Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1899-08-31

There has been large falling on 81 i
exports from Newport News.
Free delivery of mail in Fredericks-
burg will begin September /.
At the local option election in Pulas-
XII City the "drys' won by majority
of 20.
A gray wolf was killed by dogs in
Albemarle county last week on the
farm of Henry Gilbert.
DR.. James A. Duncan has officially
declined the presidency OF Randolph
Macon College.
VIM. M. STROLLER. OF Lynchburg,
president of the Strother Drug Com
pany, is dead.
n. II. Massie, commonwealth at
torney and prominent politician of
Danville. is dead.
1t is understood that the Southern
railway shops are to be moved from
| Burlington, N. c., to Manchester, Va.
AT Suffolk, on Saturday, EIdrakin
| Potter, aged IA years, was killed by a
baseball thrown by companion.
In memory of Prof. John B. Minor,
it is intended to build by subscription
| at the University of Virginia a law
hall bearing his name.
| E. Brans0n Allen died suddenly at
his home in Harrisonburg on Saturday.
He was one of Harrisonburg's Oldest
citizens, being IN his eighty third year.
There are now only 10 cases of yell
low fever in the hospital at the Sol
diers' Home at Hampton. all of which
are on the convalescent list.
| Mrs. Margaret E. Petty, widow of
the late Rev. Jas. 8. Petty, died at
Front Royal in the seth year OF her
age.
Edward B. Taylor, president of the
q. 3. Taylor Company, died suddenly
in Richmond at an early hour Friday
morning.
| Gen. James A. Walker has filed his
brief in the contest for the seat of Judge
Rhea, from the Ninth district. 1t is a
sharp attack on the Democrats of
Southwest Virginia.
| Governor Tyler has committed to
| imprisonment for life the sentence of
| Thos. w. Price, who was to have been
hung at Farmville on September for
numbering Hall Carter.
Major John T. Loving, of Pulaski
| City, announces that he is in the race
for the House clerkship. He has been
one of Col. Bigger's assistants for sew
| eral years.
Sergeant John A. Mason, who shot
| Guiteau, the assassin of President
Garfield, in Washington in 1881, has
been sent on to the grand jury of Or
ange county, charged with assaulting
and beating two ladies. He was al
lowed bail
On Saturday afternoon at Rock
bridge Alum Springs, while Gen. John
B. Gordon was on his way to his cot
tape large greyhound ran in front of
| him, causing him to fall over it. He
| sustained bruises about the face, but
was not seriously hurt.
The Gem Furnace, at Shenandoah
City, Page county, which has been idle
| for about two years, will resume opera
| tions, it is said, in a few weeks. At
| the time of the suspension the town
had about 5000 population. Since then
many have moved away in quest of
employment.
| At the conference on Saturday, at
Bristol, between Governor Tyler and
Attorney General Montague, of Vir-
ginia, on the one side, and Governor
Nc Millin and Attorney General Pickle,
of Tennessee, on the other, touching
the boundary line between the two
States, it was agreed that Attorney
General Pickle should in October Pc
tition the United States Supreme
| Court for the appointments OF commits
sionerS to review and remark the lines.
| The conference was in every way sat
| isfactory.
| Commissioner Of Agriculture Koiner
has received inquiries from New York
parties, who desire to lease lands in
Virginia to be used as sheep ranches.
The commissioner has been urging the
farmers of this State to give more at
tention to sheep husbandry. He says
this branch of farming is very profit
able now, and that Virginia can feed
hundreds of thousands of sheep on
land that is not bringing the farmers
any revenue, and that the scarcity of
cattle in the west will advance the
price of sheep still higher in another
year. The commissioner regrets the
want of means in the department
of agriculture to print a bulletin on
this subject, and put it in the hands |
of every farmer in the State
Deafness Cannot be Cured