Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1878-05-10
Personal.

On Monday night a congregations
meeting of the I'd Presbyterian church ex
tended call to Rev. J. E. Booker, oil
Prince Edward. Mr.. Booker is son OF
Mr.. John Booker, well known merchant
of Richmond. He is about twenty-eight
years of age and after graduating al
Hampden Sidney went to Germany an6
studied three years in the Universities o.
Leipsic and Gottingen. On his return ht
went to the Theological Seminary at
Hampden Sidney and graduated with dis
tinction. He married Miss Sallie Peck, s
daughter Of Prof. Peck, of Hampden Sid.
ney.
Gov. Holiday has commissioned J. Her
bert Stiff, now Quartermaster' Seargeni
of the Staunton Artillery, as Com
missary of Subsistence of the 1st Battalion
Of Volunteer Artillery. with the rank Of
1st Lieutenant of Artillery, to rank az
such from April 18th, 1878.
At the confirmation service held by
Bishop White in Grace Memorial Church
at Lexington Sunday week, the Bishop
WCo etOSlOUCu NY hOFs w GltC1 u. IL u11IHCl1,
of Stanton. A class of Is persons was
confirmed.
Lyttleton Waddell, Esq, editor of that
sterling journal, the Charlottesville
s'Chronicle,' was in the city this week.
1t is stated that Col. Rudolph Turk, D.
Shelley Lewis, late IS. Assistant District
Attorney and Peter RAIDER, will be among
the deputies of Marshal John F. Lewis.
Among the visiting members of the bar
in attendance on the U. s. Court at Har-
risonburg this week were Judge Hugh W.
Shelley, Judge David Fultz, Meade F.
White and VIM. A. Hudson of Staunten.
The Middleport (Ohio) Republican, in
its society news notices the arrival there
from Gallipolis of Maj. N. II. Hotchkiss
and Miss Sarah Hotchkiss, of Staunton,
accompanied by Mrs. Dunbar of Gallipo-
lis.
Mr.. Oakley, General Passenger Agent of
the Chesapeake & Ohio r. r. at Cincin-
natl, has resigned that position.
Among the member of the Grand Coun-
Gil of Red Men now in session at Rich
mond, are Messrs. John T. Long and John
e. Yeager of Hiawatha Council No. 80 of
Staunton.
DIR. Carter Berkeley returned from a
business tour in the South on Tuesday
last. At Weldon, n. c., Monday his trip
was enlivened by an election fight between
the blacks and whites in front of his hotel,
i,,x iab oEb hot hoJ lx7
injured and one colored man killed.
Mr.. Jos. B. Woodward, the popular Dep
uty Clerk of the County Court, returned
from his wedding trip on Monday last, his
assembling OF large number of his friends
at his residence in West End that even
ing.
Mr.. Edmund Berkeley, the photograph
er, has gotten out beautiful piece Of
work in the shape of a photograph of the
interior of the Lutheran church with
its splendid Easter decorations.
Mr.. Chas. G. Doyle, the energetic pas
senger agent of the Chesapeake & Ohio R.
R., has been transferred to Lynchburg,
where he will make his residence.
Hon. Marshll Hanger. Capt. T. D.
Ransom and Nj. Ed. Echols, arrived at
Liverpool, on Saturday.
A Children's Fair To night.
"We've scraped the money together to
pay for the room at the Grange Hall" said
bright looking little girl who had come in
to the VINDICAToR Office with another
little one yesterday morning, ''and we lit
tie girls are going to have fair for the
First Presbyterian church tomorrow night
and we've come to see if you won't
notice it for us. If you will land here the
little one looked terribly in earnest) you
may come in for nothing and you shan't
have to pay for anything. (How soon they
learn the dreadful venality of the press y
Well have plenty Of things, flowers, cake
and lemonade, if you will only get the peo-
pie to Gomez
Even the highest toned journalist could
hardly have preserved his integrity under
the brides of two such bright little lobby
lists, and we promised. We confess that
what writer who already has, so to speak.
his pay in his pocket may say about an
entertainment is to be taken with some
allowance but-''We'll tell 'em at the dool
not to charge you anything" (They had
run back up the steps to give this parting
shot)-but we must insist upon it thai
these little ladies should have full house
tonight. They open at s o'clock Z. M.
the refreshments will be good, the money
is for a missionary cause and, finally, you
must not disappoint the little ones. You
can go early or late for 'sMa says we can
keep open till II O'clock"
The Board Of County Supervisors.