Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1874-05-08

AT the Presbyterian Church i'll Char
lottesville, Va, Sunday, they had sermon
describing ''hell." It thoroughly scared
Waddell Of the ''Chronicle," who heads his
report "A Startling Sermon-The Final
Abode of the Wicked-The Sinners Own
Place." 1t would seem like they had
never heard of the place in Charlottesville
before. Great hopes are rested by the up
right of that town on the effects of this
sermon.
General John c. Breckenridge was taken
seriously ill with hemorrhage of the lungs
at Lexington, Kentucky, last Friday week,
and for Il time was III a very critical con-
dition. AT last accounts he was reported
better, though by no means out of danger.
The London Telegraph of April q says
that the Golden club passed resolutions
OF Charles Sumner, long the friend and
correspondent of MI. Golden and honorary
member of the club.
The splendid Arlington Hotel, at Dan
vile, Va, has been opened with great
eclat. 1t is owned by Mr.. j. P. Hawkins,
son of Mr.. Richard Hawkins of Staunton,
and is said to be equal to the Northern
hotels in splendor and comfort.
The grand jury in Culpeper county, last
week, presented every road overseer for
not keeping the roads in better travelling
condition, and also presented the corpora
ton of Culpeper for not keeping the streets
i'll order.
J. r. Gregory, of Atlanta, has COM
menced suit against the Atlantic, Missis-
sippi and Ohio Railroad, Of Virginia, for
$4,000, for crippling him by a piece Of
carelessness while travelling over the
route.
A great deal of surprise has been created
i'll Richmond by the arrest of Edward D.
Eacho, a prominent real estate agent, Oh
the charge of procuring the burning Of d
building.
The new professor of mathematics in
Antioch College, Ohio, is Miss Rebecca
Rice,ss who has been for some time past
qualifying herself in Europe for the posi-
ton.
Hon. r. M. L. Hunter, during the Gree
ly campaign, in Richmond, lost his manu-
script, but delivered his speech and after
wards the MSS, and report were COM
pared and hardly varied Il dozen words.
Mrs. Barley, aged 50, died at Winchester,
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Of twenty-one children, two of whom
Mrs. A. M. Simpson and Mrs. Hughes
live in Staunton.
An insane woman, named Rachel Tay-
lor, committed suicide in the jail at Hun
tersville, West Virginia, by hanging her.
self with a bed cord to the bars Of the iron
door.
The tobacco factory of G. A. Burke, at
Lynchburg, Va, owned by Anderson Arm
istead, was burned Monday night. Loss
$40 900, insurance $4,000.
An old gentleman at Columbia Fall Me,
aged 50 years, was recently married, the
ceremony being performed by his son. aged
81 years.
The demand for railroad iron is SO slight
that the principal mills in Ohio, Indiana
and Kentucky are idle, and have not a sin
gle order to execute.
Colonel Nat. G. Claiborne, formerly
well-known politician in Virginia, and now
city attorney of st. Louis, Joined the Bap-
tist Church there last Sunday.
Colonel William Preston johnson. of
Washington and Lee, it is currently re-
ported, will soon resign and settle in Bards-
town, Ky.
The General Conference of the Christian
Church is in session at Graham N. G.. Rev.
G. j. Ralston is the delegate from the Viz
ginia Valley Conference.
Chas. B. Vickery, Washington Treas
ury clerk, was cowhided last week by Lo-
renZo Thomas, a son of Gen. Lorenzo
Thomas. for visiting his hOuSe
Rev. p. n Meade of the Church of the |
Holy Innocents in Baltimore, was present. |
ed with a silver communion service and |
suit of parlor furniture last week.
James III. Piles, negro Chancellor of |
Sardis, Miss, has been convicted of steal |
ng the law books of the lawyers who |
pleaded in his court.
James H. Wilson, of Southampton, was
ound dead on his farm Saturday, with a
bottle OF strychnine near him.
Rev. j. S. Pomeroy, of Hancock county.
". Va, is one of the candidates for Con.
'ress from that district.
Joseph Shultz, of Botetourt county, Va,
asst year made Is bushels of oats to the
ore.
Inc winchester stage was upset Satur-
lay, injuring Mr.. Fauntleroy, Il brother Of
u. Fauntleroy of Leesburg.
Ex-Gov. Walker and Senator Hundley,
t Buckingham, have formed a law-part-
ershlp in Richmond.
John Wilkerson, famous auctioneer of
lemphis, died last week. He was native
t Lynchburg.
The convocation of Catholic bishops
axes place in Cincinnati, Ohio, next week. |