Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1876-02-18

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Rohr, John Burr, Willie Merican, L. Dick
erson, Frank Merican, Jas. Aller, Ami
Adams, Paul Laten, J. Laten. Florenc
Hall. Newton Robertson, A. IL. Snldel
E hardwood, Willis Newman, Arthu
Hansberger, Frank Simpson, Willie Burke
Maggie Hinkle, Chas. Hinkle, Nanni
Hinkle, Willie Matheny.
There are 125 active members and
honorary members.
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REGULATIONS For LENT.-The 1ente
season, especially observed in Roman Catl
Ole and Protestant Episcopal Churches
in commemoration of Christ's fast of fort
days, will begin this year on Ash Wednes
day. March l. ending on the eve of Easte
Sunday, April Is. The Rt. Rev. Jane
Gibbons. Bishop of Richmond has issue,
the usual regulations for lent to the cIerg
of the diocese, to be announced by ther
to their respective congregations.
All Catholics who have completed thei
twenty-frst year must fast unless legiti
mately dispensed, taking but one meal dai
ly, about noons excepting Sundays, which
are not fast days. Flesh meat and fish ar
not to be used at the same meal. A cola
tion is allowed IN the evening, not to ex
coed the fourth part of an ordinary meal
at which it is permitted to use bread, but
ter, cheese. eggs, all kinds of fruits, salads
vegetables and fish. In the morning some
warm liquid, as tea, coffee or chocolat,
made with water, and a morsel of bread il
allowed by general usage. Necessity an(
custom have authorized the use of hogs
lard instead of butter in preparing permit
ted food. The use of flesh meat is allowed
by dispensation at all meals on Sunday
and once a day on Monday, Tuesday
Thursday and Saturday, with the exception
&Of Holy Thursday, and the second ani
last Saturdays of lent. Persons exempted
from fasting are as follows: Persons under
Jwenty-one years of age, the sick, nursing
women, all who are obliged to do hard la
bor' and all who through weakness cannot
fast without great prejudice to their health.
The circular states "that besides the obi
CATION Of fasting imposed by the Church
the season of Lent should be a time OF
earnest prayer, of sorrow for sin, of seclu-
sion from the world and its amusements
and of generous aims giving"
The paschal time extends from the first
Sunday of Lent till Trinity Sunday, dur
ing which all Catholics ''who have attained
the use of reason" are required to prepare
themselves to receive the communion.
Parents are reminded ''that Lent is prop
er season for children to go to their first
confession, which they ought to do gener-
ally when about seven years of age"
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THE SHIREs' FuND.-Every now and
then the 'Shires' Fund" gets before the
public, and nobody understands what it is
Just now it is up in connection with the
purchase of the old Methodist school build
ing on Main ST., the Wesleyan Female In
stitute having $1,000 of the fund, which
it proposes the city shall take off its hands,
or rather the liability for it, in the pur-
chase. The facts are that a great many
years ago an old lady 1aNed .Shires living
in a lower room Of the build8g now part
Of the VINDICATox Office, was accidentally
burned to death. IN her will it was found
that she had left $4,000, the interest. of
which was forever to be applied to the edu-
cation of twelve poor children. The court
directed the money to be loaned out, and
the old Staunton Academy borrowed ST. 900,
the Virginia Female Institute, 81 900, the
Augusta Female Seminary $1,000 and
the Wesleyan Female Institute, $1,000,
each educating-ttfee children for the
interest. The bargain has not been very
profitable one for the borrowers, and none
of them are anxious to retain it.
The repayment of the 81 900 borrowed
by the old Academy was assumed by the
city, when it took the property, and in the
proposition to sell to the city the Wesleyan
Female Institute, proposes that the city
shall assume it's Indebtedness to the Shires
fund to the amount of ST 600, reimbursing
itself through the value of the property it
acquires in the purchase. In the case of
the Virginia Female Institute, Rev. DR..
Phillips. who is anxious to return that in
stitution's share of the fund, he having
given his personal security for it, the city
will receive the money, and in the case Of
the Augusta Female Seminary, which il
also ready to return it's share, the money
will be received. The terms of the will made
these institutions educate three chill
dren each for the interest of the $1,000
the commissioners of tie court to name
who the children should be.
MONTHLY REPORT OF THE STAUNTON
PUBLIC SCHooLs.-The report of Prof. j
j. Ladd, Superintendent Of Public Schools
of Staunton, shows for the month ending
January 2Sth, that the whole number of
pupils is 1888, of which 4s7 are white and
146 colored. The average attendance Of
whites is 412 and Of colored 139. They arr
distributed as follows-in the Academy
265 pupils; at the Institute 222; at thu
Madison street school 10Y and in the base
ment of the colored Methodist church SO
Of the whites 2S9 are boys and 1873 girls
amp of the colored 80 are boys and 66 girls
Of the whites the attendance between the
ages of 6 and 16 is 40; between and 6 il
81 and between 16 and q is 26. Of tn,
colored the attendance between the ages O
and 16 is 1879; between 16 and 81 is an,
between 5 and is 0. The who lie numbe
of schools is Is, and teachers Is, and the
average number of scholars to each teach
er is AZ is. The average age of the schol
ars is 9 e-l5 years. Prof. Ladd in his re
port says:
The schools are fast gaining high tone O.
discipline and were never so efficient a
! now. General good health prevails among
the children. save hopping cough which ha