Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1877-06-15
At meeting of Chesapeake Presbytery

AU u MotGlIlg VI OiltSopSdk6 Ii6SUy CeI y
| in Alexander, last week, on motion to
| invite DR.. Bledsoe, of the Methodist church,
| to seat as corresponding member Of that
| body, DR.. Bullock said that DR.. Bledsoe
was the traducer OF the Presbyterian
| Church, and were he (Bledsoe) a member
of the ministry of this Church he (Bullock)
would arraign him as a falsifier and SLAM
derer. The motion to admit Or. BiedSoe
was then lost.
A young man named Willy L. Morris
was hung at Pontiac, ILL.,, in 1869. for out
raging and numbering Mary Murray. He
protested his innocence to the last mo-
ment and wept bitterly on the scaffold. it
now turns out from the confession of a
convict in the Chic penitentiary that they
hung he wrong man.
At an old-fashioned country log-rolling
in Indiana, the other day, who should be
there but old Blue Jeans Williams. the
Governor of the State, driving team
Of oxen. After dinner he told some
amusing stories of early days III Indiana.
Addison Duncan, of Luray, Page CO.,
Va, the largest contractor on. the Narrow
Guage r. r., was instantly killed near
Harrisonburg, on the 9th inst, by the ex-
plosion of a gun he was pulling through
the bushes.
Col. D. G.. Potts, the Democrat who was
appointed by President Hayes, postmaster
at Petersburg, some time ago, got his COM
mission Saturday and went into possession.
The President asked him not to discharge
any of tie colored employees who were
capable.
The Lynchburg papers say the Methodist
Protestant church there was densely crow
ded Friday evening by friends attending
the funei al of the wife of Mr.. John W.
Carroll, the famous tobacconist,. formerly
of Staunton.
Rev. A. w. Shields a former slave in
Lynchburg, visited that city Saturday from
New Orleans where he is now a Baptist
preacher. He says the colored people there
are now convinced that the President did
the best thing in letting Packard drop.
The county of Grayson has appointed
it's delegates to the State convention, and
instructed them to vote for General VIM.
Terry, of Wytfe, for Governor, $50 long
as his name may be before the convention"
Out of S42 male convicts in the Virginia
penitentiary, 421 have been just hired out
to public works. Forty-four go to work
on the narrow gauge railroad between
Harrisonburg and Highland.
Rev. Dr. Brown of the Central Presby-
terrain" of Richmond, goes to the Pan
Presbyterian Council in Edinburg, Scot
land, with Rev. DR.. Hoge.
James B. Hunt, of Washington CO., Va,
U. S. Commissioner of the Revenue, has
been convicted Of malfeasance in office, in
Judge Rives court, and sentenced to ten
months Imprisonment.
There is not licensed drinking estab-
lishment in Page county, Va, and Luray,
the county seat, is the most orderly town
in the State.
The dogs are playing havoc with the
sheep in Page co., DR.. Brumback, Geo. o.
Baylor and others have recently lost from
80 to so sheep.
jeremiah Dodge Peabody, last surviving
brother Of Geo. Peabody died in Zanes-
vile, Ohio, last week. He too was a most
benevolent man.
The watering places are getting in their
usual d~ad-head advertisements by an
nouncementg that the President has been
invited.
Lynchburg has elected solid Daniel
delegation to the State Convention, and so
has Campbell county.
The "Montgomery Messenger warmly
endorses the Hon. w. S. Gilman for Lieut.
Governor, and pledges the Southwest to his
support.
Young Douglass who was shot by DR..
Boyd III bar-room at Fincastie, has since
died. He leaves widowed ,uother.
Bishop Whittle will administer the rite
of confirmation at Earlysyille, Albemarle,
next Sunday.
There are l,O75 lawyers in the State of
Virginia.