The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1891-01-01
The City Council will hold its January
on next Tuesday evening


ton, of Lexington, last week
The January term of the city court of
/ Stanton will be held by Judge Grattan
next week, beginning on Thursday.
L. M. Funkhouser, son of Capt NJ P.
Fankhouser, visited home last week
from Florence, Ala, to spend the holi-
days.
Miss Matte Patterson, daughter of
Dr.. Patterson, is recovering from an at
tack of typhoid fever. with which she
| has been i'll for several weeks.
The Bear Lithia Springs at Elkton
Rockingham county, Va, have been sold
/ to New York capitalists, and possession
was to have been given January 1st.
A party of relatives from Union Bridge,
Md, are visiting the family of Mr. and
Mrs Rosen, on Sears ILL., They are Mrs.
MeCaulIey, Miss Sadie Hail, and Mr.. and
Mrs. Smith and little child.
The Clifton Forge NonpareH is the
name Of new paper published at Cliff
ton Forge by J., Y. Henderson. 1t is
newsy and we'll gotten up. Indept II lent
in politics and sold at Si.00 IA year.
Cards are out for the marriage of Mr..
| Arthur G. Hartman. of Glasgow, and
Miss Rachel Primrose Cochran, of Lex
/ ington in the Lexington Presbyterian
church Wednesday evening, Jan. 18th, at
6 o'clock.
| oh ,f
was at home during the holidays from
! Roanoke College, where he is a student
! Rob is making a good record for himself
| in his studies, and maintains the exem-
plary character he bore when he entered
/ that institution.
Ahe half dozen or more young men of
/ Staunton who came home to spend
| the holidays have grown in size and
hearty good looks during their absence
as well rs toward wealth and in business
capacity. Stannton boys. as rule, take
4 creditable rank wherever they 60
William HOge, who has been living in
Kentucky during the last eight years,
came home last week with his wife to
visit his parents. Mr.. and Mrs. John b.
Hoge. He lives near the city of Win
chester. and is engaged in the busine SIS
OF railroad construction in contracts Gu
his own account.
Henry Is. Hanger, who is engaged in
railroad construction in Kentucky, was
on visit to his mother, Mrs. Geo. A.
Hanger. four miles west .of Staunton
during the holidays. He has been re-
markably successful as contractor, and
is regarded by those who are capable OF
Judging as Il first class railroad man.
William B. Hardy. who has attained
marked success in his business underta
kings since the days when he was fore.
most student under Professor Lecky in
the Staunton high school and under
Captain Hoover in his academy, came to
Staunton last week to spend Christmas
at home with his parents. He is located
in Washington city in the insurance bust
ness.
John Lyons, who went from Stauntou
to Kentucky in May, 1888, returned home
about the middle Of last week to spend
the Chris tinas holidays with his parents,
of the Sears Hill neighborhood. He in-
tended to remain in Staunton about one
week. John is a graduate of Duns-
inofe's Business College, and is DOING
well As a book keeper ut Cumberland
Gap. Tennessee, for Il firm OF railway
contractors
Edmund Berkeley has been at home il
Staunton for several DAYS spending
Christmas with his father, DR. Garter
Berkeley. He arrived last week from
distant Panama and AspinwalI. in the
northwestern extremity of South Amer
lea, between which two cities he oi1ici
ates as conductor.on the short but cele
brated Panama railroad 1t is a forty.
ive-mile rail connection between the
Atlantic and Pacific oceans. and extends
through district of luxuriant tropical
vegetation.
j. Harvey Burdett, whose dangerous
illness was mentioned last week, died AT
his home on Coalter street last THURSDAY
forenoon, December 25tll, aged 70 years
The cause of his death was visceral neu
ritis, arising from or in connection with
an Internal tnmor, which together with a
chill following over>eXertion from shovel
ing snow produced the fatal result. The
funeral services took place on Friday
and We're conducted by Rev. J.. e. Book
er, pastor of the Hebron PRESBYTERIAN
church. The remains were inferred in
Thornrose cemetery. The deceased
leaves wife and three daughters. He
was good man and very genial gen
tleman, popular with all who knew him
The charter of the Staun.on Publish>
ing Company, granted recently by Judge
Grattan, has been recorded by Newton
Argenbright, city clerk, and by the see
rotary of state in Richmond. The bust
ness of the new company will be to CON
duct daily newspaper and a general
printing establishment in Stnnnton, The
capital stock is to be not less Than $1O.-
coo nor more than $4,000, divided into
shares of $25 each. The officers for the
first year are the following gentlemen :
President. A. G. Gordon: vice president,
A. &. BraXton secretary, Geo. G. Wall
tiers; treasurer, w. P. Tams. The board
of directors is composed of the four gen
tlemen named above, with Arista Hoge,
M. Erskine Miller, g. G. Gooch, T. J.
Crowder, w. T. McCue and Thornton
Terry.
Fitzhugh Elder spent Christmas at
home, coming on Wednesday and return
ing to Charlottesville on Sunday. He
was accompanied by Mr.. Terry, young
gentleman from Birmingham, Ala, with
whom he is associated as a student in
the law department of the University of
| Virginia. 1t was under their present in
structor, Prof. Minor, that Fitzhugh's
father, Maj. 7. G. Elder, studied law at
the University many years ago. The
late chief justice of the United States
Morrison r. Waite, pronounced Profess
sor Minor equal if not superior to any
other law instructor in America. The
! University Of Virginia is a grand educa-
tional institution, in which the people
of Virginia and the South can continue
to take pride as they have done for near