The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1891-04-16
E. V. Blakemore has been appointed
post,naster at Orkney Sprincs Va

Col B. T. Harlow has been elected
mayor of the town of Lewisburg, w. Va.
P. B. Sublett s. Son have bought Mr..
H. L. Bakers crop of 45 tons of prime
timothy hay for $3.50 per ton.
W. 7. Marr has contracted to build
six dwellings for the Virginia Land and
Loan Company on Coalter street.
Mr.. Stuart Houif, formerly of this
county, was severely kicked by a horse
last week on his farm near Mt. Crawford.
j. n Mcfarland, county treasurer,
WAS called to Decatur. Ga.. last week on
account of the illness of his sister, Mrs.
Lewis.
Col. r. s. Turk has purchased from
/ B. L. Partlow lot on East Main street
for 50 Cos, which lie viii improve.
Mary w Teabo and S. Y Teaho have
purchased five small houses and lots on
! Goocl street, from Rev. ". 7. Ahram
for 300 each. They are all occupied.
WHAT IS THE USE to pay 500 when
You can buy the Scotch Sarsaparilla for
| so cents per bottle Scotch Little Liver
Pills, IS cents. For sale by W. NJ. A!lon.
Mrs c. v Parkins, widow of the late
Isaac Parlsins, and daughter of Samuel
Harnsberger deed, of Willow Spout died
at her late residence at Fort Defiance, on
the 18th inst.
Mrs w. E. Craig left on the 10 a. III.
train Monday for q visit to New York.
She will stop a few days in Washington
| City Col. Craig lett for U. S. District
Court at Danville on the same train.
J. A. Collins, of this county, passed
through the city Monday on his way-to
Wyoming county, W. Va. where he is
engaged in opening up coal lands for q
Philadelphia syndicate. He reports
promising prospects ahead.
We had pleasant call on Saturday
last from Wells J. Hawkes., of the Balti
more Herald's reportorial staff. He is Il
son of the late Mai. Hawkes. of Charles
town. w. Va, who was Stonewall Jacks
sons commissary.
The old we'll at the corner of Washing
ton and Main streets, which years ago
was covered up, cayed in last week. tax
! ing nearly the whole corner. Is there
not danger from a like source at the old
Bickle corner? Some one may be hurt.
Col James White, one of the Oldest
| if not the very oldest lawyer in Pittsyl
vania county. died at his home in Chat
1 ho, 1ac Of EJ, or
Bishop Whittle and uncle of the late
/ Conway NJ White, of this place.
We regret to learn that Mr.. G. w. Olt-
mans, formerly of this place, but now
an inmate of the Soldiers Home, Rich
mond, was paralyzed last week. The
af1liction implicated his speech and left
side, including the arm.
Rev. J. S. Gardner, presiding elder
for the Rockingham district, NJ. E.
Church South, with his family, has ar
rived in Staunton and taken possession
| OF the district parsonage on Gospel Hill,
recently occupied by Rev. DR.. Waugh.
The banquet at the Chamber of Cons
merce on May 18th, in honor of Col J. G.
Shields, practically the founder of the
organization, we hope will be worthy of
the object, and be in all respects an
event to be pleasurably remembered.
The grippe is prevailing all over the
country with fatal effect. 1t has been
more destructive of life than ever was
cholera or yellow fever in fl!is country,
and it is restricted to no locality or eli
mate. 1t claims all classes and commu-
mites for its prey.
Farmers report universal activity in
the country. The season for planting
corn is rapidly advancing and as yet
none has been planted, while no oats,
or comparatively none, have been sowr.
In but few localities is the ground dry
enough, even now, to admit of being
| worked
A horse carrying Il boy of about to 10
years Of age, ran at lightning speed up
New Courthouse street on Monday, and
on turning the corner at Augusta street.
pitched the little fellow nearly 20 feet.
Luckily the boy was not hurt. The
horse was caught opposite Harman's
livery stable.
We direct attention to the advertise
ment Of Hugh f. Lyle & Co, who ale
prepared to furnish all kinds of farm
machinery, boilers, saw mills, &C., on
very favorable terms 1t would be we'll
for farmers and all who want goods in
their line to call on them before making
engagements and learn their prices.
The beautiful grounds of the Sher-
wood Seminary have been laid off into
| building lots, which are in demand. 1t
is a pity that this property could not
have been held by some private indi-
vidual as q residence, as it is real orna-
ment to the city, and one OF the attrac-
tive spots upon which stranger eyes de
| light to look.
We regret to learn that Rev. d. K
Mcfarland, of the First Presbyterian
| church, Of Staunton, who has been in
the South during the winter for his
health, had relapse last week. He was
returning from Florida and stopped in
| South Carolina, where he was taken i'll.
His family were summoned and have
gone to see him.
w. r. McComb, one of our old and
most highly esteamed fellow citizens,
but now one of the most extensive stock
dealers of Richmond, is in Staunton on
his way to his old home in South River
district. He will return to Richmond on
Thursday. Mr. McComb has host of
friends in Augusta who wish him album
dant success in his new home.
Gen. John r. Cooke died in Richmond
on the 9th after protracted illness. He
was native of Missouri and located in
Virginia after the close of the war. His
sister, Mrs Gen. j. E. b. Stuart, prinei
pal of the Virginia Female Institute at
this place, was present at the death of
her brother. Her school was closed on
Friday and no school exercises were obs
served until after the burial of the de-
ceased.
Constable VIM. Scott, of South River