Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1878-01-11
Gone for Life.

Gone for Life.
Wednesday morning party of three sa
in the waiting room of the G. Il O. depo
here, two of them on their way to spent
their whole life in the State prison and tn,
third going to spend the best part of his
there. It was Mrs. Louisa Lawson, and hel
| brother Silas Morris, who were to have
been hung for the murder Of the woman
husband, but got communication of sen
tence to life imprisonment, and Dewitt
Ettinger, who murdered Thomas Chidlow
an engineer on the Valley r.. r.. by throw
ing his engine off the tie track. Mrs. Law
son was clad in a dark dress and wore a
checked wooden shawl and long cared bon.
net. She had large bible, which she said
she was carrying along and intended to
read in prison. The reporter congratula-
ting her on the change in her sentence she
replied, 81 knew God was a just God, and
I believe it will all come out right in the
end YETI She added that Mr.. Chas. L.
Todd, of Richmond, who was so active in
getting their Communication, was ''a mighty
good man." The reporter remarked to
Morris that good behaviour in prison
would make his time much more tolerable,
and he replied, 81 intend to do my duty
wherever 1 am, and be the right sort of
man. Mi. Beard there can tell you what
sort of man I am.'' Mr.. Beard, the De-
putty Sheriff in charge, assented that
Morris was well-behaved prisoner. Et-
ybo ffad 10
and who goes for eighteen years. joined
with him in his expression Of intention to
be a well-behaved prisoner. The morning
was gloomy, and all three Of the prisoners
looked depressed when the officer handed
them on the cars for the last journey two
of them are ever likely to take.
PERsoNAL.-Mr. M, Stuart Turner,
son Of Prof. A. J. Turner, of Staunton,
has been appointed organist of the Cen
tenary Methodist church at Richmond.
Rev. DIR. Ewing and family Of Augusta
reached Charlottesville last week and are
comfortably settled in their new residence
on Park ST.. DR.. E. preached at the Pres
byterian church there last Sunday.
The Lexington 'sGazette" commends
the Virginia Hotel in Staunton as one of
the best in the State, and adds:
Mr.. Crowle, the proprietor, and Mr..
Thos S. Davis, clerk, are not noyices in
the business. Mr.. Davis enjoys a State
reputation as hotel man, having for a
number Of years filed the position of chief
clerk of the American Hotel, at Rich
mond, i'll its palmlest days.
OF the Teachers Institute there few
ago the Lexington Gazette" says:
The subject of teaching Elementary
Geography was presented by Maj. Jed
HOtchkiss, of stanton, in manner that
must have convinced every one present
that the fundamental ideas of that science
must be derived from what is visible
from the regions and objects within the
pupils vieW-befOre passing to that which
he never saw.
Among the guests at the Virginia Hotel
Yesterday was Judge Oakley johnson of the
West Virginia Court of Appeals, on his
way to Charleston in that state. On the
same day three years ago Judge j. was
here on the same trip, an intense cold snap
having frozen the Ohio river and made this
rhe only route. Nearly all the West Vir-
ginia legislature were along at that time
on similar journey.
Prof. Scharf of Staunton, delighted the
people of Woodstock Christmas week with
his readings for the benefit Of the Young
Mems Christian Association there.
Mr.. Alfred Sewers, one of the oldest cit
zen of Staunton, died yesterday morning.
Maj. Jed Hotchkiss on last Tuesday
night delivered the third of the free course
of lectures of the Y. M. G. A.. His sub
ject was Virginia and its resources, some
thing he has a more thorough knowledge of
than any man in the State.
DR.. John W. Harris left for New York
Wednesday last.
At the annual meeting Of the Board of
Directors of the D. D. & B. Institution
yesterday, DIR. E. Loring Turner was ap-
pointed to the instructorship, vacated by
the resignation of MI. C. W. S. Turner.