The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1893-03-02
CORRESPONDENCE.
HEALING SPRINGS NEWS.
\ Negro Attempts 10 Outrage
Married Lady-Caught and

| HEALING SPRINGS, VA, Feb &c, 1898.
Mr. John Stinson. Manager of Healin
Springs, has been quite indisposed fo
several days.
DR. Fl. Gilmer, an old practicing ply
stefan of this place, is lying critically i'll
He is about u years old.
Our public school is nearing it's close
the session terminating in two weeks
| After it closes, we hope the teacher
Prof. w. 5. LaRue, will give a CRANE
entertainment
What young man was it, in comine
from preaching with his best girl, got sc
excited when her saddle-girth broke anC
she was falling from her horse, that he
yelled 1--WE are told) loud enough to be
heard nearly half mile? Fortunately
no one was hurt.
Williams q Herman, and R. NJ Pritch
ard, our gentlemenly merchants of this
place, are now selling off their entire
stock of goods at cost, which is very
convenient for the neighborhood, as we
can buy our goods from them as cheap
as they can be furnished by the whole
sale merchants.
The Healing Springs Band was reor-
gained few days ago and elected as it's
leader James H. Keyser. They also have
just purchased nice uniforms for the en-
tire Band. and are prepared to go to
picnics Or public gatherings of any kind.
They have the brass and can blow a
mighty 'blast."
j bad occasion to be at Hot Springs a
few days ago and was greatly surprised
at the improvements going on at that
place. There are no less than fifteen
buildings going up, and some of them
nearing completion. A fine hotel is
nearly finished; a bath house, costing
about one hundred thousand dollars, is
about completed, and cottages and store
houses of every description under con
struction, the Withrow Lumber Coinpa-
ny of Clifton Forge, having a contract
to build eleven cottages.
We had quite an excitement here on
last Saturday. A negro man assaulted
a married lady living at this place. Her
screams brought aid, but not until the
negro had gotten away. A description
was given by the lady. and warrant
was issued for his arrest, and man an
swering to the description given, was
arrested at the Hot Springs and brought
back here, and was identified as being
the one who made the assault. After a
hearing before Squire E. B. Williams, he
was remanded to jail to await trial. Ex
element runs high in the vicinity, and
it is a case that calls for the most rigid
enforcement of the law.
LATER.-Feb. 27.-News has Just
reached here that-the negro man who
committed the assault on the married
lady OF this place, was taken from Warm
Springs Jail by mob Sunday night and
hung in the Court House yard.
OCCASIONAL.
Some Things We Should Like to
Know
Is it not strange that the law fails to
reach so many evil-doers?
Why should not sensible men advocate
taxing dogs out of existence?
Will Cleveland bother himself about
the Clifton Forge Postoffice?
Why do the scales in our stores regis
ter the same weight differently?
Why do young men congregate on
Main street on Sunday and use profane
language?
Why hasn't an Electric Light been
placed at the corner Of Jefferson and
Cnurcn streets?
Will our town continue to base it's
prospects on the anticipated movements
of G. & 0. officials?
Why do intelligent people prefer to
patronize cheap theatrical, rather than
attend an instructive lecture?
When will reasonable people attend
church, actuated by religious motives,
and not to pose as ''the observed of all
observers?'
Can men be elected to fill the various
offices in Clifton, who will give general
satisfaction and, like Csesar's wife, be
"above suspicion?''
Does not our town surpass any other
it's size in the State, in reference to the
frequency of scuffies, number of dogs,
number of Railroad stations, and NUNS
Der Of candidates for Postmaster
QUIZ.
Glen Wilton, Va.