Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1898-12-22
BRIEF LOCALS.

BRIEF LOCALS.
All kin Is of Job work done at this Office.
All communications to this Office shoul
be addressed $40 the SPECTATOR
nsuring early and prompt attention.
Thos. A. Gregory and Miss Ella LUG
will be married today near Middlebroo
VIM. r. Mays and Miss Sadie E. Buc
anan were married Sunday near MI
dlebrook.
Swoope postoffice has been made
money-order office, the service TO begi
on and after January 8, 1899.
Samuel T. Turner and Miss Cora
Shull were married Sunday at Sanger'
Vile.
Having secured from the county cler
the necessary document Mr.. Tilden q
Henkel and Miss Lille B. Harris wer
married Thursday in WaynesbOro.
At the Baptist parsonage Wednesd a.
Rev. NJ. L. Wood, officiating, Miss Net
tie Dickinson was quietly united il
marriage to Mr.. Joseph R. CARRIER, boil
Of Augusta county.
Murray s. Kilgalen have secured 6
large contract at Culpeper from Mr.. K
A. Barten; to heat business house fol
him. They are now heating the resi-
dence of Captain Chas. A. Holt with
hot water.
J. w. Leach, of Headwaters, High
land county. is in the city. Whilst
here he called and arranged for the
SPECTATOR to be continued to his ad.
dress which places him among a mum
Der of subscribers whose subscription
will not expire until some time after
the beginning of the Twentieth century.
The home of Mr.. A. G. Craig, on
Stafford street, was the scene Of quiet
wedding Wednesday about noon, when
Miss Virginia Meeks became the bride
of Mr.. M. J. Gleason, Rev. NJ. L. Wood,
of the Baptist church, officiating. Mr..
and Mrs. Gleason took the
train for Nelson, where they will make
their future home.
Joseph r. Campbell, of Steele's Tav.
ern community. has purchased the Jo-
seph Pelter farm, one and half miles
north of Greenville, from j. II. Swart-
Fly, of Staunton, price $4,000. Mr..
Swartzly bought the farm not long ago
at a commissioner sale. Mr.. Camp
bell will move to his new home about
February next.
Mr.. Andrew Stuart died on Sunday
morning last at his home in Greenbrier
county, W. Va, at II o'clock, of diabe-
tes, in the 73rd year of his age, He
was son of Col. Lewis Stuart, who
served nearly his whole lifetime as
clerk Of Greenbrier court. He leaves
brother, Henry, of Richards, and tire
sisters, Mrs. General A. w. G. Davis
Mrs. Colonel J. W. Davis and Mrs. C..
L. Peyton.
Thomas Edward Carson, brother of
J. Sanford Carson, of this city, died at
Shemeriah manse, the residence of his
brother, Rev. W. w. Carson, near Mid
dlebrook, Monday morning about 1
o'clock, after an illness of several
months. Up to the time of bis sickness
he was student at Hampden Sidney
College, being member of the Sopho-
more class, and at his cath was 20 years
of age. The funeral took place at
Shemeriah church at II o clock Tuesday
conducted by Rev. Robert Sapsley, pas
tor of Bethel church.
John Trimble, of Swoope's Depot, an
old civil war veteran of the Fifth Vir-
ginia Infantry, passed through the city
Thursday on his way to the Johns
Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore. Mr..
Trimble fell from hay ladder last sum-
mer, breaking the bone in his left
wrist. The injury never healed, and
while getting in ice few days ago, he
caught cold in it, which set up inflam-
nation, causing great suffering and
which will necessitate severe surgical
operation.
Mr.. Leonard Essman, who left this
city on Thursday for Savannah with
other soldiers to embark for Cuba with
the Fourth Virginia in which they will
enlist, was, when he joined Co. K, a
young business man of Portsmouth,
Ohio, but wishing to join a Virginia
Company selected Company K. He
vas then travelling for the Jeffrey Man.
ufacturing Company, makers and i'm
porters of mining machinery. During
the stay of the Company at Jackson
vile he was correspondent for the Steu-
benville Sun and Portsmouth Daily
Times. He has made many friends in
Staunton, and none stood higher with
his Company.
Aboard U. s. s. Chester, Dec. 49,
We sail today, 1870 a. m. have been
assigned to Company L. All we'll so
far. We have been armed with Ameri-
can magazine rifles. Well, I have no
more time, as l must send this before
the vessel sails, so good bye.
LEONARD EssMAN,
Co. L. 4th Va. Vols.