Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1897-02-18
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Mr.. Henry Lee Staples, 3 proIlaiaen.t
citizen of Richmond stsest me- fesi
ence on the 18th.
Mr.. A. r. Alcoek, g ci6Th il one OF
the State departments, died last week
in Richmond of grip.
R. Thomas Yancey, grocery sales
man, in Danville, aged about twenty
seven wears, committed suicide by tax
| ing laudanum last Saturday.
At Caroline Court, two tracts of land,
containing about 700.acres, known as
the Flippo estate, have been sold at
auction for 81, 7O5, Mr.. Andrew Samuel
being the purchaser.
| Commissioner of Agriculture Thomas
Whitehead has received many appllca-
tions for the seeds of Havana tobacco
which Consul General Lee recently
sent him for distribution.
The CITY council of Charlottesville
has authorized an issue of $50, 600 OF .
per cent. ten forty coupon bonds the
proceeds Of their sale to be devoted to
increasing the city's water supply.
: Capt. A. D. Armistead. principal of
the Pungoteague Academy, in the
southern part of Accomac, died Wed
nesday night of last week, after a brief
} illness, aged 60 years.
Elmer A. Weatherholtz, whose trial
4 for wife murder excited much interest
, in Shenandoah county, died in the
!. hospital of the Virginia penitentiary
ION the 18th, from drinking alcohol.
A deed of assignment from the White
81 Dodson Company, one of the largest
u hardware and house furnishing estab
q lishments in Norfolk was admitted to
" record last week. The liabilities are
4 $4,000.
!. The frequency of incendiary fires ii
Portsmouth has prompted the council
of that city TO take extraordinary
n measures for the apprehension Of thu
,r fire bugs. They have empowered thu
#. mayor to pay 800 for the arrest an(
s, conviction of any incendiary.
m Miss Susie Egerton, daughter of ex
= Governor w. E. Cameron. and MIR
d. BRYAN Groom Whitfield, of Tallahas
re see, Fla, were married at the nome
c. the brides parents, in Petersburg OF
Ga the 18th. by Rev. 0. S. Bunting, recto
of st. Pauls Episcopal church.
~ At the banquet of the Richmond Ba
- Association last week Gen. Bradley L
li' johnson created a breeze by compal
o ing the Cuban revolutionlsts to tn
la people of Southwest Virginia. Anon
or the guests on the occasion was el
Judge s, G. Graham Of Tazewell CO
IL. He took some umbrage at the compal
ne ison made by the general.
ds IT is reported in Norfolk that th
sh Illinois Central Railroad and til
he louisville and Nashville Railroad hay
a, obtained an option on the Roge
farm, on the Western Branch, for
&c terminus. the purchase price to g
nd e13O. 900. The erection OF grain elevi
no Tor ia said to be part of the project.
Ids The third annual celebration of tt
,at birthday of Mr.. Charles Broadwa
. Rouss. of New York, under the apspic
of the Union Fire Company. was he
ng in the Courthouse Hall at Winchest'
N. last week. 1t seemed that the emit
id. population had turned out, and tt
.;T number of persons turned away wou
'hi have filled three more halls of the san
Gu size.
ere Captain Philip Haxall, one of tt
nst hest known citizens of Richmond. dl
len on tn 18th inst, after brief iline
bis of kidney troubles He was one OF e.
firm of Haxall. Crensliaw " Co, wi
rel were flour millers In Richmond. al
IKE the product of whose mills was on
zen known all over the world, especially
rms South American. Captain Haxail
no asnociallv prominent in society circl'
lail He married Miss Mary Triplett, abo
he whom there was duel fought betwe
the a Mr. Mordecal, a young lawyer
OPP Richmond anu raso y - ~
cot paper man.