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Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1874-04-24

A SALOON KEEPERS DEATH CAUSED
BY VISIT FROM A PRAYING BAND
The temperance question is receiving a
great deal OF attention in East Douglass
at present. On fast day union mass
meeting was held, and committee OF la
dies and gentlemen appointed to wait on
the liquor dealers. On Saturday the la
dies called upon one Of the principal sa-
looms, the proprietor, Mr.. D. Simpson, hav-
ing refused to see the gentlemen, and were
received very politely. He was asked if
he thought it right to sell liquors, and re-
sponded: eyes, as right as for grocers to
sell groceries, One Of the ladies then
read several passages from the Bible, re-
marking: "Let US see what the Lord
says" On hearing the scriptures relating
to the anger of the Lord with drunkards
and those who sell liquor, the proprietor
turned pale, trembled violently, and clutch
ed the counter convulsively for support
The MANY loungers in the saloon were
stupefied, and only offered assistance when
urged by the ladies. On being led into
another room he cried several times, 80
God have mercy on my soul!'' lmme-
dlately his tongue began swelling, filling
Ms mouth to such an extent as to render
it imposs ible to articulate. The ladies did
I'll i'll their power to render him comfort
.ble, and Il physician was sent for, who,
N arrival. pronounced it a case of apo
'leXy, and in q short while the man died.
The community was of course startled
with the news. The feeling for Mr.. Simp-
son is intense. The ladies all agreed that
it was the direct work of the Lord, and
acquiesced in the decision.-B Boston Aduer-
fteo1
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VICTORIA AND ALEXANDROWNA.-A
few minutes before l a cheer reSounded
down the line from the crowd that had
stationed itself 10y the rails. and almost
simultaneously the long expected train
dashed into the station, drawing up with
marvellous precision with the royal car
riage facing the door of the waiting ROOM
The Queen had stepped forth as the ell
CINE passed. and almost before the train
stopped the Duke of Edinburg jumped
out and was i'll the arms of his mother,
who kissed him lovingly on either cheek.
But the warmth of this reception was
eciipsed by that which awaited the young
lady with face paler than the white flow
ers that trembled in the wreath across her
bonnet. There was no introduction of the
bride to her new mother Perhaps when
the Duke of Edinbnrg turned round and
held out his hand to his wife, he had it at
heart to speak the words OF introduction !;
but before the Duchess could take the
proffered hand the Queen had quickly adj
vanced, and, clasping both the BRIDES
hands, kissed her again and again. Then
the Princess of Wales, coming forward to
renew an old acquaintance, kissed her Sis
ter, and finally the Prince of Wales added
his welcome in brotherly ashion.-Lo1edoa
Letter.
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ELECTION OF JUDGE.-In the Conserva
tive caucus of the Virginia legislature
Wednesday night, after the first ballot the
name of Mr. John J. Allen was withdrawn
and Messrs. Edmund Pendleton and John
Merritt brought forward; but before
the vote OH the second ballot was an
nounced it was found that Mr.. Blair was
so far ahead, motion to make his nomi-
nation unanimous was made and agreed
to. OF the election in the legislature,
the Richmond correspondent of the Pc
tersburg "Appeal' says:
The General Assembly at one O'Clock,
proceeded to the election of a judge to
succeed Judge Mahood, resigned. Mr..
Lee nominated and Mr.. Magruder secOn-
ded the nomination of Henry E. Blair
Peter Carter, colored, nominated Robt. L..
Montague, and pronounced a eulogy on
him. Mr. Goodwin, colored, seconded the
nomination Of MI. Montague. The latter
name was afterwards withdrawn at the re-
quest Of Mr.. Montague, and everybody
voted for Mr.. Blair-13S votes being cast
in the two houses, Mr.. Blair is a native
of this city, a son of the venerable Walter
D. Blair and grandson of parson Blair,
who was first pastor of the church now
known as the Grace Street Presbyterian
church. He is recognized as one OF the
ablest and most efficient members OF the
House Of Delegates, besides being & gen.
tleman of unimpeachable private charac-
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SCENE IN CATHOLIC CHURCH.
Father Mcnamara is no longer in charge
Ct st. Johns Catholic church in this city.
Father Gross, Of Wilmington, is now the
priest in charge. Atmass yesterday Father
Mcnamara gave the usual responses and
after the close he attempted to make a
statement to the congregation concerning
his removal, but Bishop Gibbons waved
him down with his hand The Father then
knelt in chair and pressing the Bishops
make statement to the church. Bishop
Gibbons refused him and told him he had
violated the rules of the church. Father
Mcnamara then commenced praying on
his knees, when the Bishop Immediately
dismissed the congregation, and Bishop
Gibbons, Father Gross and Father McNa-
mara we're left in the church alone
Raleigh, IN. co. Crescent.
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The General Conference of the Metho-
dist Episcopal Church meets in Louisville,
| KY, in May next. Rev. James A. Dun
| can, President Of Randolph Macon Col
| lege, is spoken Of as Bishop in place of the
| late Bishop Early, of the Virginia Con-
| ference.
| Col Sellers, President Of the Galveston,
Texas Cotton Exchange, whose death has
| in Lexington, Va, where his family is re-
siding, and had two sons attending Wash
| ington and Lee University there.
Jefferson's birthday, 18th inst, was Gel
ebrated by a parade and target practice by
the Monticello Guard, Of Charlottesville.
The prize medal was the same won by the
Guard in Stanton, in 1859, when four
companies contended for it.
Rev. w. w. Walker, the Virginia Con-
servative stumper has agreed to assist Rev.
Mr.. Harmon, of Trinity Church, Balti-
more, during the present conference year,
continuing, meanwhile his residence is
Westmoreland.
A Troy cremationist asks, wouldn't it
be pleasant to receive dispatch like this
some day:
Dear Mother: William died at noon to-
day. Ashes by mail. Yours, in sorrow.
JOHN SMITH.
The dwelling of j. H. Newell, near
Strasburg, Va, was burnt Sunday after
noon during the absence of himself and
his wife, A little daughter, aged twelve,
GOT the other children out.
Colonel E. W. Chastain, a prominent
lawyer of North Georgia, was drowned a
few days since while attempting to ford a
swollen creek. He was a member Of Con-
gress two terms;
Bishop Johns administered confirmation
to nine persons at Christ Church, Rich
mond. last week. and the Rev. MeSsrS.
Robert Gibson, Pike Powers and Dallas
Tucker assisted,
Getting born costs the people of the
limited States $780, 900 annually; get
ting married, 250,000,000; getting buried
expensive business.
WashingtonNBesley, of Baltimore, died
on Friday, Of Ianders, contracted from a
horse. having bsorbed the virus through
niece of broken skin upon one OF his fin
gers.
John W. jenkins, late a prominent Rad
ical politician in this State, is now resi-
ding in Denver city, and in the absence OF
the Governor is acting Governor of Colo
RADIO.
Robert E. Jones, the foreman Of the i'm
movements going ON at Orkney Springs,
had ali of one hand cut off by planning ma
chine, Saturday week, except the thumb.
Albert Fortune the notorious horse
thief. escaped from the Virginia peniten-
tiary the other night, and the next night
stole a horse near Fredericksburg.
Robt. Frazier, principal of the female
seminary at Warrenton, Va, has been APP
pointed U. S. Consul at Palermo, Italy,
through the influence of Mosby.
A clergyman of Atlanta,7 Ga, is out of
pocket $500 by the Louisville lottery,
which he characterizes as a Louisvillainous
SPINDLE.
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The CHURCH TROUBLE IN ALEXAN-
DRIA.-The Rev. Mr.. Lupton, of Tennes-
see, formerly of Leesburg, Va, is to be
called to the I'd Presbyterian Church in
Alexandria, Va, lately DR.. Bullock's.-
The Alexandria ''Sentinel" says:
1.-The Rev. Dr.. Bullock has had many
offers made him to remain in this CITY,
Among others they propose to build him Il
church, but he has made arrangements to
leave the city, which he will do in short
time, AS he considers this field too small to
open another Presbyterian church in, and
he does not wish to divide the congrega-
ton" A s:burnt child breads the fire, y
and the DR.. will hardly commit his peace
of mind to another board of Alexandria
Presbyterian elders.
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A third New Orleans duel took place
near Bay st. Louis, April 10th, between
Wallace Wood and A. J. Bachamin, in
! which the latter was shot through the
thigh. The Mississippi authorities arrested
all hands including some newspaper re-
porters.
The Pennsylvania Railroad Company
and the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Com
pany have settled their difficulties, and the
track between New Y DIRK and Philadelphia
will now be used by both in common, on
the old accommodating terms.
Hon. A. H. Stephens, Of Georgia, has
been forced to go back to his home at
tended by his old servant, Harry, all the
way from Washington in a special sleeping
car.
AT the late election in Connecticut, Mr.
Charles D. Yale, formerly of Richmond.
Va, and an ex-Union man, was elected on
the democratic ticket to represent Wal
lingford in the Legislature.
''And so they go,'' said member of a
Boston school committee, s'our great men
are fast departing Greeley, then
Chase and now Sumner-and don't feel
very well myself"
A negro woman living in Bedford coun-
ty, Va, a few days since, gave birth to
three children at one time. One was born
with quite a heavy beard. Two died, but
the third still lives.
Rev. Henry Ward Beecher has been
voted six months leave Of absence, to be
spent abroad or at home, the congregation
Of Plymouth church, Brooklyn, to pay all
travelling expenses,
The students of the University of Virz
GINA are endeavoring to obtain contribu-
lions to build $4,000 gymnasium and
bathing establishment.
The marriage license of Mr.. Jefferson,
the will of George Washington, and the
will Of KOSciuSkO, have been placed in the
Virginia State Library.
The National and National Citizens
banks, Of Charlottesville, Va, have been
consolidated and the new bank will be Or
gained shortly.
Campbell Court House, Va, will have
dry summer, the county Judge having re-
fused every application to sell liquor.
During the recent revival at the Baptist
Church in Liberty, Va, over fifty persons
professed conversion
Thomas Kelly, soldier of 1872. and
nearly a centenarian, died in Botetourt
county, Va, last week.
DR.. Ed. D. Herman, a prominent physi-
clan OF Russell county, VA, is dead,
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CLARA LOUISE KELLoGG's SOLDIER
LOvER-HoW HE DIED.-The following
comes from very gracefully written
sketch of the great American prima DON
ma, from the pen Of Lucy Hamilton
Hooper
A singular and mournfnl little romance
is connected with the earlier portion of
the fair singers career. During the last
year of the war, and after one of the last
great battles, the chaplain Of one of the
Massachusetts regiments was engaged in
rendering the last services to the dying,
when he came across a young lieutenant
lying by the roadside, and evidently des-
perately wounded. The chaplain proposed
to summon medical aid, but the young
man declined the offer, saying that he was
dying, and that he preferred to be left to
pass away without further suffering. At
ter doing what he could to make the suf-
ferer more comfortable in his last mo-
ments, the chaplain asked the dying man
if he wished to send any messages to his
relatives or friends. mo, he had neither
he was alone in the world.'' 'Was there
no one" persisted the chaplain, "to whom
he would like to send word of farewell ?"
The young officer hestated. YES" he
answered. Fsthere is one-Miss Clara Louise
Kellogg, the prima donna. She does not
know me, nor have ever met her or seen
her off the stage. But she is the one-the
only-woman that l ever loved. saw her
in opera repeatedly when l was last i'll
Boston, and the effect she produced on me
was instantaneous and ineffaceable And
should die happier did | know that she
would one day learn that had once exis.
| ted, and that loved her," A few brief
| lines were penciled by the failing hand ON
Il leaf of the chaplain's notebook, a sim
gle dark curl was severed from the locks
already growing damp with the dews of
death, word or two of thanks were faint
| ly spoken, and then the dim eyes closed,
and the brief romance and the young SOL
der had ended together. In due course
of time the letter and the lock Of hair
were placed in Miss Kellogg's hands, and
if the spirit Of the sender, at the moment
of receiving them, was lowering near, he
had at least the joy of knowing that,
though unknown to his fair lady-loye, he
| had not died unWept by her.
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KEEPING ROADS IN REPAIR.-In Ian
caster county, Pa, the supervisors of Full.
ton township, sell their roads to the lowest
bidder, to keep them in repairs for the
year, and it is said the plan works very
satisfactory. After six years trial, the SUI
u, rvisors Of the above township make the
following statement in their handful all
nouncing the sale: After six years. ex-
perience, with greatly improved roads, We
have been able to reduce the tax 81 ,0O0pe
annum, thus clearly demonstrating that
O system of mending roads, when i'm
partially carried out, is far preferable to
the old one" This plan the Lexington
Va. Gazette says, has been adopted with
great success in that township in Rock
bridge,
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| The Virginia legislature has sent a CON-
| mittee of five down to the Eastern Luna
| tic Asylum, to investigate some charges
against Superintendent Brewer, and the
| Board of Directors of that Institution.
The Virginia (Pulaski) ''People'' is out
in strong opposition to a convention to
nominate candidate for the 9th Congress
sional District. The E'People' appears to
| favor free fight"
| Mrs. Sarah Polk, widow Of President
Polk, is applying to Congress for $4,000 of
| property destroyed, and says she Railways
talked against secession and rebellion"
Of Hon. A. B. Cochran for the vacant
! Lieutenant Governorship the Petersburg
Va. 'sNews'' says, ga better selection could
not, perhaps, be made"
Robert Campbell has been arrested in
New York for stealing q gold watch and
chain from the wife of Senator Oglesby.
of Illinois.
DR.. Cox severely stabbed L. f. Jones, in
an affray at Abingdon, Va, Saturday.
He was fined $40 and sent to the grand
jury.
The Wilmington, N. c., journal" put
on full mourning for the death OF eX-GoV-
ernor Henry 7, Clark, of North Carolina.
The peas in Franklin county, Va, are
ready to bloom, and snap beans and Irish
potatoes have been up for a week.
Nine. Adelina Patti-Caux cleared 1928
roubles and diamond and pearl breast-pin
at her recent benefit in Moscow.
The Washington "Star'' says every ap-
proach to both Houses of Congress is
blocked with pie stands.
The society news of Richmond this week
is the marriage of MI. Edward Mayo and
Miss Bette Brander.
A man in Washington county New
York, recently eloped with his sister-in-
law, aged thirteen.
Advertisements printed in Chinese char
acters are beginning to appear in the Cal
ifornia papers.
A lady clergyman at Kittery, Maine, re-
Gently performed the marriage ceremony
for her son.
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The House of Representatives has passed
the mileage bill by vote of ayes 1856, nays
49. This bill abolishes mileage, and pro
vides that members of Congress shall only
be paid their actual travelling expenses t(
and from Washington once each session.
The cabin of Dick Tansill, colored, neal
Warrenton, Va, burned Tuesday, consul
ming an old woman aged 70 and three in
FAINT children, q colored woman 80 yards
off beng too busy moving her things" tc
give them any assistance.
A prominent officer of the British bond
holders council, who is dissuading Eng.
lishmen from buying Virginia lands, owns
$3.50, 900 worth of West Virginia minera
lands-and that's what's the matter.
Right Rev. Bishop Gibbons, of Virginia
will deliver lecture on Sunday evening
May 10, at the Maryland Institute, Balti
more, on Liberty of Conscience, :" for the
benefit of st. Wenceslaus church.
The Lexington Va. "Gazette'' says whe1
Gen. Sherman was first applied to for the
return of the cadets battery, he wrote an
ill-tempered and very illiberal letter, in an
sWer to the application.
A bill removing the political disabilities
of General George E. Pickett was, at the
instance of Representative. j. Amber
Smith, passed in the House Monday, by a
two-thirds majority. q
1t was Maj. Jno. King, of Fayette coun
ty. w. Va, brother-in-law of GOV. ia
cobs, who was drowned by falling from the
C. q O. r. r. bridge at Hawk Nest, ON the
Bird inst.
Collector David Goode, of Scott, co..
Va, who was shot while levying on COW
prepared in bed hand-bill, offering $l0(
for the capture of his murderer and then
died.
The Mayors Of Richmond, Baltimore
and other cities have received telegraphic
appeals from the Mayor of New Orleans,
for relief to the sufferers by the flood
Arkansas is just getting Kellogged,
while Louisiana, having passed through
that stage of regeneration, is become wa
ter ogged.-E1aquirer Breuity Man.
The Princess Pierre Bonaparte has
opened dressmaker's establishment in
Bond street, London. She recently visi-
ted Paris to make purchases
Gov. Washburne of Massachusetts, has
been elected U. S. Senator from his State,
beating Dawes who was Ben. Buffers man.
He has only year to serve.
At Thomasville, Ca, on Friday, three
negroes, for killing a planter, and one for
poisoning his own wife, were all hung on
the same gallows.
The Culpeper observer strongly IA
20 Eha T,->o or,
Barbour for Congress in the Eighth dis
tirct.
Miss Helen Dickens, daughter Of the
late Charles Dickens, has won much praise
nv a novel entitled "The Mill Wheel"
Hon. Samuel Miller, associate justice of
the United States Court of Claims, died
in Washington, Monday.
N ever kick man when he is down, un-
less you are sure he can't get up,
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1874-04-24

OUR ENGLISH IMAIIGRANTs.-The Lon
don 'News' of the Goth ult., speaking of
the English immigration to Virginia says ::
Virginia contains class of emigrants
who differ in some degree from those who
flow to the other parts Of the Union.--
Since the war large number of educated
the "Old Dominion where they find a
condition of society which is peculiarly
welcome to them. If Boston is, Of all the
cities, the one in which an Englishman is
most at home, Virginia claims to be the
most English Of the States.
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New York, April 23.-Flour, dull and
declining. Wheat, dull and nominally
lower. Corn quiet and unchanged.
BALTIMORE, April 23.-Flour. quiet
and unchanged. Wheat-Southern firm,
fair to prime S1.65(0S1.S0; choice amber
$i.sGGSl.S6. Corn weaker-white south
ern Sb(0SGc; yellow southern 83@S4c.-
Oats still tirooping- southern 61065c.
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The 'sHaxall Mills" at Richmond, Va,
were burnt Tuesday night. Loss $40, 900
insured $1e2, 900. They were builtin 1909,
and destroyed once before in 1923. They
turned out 200 900 barrels of flour year.
The owners have already contracted to
have them rebuilt by next July
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A DESPERATE YOUTHFUL LOVER AND
HUsBAND.-The trial of Duncan D. TEN
pleton, for shooting his wife, took place in
New York last week. One of the witness
es, Mrs. Zena Loeder, of No. 1874 Nassau
street, Brooklyn, testified that she met
Templeton in Richmond, Va, when he was
connected with the Maryland cavalry. He
was then but thirteen years of age, and
was suffering from a wound i'll the head,
Witness was engaged to him at that time.
she being thirteen years old also: It; lie was
would rave madly if any one paid witness
the slightest attention. The prisoner had
tried to take the lifeof another boy at that
time
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JUDGE MAHooD.-The Pearisburg "Ga.
zette'' defends Judge Mahood, of the 14th
circuit, and says of his case: There are a
few cold-water judges in the State, but
they are Scarce, as far as we are Informed
and we venture to say that Judge Mahood
drank less during the four years he has
been OH the bench, than any district, cir
cult, CT county judge in the State, who
does not practice "total abstinence"
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FIsIIY.-The Weston Va. Democrat
is responsible for the following: GA SOW
belonging to Rev. Henry Langford, of this
county, recently brought into the world a
litter Of eight pigs, seven of which were
"as pigs ought to be-" but the eighth, in
stead of the rooter indispensable to hog
had q head exactly like fish. 1t could
not walk: but kept up the flouncing mo.
ton of a fish out of water. AS it could
not take nourishment from it's mother, an
attempt was. made to raise it by hand
which failed however, and it died in three
days after it's birth.
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A PATRIOTIC OFFER.-Mr. Williamson
Wright, of Indiana, who owns a marble
quarry in Loudoun county, Va; has for
warded memorial to Congress offering to
give the government the full possession of
all said property as lessee and owner for
two years from this date for the procuring
of all the marble necessary to finish the
Washington monument.
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FOUR GREAT SPEECHEs.-In the Senate
Thursday great speeches against the propo-
sition to tax merchants on their purchases
instead of on sales were made by Messrs.
Kirkpatrick, of Lynchburg and Cochran,
Of Augusta. In the House there We're very
able speeches made on the Penitentiary
lease bill by Messrs. Coghill, of Amherst,
and Ould, of Richmond-the former in OPP
position, the latter in favor OF the BILL
Richmond DISPATCH.
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THE SHOWER OF MONEY VETOED
The President Wednesday, vetoed the cur
rency bill-and so vanish all our chances for
the $45, 200, 900 more of bank notes. There
was gun firing and rejoicing at the North,
Int none at the West or South.
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WASHINGTON STYLE.-Miss Bessie
Stewart, the Nevada Senator's daughter,
drives modest basket pheton, with a
Hveried tiger, and a pale green streamer
floating from her whip, in admirable con-
trasG to her piquant brunette face. 1t is
said that the condition Of her marriage is
that she shall not be taken away from