Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1873-07-11

Col. HUGHEs' OPINIONS THE editor Of
the Montgomery, Va, Messenger" last
week met COL Robert W. Hughes on the
cars and had conversation with him the
results Of which are stated as follows:
Finding him ready to express himself
freely aud frankly upon political matters,
we very cheerfuly enterel into the political
movements of the day. and talked Of prob
able issues. He did not regard the Mosby
and Lewis factious as at all dangerous to
the peace and unanimity of the Republican
party Of tho State. slosby has served the
party in the Grant campaign. aud as Grant
did not wish to be in his debt, had paid him
an equivalent, and the future would prove
the balance sheet struck aud receipt passed.
AS to Lewis. be was merely puppet 10 the
hands of his son in law, j. Amtler Smith
The President understands now the issues,
and will be found acting in harmony with
the great body of the Republican party of
the State AS to the nominees of the par.
ty, we inferred that Col Hughes would be
nominated Governor Ramsdel, Of Surry.
the Lieutenant Governor and Lunsford
Lewis the Attorney General The Colonel
did not exhibit any anxiety or uneasiness
about his nomination rather said he did
not seek it, nor would he accept it unless
rendered with great unanimisy He had
never been an offce-seeker, nor were bis as-
piIatiops in that direction. journalism was
his great preference. If the party would
select some other to be their standard bear
er in this contest he would prefer to fight
through the press
Captain Semmes, the former mmander
of the Alabama, attended wedding at New
buryport, Mass, recently, at which several
of the other guests, who were owners of YES
sells which he had destroyed. refused to be
introduced to him.
John Bright is said to value the gold
headed cane, bequeathed to him by Abraham
Lincoln for his active defence of the Urited
States during the war, beyond any Of
the presents and testimonials he has received
from bis numerous admirers and frieLds.
A scene was witnessed in the Masonic
hall, near Maryville, in Nodaway county,
Kansas, the occasion of which was the death
of Mr. John H. Owens, Wershipful Master
Of the Lodge, who fell dead in the hall.
Commodore vsuderbilt's family, accord
ing to "Burleigh" of the Boston journal, "
do not approve of his donation to the South
ern university, believing, that there is
room for his benevolence in the State
which gave him money.
Three incorrigible bachelors in Indiana
have made up purse Of $500 to procur, a
silver tea-set, to DO awarded the ugliest wo.
man on exhibition, wiling or unwilling, at
the Knox county fair.
J. D. Blair, treasurer of Pittsylvania
county Va, has forwarded to B fillmore the
July interest on the 1896 600 Of county
bonds which was subscribed to the Lynch
burg and Danville railroad.
DR.. H. M. 3assett succeeds Dr. Ramney
as superintendent Of the Iowa asylum for
the insane at Mt. Pleasant. DR.. B. has
been frs. assistant physician in the institu
ton for the past eight years
The Rev. DR.. Dabney, Of Va. has pub
lished card denying that he was in favor
of a union of the Northern and Southern
Presbyterians.
Mr. Schuyler Colfax has been decorated
with the degree of LII. D. by Otterbein
University, an institution in Ohio.
The Rev. DR.. Rutlege, Of Illinois, has
lost not only his watch, but bis pulpit, by
betting at "threa card monte"
Syracuse has temperance hotel, recent
ly started by the Methodisss.
Tom Scott is going to Europe.
Blind Tom. has made Warrenton, Va,
bis home: