Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1873-06-27

ELECTION OF OTFIcERs.-The following ofhcer
Staunton Lodge, 4 F 8 4 N, No. l3.-W. L
Balthis, W. M; R. W. Burke, S. W.; }. II
Wayt, Jr, W.; P. H. Trout, Treasurer Jas
F. Patterson, Secretary the other offices to b
filled by the Master in elect.
Union Royal Arch Chopter.-E. L. Ide, NJ. E
High Priest /; S. H. Lushbaugh, E. King Nj
A. Miller, E. Scribe l Witt, TREASURER JAS
f. Patterson, Secretary, the other Off GERS to %
appointed by the High Prize st elect.
Stevenson Commandery. Knights Tsmplar e
W. H. Il. Lynn, M. E. Commander; W. L. Bal
this, Generalissimo W. l.. Bumgardner, Cap
tain General P. H. Trout, Treasurer Jas +
Patterson, Recorder, the other officers to be ap
pointed by the Commander elect
Central Encampmcnt-No. rs, 7. Q. 0. F., OF
Monday evening elected the following officers
S. W. Long, O. P. Thomas j. Crowder, Il
p; James A. Moore, S. W.; E. T. Kinney
Scribe; J. H Waters, Treas
Lee Lodge, a F A NJ No.20 Waynesboro
Robt. ". Baird, W. d. A. M. Bowman, S. W
B. F. Cochran, J. w.; Jno. St P. Gibson
Treasurer Thos. H. Alexander, Secretary.
K. PAT a meetingof Valley Lodge, No. Is
Knights Of Pythias, held at their Castle Hall, or
Tuesday evening Gath INST, the following officers
were elected for the ensuing term: J. W. Todd
P. c.. Jas. A. Armentrout, G. G. N. n Brad
ley, V. c.; W. N. Bumpass, P. G. L.. Cooke
K Of S; W. l.. Olivier, NJ. r. ; W. Wei
lsr, M. F. C. E. Haines, NJ. A.; A. A Esk
ridge, I. G.; W. NJ Simpson, O. G.
stanton Coanciz-At regular meeting Of
Staunton Council No Al, Friends of Temper
ance, held at their ball, Tuesday evening, june
oath, the following odieers were elected for the
ensuing term:
j. W. Newton, President VIM, B. Johnson,
ST., Associ ate H. L. Powell, Chaplain; W.
B. Gambler, Sec'ry Jas. w. Belduin, Financial
sec'ry ; P. N. Powell, Treasurer; W. c. Mitch
ell Conductor john W. Southards. Assistant
Conductor S. W. Steward, Inside Sentinel
A. W. Sterling, Gu side Sentinel.
This counsel now numbers about ! 90 active
and associative members.
Stauaton Lodge No. As, I. o. 0. TT. j.
Crowder, N. G. W. NJ. Simpson, V. G. T.
N. Argenbright, Sec'y J. W. Waters, Treas''r !;
A. NJ. Simpson, Chapain---the other officers to
be appointed IN y
THE WEATHRR.-The weather was just as hot
rs it could be on Sunday. The streets were de-
serted save by few painting stragglsrs. The
school girls who have been telegraphed by their
parents in the South to remain here, away from
the Cholera, were slowly promenading the sha-
dy porticos of the female colleges. The services
at the Asylum Chapel, which are usually atten d.
ed by hundreds of we'll dressed persons from
tewn, in pursuit Of the gospel, were. heard by
very slender scattering of outsiders, and the liv-
cry stable horses when they were taken out to
be hitched up looked back at the proprietor as
if they would say 'well, its all up with me this
time anyhow" The Presbyterian church was
closed. and those stern cid Christians, who would
nave been there if the mercury had been clean
out OF the top of the thermometer, staid at home
and drilled the children in the shorter catechism
until the sleepy little ones dozed off with the
''chief end of man" ringing through their little
ears. The other churches were well attended
and men of upright lives and collars returned
home with shirt bosoms wrecked, and strange
oaths in their hearts. 1t was a noticeable fact
that more flies attended divine service Sunday
than had ever been known before, They rega..
ded neither age nor sex, and after wrestling with
a deacon's nose, would skip cheerfully off to the
eyebrows Of the young and innocent, buzzing
about as loudly as if it really was business that
had to be attended to, in spite of the 4th COM
mandment. The world never knows what file
are INTENDED for until hot Sundays come and
Christian patience is tried in crucible. 1t
was trying day for paper collars, and young
men of promise who had put them on in the
were, before noon, reaching down their
backs, with mouths full of curses, trying to fish
up the wreck Visiting young men would get
to the front steps of the house in which the dear
one lived, put their hands to their necks and fly
back to their boudoirs covered with shame as
with garment 1t was trying day for men
that want to do right and live according to the