Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1875-08-13

About seventy-tive of the veterans of
the Third Georgia Regiment visited Pc
tersburg on Friday from Portsmouth, and
were welcomed by the Mayor, dined at the
public expense, and then escorted to the
"Crater' and other historic points.
The Richmond correspondent of the
Cincinnati "Commercial'' thinks that Gov.
Walker is likely to be Democratic nOmi-
Ex-Governor is in training for that lofty
position, and if he does not reach it the
fault will not lie in Virginia. fiip tai.
Ethelbert Parsons, aged 20, and Lottie
Phillpot aged 25, visited the ''Cave of the
Winds'' at Niagara Falls, Monday even
ing without Il guide, and falling into the
river were drowned. They were soon to
have been married. and he lost his life in
I'LL attempt to save hers.
Edward Hudson was shot three times in
Providence, r. L., Monday evening. by
Owen Mckeyver, a supposed lunatic, and
will probably die. An attempt was made
to disarm McKeyver. when he shot again,
fatally .wounding Edward McCarron. Nc
Keyver was arrested.
A controversy has been commenced
among tile Germans in Richmond. rs to
whether VIM. Lovenstein or Don F. Hal
sew shall be the German" candidate on
the Conservative ticket for the Legislature.
The two German newspapers have taken
opposite sides.
The Central Re-Cnion of Students of
Roanoke College will he held at Big Lick,
Roanoke county, on Tuesday, August 18th,
not on the 18th, AS before announced. be-
ginning ut 10 O'Clock A. NJ. Annual ORA
tor, Charles N. Hawkins, ESD, of Union.
West Virginia.
A father fearing an earthquake in the
region of his home, sent his two boys to u
distant friends until the peril should he
over A few weeks after the father re-
ceived this letter from his friend: Please
take your boys home and send down the
earthquake"
At meeting of the Vestry of the Epis-
copa. Church of Shepherdstown, Va, on
Monday week, Rev: f. M. Maury, Of
Loudoun county, Va. son-ill-law of the
late DR.. Andrews, was elected Pastor OF
that church. Fa3u
The Hon. Thos. 5. BOcock was 70 address
the Literary Societies OF the Virginia
Agricultural and Mechanical College, on
the 10th inst, and Colonel Frank u. Riif
fin was to deliver the annual addi eSS on the
18th inst.
The employment of convicts in the man
ufactory of stoves in the Maryland Peni-
Tertiary gives great offence to the iron
moulders of Baltimore engaged in the
business. rfI fIlAI
Saml Hawkins, of Bedford CO., Va, has
been bailed to answer charge of vi oIating
Miss Leah A. Tanner, his sister-in-law,
whose temporary disappearance lately
created so much excitement in that
country:
The authorities of Vanderbilt Univers-
ity have declined to release Prof. Joynes
from his engagement and new election
at Washington 4 Lee University is ne
cessary.
Pascal Beverly Randolph, of Toledo,
Ohio. who claims to be a nephew of John
Randolph and descendant of Pocohoptas,
nevertheless allowed liquor and the green
eyed monster to drive him to suicide last
week.
.sOld Jim,'' favorite hunting horse of
peyton s, Coles, Of Albermarle, was stolen
on the night of July oath and returned
home on Aug I'd, but had been ridden 80
hard without food that he died in few
hours.