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with nis lived cane. He had trigger that town for 40 years and was a promimember of the Baptist church, but apprehension of a pending surgical for fistula had unbalanced his He was a Past Noble Grand of Fellows and was 63 years old. San Francisco correspondent thinks the restaurants in that city beat the In some of them, he says, that are ndsomely furnished, a meal of soup, turham and celery may be had for fifteen You have what you ask for and charge is made. Over the bar is a pla"Drinks 15 cents." The drinks the place. For 25 cents a fine dinner The day before Mrs. Emma Skelton, of was one hundred years old last she read, wrote, and made'three pinShe is a native of Massachusand for twenty-one years has been an of the Home for Aged Women. was a writer of talent, and at the age ninety-seven composed a poem in memfriend. of a Francis D. Moulton, the famous "mufriend" of the Beecher trial, attemptto address a Dairymens' convention at last week, after taking two glasses brandy for sickness, and was SO inco. as to attract attention. He exthe matter at the session next day. The Georgia farmer who has carried off palm this year is Mr. James H. BookHe raised sixty bales of cotton, twelve bushels of corn, five hundred of tatoes, a thousand of oats and wheat, twenty-five hogs. The newspapers ronicle this as the greatest harvest by one man during the war. Clifton Wood, President of the Citizens' Bank of Sedalia, Mo., died sudat San Antonio, Texas, on the 9th just after reaching his hotel. Heforlived at Batesville, Albemarle, counVa. Carson, his wife and seven children, velling from Page co., Va., to North rolina, without money, and in a wagon by broken-down horses, found asyin a station house at Richmond, Tuesnight. Butler in a speech at Boston Saturnight, said Mr. Hayes must either the democrats or republicans before bruary. The republicans in Congress solidly against him." the 19th inst. Rev. M. W. Read Mr. Giles Johnson to Miss Alice chardson, of Pittsylvania CO., Va. The degroom was seventeen years old, the thirteen. The Monroe, W. Va., "Register" states Miss Lizzie Caperton, a daughter of late Senato: Allen T. Caperton, has a clerkship in the Treasury DeThe Lexington "Gazette" hopes that Frazier will be expelled from the Legfor his comments on the Govermessage. The Bank of Berryville, Clark CO., Va., spended on the 20th inst. The deposiwill get about fifty per cent. and the ckholders will lose- all-abont $40,000. The last Ohio legislature, which was publican in both branches, passed a law cluding colored men from the State miThe dwelling of Dr. Henry Gresham, Superintendent of Shools at Taphanock, Va., was burnt Friday morn"Belle," a setter bitch, sold by Capt. of Loudoun co., Va., to Jno. C. ggins, of Chicago, was re-sold last week W. Gause, of Wilmington, Del., for Braddon's novels are persistently by the London Times, which alno mention of her name in its Dr. E. T. Baird, late Secretary of Presbyterian Board of Education, his petition in bankruptcy at RichFriday. took R. D. and Mackey Wilson, of ckbridge, 5 shots to bring down a three wild cat on the Lexington, and Covturnpike last week. marriage license was issued in Washcity, Friday, to Richard R. Jones, Lexington, Va., and Mary M. Clark, of nherst, Va. G. L. Cook has resigned the pascare of the Presbyterian church at lierstown, Rockbridge. Alabama papers announce that mignois in blossom and strawberries are Col. Jno. H. Fannin, of Thorpe Georgia. bas sent Ex-Gov. Letcher, a pound sweet potato. The new year is at hand, and we have all taught by Justice Bradley how to 78. post-office has been established at lliamson's, Alleghany county, Va., and Dickey appointed postmastor, Flora Temple," the celebrated trotting died near Philadelphia, Friday, aged years. Wm. R. Terry, for eight years the te senator from Bedford, has rented the
