The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1891-11-05
Mrs. Thomas Mosely is visiting friends


system.
A neat ard cheap device, an Electric
Door Bell. See Mr.. Crane.
Electro door Bells are q great conven-
fence. Sec Mr.. Crane before he leaves.
]. Gardner Wood ward entered upon
his duties-of depot agent. at Coyington
on the Goth ulto.
Mr.. Charles Fox returned Saturday
from a ten days pleasant visit to friends
in Richmond, Va
Now is your chance to have Electric
Bells put on your doors. See Mr., Crane,
at Electric Ligh House.
Geo. Hop. a chinaman, was in town
Yesterday, looking around with view
to starting laundry here.
J. Mason Miller has purchased the N.
H. Hotchkiss property on East Main
street, Staunton, for $3.50
Several bets were made Tuesday in
this place, on Ohio ana New York. One
for $500 even on Ohio was made.
Col. James A. Frazier is having bath
room and water closets placed in his
large brick building on West Church
street.
Clifton Forge can become an impor5
tant manufacturing centre, if all inter
ested in the place vii! make an effort in
that direction.
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Mr. H. A. Hope of Bowling, SPOTS
g. Co., Staunton, Va. was in the city
yesterday looking after their trade here,
which is very large.
The weather was cloudy here during
Tuesday, and in the evening chilly. AT
Staunton, the weather was diagreea5le,
with rain fall at night.
Rev. V. Wheeler and wife were at the
bedside of their son who was seriously
i'll last week at the residence of r. l..
Northern, Lexington, Va
Mr.. J. T. Price, of the Withrow Lum
Der Company. was in town yesterday
trying to make arrangements for bring
ing his family to this place.
A number of the citizens of Clifton
Forge were summoned before the Grand
Jury at Covington yesterday, to testify,
in relation to the lynching in this place
on the 18th of Oct.
The electric light will be flashed out
by Saturday. A number ofarcs for the
railroad are already in place. When the
full glare of all of them is seen it will be
a thing of beauty and joy forever.
President E. H. Nettleton has called
a meeting of the Board of Directors of
the Clifton Forge Company, at the office
of the attorney for the Company in
Staun ton on Friday next, the 9th inst.
II Clifton Forge precinct is to be taken
as criterion, the vote in this legislative
district, composed of Allegheny, Bath
and Highland, was almost unanimous
for Withrow, the Democratic nominee.
We are indebted to 0. t. Rhodes, the
Baltimore commercial Traveller, for
copy ofthe Key West Equator Democrat.
He sailed on the next out going steamer
for Havana, in the interest of his house.
Mrs Wilson, widow Of the late r. K.
Wilson, o + Collierstown, Rockbridge
county, committed suicide last Sunday
night. She was a lady of high social
standing and no cause was assigned for
the deed.
Miss Annie NJ. Cribbens, the talented
daughter of j. t. Cribbins, of Staunton,
will be married to-day, Thursday No
vember 9Th, in the Methodist Church of
that place, to Henry A. Drury, OF Phila
delphia.
Capt. l.. Hartman returned to Clifton
from Staunton, Tuesday evening, where
he went to vote to maintain the consis~
tency Of his election record. He reports
that election day in Augusta was as quiet
as Sabbath.
Howe Peyton Gray, Deputy Internal
Revenue Collector at Lynchburg, and
nephew of Col J. l.. Peyton of Staun-
ton was married on the 21st of October
to Miss Olivia Massie, Rev. J. P. Garland,
officiating.
H. Peyton Gray, Deputy U. S. Collec-
tor of Internal Revenue, with headquar
ters at Lynchburg, was in the city Tues
day, on his return from Covington, and
left on the R. & A. evening train for his
place of business.
Col. A. w. Hartman, of Glasgow, was
in the city Tuesday, on his way TO
Staunton to vote fer his old army com
rade Col. H. J. Williams, who is a can
didate for the Legislature. He reports
Glasgow rather dull.
Messrs Carpenter 81 Boxley started
from here yesterday with a force of
hands and twenty mules, to begin work
on double tracking the Chesapeake and
Ohio from Anderson to the Stock Yards,
in Greenbrier county.
Mr.. S. G. Crane, an electrician, of mer
it, having completed his work with the
Clifton Forge Electric Light Co., will
remain several days here, and will put
in Electric door bells and burglar alarms
for all who wish them. Call on him at
Electric Light house.
The imposing three story brick struc-
ture being erected by Moody & Carpen-
ter on west Main street is nearing com
pletion. The roof will soon be on, and
the finishing touches given to the in>
side as speedily as possible. 1t will be
very creditable and slightly building.
W. G. Straughan, who kindly supplied
vacancy in the VIRGINIAN office, for
several weeks, returned to Staunton on
Saturday last. Mr.. Straughan issa most
excellent professor in the "art preser-
vative'' and clever and intelligent gen
tleman. we regretted to part with him.
There will be no further trouble with
Chill. She will make ample reparation
for the ontrages perpetrated upon Amer
lean seamen, as we'll as for, the insult
offered to the government of the United
States. That will be the end of it
Chill knows anything less than this
would not be profitable to her.
Four wears ago the site of Bessemer