Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1896-03-11
Personal.

! EOISVu0us
Hon. A. w. Hartman, State Treasurer. wa
in the city on visit to his mother last week
Mr.. VIM. G.. Kinney, of this city, has gon
to New York, where he will engage in bust
ness.
Mrs. j. A. Hiner left few days ago to JOIN
her husband in Louisville. KY, their presen
home.
Judge ]. NJ Quarles has removed his Law
office to rooms on the second floor of TIN
Masonic Temple.
The wife of Hon. J. Ran. Tucker, of Lex
ington, is visiting in this city the wife of Hon
H. ST. g. Tucker.
Mrs Cora Ferguson, Of Roanoke, daughter
of NJ. P Funkhouser Esq, is visiting at he
fathers on East Beverley street.
Senator and Mrs. Echols returned to thei
home on last Thursday evening, after thu
adjournment of the Legislature.
L. Kemper Huff and wife, of Waynesboro
are on visit to friends in Baltimore, and
will be from home for some time.
R. W Smith, Esq of this city, who was
paralyzed some weeks ago, has been riding ou
for several days and is much improved
! Mrs. B. NJ. Atkinson and Mrs. Thomas G.
Elder are visiting their sister, Mrs. Jas, H
Doolev, at ''Maymount," in Henrco county.
D. L. Snyder, Esq. the owner of the Panaces
| Springs, in this county, was in the city Satur
day, and reports fair prospect for a good
season.
Rev. Henry Alexander White, D. D., OF
Lexington, Va, preached two able sermons
at the Second Presbyterian Church last Sun.
day.
The Odd Fellows Lodge is nearing com
pletion, and, when finished, will be one OF
the handsomest buildings in the city, and
most credltable to its builders.
Samuel Forrer, Esq, Of Messy Creek.
chairman of the Deaf, Dumb and Blind
Institution Board was in the city on Friday
last attending one of its sessions.
B. F. Terry VIM. A. Burnett, Jacob Yost,
W. T. McCue, and T. R. N. Speck, with VIM
A Cushing, auctioneer, were in Iron Gate last
week selling some lots under trust-deeds.
JAS r. Taylor, Jr., & Co., insurance people
of this city, have removed from their Office on
the corner of Main and New streets into the
elegant apartments in the Masonic Temple.
Bishop Hargrove is expected to preach at
the Methodist Church on next Sunday morn
to address the Sunday school i'll the afternoon.
]. B. Stephenson, a prominent member of
the Harrisonburg bar, was in the city Satur-
day, on his way from Lexington, where he
had been in attendance on the Rockbridge
Court.
John E. Campbell, Editor of the Allegheny
Sentinel, was a visitor at our office on last
Saturday, and reports that the industries in
and about Covington are prosperous and
business good.
Geo S. Lightner, ESQ.,. an attorney of
Woodstock, Va, was in the city on Saturday
last attending the funeral of his brother,
James, and wife, whose sad deaths are
noticed in another column.
Mr.. Riley Campbell met with a serious
accident in the Merry Creek Iron Mines by a
caving-in of earth. One leg was broken and
his hand crushed. and his scalp torn off his
head down to his eyebrows.
Perry McCaul, Esq, who resides about three
miles west of Messy Creek Academy, now in
his 10Th year, was in Staunton during the
whole of the Andrews trial-the first trip he
has made here for long time.
Mr. W. A. Haines, late of the Western
Union Telegraph office, has been elected as
sistant book-keeper in the Farmers and
Merchants Bank of this city. This was
necessitated by the remarkable increase in
its business.
Mr.. Henry Hanna, whose barn near Mt.
Scion was burned recently, was much worse
burned himself than at first supposed. His
hands are so badly injured he has been I'M
able to us them since, and his face and head
were also burned badly.
News has reached here that Mr.. Hugh
Dever, who left Pocahontas county to visit his
son at Germania, Nebraska, a short time ago,
has been slightly paralyzed, but recent letter
to the SPECTATOR from him made no mention
of it, SO we trust it is not so.
E. c. Machen, who has had charge of the
construction of the Chesapeake and Western
Railroad in Rockingham county, has re-
signed the presidency Of the Old Dominion
Construction Company and James Clark was
elected his successor on March 9Th.
&c Newman, who superintendent the con-
struction of the Masonic Temple, returned to
his home in Highland county last week, the
work being about completed. Mr.. Newman
made many friends whilst here. and left be-
hind him monument of his skill as an
artisan.
Mrs. Robert W. Burke and her daughter-in-
law, Mrs VIM. S. Burke, who have been
spending the winter in Washington, have re-
turned home, bringing with them Misses
Money and Cooper, two very attractive So
ciety ladies of Washington. The former is
the daughter of U. S. Senator Money, of
Mississippi, and the latter the. daughter of
Hon. Samuel B. Cooper, member of Congress