Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1892-12-02
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WHEREABOUTS AND MOVEMENTS OF rEo-

WHEREABOUTS AND MOVEMENTS OF PEG
PIE THAT YOU KNOW.
Near Kilmarnock in Lancaster county
there stands great oak said to be just 4O(
years old, and is known as the 'sevil oak.
on account of a murder reported to have
occurred beneath it's shades. AS the tree is
supposed to have sprouted i'll the veal
Columbus discovered America and has
flourished till it's 4OOth anniversary, it was
agreed, as Capt. T. e. Morton, Secretary
of the Va. World S Fair Board, suggested
that it shall henceforth be call the Column
bus oak.
Mr.. T. F. Shuey. wife and child were at
the Virginia Hotel in this city a day OF SC
this week. Mr.. Shuey was returning with
his family from his home near Churchville
Augusta county, to Washington to resume
his professional engagements as the chief
Of the staff of stenographic reporters OF the
U. s. Senate.
Mr.. w. L. Livick Of this city, has re-
ceived letter fIom MI. w. B. Will, for
merly head miller for Messrs. Witt & Holt
MI. Will is now employed by a large mill
ing company at Longmount, Colorado. He
quotes wheat at 80 cents per bushel, flour at
50 "a per barrel, and offall at 6S cents per
hundred.
Cards have been issued announcing the
marriage of Mr.. John Cannon Hobson OF
Goochland county, to Miss Annie III
Camp of this city. The ceremony will be
performed at the Monumental church.
Richmond, on Wednesday evening, De
cember 18th, at O'Clock.
MI. w. M. Owens, mining engineer, for.
merly of Buena Vista, but now engaged
with the Rich Patch Iron Company ALE
ghany county, was in the city this week in
the interest Of the important work upon
which he is at present employed.
Miss Bessie Young returned last evening
from a short visit to Jeffersonton, Cu]pep-
Ell county, Va. where she witnessed as al
attendant the marriage of her cousin, Miss
Carrie Triplett of that place, to Mr.. Phil
ip Taliaferro of Richmond.
w. Randolph Jones of the Norfolk &
w COlC1i1 lldll1OttNl, IlttO UCCll
from the local department at Buena Vista
to the passen ger service of that company
on the trains between Roanoke and Buena
Vista.
Mr.. 1. G. Haas, editor of the Charlottes-
vile Advance, who has been in West Vir-
ginia some weeks seeking restoration to
health, has not improved. He is now at
Duffields in that State, where Mrs. Haas
has joined him.
Mr.. Bullitt Fitzhugh, editor Of the Cape
Charles Pioneer, passed through the city
yesterday returning from Charleston, w
Va, where he has been attending the annu
al meeting Of the West Virginia Press AS
sOciation.
Mr.. P. H. Eubank has just shipped some
excellent specimens of Poland-China pigs
to his farm in King William county. The
stock was bought from MI. Taylor Dun
lap of neal Stover's Shop.
Rev. A. F. Laird, pastor of Mt. Horet
church, Augusta county, and Miss Evelyn
H. Craig, daughter of b. H. Craig, Esq.
Of that vicinity, were married on the 29tf
ultimo.
Miss Mary Rives Of Albemarle, for the
past month guest OF her relatives, the
family of MI. W. B. Bruce of this city
returned home on Monday last.
Mrs. VIM. A. McCue left yesterday morn
ing for Birmingham. Ala, where she will
spend the winter with her brother, Mr.
Miles S. Miller.
Rev. S. w. Haddon and wife of SPOTS
wood, returned home last week fiom a Wis
it to friends and relatives at Bigbyville,
Tenn.
Rev. DR.. Thos. Peck, who has been Wis
iting his brother, MI. II. D. Peck at Mont
gomery Hall, left yesterday morning fol- his
home in WATERFOWL, n. Y.
Miss Annabel Timberlake, after a long
illness at her home on Lewis street. with
typhoid fever, is, her friends are glad te
know, again able to appear on the streets