Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1877-03-02

Rev. Mr.. GllberC, freSlulng Eluer Oh Gne
Lexington District, composed of the coun-
ties Of Bath. Allegheny, Highland, and
portions of Rockbridge, Botetourt. and
Augusta, reports that within his Jurlsdic-
ton, there have been added during the
past Conference year, pWards OF 40O
members.
John Welsh, President of the Centennial
| Board of Finance, has just been presented
with S5O. 900 by the citizens OF Philadelphia,
| and he at once turned the sum over to the
| endowment of a chair in.the Pennsylvania
University.
! The wealthy young Bostonian, Mr..
Sears, was charged, it is said, $50 900 by
his LAWYERS for their services in obtaining
| an Interpretation of his fathers will. The
bill was compromised by the payment of
$25, 000.
In the scientific American" of Feb
| ruary 10th the editor stat s that ''gas can
| be manufactured for less than twenty CO., 70
a thousand cubic feet If this is f.
ought the price of gas in Staunton to- ue
So. SO per thousand feet? be
The elopement of a married Jewess, s'one
| of the prettiest women in Richmond" is
| commented upon by the press there, as the
first case of the kind that has ever occurred
in that city.
John S. Young, who was at one time
chief of detectives in New York, is dead.
During the val he arrested Capt. John
Yates Beall, of Virginia, an alleged Con-
federate spy, who was hanged ON Bedloe's
Island.
A woman disturbed a congregation in
Manltowac, Wis, by making a dibIe COM
ments on the sermon. The clergyman went
down from the pulpit, seized the woman
and forced her out Of church. Subsequent
ly he had to pay ten dollars.
Rev. Jno. W. Watson married a couple
on last Monday whilst seated in their
buggy in front Of the Court House in Page
CO., Virginia. The par les to this novel
union were Mr.. Vim. Martin and Miss
Mollie Jenkins, both of that out ty.
Mrs. Adelaide Lee Nelson, the actress,
who fascinated the Virginia legislature in
Richmond recently, was on Friday divorced
in New York from Lee, her husband, in
order to marry a man named SchWab.
DR.. Pollard, Of st. Louis, becoming in
tensely interested il the various theories
OF a future state, avoWed his intention OF
waiting no longer to learn the truth, and
committed suicide.
A nineteen-year-old girl was whipped by
a schoolmaster III Allamakee, Iowa, and
she thereupon sued him for breach of pro-
mise, alleging that they had for a year been
matrimonially engaged.
Rev. DR.. Brcaddus, of Virginia, lectur-
ing to Baptist ministers in New York re-
Gently about preaching, said he trusted
nOne of them wrote their rmon under
the stimulus of alcohol.
The Deaf and Dumb Institution, neal
Council Bluffs, Iowa, was burned Sunday
morning. All of the 1853 pupils escaped
without serious injury.
The House of Representatives has allow
ed Platt So, 900 and Goode S. 900 for their
expenses in contesting the seat from the
Norfolk district.
"Speedwell," the fine residence of r. e.
Baker, in Wythe CO., Va, was burnt last
week, loss $4,000. insured for So, 800 ip the
Va. Fire & Marine.
The residence of Thomas G. Perry, at
Abbeville, S. c., in which Jeff. Davis held
the last Confederate council of war in
April '65, was burned the other night.
Peyton Johnston, a colored free schoo.
teacher, has been convicted, in Rockbridge
CO., Va, of forgery.
DR.. j. H. Estis. an old physician of Pitt
sylvania county, Va, fell dead in his field
last Friday.
One of the results of the religious revi
val at Lexington is the organization of &
Young Mems Chr; stian Associ atom.