Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1875-08-20

Wntit ~ WIS SCTuCH ioit WAS d very
vivid fash of lightning and heavy pea! of
thunder ON Friday evening, close to my
/ residence, and some men WHO We're at work
in the field said that it had struck some
timber in that direction, and when they
saw. the tree that was struck, they said it
was about the place where the lightning
had struck down that evening. There
was no mark on the outside of tine bear, and
the blood h I'd settled in the inside of him.
lie was dead when he started to roll from
the tree, and it was an, indisputable fact
dence.
GEE.
DEATH ON A CAMP GRoUND.-About
noon on Friday last Mrs. Sarah H. Chall-
ton, wife of BENZ. Charlton. of Washing
ton, while in attendance upon the WASH
ington Grove camp-meeting, at Gathers
burg, Md, was suddenly stricken with
paralysis, and died within an hour. Mrs.
Charlton was the daughter Of Thomas Ha-
veneer, the well-knawn baker of Washing
ton, and was in her forty gh tn year.
Rev. W. s. 'cClanahan, who has been
in Texas for the last eighteen months,
returned to Salem, Roanoke county, Va,
last Friday. He brought with him the
four children of his dec .ased brother.
| whom he intends educating in this state
The Patrons of Husbandry, embracing
the farmers connected with the States of
Pennsylvania, Maryland and West Vir-
ginia, propose to hold Il grand Estate pic
mic in Williams Grove, Cumberland
county, Pa, on Thursday, August 26.
VIM. .. Austin, of New Hampshire has
been appointed United States Deputy
Marshall for Southwestern Virginia, in
place OF w. 5. SUFFICE, Hart Alderman,
| and Benjamin Clark, resigned. One was
assassinated out there not long ago.
A colored man by the name of Henry
Jackson. was killed by lightning near Tap
| pahannock, Va, one day last week. He
was sitting in his house near a.window and
the flash vent throu sh the window with
out injuring the house.
Hon Solomon Cohen died at Savannah.
| Sunday, aged 49, He was postmaster of
| that city under Pierce's and Huchanan's
| administrations, ais, during tire Confeler-
acy, and was ut one time member Of Con-
gress from Georgia.
L. the garden Of the late Andrew John
sons residence is a magnificent willow
grown from Il Jwig taken from the willow
which bends over the grave Of Napoleon
| Bonaparte at st. Helena. and sent to the
| eX-President. A tWig from this mated tree
will be planted over MI. Johnsons grave
on JohnsOn'S Hill.
A novelty in the exercises at the OHIO
Methodist Conference Camp Meeting, near
Carroll, was the narration of religious ex-
perience by a deaf mute. 1t was expressed
in sign language, in the presence of the
nnu uon hn, nj. 4,
of the MINISTERS.
Mt. Calvary Episcopal Church Vestry
has voted against the Board in Bishop
Whittingham's case censuring their minis
tiers for praying for the dead. They say
the action was unlawful and an assump-
ton of power.
Rev. A. I. Graybill late missionary to
Mexico, who has been attending the springs
of W. Va, for his health passed through
Salem Tuesday en- route for his fathers
In Botetourt county, considerably improv-
ed in health.
Betty Lee, colored was drowned near
the Salt Sulphur Springs. a few days since
by a sudden flood. She was crossing Il
stream only a few inches deep, when wave,
six feet high, swept her off.
A mother Of l6, in Franklin County, N.
c., having three boys at birth, the citi-
zens have great hopes, If she lives and goes
on, of becoming entitled to another mem
her of the Legislature.
John W, M, .Lohr and sister of New
Market, Va. were swept down creek
near there in a buggy by the flood on the
night OF the 9Th inst, and narrowly es-
capped with their lives.
At Vincennes lately, during a marriage
ceremony the brides teeth dropped out.
which so frightened the unhappy man that
he rushed off like an arrow and has not
been heard of since.
''Willing to submit to primary election
but not toa convention, is a card publish.
ed by j. r. Pugh; Il conservative, who
wants to represent Fairfax CO., in the Viz
glnia Legislature.
The furniture of the Fountain Hotel in
Baltimore, has been seized for debt, and
it's proprietor, Geo. B. Nash, has been put
III Jail for obtaining money under false
pretences.
Theodore Tilton, our readers will prob
ably recollect the name, has commenced
suit against the Brooklyn Eagle for the
statement that he is saturated with in
sanity"
Alonzo Cole, son of VIM. Cole, formerly
of Newtown. Frederick county, Va, was
killed 10y Archibald Ward with knife in
an ilffray at Grafton. w. Va, a few days
ago.
Levi d. Meyers and Jesse Meyers, living
near Dovesvil!e, Rockingham county, Va,
each lost fine horse few days ago, bitten
by rattlesnakes.
Sam'l Carrier of Shenandoah county, Va.
had his right hand tom off by II steam /
thresher on Friday last.
A migratory sheep-raiser in Beatrice,
Neb., has Il flock of 800 sheep. His home
is on wheels, and with his family he'mov e
from pl ICE tc place, whereyer he Gan find
good grazing land. ,ts
Some Of Mr.. sankey's hymns and tunes
appear in the Malagasy hymn-book, just |
published in London. The Christians of |
Madagascar are reported to be very fond |
of singing. -
A Western minister declines the title Of !
D. d. because he considers it to be incnn-
sistent with the command in the New Tes
lament, s'Be ye not called Rabbit Matt. |
xiii, 81 g sa ~ bHe
The $50 Norman recruits lately pass
ing through Chicago, are described us '.dir-
ty, and ragged, and mostly middle-aged
men and homely women" Bad for Brig.
ham, that last lot.
A Denver man, out for IA fishing frolic on
Fall River, reports the capture of quar-
ter-pound Bass, containing sixteen grass
hoppers, one green worm and several dam
aged-looking bHga. |