Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1897-08-26
BRIEF LOCALS.

BRIEF LOCALS.
All kinds of Job work done at this offic
Tomorrow Wallace Circus will be
town.
Mr.. M. ]. Babcock has been appoin
postmaster at Barterbrook in this county
The granary and corn crib of Samuel
Allebaugh in Rockingham Co.. was c
troyed by fire last week.
Montague Payne is building for r.
Stratton brick business house on Johns
street.
When you come to town and wish enyeIo1
letter-heads, bill heads or any other kind
job work done, call at the SPECTATOR Al
VINDIoAToR Office.
At Hebron Church, August IS, by Rev.
E. Booker. Norman +. Palmer and Mi
Susie e. Fulwider, daughter of Jas. rulw
der OF Augusta, were married.
Whilst Mrs. Emma Dudley was ava
from home last week, some thief entert
her house and stole some clothing. a waite
and other valuables.
The annual convention of the Virgini
Christian Endeavor Societies will be hel
at Noafolk. opening on Thursday evening
September 80, and closing with the const
Grafton service, Sunday, Oct. 8.
Ira Dixon, a farmer of Bolivar Mills
Rockbridge shot and killed negro in hi
watermelon patch last week. The shootin
was claimed to be accidental, and Dixol
was fined $50 by magistrate.
Last week the barn of Philip Tutwiler O
the Spring Hill neighborhood was burned
with considerable amount of hay, grail
and farm implements. His loss is placed a
500, and he was not insured.
The mind of Mr.. Jas. f. Smith, who has
been quite i'll at the home of Mr.. VIM, F
Gllkeson. near Thinking Spring, has become
SO much affected that it is thought he will
be sent to the Western State Hospital.
A corps of engineers is on the upper OF
headwaters of Greenbrier river in Pocahon
tas county, surveying railroad route south
from that point to the g. & o. The corps
left Hot Springs last week and began at or
near the north line of Pocahontas Co.
The mother Of Rev. W. H. Sheppard, col
ored. Presbyterian missionary to the Congo,
Africa, has just received letter announc-
ing the death of Rev. W. H. Sheppard
0-months old daughter. Luclla.
The Republicans will not nominate a
State ticket this year. They will decide be-
tween the Prohibition or the Populist tick
ct. and grease their Threats to swallow
either.
Prof. Chas. E. Young has purchased the
very valuable property of Mrs John Black
ley on Kalorama street, in this CITY. and
Will reside there, and in portion of the
building conduct his school for boys.
The friends of Mr.. Jno. W. Montgomery,
Of Deerfield, will be pleased to hear that he
has so far recovered from most severe at
tack OF typhoid fever from which he has
been suffering since about May last, as to
be able to come to court on Monday.
A colored man named Chas. Smith, who
is deranged and was roaming about the vi |
entity of Basic in a nude condition, was ar
rested last week and brought to Staunton |
by Sergeat Van Lear of the Basic police |
force, to be sent to the colored asylum.
The apple crop of Augusta is fairly good |
and is likely to yield the owners fair reye-
nue.. Apples are scarce in some parts of the
county. We have heard of an offer of So. so
per barrel in Clarke county, having been
but we doubt the offer or the re-
.usal.
Last week, on court day, the new court
house OF Rockingham county was thrown
open for the first time to public inspection.
md great many persons went through it. .
The clerks have already moved the records
INTO their respective Offices.
The Valley Herald says that the G. & OIL,
'estlbule made narrow escape on Tuesday :
last week at Waynesboro, having struck. :
ND killed three COWS at the end of the
ridge which spans South river. If the
rain had jumped the track at that point the :,
lunge would have been about forty feet.
A bear came down out of the mountains .
wednesday afternoon and was seen
oletly walking along the track of the &. &
J. road at the gravel bed near Basic. A
ang OF men with pack of hounds started q
pursuit, but bruin gave them the slim ~
nd escaped.-Herald. al
The barn Of Mr.. M. r. Brown near Lex
lgton, was destroyed by fire on Thursday %
lgnt LAST, and John Pettigrew, a colored l.
I'm hand was burned to death, and Harry VI
DO, also colored, was badly burned, one "
g pelng entirely burned off. The barn
'ntalned ten tons of hay. The fire is said lii
have been of incendiary origin. p
An eastern syndicate has leased a large Vi
mount OF iron ore land about fifteen miles I'll
nth OF the White Sulphur Springs on the
ad to Huntersville, and have been OPEN be
9 up the mines to ascertain the amount an
d quality of the ore. The blasting is con- WI
uous.-POcahontas Times. on
Maj. J. Taylor Ellyson. chairman of the wi
tie Democratic committee was in Staun- ,
| few days this week. He is aware that 10
re is concerted effort on the part of the c.
ces opposed to the Democrats to carry as wi
ny Legislative districts as possible and a n
sounded warning to the people eau wv
ming them against becoming apathetic. S+o
lr. James L. Kerr of the New Hope
ghborhood, threshed on last Saturday.
from one field Of u acres. The Weld at hes
machine was 458 bushels, by measure VI
1T. At the mill the weight at go pounds We
he bushel, increased it to 1913 bushels. LIZ
King the yield AL bushels to the acre. an'
wheat was of the kind known as the I''
red. This is the heaviest yield recorded an
l 80 far this season. ano
Camp Meeting. nro
Christians, Sunday, Aug. 30. To pro- G.
modations the q. & U. Ry. will ton