Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1875-09-10
CHURCH NEws.-Rockingham District

| CHURCH News. rockingham Distric
Conference of the M. E. Church Soutl
met at Edinburg, in Shenandoah, on th
LIST inst, Rev. David Thomas presiding
and Staunton station being represented b.
Rev. .Jno. s. Martin, MAJ. J. w. Newton
and Mr.. Harvey Risk Rev. Sam1 $. Ros
zell preached the sermon from mot sloth
full in business; fervent in business, serv-
| ing the Lord.'' A resolution was adopted
appointing a committee to select n place
| between Staunton and Woodstock-fo
permanent use as camp-meeting and re
questing Rev. Mr.. Jones to canvass fol
stock to joint stock company for secur
ing such ground and improving it. OvcI
ITO shares Of stock were taken In the pfu
ject at once. Maj. J. W. Newton, Jos. T
Logan, Geo. NJ Miller and Hon. VIM
Mines, Jr., were appointed delegates to
the next General Annual Conference. New
| Market was selected as the place for hold.
ing the next District Conference.
Lexington Presbytery met at Broadway
in Rockingham: last week. G.. w. Hum
phreys, IL licentiate of West Hanover Pres
bytery, was received into Lexington Pres
bytery. A call from Mt. Carmel church to
Rev. Mr.. Hamilton was read, and leave
granted. A call from Loeb Willow church
was placed in the hands of Rev. McDuff
Simpson. A petition from members of the
Presbyterian church of Staunton and other
HIt,lVQnC n
was read and advocated by Maj. Jed.
Hotchkiss. A resolution was adopted ap-
pointing a committee of three ministers
and three elders to visit Staunton and in
quire into the grounds of the application
and report to Presbytery at a meeting to
be held the night before Synod meets in
Staunton. Mr.. Humphreys accepted the
call to Bethesda Rev. Geo. l.. Denny re-
ceived permission to resign the pastoral
charge Of Mt. Horeb, and leave to labor
for twelve months out of the bounds of
Presbytery. Rev. DIR. Ewing and Rev. J !.
r. Bowman were nominated as principal,
and Revs. II. Gilmore and j. w. Rosebro
alternate Ministerial delegates to the next
General Assembly; Elders Hugh Guthrie
and G.. D. Grattan principals, and Charles
Grattan and H. D. Rals5on alternates.
Rev. r. Fleming was substituted for
Rev. VIM. E. Baker as the committee to
visit Mingo Flats. A committee was
appointed consisting CT Revs. @. S. NJ.
Seay, Robt. Fleming, R. Scott, and Ed
ers VIM. Price and Col. Golf, to enquire
into the expediency Of erecting new
Presbytery in the Western border Of the
territory now embraced in Lexington
Presbytery. Rev. j. A. Waddell reported
that he had been engaged as Principal of
Ann Smith Academy of Lexington. Rev.
McDuff Simpson signitied his acceptance
of the call to Loeb Willow Church and
the Sth of October fixed for his installa-
tion The meeting of the Presbytery next
year was fixed at Timber Ridge, May It'll.
SHOCKING ACCIDENT-TwO MEN
CRUSHED TO DEATH.-Last Saturday
morning, about eleven O'Clock, while work
men were engaged in putting in supports
to the roof of the Little Bend tunnel on
the e. Il O. R. R., a large mass of rock
fell crushing two Of them to death. The
workmen engaged were J. N. Ellet, of
Goochland; L. r. Clarke, of Albemarle;
E. r. Goolsby, of Alton; VIM. King, a
son of the late Chas. F. King, of Staunton;
J. w. Brightwell, Of Prince Edward, and
J. l.. Yago, of Craigsville. They were
repairing and staying the roof and were
working on scaffold, young King hold
ing the light for Ellet and Clarke, who
were the only workmen, except himself,
who were On the top Of the scaffold.
Goolsby was standing under one end of the
scaffold, and Brig and Yago had
just come from under it and started off
with hand-car, when an immense rock
fell through the roof crushing the end of
the platform to the earth and with it
Ellet and Clarke. Clarke's head was
caught against a piece of timber and
mashed as fiat as sheet of paper, and Ell
let was horribly crushed fro.u his should
ers down. Both were killed instantly
Neither young King nor Goolsby We're
hurt, the end of the scaffold under which
the latter was working not going down.
The bodies were gotten out in three min
utes after the accident, but life was ex-
tinct. Ellet was twenty-nine years of age
and Clarke only twenty-six. The body of
the former was buried in Staunton, on
Sunday, and that of Clarke was sent to
Mechams River for interment.
ELECTION OF OFFICERS OF AUGUSTA
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