, has joined the A. NJ.
Conference. and ha. been located at Roslyn,
Washington.
A commodious addition to the residence
Of +. ". Brown, Esq, was built by Mr.. j.
C. Holmes and the painting completed in
handsome STYLE few days ago, 10y Mr.. W.
W Johnson.
A Democratic club will be organized at
Uyi'la on the 9th. Hons b. d. Gibson
and a. = cambridge, Jr., candidates for
the House Of Delegates, are expected to
make addresses
sam Brown has removed his barber shop
90 the Weirick stone building on Charles
street. where the we,l-kuown t0usOrial ar
lis, win be pleased to see his friends and
the public generally.
The Valley Fertilizer Company is doing
tremendous business. Carloads and
vagon-loads too numerous to mention indi-
cate unusual activity on the par; Of the
company and demand on the part of farmers
Mr. T. Z. Lipptt sent large force o
hands on Monday to Shenandoah, in Pag,
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