Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1897-12-16
BRIEFLocALs.

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BRIEF LOCALS.
All kinds of Job work done at this Office.
Waynesboro expects to have water from
her new water works in fifteen days.
Charlottesville has a bill pending in the
Legislature to enable her to issue 5000 for
additional waterworks.
Il. e. Greiner was fined sos in the Police
court last week, which he could not pay, SO
went to jail.
Contracts have been let which are intend
ed to give Lewisburg, W. Va, her rtifcial
water supply.
The large saw mill at Ronceverte, W..
Va, has shut down, without any immediate
prospect of starting up in the near future.
Ballard Gibson was last week fined 500
and sent to Jail for three months for stab
bling an officer in Clifton Forge.
When you come to town and wish envelopes
letter-heads, bill heads or any other kind of
Job work done, call at the SPECTATOR and
VINDIcAroR Office.
The sale Of the personal property Of Mrs.
Geo. W. Koiner took place Thursday last
Mr.. Koiner will remove to Greensboro,
NC.
Harrisonburg hotel guests ring electric
bells by catching hold of the electric light
bulb and giving it pull. So says the Reg
lister.
Gov. O'Ferrall has declined to sign the
new game law, SO that all killing of par
tridges prior to the 18th, yesterday, has been
Illegal.
Mr.. r. A. Robinson, ST.. of Louisville,
KY, father of Mr.. r. A. Robinson, who
married daughter of Col. VIM. Preston
johnson, sister of Mrs. Harry Tucker. is
dead.
Messrs. John, Nick and Philip NJ. Coy
ner and L. E. Ellis, have purchased tract
of timber land consisting of about 246 acres
near Buffalo Gap. and will at once COM
mence the manufacture of it.
"a Damsel Errant," by Amelie Rives
princess Troubetzkoi), has been published
by the j. b. Lippincott Co. 1t is described
by the New York Critic as "a pretty, inno-
cent love- tale, with nothing startling in it
beyond its epithets and much to admire.
tract of 1SO acres of the ID. q. West
farm on the Valley Pike, several miles be-
low Tenth Legion, has been purchased by
Reuben NJ. Zirkle of Rockingham county
for 81, 200. This is what good road does
for land
The editor of the Greenbrier Independent.
cow has strayed. The advertisement states
that she was fresh. A small boy in Marlin
ton suggests that maybe she was 'tot
fresh !''-Pocahontas Times.
Several young men from Shenandoah 60
who went to North Dakota last spring have
returned to their homes in Virginia. TIT
: day they started east the mercury registered
20 degrees below zero.-Register.
BY Rev. e. d. White. at the parsonage
in Waynesboro, Monday evening last at
O'Clock, Mr.. Jas. S. Whitesel Of Illinois, to
Miss Mabel Meyer of near Shenandoah
were married. The groom is a brother Of
Mrs. M E. Thacker, and member of tn
U. S. army.
A coiored soldier, named Augustie Finle!
has recently died at Fort Robinson, Neb
is thought he went from this county. L
any one knows Of such man they VII
confer a favor by sending information tt
this Office. If he was native of this coun
ty he has been away twenty-five or NOR
years.
Mr.. N. L. Blakemore died at his home a
Tenth Legion, Rockingham Co., Tuesday
afternoon, 18th inst Mr. Blakemore wa
one of the Oldest citizens of Rockingham
His remains were taken for burial to San
gersville. Augusta county, where he for
merly resided and where he has larg
family connection.
The Commercial Savings bank Of Char
4 lesion, w. Va. which was organized il
1894, has closed its doors for want OF bust
ness. 1t is said depositors will be paid dol
lar for dollar, but the stockholders viii
lose slightly VIM. A. Qhley is presiden
and e. w. Young. late State bank exam
ner, chasier.
u In fifty cases decided by the w. Va. Su
preme Court OF Appeals at its present ses
sion in Charleston. the circuit courts hay
been reversed in forty instances. This re
suit is without parallel in the history G
the judiciary of this Or any other State. an
is causing much comment in legal circles.
Mr.. A. E. Huddlestun of White Sulphu
Springs, was badly injured a few days ag
by horse running away with him. He wa
driving in dog cart when the horse becanl
frightened at hoge and strated to run an
in attempting to stop him the horse bega
kicking and it is supposed MI. Huddlestu
was either kicked by the horse OF was inju
ed by falling from the cart.
The w. Va. Court of Appeals has just d
cided that $50 much of section l, chapter 8
of the code of 1891, as requires license
= solicit or receive orders for spirituous liz
uors is unconstitutional and void as apple
to those soliciting orders for the sale {
goods to be shipped from points outside tn
State to points within this State" This Sc
ties the question as to the right of person
from other States to solicit orders for liz
.uors to be sent into this State i'll which the
have no license.
BALTIMORE Nd,
Penn Ave.
Editor of SPECTATOR:
Sir-Enclosed find 81 so Tor which pleas
send ME your paper for one year, and cople
of Thursday, December End, for the balanc
You know we have no Democratic papt
here. and am only allowed to keep tt
4 copy that you were kind enough to send
me, by promising to get some more. 1 recko
they want them to frame, the same as the
do, the Confederate flag, SO they wont hay
to rely on the memory alone. When the
z wish to recall that in former days they ha
seen a Democratic paper. A few days az
1.-The Morning Herald" had a picture
THAT fellow Cleveland back from duckin
"Trip, there he stood with pile of dead duel
& at his feet, and below all this most truthfr
! sentence. "And. the deadest duck he ev,