Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1878-01-18

| G. B. Rouss, the New York jobber, a
native of the Valley of Virginia, has
| given beautiful medal for the Aid and
Missionary Society of the Methodist Epis-
copal Church. South, of Charlottesville,
to be presented for the best essay or ad-
dress to be delivered before the Society,
during the early part of the coming Spring,
by some student Of the University connect
ed with the Society.
Theodore r. Wetmore, Vice President
of the Security Life Insurance Co., of n.
Y, was sentenced Saturday to one year in
the penltentiary for falsely swearing to
the companys solyency. He is a native
of Alexandria Va. The President of the
company had already been sentenced for
five years.
Dan Railley, Republican, at pub
lie meeting in Lexington last week poured
some hot shot into Col. Lady for saying
that he was elected by the Conservative
vote OF the county. He claimed that
the Republican vote had elected him, and
that the Colonel had gone back on
| them.''
Gov Holiday has appointed as mem
bers Of the Board of Visitors of Blacks
burg College Charles w. Button, Lynch
burg; Rev. David Sullins, Bristol, and
J. T. Lowell, Warren county, vice Gen.
e. G. Wharton w. FL. F. Lee, and DR..
John P. Jmith, whose terms have expired.
Rev. DIR. Atkinson reports that the
! amount Of $50, 900 for an increase of endow-
ment OF Hampden Sidney College, has
been raised. The result, says the ''Cen-
trail Presbyterian is owing chiefly to the
interchangeable labors of it's honored presi-
dent.
| The MALONE TICKET.-Our ticket for
State officers in 1881 For Governor, Gen
eral William Malone, of Petersburg for
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. Senator Paul, of
Rockingham; for Acknowledgement, Colo
mel A. Fulkerson of Westinghouse
! Register.
Prince Louis Salm Kyrburg, son of
mediatized German Prince, was condemn
ed on Dec. 81, by default, to three months
imprisonment. for removing from his
lodgings, during distress for debt,
bottle chased with silver and two other
articles.
! When the officers arrested Mrs. Lydia
Wlngo for illicit distilling in Tazewell
CO., Va, last week she refused to get out
OF bed and the officers had to put on her
| clothing even to her shoes and stockings,
before they could get her out.
Augusta Kablemann, poor boy Of
eighteen, receiving So week as drug
| glst's clerk in st. Louis, has fallen heir
unexpectedly to the estate of an uncle at
San Francisco which is valued at $500 900.
The North Carolina trade of the Winches-
ter shoe factory has grown to this extent,
that the company have sent an agent,
VIM. u. Russell, Jr., to reside there. A
lesson for Staunton
The Week of Prayer was observed in
Lexington, Va, by the united congrega-
lions OF the Methodist Presbyterian. Bap-
fist and Episcopal congregations, Rev. DR..
Pendleton, of the last named, preaching
the opening sermon.
A train on Florida railroad the other
day passed a man on horseback, and there
was great hurrahing among the passengers
until they discovered that the animal was
tied to the fence.
The Rev. David Rosenberg of Columbus,
Ohio, has issued a call for a national con-
yentlon of ''all Israeltes who are willing
to accept Jesus Christ as the promised
Messiah of the world"
The following awful warning is going
the round. ga few years ago Mrs. Kate
Chase Sprague paid $1,000 per yard for
dress material. To day her husbands pa
per sells for two and half cents on the
dollar. -
Tabitha Ann Cotton has been granted a
license to practice law in New York CITY.
She passed highly creditable examina-
ton. She is the first woman granted Ii
| cense in that State.
The New Hampshire Republican Con-
yention nominated Benz P. Prescott, for
Governor, and approved President Hayes
| patriotic and sincere efforts to keep faith
with the people,"
The Winchester Light Infantry say of
the hospitality shown them by the West
Augusta Guard of Staunton that ''the
hand was extended as only soldiers can
extend it-and Virginia soldiers at that
Susan B. Anthony spoke for two hours
at Rochester, Mimi. and the local paper
says, though approaching sixty years of
age, she has all the vigor and Yivacty of
forty.''
A meeting Of citizens of Rockbridge,
held last week, urged the legislature to
adopt Col. Lady's dog law, instead of the
total repeal advocated by Nh. Frazier.
Hon. James H. Birch, formerly judge
of the Missouri Court of Appeals is dead.
He was native of Montgomery county,
Va.
Henry M. Brent has resigned the cash
ier's place of the Shenandoah Valley Ma
tonal Bank of Winchester. Tilman Shu-
mate has been appointed acting cashier.
Four vessels cleared from Norfolk Sat-
urday with ST. 100000 worth of cotton, the
most valuable shipment ever made in one
day from Southern port.
Mr.. Hayes, a photographer of Hunting
ton, W. Va, has christened his son, Ruth
erfOrd b., after the nominee of the Cincin-
natl convention.
General John O'Neill, of Fenian fame,
died in Omaha last Tuesday General
O'Neill was member of General Robert
q. Lees cavalry regiment before the war.
The Charlottesville Chronicle has
printer who in six hours set 10000 ems
newspaper matter. Solid or loaded?
Judge Hughes has decided in favor of
the exclusive right of Blackwell & Co., of |
Durham N. c., to the trademark of the
Durham tobacco.
Two Kentucky hunters amused them
selves by firing wads at each other, and
there was fun in the sport until one forgot
10 take the ramrod out of his gun,
The farm of Col. John B. Lady in Rock
bridge, has been sold for $4,000 to Daniel
H. Lady of Philadelphia, his brother.
Miss Agnew, daughter of an Episcopal
clergyman in New Orleans, is to make Der
debut as Juliet.
The Georgia Legislature is considering
a law prohibiting the selling of tobacco to