Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1873-10-10

Succeeding Thos Ewing, OF Ohio. March
1853 he returned to Staunton, and on the
| 10th of that month was nominated for the
| State Senate but declined tor run In 1857,
he was again nominated for the same posi-
/ ton. and was elected over Col Jas H Skin
ner, serving there till April, 1861. While
| in the Senate he was chosen member OF
the Secession Convention in the delibera-
tions of which he was a prominent partlcl-
| pant until its adjournment. Since the war
he was elected to Congress from this dis
| trict but was excluded by the Federal gov
eminent. He was a prominent member OF
the famous Committee of Nine. He is
member of the Board Of Trustees of the
Peabody fund. Mr.. Stuart is statesman
in his views of the relations of Virginia to
the national government, and his presence
in the State Legislature at this time will be
an important addition to it's ability to
deal with national affairs.
" Maj. Marshall Hanger is well known IN
the State. He graduated with distinction
at the University of Virginia; was Quarter
Master in Jeb Stewards cavalry during the
war, and entered public life in 1869 as
member of the House of Delegates with Maj.
HI. NJ. Bell and Judge Cochran. Ofthe next
Legislature he was made speaker, position
that he will doubtless be reelected to next
winter.
Mai. Absalom Koiner, like the other gem
tlemen on the ticket, is a graduate OF the
University and lawyer by profession, and
formerly practiced in Staunton. Before the
war he served term in the Legislature.
During the war he was Major in the 9Th
Va. Infantry of the immortal Ssonewall Bri-
gade.
A committee composed of Gen. Echols,
Col. Hartman, and D s. Bell were appointed
to communicate to the nominees the action
Of the Convention Maj. Hanger, the only
one the committee found, made his appear
ance and returned his thanks in briefspeech
not less marked by its brevity than its delica-
cy and strong good sense.
The Convention then adjourned.
WAKING UP GIRLS. Waking up one hun
lred and thirty two girls at once can be done
nowhere but in Staunton: An omnibus
drove up to female seminary here the other
night at 8 o clock, and did it without a flaw.
They all sat stock upright in bed clutching
at each other in the dark and screaming sit
must be man. Somehow nothing ever
happens that girl don't swear it is "a
man" Ofthe whole number, one hundred
and twenty-eight cried oh. where's lny Pa.
The old man is never wanted except when
trouble comes along. A girl may have a
hundred new dresses to show and its oh,
ma, but the minute she stumps her toe its
Where's my Pa One hundred and eight
said the house is on fire, and started down
stairs carrying one hundred and SIX cologne
bottles, ninety eight copies Of Byron, one
shorter catechism, one hundred and three
braids and eighty three bustles. At break
fast next morning they compared statistics.
Julia Blogsden made the bottom step of the
lowest flight, carrying her trunk, the wash
stand, the bedstead and two window shutters
in two minutes and twelve seconds. Julia
is the truthful scholar Mary Lobsby put
up her back hair, fixed her banged front hair
and pinned on a ruff in one minute and three
seconds, and Ellen Pitchfelder put on both
shoes, three pair OF ear rings and polonaise
in five seconds. But the prize scholar excl
ted the hatred and envy of all by proving by
the cook that she tainted stone dead twice.