Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1877-06-01
PERsoNAL.-Mr. D. J. Hartsook. Presi-

u6nL OF Gne G1oQmOnG &c Arlington Lille LII
surance Co., was in the city this week,
looking after the sale of the Mozart In
stitute, in which he is largely interested.
Mr.. James M. Ford, Of Richmond, who
set the first type ever set on the Richmond
"Whig," in 1928, was in Staunton, Tues
day, on his way to Huntington, W. Va.
Though of advanced age. MI. F. is as &C
tive and hearty as man Of forty.
A few days ago, Gen. Echols, of Staun-
ton, was in Monroe CO., W. Va. 1t was
the day for voting on the location Of the
new State capital, and large number OF
the survivors of his old brigade would have
their old commander out for speech.
Capt. A. H. Fultz, the popular COM
mander of the Staunton Artillery, was
presented by his men, last Friday night,
with an SIS pair of gold epaulettes.
Sunday week, Rev. DR.. Jno. S. Martin,
of Staunton, preached in Lexington, where
he was pastor during the war. The
''Gazette'' truly says that che is an able
and talented minister"
Ex-Secretary Stuart has been rendered.
by the Secretary of the Navy, the appoint
ment of a visitor to the Naval Academy,
but declined on account of delicate health,
and the fact that his duties as Rector of
the University of Va. would interfere.
Mr.. Jas. A. Poage, who emigrated from
Augusta to Texas, thirty-two years ago,
is in the county, on visit to his friends.
He was, when he left Augusta, the only
Democrat in the Poage family. Mr.. Poage
is a prominent lawyer in his adopted
State.
Among the guests at the American Ho-
tel, this week, was Col. VIM. H. Terrill,
of Bath, the oldest lawyer of the Virginia
bar. 1t was doubly pleasant to see him,
as the last time he was there he was in
very bad health, and when lifted into the
cars by devoted friends, to be sent home.
it was feared that he would not survive to
| reach there.
| Among the delegates to the Baptist
State Association at Danville, who have
left for that city, is MI. Richard Hawkins,
of the Adams Express Co. Mr.. HIS son,
Mr.. James P. Hawkins, is theowner of the
splendid hotel, the darlington House, at
Danville.
Mr.. Geo. W. Norman, the active agent
of that excellent journal, the ''Irish Citi-
GEN. was in the city, this week, in its III
terests. 1t is published in Cincinnati, and
is an eight page paper of ability and en-
terprise.
Mr.. John Kurtz has been appointed Over
| H. e. I,
town had been searched we don't think a
better one could have been found.
| Bishop Glossbrenner, for 80 years bis
hop in the Church Of the United Brethren
in Christ, has just been reelected for an
other four years.
Rev. Geo. Hollar, of the church of the
Ascensionists, whose theology is so well
regulated that it can point out the time
the world is coming to an end, passed
through here yesterday on his way to Bot
etourt to attend a meeting of his disciples.
His doctrine is full of consolation to the
Root Doctors as it points out the only way
of getting rid of the Virginia debt without
paying or repudiating.
Prof. Louis Rubinstein, who has been
four years in the Wesleyan Female Insti-
tute here, will next year take charge of the
music department of Mrs. S. S. Ramsey's
Female School at Lynchburg. He was a
very successful teacher here, as evidenced
by the public exhibitions at that Institute
school that stands high for the profcien
cy of it's scholars in music.
The papers state that Parson Phelps
once a well-kno wn political Northern Me-
thodist preacher in this district, and once
on the Radical ticket for Congress, is an
applicant for office in Washington.
The Rockingham "Register," speaking
Of the sermons of Rev. McDuff Simpson,
in Harrisonburg, Sunday, says ''they were
both marked with unusual ability.
Brother VIM A. Reed, has entered upon
the duties OF U. S. Gauger for division N
1, of Augusta.