Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1875-07-16
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| MEETING OF THE PATRONS Of Hts
BANDRY STATE EXECUTIVE. COMMIT
TEE.-This body met in Staunton ON We'd
nesday and, was, in session two days.
There were present A. B. Lightner, Presi-
dent of Augusta; A. M. Moore, Of Clarke;
R. L. Ragland, of Halifax; M. W. Halle
wood, Secretary Of Richmond: w. B. West
brook, Treasurer; J. c. Featherstone,
Chief of the Business Bureau Of the State
Grange and j. W. White, Master Of the
State Grange. Rules were adopted for
the institution and government of "Po-
mona,' p (district) oranges and the fee for
representation in those by subordinate
oranges fixed at So. The Master of the
State Grange will enter upon their organi-
zation at once and his appointments for
each judicial district will soon be pub
lished. He will organize the first one in
each district and deputy in that dis
trict will organize the next. The report
of the Chief of the Business Bureau was
highly satisfactory and showed that when
there was complete cooperation Of all
oranges through their local agencies it
would be still more successful. An I'M
portant case was brought before the Com
mittee by the Master of the State Grange,
who had suspended master of subor-
dinate grange, on charges OF ineligibillty,
and the Executive Committee sustaining
him by full concurrence in his views, he
then exercised hisprerogative and expelled
him. A great deal of other business was
transacted. which will be made known to
Patrons through the grange mediums
SUNDAY SCMooL, CONFERENCE.-THE
Sunday School Society of the Baltimore
M. E. Conference met at Lexington on
Tuesday. The opening sermon was
preached by Rev. DR.. Ball, of Baltimore.
There were present about 200 ministers
from the Valley of Virginia, West Vir-
ginia and Maryland. On Wednesday the
Convention visited the graves of Lee and
Jackson and the Virginia Military Insti-
tute, in body, and on Thursday went to
the Natural Bridge. A number of songs
were sung under the bridge. Maj. J. W.
Newton was the delegate from Stanton. |
The SLIDES ON THE CHESAPEAKE Il |
ONO RAILROAD.-The slides on the G. |
& O. r. r. have been cleared up to Mead |
ow Creek, west Of Hinton. There are still |
three slides west of that point, one at Paw |
Paw, one near Buffalo, and third near |
Fern Springs. They are the heaviest slides |
ever experienced on the road, but it is ex-
pected that the track will be cleared by to- |
morrow night. Gen. Wickham passed up
the road yesterday, and remarked here that |
he should not return until he saw the road !
clear to the Ohio
SUCCESSFUL BANKING INsTITUTION.-
The first statement of the new Augusta |
National Bank of Staunton is published |
this morning in another column. and shows |
prosperity worthy of remark. In the one
month and ten days Of its existence its de- |
posits line has reached 900, a very |
large proportion for SO short a time, and |
other banks owe it $16,O 900 over and above |
what it owes them. Of the capital stock |
of the bank $45,765 was paid up, and the |
balance is to be paid in monthly install
mentS.
STRUCK BY LIGHTNING.-A few days |
since. just as the passenger train was en-
tering Talcot Station, on the Chesapeake |
and Ohio railroad, the storehouse of J. w. |
Jones, at the station, was struck by light
l, A,,i1 10 ho1a i,,f
roof, passing through q feather bed, the re-
cognized pon-conductor, and ending its |
course in a tub OF water, which was burst |
to pieces.
CONVICT LABOR FOR A RAILROAD
On Saturday so convicts from Richmond
passed up on the G. Il o. r. r. to Siber-
ton where they were disembarked and |
marched over to Highland county to work
on the Narrow Gauge railroad. About |
300 have been contracted for by President |
3orst and they will grade the road bed to |
the top Of the Shenandoah mountain. !
THE COLORED MINISTERIAL the |
dedication "Shiloh'' Colored Baptist |
Church in Harrisonburg last Sunday, Rev.
Wiley Simpson, of Staunton, preached the
dedicatory sermon and Rev. B. S. Jones,
of Waynesboro, assisted in the services.
Rev. NJ. Pollard, of the "Jubilee Singers"
preached in two of the Staunton colored
churches last Sunday.
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COLLISION ON THE CHESAPEAKE AND
OHIO RAILROAD.--Tw of the down-freight |
trains Oh the Chesapeake and Ohio rail-
road collided Sunday afternoon between
Tolersville and Louisa Courthouse Several
Of the freight cars were thrown off the
track and crushed. The officers of each
train claim to have been running on
schedule time.
A HEARTY VETERAN.-Mr. James
Ship, of Middlebrook, a hearty veteran OF
the war of 1912, aged 70 years, was in town
yesterday. This sturdy old gentleman
Graded his own crop this harvest He was
a brick mason by trade, and has never
been sick a day in his life, and his mind is
as clear as his body is healthy.