The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1892-04-14

"oe III CiltoA HorSe Yesterday.
Mr.. Elbert Foster raid a visit K
friends in Augusta county this week.
Capt Lewis Hartman has been il
Staunton on business for several days.
Mrs. J. A. Fauber is, we regret tt
state, thought TO be quite seriously ILL.,
Mr. S. F. Rixey, Engineer for the Low
Moor Company, was in town on Satur
day
Maj S. NJ Yost was called to Louis
vile, Ky, the first of the week on bust
ness.
DR.. w. H. Savage left the first of the
week on a visit to his home in North
Carolina.
Messrs. O. Hiieman and L. K. Hack
man. of Iron Gate, were in Clifton Forge
yesterday on business.
Major B. T. Bagby, of Staunton, was
in Clifton Forge on Tuesday, looking
after his interests here.
Married, in West Clifton Forge, April
9Th, 1892, by Rev E. w. McCorkle, Miss
Lula Beane to Mr.. Joseph w. Tyler, of
Manassas, Va
Mr.. e. S. Davis and wife, who have
been on visit to the latters parents
here returned home to Cincinnati the
first OF the week.
The Literary Society will meet at the
Tyon Ia nunnin.r
The exercises will consist of recitations,
music and a lecture by Mr.. Arthur Lacy.
Mr.. G. E. Roberts, of Roanoke, Va,
was in town several days this week on a
visit to his brother, Mr.. E. g. Roberts,
and paid the VTRGINIAN office call.
The Wooden Mill yesterday received a
lot of warps for the manufacture Of
blankets, and next week they will com
mence the manufacture of these goods.
Misses Barbour, Robinson and Ren>
nick, of Hiss Baldwin's school, Staunton,
Va, spent last Sunday with their friend,
Mrs. H. E. Jones, at the McCurdy House
Mr.. E. D. Davis left on Monday to at
tend the meeting of the Grand Lodge of
ODD Fellows of Virginia, to which he is
delegate. The meeting took place
yesterday.
Mr.. J. B. Miller, of Lynchburg, who
resided here for some time, and who is
we'll known to many of our citizens, was
in the city yesterday and paid the VIR-
GILMAN office :; call.
Mr. G. W. Bowles, son of Mayor Bowie. !,
who is attending school at Lexington,
came home. last Thursday to help in the
patriotic fight for the amended charter
and remained until Saturday
Mr.. NJ. H. Pendleton. who is now on
the road, returned home in time to cast
a vote for the amended charter. He res
ports a successful trip, which his many
friends will be glad to know he has had.
Cards are out pronouncing the mar
riage, April Goth, of Miss Matte Hughes,
daughter of DIR. Hughes, of this place,
to Mr.. w. F. Tinsley, also of this place.
The marriage will take place at the
Christian church.
Buena Vista, town but lutte larger
than Clifton Forge, already pays town
tax of $1.65, and the question of increas-
limits taxation to 81. We ought not to
complain of high taxes.
One of the most humorous attractions
seen in town for some time is the dane
ing colored troupe in the window of
Messrs. Haynes Bros. The figures are
characteristic and amusing, and draw
crowds to the window to see them.
R. L. Parrish, Esq, of Covington, had
the misfortune to get fall from his
horse recently, and as result his left
eye was injured. He went to Staunton
on Wednesday to submit it to treatment
by DR.. w. A. Frazier, the specialist.
The freight receipts on goods received
and sent out, at Clifton Forge. for March,
showed 25 per cent. increase, while the
shipments from the town showed an in
crease of so per cent. This is an evil
dence of the growth of our Industrial
products and wholesale trade.
Geo. S. Lightner, Esq, of the Staun-
ton bar, was in Clifton this week on
professional business. He is candidate
for Commemorative Attorney for the
city of Staunton, and says he is going to
be elected. He would make an indus
trious and pains taking law officer.
Mr.. E. B. Gait, Of Salem, Va, brother
of Reeves and Harry Gait, of Staunton,
was thrown under the feet of the horses
he was driving in Roanoke, on the Sth,
and seriously stunned. He was viciously
kicked in the side by one of the horses,
and several ribs broken. At last accounts
he was resting easy.
Sheriff Watts, of Augusta county, who
left last week for Washington, Ind, to
bring in Dr. G. d. Lohr, wanted there
for selling horse that did not belong to
him and for obtaining money from Au
gusta farmers under false pretense, has
returned home with his man. Lohr had
purchased a saloon in Washington and,
under an assumed name, hoped to be
safe.
The Review Printing Company was
organized on Monday with the follow
ing officers: President, F. M. Jones
Secretary and Treasurer, D. A. William
son, and these with A. F. Withrow, G..
K. Anderson, R. S. Wiley, H. T. Parker,
G. G. Taylor and W. H. H. Frenger, con-
stitute the directory. The object of the
organization is to apply for a charter
and start a Democratic newspaper here.
Religious Intelligence.
The regular services will be held morn
ing and evening" at the Presbyterian