Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1877-09-14
A CLERGYMAN SO seldom voluntarily

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leaves a lucrative benefce for a charge of
less value that it is particularly worthy OF
note when he does so. The Hon. and Rev.
II. Dougl rector Of Hamburg. near
Bromseroye. Eng, with a living worth
Ell 200 a wear, has resigned it, and accepted
the vicarage of the populous parish of st.
Paul. Worcester, with an endowment of
less than e20G.
Brigham Young preferred quantity to
quality. Not one Of his wives had any
trace Of positive good looks.
Norfolk expects to ship many oysters to
Europe this winter at fair rates of remu-
neration.
A young man, II years Of age, died re-
Gently at CharlestoWn, Mass, of hemorr-
hage, resulting from the extraction of
tooth. Nine Of the young man S relatives
have died from similar causes.
Charles Young, a son of the late prophet,
has graduated from the law department of
Michigan University, and will practice in
PInckney, Mich.
Mrs. Lucy Stone Blackwell, accompanied
by the Misses Partridge, Hindman, and
Matilda Fletcher, will enter upon the can
vass of Colorado in behalf Of universal
suffrage on the 18th inst.
The Massachusetts Commissioner finds
That the expenses of the thirty-four life
insurance companies doing business IN that
State in 1876 were NEARLY $4,000, 600 or
more than half the entire amount paid for
death losses which he frankly admits is
all wrong.',as
In letter to Gen, Toomhs, Charles
stitution OF Georgia.
A son of the lamented Hon. John Y
Mason, IS captain in the French army.
At thirteen years of age he was the bear
er of dispatches from Napoleon's Court to
this government, and subsequently served
on Gen. Hampton's staff during the civil
war.
Bellevue" w. M. Graybill's farm, near
Salem, Roanoke county, has been bought
by Col. G. W. Shanks, for $10,120.
Governor Kemper has appointed Dr..
John c. Ferguson (colored) surgeon Of the
First Battalion of colored infantry. The
Doctor is u native of Richmond, but was
educated in the North.
Rev. J. W. Wildman has resigned the
pastoral care Of the Baptist church at Fin
castle.
The Bowyer farm, about 400 acres, near
Fincastle, has been sold to Mr.. Miller, an
English gentleman, for S., 500.
A party of U. s. Revenue officials have
arrested eight men in Scott CO., Va, for
Illicit distilling. Among those arrested
was Ira i. R0blnett, d member of the last
legislature, VINO was arrested for making
brandy five years ago. He was released by
the u S. Comm ssioner OH his own .recog-
nizance.
Jessie T. Hopkins, one of the landmarks
Of Liberty, Bedford county, Va, is dead.
lie was for many years proprietor OF the
Liberty House. which be built.
E.A. Visor, of Arkansas who shot w.
D. Owens, an University student, in
Charlottesville on their return from an
excursion to Crawford Springs, has been
sentenced to four months imprisonment
and 500 fine.
The Watts farm in Rockbridge has been
sold to Mr.. Mathews, of Albemarle, for
So, 600.
Rev. l. w. Canter. of Lexington, had
pound party visitation the other night.
Rev. T. Howard kerfoot, a native of
jefferson CO., W. Va. has been called to
the EutaW Place Baptist church in Balti-
more.
Miss Lucille Harmon only nineteen years
of age, was taken sick during the service
at st. Peters Cathedral in Richmond Sum
day and died at the next corner on her way
home.
Citizens of Winchester and Frederick
county at a public meeting have memeri-
allied the city council Of the town to coop
crate in the passage of ordinances which
will still more effectually protect the sheep
OF the county
There will be q grand reception at Lou
isville. KY, next Monday to President
Hayes and Cabinet The citizens already
have the city decorated.
Frank Leslie, who publishes so many in
teresting periodicals for grown people and
children, has been compelled to make an
assignment of his property. His liabilities
are $4,000 Real estate broke him. His
publications will be continued regularly by
arrangement with his creditors.
Lomax 3. Smith. the well-known col
ored barber OF Richmond, is dead. It was
his boast that he had shaved the Marquis
de Layfayette. His funeral was attended
by white military company and many
distinguished citizens.
James Fl. Gardner, a well known
wholesale shoe merchant, of Richmond is
dead, aged 81 years.
Henry DI\arr, the clerk of the American
Hotel, Baltimore, was thrown from bug
oru Mop6avocd I-iIlnd
Benz. HallowelI a venerable school teach
CT who prepared Gen. R. e. Lee for West
Point, died IN Montgomery county Nd,
Friday.
The Conservative convention Of Cam pbell
county, in which Lynchburg is included,
met on Saturday last and nominated Chas.
W. Button, editor Of the Lynchburg ''Vir-
ginian," and Col. D. Read Arnold, and
Howard II. Withers, of the county, for the
legislature.
W. D. Coleman, ex-Secretary Of the
Board of Public Works whose term in the
Penitentiary expires October Goth, propo-
ses to be candidate for the legislature
from Richmond. He is politically disfran-
chised, but hopes on the stump to get his
innocence before the people.
A Conservative ratification. meeting was
held at Woodstock Monday, presided over
by O3ed Funk The resolutions repudi-
ate the Funding Bill, but recognize as the
just debt of Virginia two-thirds OF what
she owed in 1860.
Gen. Malone, in a letter, positively de-
clines being candidate for the Legisla-
ture.
w. NJ. Walker, ESQ.,, of Westmoreland
county, has been renominated flor the
House of Delegates.
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