Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1877-05-25

A pale, weak little girl, a mere infant III
size, in the last stage Of consumption, was
found in the Kansas City depot with
card in her white hand, saying she was
bound for s'Tipt n, Mo-" She had teen
deserted by her step-father, Joshua Long
worth, Second Advent preacher, who had
s,... al ,s<4s... I'd n5tsa-
thoi tiles.
The first reported case of a colored min
lister preaching to white congregation
was at the Episcopal church, Chattanooga,
Tenn, Friday night, and the preacher was
Rev. John Mcdonnell, rector OF Eman uel
church, Memphis. The Diocesan Council
of Tennessee is in session there, with
Bishop Quintard, an ex-confederate army
Gu aplain, presiding.
Prof. Lee Tom has opened a Conserva-
tory of Music in San Francisco, with the
design of training the Chinese youth for
the orchestra In the Chinese theatre. There
are four instruments--the Chinese fiddle,
the zung-fu, Or devils banjo, the tabor and
the tom-tum. The latter is like a brass
skillet turned over apd beaten with sticks.
A Chicago merchant, who knows more
about grain and pork than foreign affairs,
was asked recently what he thought Of the
EdSIti uutobitu. ilC uCOltdUcu II mo
inent aud then said, with wise air. ''Well,
am a Westernman." He evidently means
to stand by his section.
The bIae aud the gray are to participate
1T the decoratIon Of the Federal graves at
Chattanooga, Tennessee, and have invited
President Hayts to be present. This means
sondhing, for Tennessee was State
where every uan was d fighter On one side
or the other, and the hatreds were very
bitter.
Mr.. Robert Beverley, will be the orator
at the commencement of the Virginia Ag-
ricultural and Mechanical College, and the
Hon. John Randolph Tucker will address
the literary societies on the some oc-
caSi0n.
Miss Parke Perkins, of Buckingham
County, Virginia, who was crowned queen
If love and beauty at the Centennial tour
lament, will be married On the fc urteenth |
If June, to wealthy gentleman of Pulaski |
county, of this State.
Col. w. w. Forbes, Register in Bank
uptcy, has been appointed postmaster of
sichm1 nd, in place of Miss Van Lew, who |
lad held the Office ght years and made
erself very Objectionable to the people OF
hat city.
President Hayes has offered Chamber
ayne, of S. c., the solicitorship of the
treasury, but the carpet-bagger declined.
lie will shortly 60 to New York to prac-
ice law.
Miss Jane Hutchinson, near Hinton, W.
! a., has made this season TWENTY-FIVE
ounds of sugar, and one gallon of molas-
eS from one tree. And the last heard
rom there, she was still making
Mrs. VIM. Wilson, of Fayette co., Va,
yas just turning from the laying out of her
HID, four weeks old, who had just died,
'hen she herself fell On the bed and died
l few minutes, of heart disease.
Samuel Booth, known in Salem, Va, as
ne handsome clerk" of the Duval House.
as appointed mail agent on the A. NJ. IL
}. road last week and came back from his
rst trip utterly insane.
The tremendous fraud of naval claim
gainst the government for $4,000, 900 for
ie capture of Richmond, has been dis
issed in the Supreme Court of the Dis
let Of Columbia.
Under the ministering of Rev. J. r. Har- i
son, the Evangelist of the Valley Baptist
in the last year nearly 800
,rsons have professed conversion.
Col. Hiram w. Dawson, who represen-
d Nelson CO., in the legislature before the n
lr and was al officer OF the 2Sth Va, reg
,ent during the war, is dead,
Five, was the number of sheep, that J.
:. Barclay, near Lexington, lost by dogs 3
st week. The dogs were from the town =
d were killed in the act. a
DR.. J. Addison Logan, well-know phys Il
an Of Giles CO., Va, died on the 4th
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