Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1873-09-12

A committee was appointed to prepare
memorial on the death Of Rev. N. w. Cal
houn, who was at the time Of his death the
Oldest member Of the Presbytery.
The committee appointed to organize q
church at Mountain Grove, reported tbat
church had been organized at that place
with seven members.
Rev. Sam'l Brown reported that Rev.
Geo. L. Brown had been installed pastor Of
the church at Windy Cove.
The committee to the last General Assembly
presented their report, which was received,
their diligence commended, and their ex-
peDses ordered to be paid.
TRIBUTE TO VETERAN MINISTERS.
The following resolutions, offered BY
Rev. Mr.. fitzpatrick, we're unanimously
adopted
Resolved, LIST, That this Presbytery rem
der thanks to the gracious Head OF the
Church for His goodness in preserving the
lives of Rev w. S Campbell. Rev. VIM
S. White, b D Rev. Enoch Thomas, and
Rev. Sam'l Brown, Notwithstanding their
advanced age and manifold infirmities.
Resolved, I'd, That whilst We shall al
ways hail with special pleasure the presence
of these members at any Of our etings,
which they may find themselves able to at.
tend I'VE feel 1t due to their long aud valu'
able services to the Presbytery and our
churches, as we'll as to our sentiments Of at
lection and veneration for them to say that
the Presbytery does not desire that they
shall in any ease offer an excuse for their
absence.
DR.. Kirkpatrick reported that the Com
mittee on Languages aud Arts had exami-
ned Mr.. A. f. Laird on the subjects as.
signed them, and they recommended that
the examination be sustained as satisfactory.
COMMISSIONERS TO ASSEMBLY.
Commissioners to next General Assem-
bly were nominated, as follows Ministers
J. L. Kirkpatrick, D: D., and j. W.
Pratt, D D., with alternates respectively
R. G. Walker and H. Gilmore, and ruling
elders J. A. Waddell and A. H. McClin.
tick, with alternates A. Patterson and D.
B. Bell. (Three commissioners will be
voted for at next stated meeting of Pres
tery.)
DOMESTIC MISSIONS.
Committee of Domestic Missions was au-
thorized TO make applications as follows: :
$500 of The Invalid Fund to such persons
within the bounds as may be entitled to aid
from said Fund 5000 from Committee of
Sustentation to Massanutten Church-same
amount to Broadway Appropriation were
nj ade to Stony Run, Rehoboth, Glenwood,
Mountain Cove churches.
CONCLUDING BUSINESS.
Rev. D. A. Penick Joined the Presby-
tery on certificate from Concord Presbytery,
N. c., and obtained leave to supply New
Monmouth and Kerr's Creek churches un'
til next stated meeting of Presbytery.
Mr.. A. F. Laird appeared before Presby
tery, and sustained satisfactory examlna-
tons, and having delivered an approved
sermon was ordained in regular form and
due solemity to full work Of the ministry.
A compliance with the injunction Of Gem
ersl Assembly in Resolution No. Up. 23l,
was deemed inexpedieht.
The following action was taken, viz: 1t
is ordered that when parents having child.
rem who have been baptized, are dismissed
from one church to another, such children,
if minora and members OF the family be in
cluded in the dsmission, and be enrolled in
the church to which they are dismissed as
among the baptized but non-communing
members.
At 81 P. M Friday, Presbytery ad
joufned to meet again at New Providence
Church on the Wednesday next preceding
the 4th Sabbath of April, at II M
SHOCKING ACCIDENT FROM LIGHTNING. -
A shocking accident from lightning occur.
red near Suffolk, Va on the 4th inst, res
sulting in the instant death Of two children
aud the severe injury Of others. 1t took
place at the residence of Charles E Sum.
ner, farmer who had that morning lett
home on business. A letter to the Rich
mond Enquirer says:
about MONDAY very severe storm
came up and Mrs. Sumner hal just laid the
table cloth and fixed the knives and forks for
dinner Her twin boys shine or ten years
old-and one of them deaf and dumb, came
into the house as Mrs Sumner sat in her
chair, alter batchet and nails to 60 out
and nail up the fence just as they got to
the door going out the lightning struck the
chimney of the house and the little boys fell
dead out of the door. Mrs. S. ran to the
door and tainted ana fell out. apparently
dead, by the side of her little boys. A can
of kerosene in the same room on the mantel-
piece had taken FIRE and caught the clothes
of Mrs. Summers little girl, and the house
was catching fire. as grown daughter Ct
Mrs. S. ran cut from the kitchen, and this
scene met her eye. She and an old woman
put out the little girl and smothered the fire
in the house. The little girl, it is thought,
will die DR.. Kilby. Of Suffolk, was sent
for Immediately, and Mrs. Sumner, whose
condition was very delicate one at the time,
is now in the labor Of childbirth
Gen Lougstreet has written letter CIV
ing the falsshood to the assertions that he
event over for money to the Radicals, and
that be was not true as soldier to the
Confederaey We doubt whether ten men
in the South believed the last charge, and
it hardly needed his contradiction
Mr.. Forehand, lock-keeper on the Dis
NAL Swamp canal. was lying in bed Friday,
talking to his wife, who was sitting at the
bedside, when stroke Of lightning killed
BOTH
Thomas Allen, who came from Scotland
to Winchester, Va, 40 years ago, and did