Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1899-09-07
LOCAL DEPARTMENT.
LOCAL BRIEFS.

McH Holiday has shoes to sell t
irrepressible boy at prices to plea
every one.
Switzer 81 Grubert haye a change
t1eir advertisement which is of int
est to our readers.
The Virginia school for The Deaf ar
Blind opened yesterday for the ensuiI
session. A large number of studen
have arrived.
Mrs. Eppa Hunton, wife of ex Unite
States Senator Hunton, died at Wal
renton, Fauquier county, the first c
the week aged "A years.
Herbert j. Taylor, special commits
sioner, postponed sale in case of VIM
Fl. Asst VS.. Lucinda FL. Monroe iron
last Saturday, the End, to next Satu1
day, the 9th, at same time and place.
A deed was filed in the city clerk
Office last week, by Mrs. George Babe
and children, conveying her residence
on Lewis street to DR.. S. z. Hite fo
$4,000.
Harry Fl. Blease, as executor of tn,
will of Mrs. Catherine j. Beard, will
sell at her late home near Waynesbort
on the 22nd, a lot of personal property
See advertisement.
During the past week the following
marriage licenses have been issued
Chas. II. Lovegrove and Miss Ida V.
Thacker; married at Greenyille YES
terday. And to w. r. Youell and
Stella E. Bennett; married at Craigs-
vile yesterday.
Last Tuesday was the first day of
the Jewish New Year, and as is Gus
tomary, it was pretty generally observ-
ed as holiday by Hebrews the world
over. On that day the stores of all
Jewish merchants in this city were
closed
Thomas Whitehead, Jr., of Amherst
county, was defeated for the House of
Delegates in that county last Saturday
by 297 majority. His opponent was
DIR. r. B. Ware. The fight was over
the county judgeship, and Whitehead
was opposed to Judge Campbell.
The Supreme Court convened here
on Tuesday with Judges Cardwell,
Keith, Rely, Buchanan and Harrison
present. 1t is thought the session will
not be long one. Quite number of
visiting lawyers are in attendance.
Nathaniel Russell, colored, was held
up and robbed last Saturday night by
two negroes while on his way to his |
home about miles west of StauntOn. |
The robbers first saw him in a grocery |
store in the city with S. and arranged |
later to get it which they did with the
use of pistols.
Rev. H. F. Scheele, a former pastor
of the Lutheran church in this city,
AID who left here last winter to accept
the passionate of church at st. Joseph,
Mo-, has resigned his charge there and
will spend some time in travelling. Mr..
Scheele has host of friends in this
city and county.
Mrs. Bette w. Chase, of Waynesbo-
70, was appointed housekeeper at the
Mary Baldwin Seminary last week and
she Immediately entered upon her du-
ties. The appointment is good one.
The seminary opened yesterday for the
session of 1889 1900 under the most IA
v0rable auspices.
Rev. j. d. Martin, the presiding
elder Of the Lewisburg district of the L
Baltimore Methodist Conference,
South, died IN Lewisburg last Satur-
day, aged 40years after an illness of
only few days with appendicitis. Mr..
Martin few years ago was stationed
at COvington. He was brother of w.
T. Martin, of Charlottesville
The Allegheny Hotel, at Goshen, has
been sold by commissioners for $18,-
600, the purchasers being j. s. Craig
and J. B. Wood, of Goshen. This is a
boom hotel, and was built at cost
of over 100000. The same gentlemen
were purchasers Of the property last
November, when it was sold at public
auction. Tue price then was $l2, 900,
and the creditors refused to confirm
the sale.