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Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1875-07-16

z-iFiiB lNeUiRYe6N .BisiioP Wni4flNGs
HAMA STAUNToN MAN ON THE BOARD.
The Ecclesiastical Court of Inquiry to
examine the charges against Bishop Whit
tingham, of Maryland, Of refusing to bring
toatrial 1.-TWO clergymen of his diocese who
published and used prayers fol- the dead,
has been summoned, Among the men,
bers Of the Board is Judge Hugh w. Shelf
fey, of 'Staunton. The Baltimore HSun'
SAYS: - y ~
The Board will meet in Baltimore at
Grace Church, corner of Park and onl'-
ment streets, on the 29th day Of July.
They will select Il President and secretary
from their own body, and will also appoint
Il church advocate, who, according to the
cannon, "lnust be Il lay commandment OF
the church and of the profession OF the
law, and VIII thenceforWard shall, i'll all
stages of The proceedlngs.slf the trial be
ordered, represent the church and be II
party on the one hand, Willie the accused
is the party on Inc other" The canon
further prescribes:
..The sltlillss OF the board shall be pri-
yate. The cnurcn advocate Stall not at
| tena as pr scouting counsel, but Shall De
| at all Times at hand TO give his advice o.
| all questions submitted to him by thu
| board. IN conducting the investigation
| the board shall hear the accusations and
such proof as the accuserS may produce,
and iall determine whether, upon the
matters If law aud fact as presented to
Them. there are sufficient grounds to put
the bishop upon his trial. Ii d majority
of the board present on such investigation
shall be of opinion that there are sufficient
grounds to put the accused bishop upt II
+, his trial they Snail direct the church advo-
cate to prepare a pr sentiment, to he signed
by such of the board as agree thereto. Tie
bishop who receives the charges small
cause the names of all the bishops entitled
to seats in re House of Bishops, except
the accused and any who may be related
| to him, tn he placed in Il vessel, from Wiilc
eleven names shall be drawn and entered
upon Il list as they are drawn. The ac
cused may strike off one lame, and the
church advocate another, and SO on unIl
there are only seven II ines left upon tht
lst.;' These seven bishops form the &c
! clesiasticai court for the trial of the &C
cHsed.
The board consists of the following
I Diocese of Maryland, Rev. Dr.. Mey
Ell Levin, of Port Tobacco, Md; Rev. DR.
! Orlando Hutton, I'iookville, Nd; E
Wyatt Blanchard, Balllnore; lion Danie
r. Magruder, Prince Frederick, Calvert
county, Md. Diocese OF Virginia, Rev
Dr. George II. Norton, Alexandria. Va.
Rev J. S. IIalckel, charlottesville, Va.
Judge Hugh w, Shefl-y, Staunton, Va.
N. II. Massie, Charlotte sville, Va. DIOCESE
of Pennsy lvania, Rev Charles Breck
Wellsboro'. Pa; Rev. Augustus MARBLE
Scranton, Pa. r. A. Lamberton, Harris
burg; John l.. Atlee, Lancaster. P;.
Diocese of Pittsburg, Rev. Richard )
/ Spaulding Pittsburg; John H. Shoenber
ger, Pittsburg, and Thomas M. Howe
Pttsburg.
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The council Of Baptist clergymen to in

The council OF Baptist clergymen to in
vestigate charges against Rev. Thomas
Bott, of the Twelfth Baptist Church, Phi
ladelphia, of improper intimacy with GER
tain ladies Of his congregation .haveagreed
upon verdict OF not guilty, bolding the
pastor altogether blameless.
Cornelius Dabney (colored), who shot
and killed his own son in Hanover. county,
Va, while he WAS running from him after
he had charged him with stealing corn
from him, was arrested in Baltimore Mon
day. He claims the gun went off while
he was trying to Brighten the boy into
confesSing. HNt
The First Presbyterian Church of Louis.
Vile and its pastor, the Rev. s.. r.. Wilson,
having withdrawn from land Mr.. Wilson
having been repudiated by the Louisville
PTesbytery, connected with the Southern
General Assembly. have been received in
to that connected with the Northern AS
sembly.
A heavy rain storm washed the country
in East Rockingham Friday. Samuel Coin
err Isaac Long, David Maiden, Frank and
Jacob Kyger, ludlow, Jos. Hess, Collier
and others are very heavy losers. 81.
d. F. Horner, of Berkeley county, West
virginia, Has Deeu acquitted OIL Gne grave
charge of having murdered Il man named
Daniels, near GerrardstOwn, in that coun-
ty, some time during the war.
The rear Of the City Hotel at Lynch
burg, Va, fell in Wednesday morning
killing Mrs. Lucy Brown and negro
child, and badly injuring T. r. Harris, a
commission merchant.
Angus Hartsook, a son of D. J. Hartsook
of Richmond, had both legs broken by
leaping from the train at full speed at
Ellington, Va, Tuesday. He was car
ried to Lynchburg.
President Grant has pardoned James
Tomlin, sentenced in Harrisonburg, Va,
to u years imprisonment for selling a bot
tie Of whiskey at a camp meeting in Clarke,
without license.
Gen. Henry A. Benning, of Columbus,
Ga, a prominent Con sederate general in
Longstreet's corps during the late war,
and member OF Congress since the war,
died on Saturday.
Cadet Roller, of Mt. Sidney, Augusta
county. was the orator of the societies at
the Virginia Military Institute, and his
subject was Success in lite.n
Centenary church, of Richmond, Va, the
first Methodist church in all the Southern
States to adopt the pew system, is discuss
ing return to the free pews.
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John A. seaton. the colored alderman

John A. Seaton, the colored alderman
| Of Alexandria, Va, will start for Europe
| during the next few days. and on his re
turn will take up his abode in New Yorl
| city, where he will be in the employ of tht
! Equitable Life Insurance Company.
Rev. Mr.. Cannon, Of Leesburg, Va
| while driving out last week with Miss
| Mary Wise, of Prince William county, was
upset in Loudon county, receiving a severe
| cut on the back of the head, and the lady
an ugly cash Oh the forehead.
The Comptroller of Currency desires, OF
| account of counterfeits, to retire the five
dollar bills of the following banks: Traders
Bank of Chicago; First National Bank OF
Paxton, Illinois; First National Bank OF
Canton, Illinois.
The Charleston IS. C.) "News and
Courier'' repudiates the sentiments re-
Gently expressed by Gen. Jno. S. Preston
of South Carolina, ut the University OF
Virginia. III common with the press of the
South generally.
Miss Clara Rose, of Philadelphia. had
81 900 expended Oh he- Latin. French and
German education, and then married {,
man who had to buy his butter half a
pound at Il time.
The PiLtsburg Commercial" half sus=
pects. from the "frivolouso. character of
Beecher's last "Fritlay night talk" that
the mind of the Plymouth pastor is failing.
MI, W. T. Smith has sold his handsome
place near Gordonsville to Mr.. Alexander
Cameron, of Richmond, a son-in law of
Mr.. r. Barton HaXall. Price, $4,000.
In a late divorce suit before New York
court there were five witnesses, all related
to each other. and every one had been di-
voYced A remarkable family that
A daring robbery was perpetrated in
New York, Monday, by pretended tax col
lectors. They succeeded III getting $40,-
coo in Virginia State bonds.
The first new tobacco of the season, the
earliest received for many years, arrived
in Petersburg, Va, on the 10th inst. from
Davidson county, NC.
There are !, 900 vacant buildings, includ-
inc business houses, in Richmond, and
things are no better in BALTIMORE, Bhila-
delphia and New York:
The Irish Catholics mobbed the Orange.
men returning from picnic at Lawrence,
Mass, on the 18th inst The police had
TO fire on the mob.
A brother of Speaker Blaine, of the U. S.
House of Represen atives, has taken board
with his family for the summer in Shenan-
q oah CO., Va.
The Conservative Convention to nomi-
nate a Senator for Eage ,lnq shfRAniloal
counties, meets in New Market Oh Eriday,,
the 23d inst. '''' - ~ : '' >
The family Of Gen. Wml, Malone is SIM
per pg At Ga | PoIIn in s, $50, !
Hon: RlaegeEqy johnson is lying very 1T
in Baltimore.
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j1tlEe.fa~ Uts@ LiaHfNiNG.=-Df. fas5ot
has communicated to the French Academy
of Sciences three curious cases OF men
struck by Ightning under their wooden
barracks in the camp of Satory on the 18th
Of May, at so p. NJ. The first, named
Monitor, WAS thrown down just as he was
raising his arm to take something. He re-
NAMED insensible for upwards of an hour,
during which artificial respiration had to
be practised, the action of his lungs being
almost suspended His muscles We're re-
Taxed, his heart nearly still, his pulse fiji
form, and his pupils dilated. The syn
cope was followed by Il delirlum that last
ed As hours. On his recovery he had not
the slightest recollection of the accident.
and scarcely felt the smart of the various
burns he had; yet his limbs We're neither
insensble or benumbed. The electric fluid
had passed over the whole inner side OF the
left arm, the corresponding lateral part of
the thorax, and by bifurcation of the lum-
bar region, had followed the p0sterior side
OF e:lcn thigh and the inner ones OF the
legs, ending at the feet His clothes were
not snged, nor the buttons touched. Two
Jays litJ I he was quite well again, except
Il point of suppuraLion on his right leg.
The second man, Toisot, was standing
| when he WAS struck; he became lnsenslble
| with muscular relaxation, came to himself
after u few minutes, AND had no recOllec-
| ton of the accident. The fluid had left
| burns along the tlioraX, lumbar regions,
| and left thigh, family singing his SHIRT
without touching lis other garments. 1t
| took him Il Week to recover. The third,
| Baudonniere, WAS standing at the door.
| when lie was struck on the left forearm
and thrown down. He did not lose his
senses. and few minutes after WAS able
to relate all the circumstances OF the accl-
dent. He could get up and 60 to his bed
| but complained that he could neither bend
nor extend the fingers OF the LETT hand
The lightning had pierced his jacket and
siirt-sleeves, leaving II hole about a hall
an inch in diameter; Il very slight Durl
| was visible on the corresponding spot O
the skin, with arborescent shoots extend
ing over the arm as fan as the deltold, aut
then in u line to the extremity OF the index
middle and third fingers. These marks
disappeared or the following day. To con
! clude. the nervous phenomena caused b.
The electric fluid We're of but little lmpoi
t;nce. But the most singular circumstance
is this: that in the first Two cases it caused
RELATION OF the muscles, and in the thift
| contraction.
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Philip F. Howard, of Richmond, has
been appointed clerk in the Second Audi
tors office in place of Col Dewitt, deceased.
One moral of the Long Island railroad
| accident is-"Don't stand OH the plat
FORMS" All who did so were killed.
1t turns out that Robert Dale Owen, the
:'piritualist, has softening of che brain, and
will not live more than fortnight.
A dozen schooners laden with potatoes
! from Accomac and Northampton counties,
Va, arrived at Baltimore Tuesday.
The Lynchburg Agricultural Fair will
be held October 18th, l3th, llth and 18th,
instead OF the days first announced.
| A gentleman of so, named Chapel, just
emigrated from Ohio, hung himself in Luz
penbqrg co., Va, a few days ago.
A white man named Frank Larman re-
ceived SO lashes by order of the court, in
Richmond, Monday, for theft.
Aftera hung jury, one or two free think
ing ministers in England sent Beecher
telegram OF congratulation.
Bishop Gibbons, of Virginia, preached
at Wilmington, Del, last week, and ad-
ministered confirmation.
The Missouri Democracy have invited
the National Democratic Convention to
meet at st. Louis.
Miss Jennie Patterson has recently been
delighting the citizens of Houston, Texas,
by her readings.
The Sunday School room of the SECOND
Presbyterian CHURCH at Lynchburg was
broken into last week and the money bog
robbed of $l2.
DR.. G.. S. Grimes, of Frederick county,
Va, fell dead last week while talking to
mis- wife. % t@ hHe ~ aiIp
Ex-Gov Gilbert C. Walkeran lady have
taken rooms at the Orkney Springs for the
season. 's ff' -5'Af
A. Reformed Episcopal Church was or
eanzed in Rappahanock co, Va, last week,
Rev. J. A, l..atane assisting at the prggahi-
cation. a eae ,il lslil1l ) ~ ~
'.Cruiser,'' the eeiebrateA wild horse
that Rarey commenced his career as horse
tanner with. died At RareY's farm, near
Grovefort. Ohio, q few days ago, aged n
years: tt sn fn hisiUnff slsaoi
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,'rnr5he Nyfunffatu
FRIDAY MORNING. JULY l6, 1875.
Local..

To Advertisers.

It is an undispnted and ndisputabe fact that the
v rNDIcA ToR has larger paid up subscription list
than any paper in the State outside OF the large
cities andis composed in whole OF the names OF the
most substantial citizens of this and adjoining
ties, who have become familiar WIN the CASH
PRINcIpLE-tle very class it most interests adVer-
tisers to reach. No investment pays merchants and
other business men so well as that OF advertising lid
orally and persstently i'll paper OF good circull-
ton among those who have been accustomed 10 the
practice of paying cash for what they get Inc
Subscription LIST OF the VINDICAToR is always open
to the inspection of advertisers and is so arranged
being mailed by machinery that its numbers can be
seen at glance 3. :. n = Hn1
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IOtdi..... ..".. pAo, I'D
To this would be added $11 600. for pipe
to connect with our present system, and
we have water-works complete, with a
supply of 100000 gallons per day. 1t
will be seen from this, that works to sup.
ply the city with plenty of water, thrown
to the highest point, can be made at about
one-half of the sums already mentioned.
The experience OF the Council with bid
ders lately has been such as to convince
them, we should think. of the uncertainty
in price attending that way of doing the
work, and we would renew ouy suggestion
of last week that the city itself undertake
the work, under the charge of An expe-
rienced hydraulic engineer. 1t is the sur
est. safest and cheapest plan. The works
can afterwards be extended 50 as to meet
greater wants of the city as occasion re-
quires.
In closing, it is hardly less than duty
with us to pay deserved compliment to
Messrs. Abby, Evans and GratJan, of the
Special Water Committee, who, to the
loss of time and neglect of private bust
ness, have to add the experience of good
deal of annoyance in the execution of
very thankless public trust-a trust that
they have executed c0nscienti0usly; and
now that the old plan is most likely to be
dispensed with. we hope the aid of their
knowledge aad experience may be availa-
BILE for any new one which may be adopted.
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LAWYERS FEES IN THE SCANDAL
CAsE.-As there is a general curiosity to
know the amount of fees paid to the law
yers in the Beecher-Tilton case, we give
them as we find them set downin II North
4rn exchange, viz: Mr.. EYarts received
S25 900: MI. Tracy, $4,000; Mr.. Hill,
5000; Mr.. Beach, $1,000; Nh. Fullerton,
s. 800; Mr.. Morris, $4,000, and Mr.. Pryor,
s., 800. Mr.. Shearm IN refused to accept
money for hic services.
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MATRnoNrAL.-A large and fashion,
able assemblage at the Second Presbyterian
Church last night witnessed the nuptials
of Mr.. E. Darlington Cabell, Common
wealth's attorney. and Mis- lisa Caring
ton, daughter of Colonel Isaac Darlington,
of Charlotte county. The ceremony was
performed by Rev. Moses D. Hoge. the
pastor of the church. Richmond Whiq.
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A ROMANTIC TRAGEDY.-The fatal is
sue of duel between two persons we'll
known in Italy has for some days past en-
crossed all conversation in Rome. The
son of M. Mancini, a former minister, and
the greatest lawyer in the country, is a
captain of Bersagheri in garrison at Milan,
where he resided with, his wife, who. as
Signora Cattermoll, has obtained some
success with her poems. captain Mancini
obtained proofs Of her intimacy with one
of his friends, M. Benati de Baylor, a
young man of good family. A hostile
meeting with pistols was the consequence.
and the latter was shot in the breast and
died q few days later at the. age of %. As
to the wife the husband merely sent her to
her family Subsequently, at the funeral
of the deceased, the attendance was re-
marked of a woman, dressed IN black, and
apparently greatly moved. After the
grave had been closed she proceeded to Il
stone cross, before which she knelt, and
! drawing from her pocket a bottle of sui
phuric acid, swallowed it's contents at a
single draught and fell inapimate. 1t was
the guilty woman's femme-de- chambre
whose disclosures had led to the young
| mans death. Her remorse led her to at
tempt suicide, and her recovery is despaired
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THE WATER CONTRACT )

In their praiseworthy efforts to give our
citizens cold water, the City Council seem
to have given us a good supply of hot, and
the streets are as lively with discussions
and petitions as they were in the halcyon
days of the Valley Railroad subscription.
On so thoroughly discussed subject the
man without an opinion is as hard to find
as he was in making up the Beecher jury.
The session of the City Council Tuesday
morning showed that even those holding
directly opposite views on the main cues.
ton, which is, who shall have the contract,
have still some very valuable suggestions
to make. 1t appears to us that the first
and vital mistake that has been made, is in
the magnitude Of the works. All hands
propose too much works for too little
water, and we might say too little city.
The estimates have been made OH too
great a scale, and to give our people AL
idea Of what they are going into, we will
show them what the different amounts
bid, with s per, cent. interest added, will
amount to in thirty years, the time the
bonds are due. It is proper to state that
to each bid is added $4,000 for the water
right and 5000 for the site, and the bids,
interest and total are given as follows:
SO sloS sse ssiIS &c., I ss4s y so6
n. 1900. $780,. 2Os.sO0. =. 800
6O,O00... 1900. SO. $780,. pa, 800
This, as Mr.. Mantilini would say, is. "a
demnition total'' well calculated to make
us all pause and look around for a cheaper
way out Of the difficulty. AS we have
said, the original plan is too expensive, and
yet. by some fatality, that seems to be the
fav0rite. There is no real necessity for
such works as are proposed, and we are
sure something less expensive will answer
Staunton for long time to come. We
have received some figures from builder
of water works, OF experience, who has
visited Staunton to view the ground, and
of whose knowledge Of his profession the
Special Water Committee formed favor
able opinion, which We think will give the
city the desired water facilities without
the tremendous outlay that has been
set down for US. Our supply of
water is about, perhaps a little over 1900
600 gallons per "a hours, and the distance
it is to be pumped INTO the reservoir is
only 1 500 feet. This is Il short distance
for pumping service, and consequently
light duty. To do this duty, Worthing-
ton Duplex pump, can be bought in New
York, for 81, 700 in money; (all the figures
we shall use are money fgures-not bonds;
it can be put in place for $500, and it's ca
pacity is seven gallons per stroke, with 100
strokes to the minute, or 1900 gallons to
the hour, thrown 500 feet high. The reser-
voir should be of ]. SOC, 200 gallons capacity;
stone division wall lined with hard brick
laid in cement and plastered with cement;
all first class work, which will cost $1,000.
The steam boiler for the pump, say AZ
inches in diameter by "a feet long, includ-
ing fire front, smoke stack and brick set
ting and foundation complete, will cost
81 500. To these main items, which we
put in the recapitulation below, there are
TO be added those which follow:
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DEATH OF A PROMINENT MAsoN.-Col.
Josiah Bigelow, distinguished Mason,
died at Weston, Va, on Thursday, He
was formerly Deputy Grand Master of
Virginia, and was a Mason of flfty-four
Master of Weston Lodge He was the
father of Masonry in that section.
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SHOCKING DEATH OF TWO YOUNG
LADIES BY LiGHrNING.-Mis Lena Hebb,
aged nineteen, of st. Mary's co., Nd, and
Miss Cell Keibert, aged seventeen, of B IL
timore, on visit to her, were instantly
killed in that county, on Wednesday, by
lightning A letter in the Baltimore
''Sun" says:
The accident occurred at noon. A party
of some six or eight persons were sitting
on the front porch of the house OF Mr..
Walter Hebb, chatting pleasantly together.
almost before the sociablp party WIS aware
of it. Miss Celia Keibert and Miss Leila
Hebb, sister to MI. Walter Iebb. were
called from the porch To the kitchen and
had not been absent more than fifteen
minutes when Il terrific flash of lightning,
accompanied by II tremendous clap Of
thunder came. startling everybody The
lightning WAS clear, vivid and bold. The
! 1lCise of the thunder had scarcely subsidized
when the company on the porch WAS
startled by the cries OF d colored woman,
calling for help in Gods name, that the
two young ladies had been killed by the
lightning.
Ehe two girls were discovered lying side
by side on the floor dead. Miss keibert
was apparently the only one OF the two
WHO had been struck by the bolt. She was
greatly ,lisiigured. The lightning had
struck a tree about ten feet from where
they had been standing, and, leaving the
tree about eight feet from the ground,
killed the young ladies together. Miss
Kelbert was struck on the top OF her Ii ad.
The lightning burnt her hair, aud passing
down her face, snged her eyelashes ard
brows, set fire to her dr., SIS, and then. pas
sing down her left side into the ground. all
was over.
Miss Hebb apparently not being struck,
hopes were entertained that she could be
restored. and Dr. T. A. Lynch was accord
ingly sent for at once, coming Il distance
.Apf three miles. On arriving, however, he
found that both the victims were dead
.stnd beyond all human skill Miss Keibert
was a resident of Baltimore. and o. Il
visit to Miss Leila Hebh. her cousin. Both
were without fatherand mother, and were
greatly esteemed by all who knew them.
They were buried Thu sday evening at
Poplar Hill Church, st. Mary's county,
side by side At the time of the burial
Miss Keibert had turned SO black that it
was impossible to recognize her. Miss
Hebb remained unchanged in appearance,
and seemed us if in slumber. Tie sudden
and terrible calamity excited much sym
patlly for many miles around, and the
funeral was the largest. eyer seen i'll st.
Mary's county: 5.
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A VALUABLE PIECE OF LAND.-Dr.
VIM. d. Mcguire has q twenty-four acre
field of bottom land On his river farm that
has proved as valuable as Il gold mine. In
1873 he raised forty bushels of wheat to
the acre on it, in 1874, over thirty bushels,
and this year the crop is estimated at
thirty bushels-makipgi in three years, over
one hundred bushels of wheat to the acre.
Putting the average price of wheat for
three years ut Sl.25 per bushel, each acre
produced SIPS worth of vile It, or all,
So, 900 worth .-Ciarke Co. [ Fa.) Courier.
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.-Counterfei s. bills ON,
the Traders National Bank of Clicaeo
and the National Banks oil Canton, III.
and Paxton, ILL.,, are in circulation.