Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1892-03-18
Che News sent in by Vigdigat9r Reporters.
From Steele's Tavern.


QUIET wEDDING-A RoCKRRIDGE
s'wET'' AND ''DRY'' ELECTION IN THE
INTEREST OF A SALOON KEEPER IN AU-
GUSTA-THE SICK LIST-sAD DEATH
REAL ESTATE TRADE. sc.
Reported for the Staunton VINDICAToRl
STEELE's TAVERN, Mar. 15-Thursday
afternoon, the 3rd of this month, Mr.. Sandy
McC. Paxton Of Fairfield, Rockbridge
county, drove over to MI. Joseph McFad-
din's near Brownsburg, and taking Miss
Mary McFaddin with him, set out for a
drive. AS this was no new OF strange thing
it excited no suspicion that any thing I'M
usual was to be done. They drove to the
manse at New Providence church, and
having produced the necessary legal docu-
ment, were united in marriage by the Rev.
G.. A. Wilson. Having returned her to her
parents, Mr.. Paxton went his way; the
next day she finished up the free school of
which she was teacher, no one knowing
that she had changed her name. The hap
Ply couple appointed last Thursday to 60 to
housekeeping, but such day as it turned
out to be! a bright morning followed by
a thunder storm, rain, snow and freezing.
Cards are out for the marriage on the
23d inst, Of Mr.. E. Ashby Thompson, a
thriving young merchant of Buena Vista,
and Miss Nettie, the handsome daughter of
MI. VIM. S. HUMPHREYS of this communi-
ty.
Our neighborhood is again interested in
a n al no To.
South River district in Rockbridge coun-~
ty, which includes part of our village,
voted against license'' in 1886. 1t has
been dry ever since. Last August Riv-
erheads district, which lies in Augusta
county, was also carried by the
''drys." Marryatt Steele, the bar keeper
here, whose license will expire with next
month, has gotten an election ordered in
South River district for the purpose of Sc
curing majority ''for license" with the
hope OF continuing his business on the
kockbrldge side Of the line. The Rock
bridge News published the list of signers
to the petition, which almost ''took the
breath" of some of them; and several in
this community and about Vesuvius, de-
clare that they did not sign the petition or
authorize any one to do it for them. Great
interest is taken in the matter here, and
great determination is shown by the people
not to allow the continuance of the oft re-
peated disorder they are subjected to by the
presence of a bar room in our village.
Our sick list this week is as follows:
Mrs. Jno. D. Ballew near Spottswood, was
paralyzed last Wednesday and has been
quite sick since. This is the second stroke
with which she has been afflicted MI.
Robert N. Carson, also near Spottswood,
has been ''under the doctor - for some time
Capt. Joseph McFaddin, near Browns,
burg, was thrown from his horse last Fri
day and suffered considerable, though not
serious, injuries about the face and Shout
der.
MI. William Irvine, living in Clutch
Hollow, +" lost a child three years old last
Friday. Diptheria was the deadly disease,
which did its work in a very few days. The
father was absent on a short business trip
to Illinois, and did not reach home until
Saturday, after the burial of the child,
which took place at Old Providence church.
MI. William Lunsford, living near RAJ
phine, recently traded a farm lying between
Raphine and Brownsburg, to his son Will
liam, commonly known as 'Sam") for a
house and lot at Vesuvius. MI. Lunsford,
Jr., moved last week to his farm, and MI.
T. Echison Agnor moved from Browns
burg into the house thus left vacant at We
suvius.
The Spottswood Reading Club met last
Friday night at the residence of the Hon.
II. j. Williams.
MI. Hugh B. McChesney of Spottswood,
will start tomorrow to Parkershufg, w.
Va, where he hopes to find employment
with the Standard Oil Company.
AS [ close the snow is falling fast.