Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1906-08-10
West Virginia Hens.
PoCAHoNTAs COUNTY.

| POCAHONTAS COUNTY
Marlinton has a prospect of good
up to-date department store A. W ell =
1erg of otsuptOn, Va, has been look
ug around for store.
The FOrtieth Session Of the Lewis
| >urg District Conference convened in
darlinion Nj. E Church, South, Tues
lay July 81, with Presiding Elder q.
| L Tyler in the chair.
| AT the Durbin election Saturday last.
the anti saloon ticket, headed by Dr.
| P. D Arbogast, Mayor and Sandy Bur
ner, Recorder, was elected by ma
iority of seven to one Sixty nine votes
we're east
j. /. Wallace was rendered uncOn
scious from lightning shock Friday
| night. He was working at a desk iD the
| MarliDtOn Drag Store and the light
ming came in on a telephone wire.
Mrs Maggie Long died at her home
| in Lynchburg some weeks since. Sht
| will be remem bered by numbeI OF
| our readers as Miss Kate Bias, neice
| of the late Judge James of Bath coun
tv. and John W. Warwick of this coun-
| ty.
The boiler of the locomotive on the
Hosterman Lumber Company'S log
train exploded with fatal results last
Thursday afternoon William Addle-
man was killed and Henry Harding
seri0usly injured. No reason can be
definitely assigned as the cause, which
will probably never be known.
Miss Mary Fleming of Lyncbburg, is
in Marlinton with friends and relatives.
She has but recently returned from
special course of study at the Univer-
sity of Chicago.
In Pocahontas county the real es-
tate valuation is 81 $50 sos Al; personal
property, 50 93l $3.50; public service cor
porations. 1860, 393.74-a total of
SIS, 476 ,SS5 q. On this the County
Court laid levy of cts for county
purposes and cts for road purposes.
GREENBRIER COUNTY.
Col. Dan OConnelI, who has return
ed to his home at Dry Creek from Col
orado, is much improved in health and
looks fine.
Sam1 Price, of the Atlanta, Ga,
bar. is here to spend few weeks with
his parents, Mr. and Mrs. s. Lewis
Price.
Major John w. Harris is building
pretty home in the grove on the east
| Ct u Hill JuoU GOutiA Va wv ASoA0SDSN VI
Il. l.. Van Sickler.
All agents on the Greenbrier Divi
sion of the G. & o. have notified the
Adams Express Company that after
August the 18th, they will refuse to re-
ceive and deliver all c. o. d. liquor
shipments.
A very pretty wedding took place
last evening at the home Of Mr.. and
] hor thoir HanOh.
ter, Miss Elizabeth Montgomery Mason,
was united in marriage to Mr.. Samuel
Price Preston, eldest son of Il on. j Ohm
A. Preston, of our town. 1t was a
quiet wedding, only the relatives and
intimate friends of the young couple
being present.
1t will be recalled that a young girl
from Augusta county, was cruelty
outraged at Ronceverte recently by a
set of thugs and the young man with
her whom she had gone there to marry
was robbed by the same set. The
Greenbrier Independent has publicly
spoken of the action of udge Bennett
the Judge trying the case and a part
of the comments are quoted below. The
Independent is usually so conservation
that there must be considerable feeling |
over the remarks by the court.
In passing Judgment upon Paxton
Grove, found guilty of rape our Cir |
cult Court here, on Wednesday even |
irg of last week, Judge Bennett took
occasion to administer severe rebuke |
to the people of GreenbrieT which all |
who heard it considered wholly uncali |
ed for and undeserved. We were as
tOnished at what the Judge said and |
bis remarks excited the indignatian OF |
every man who heard them-Democrat |
and Republican alike-for as all under
stood him they were, in substance and
effect, a charge that the people bad |
threatened to take the law into their |
own hands.
He spoke of the state of public feel !
ing in the county and said that before |
coming here to try these casses he had /
heard of some threats, meaning, as We
understood him, threats on the part OF
the people to execute summary ven |
geance upon the accused. La conse- |
quence of this be had seriously thought, |
when he came here, of transferring the
cases TO another county on his own I!
motion. He wanted il understood that |
any demonstration of this kind would
have been severely dealt with aud gave |
warning of prompt and severe punish |
lnent to any one making the slightest
move. He was not afraid of public
sentiment, he said, and would not al
low anything OF the kind TO influence
his action on the bench in the FL ghtest
degree If he knew that pubic sentl
ment had Influenced the jury he would
not hesitate to set the verdict aside and
t. ausfer the case to another county.
Judge Benefits error Was III mis-
taking a cOmmendable indig nation and
a very natural interest IN the trial Tor
lawless spirit, of which, as we have
said, there was absolutely no NANTES
tation at Ropceverte, Lewlsburg or
elsewhere in the county.
In justice 20 the people of Grtehorler
We feel it to be our duty to repei Judge
liennett g charge or lnslnuatlon as u
figment of the imagination. unsup'
ported by the slightest manifestation
of disorderly spirit any where throu ~
out the county. Had there been
disposition to execute summary Ven
gernce upon the accused abundant OPP
pOrtunltes were offered.