Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1878-01-25

skill upset dllQ tDG lOuT named were drown
ed. Jessie Ingham was found holding firm
ly to plank but all endeavors to resusci
tate him were fruitless. he three Others
drowned were never seen alive after frs
going under. The fathers CT the lost boy.
were Oh the river bank in the crowd Of
citizens, headed by Mayor Burk, engag
ed dragging for the bodies. Willie Goodal
was first found. Johnny Russell second and
Spence Mitchell last. They were not ter
feet apart, which leads to the suppositio1
that they went down holding to each
other. They were all bright, Intelligent
lads and who were members Of the various
Sabbath schools of that city.
Trinity College, Oxford, has made DR.
John Henry Newman an honorary mem
Der. This is the first time that such a dis
tinction has been conferred at either Of the
great English universities on a Roman
Catholic, and the step is all the more
marked as DR.. Newman was originally Il
priest of the Established Church. 1t is ad-
mitted, however, that The honor is but a
just recognition Of the eminent abilities OF
DR.. Newman.
The General Grand Chapter of Royal
Arch Masons for the United States of
America has recognized the Mark Grand
Great Britain for Comforting the "M ark
degree" The effect of this recognition
will be that English Royal Arch Masons
who are also English Mark Masons will
not be required to again take tue latter
degree before Joining an American Royal
Arch Chapter.
James T. Taylor, New York brewer a
member elect of the Legislature. was strick-
Ell with sudden and serious arrangement
of mind last Saturday afternoon, and as
tonished the neighbors by ringing all the
door-bell, and announcing that he was
king Of the world. Next morning he ran
down Broadway without coat or shoes.
but was overtaken and conveyed to an
asylum.
Rev. DR.. J. H. Eccleston has formally
declined the Episcopate of West Virginia.
In letter to Rev. w i. FL. Meade, of the
standing committee of the diocese, he says
that after month of patient and prayer
full consideration of TIE election, he does
not feel it his duty to accept, and sees no
possibility of reaching different conclu-
sion.
The Virginia Annual Conference of the
United Brethren in Christi Bishop Gloss
brenner, presiding, will meet in Winches-
ter on Wednesday, February Goth, instead
of the 9th as was the first impression.
The body is composed of some seventy
preachers,
John Bird, of Highland county, who re-
presented Pendleton county in the legis-
lature before Highland was formed out of
it, and afterwards represented Highland,
died on the 18th inst. He had been county
surveyor and President of the County
Court OF the latter county.
There are 157 members in the Mississippi
Legislature. In the Senate are two Re
publicans, one colored. In the House are
one white Republican. two independent
colored Republicans, two fusion colored
Republicans and three cOlOred Democrats.
A colored Democrat was elected DoOrkeep-
er of the House.
One of the most notorious gamblers Of
the West, Mason Long, was immersed at
the First Baptist Church in Fort Wayne,
Ind. in the presence of vast audience of
sporting men and saloon keepers He made
an eloquent address, beseeching his old as
sociates IN crime to follow his exam pie.
Landon c. Lovett, before the war well
known dry goods clerk in Alexandria, was
sentenced to ten years i'll the penitentiary
for horse stealing, by the County Court of
Loudoun county. He had previously served
a term in the penitentiary for a similar
offence.
The jury IN the suit of the United
States against ex-Gov Smith of Va, for
the $1,000 in gold he drew as salary, which
the government claims by right of con-
quest, has disagreed, standing nine for the
government and three for the defendant.
The deacon of a Washington church.
while recently counting over the collection
money, found an old faded piece of paper,
which proved to be his own nearly out
lawed note for $50, which The holder, una
BILE to collect, had turned into The treasury
of the Lord.
Mr.. T. D. Tucker, of Charlton, Mass,
and Mary A. Billiard, of West Sutton,
Mass, a niece of Mrs. Henry Ward Beech
eer. : ere recently married in the same
room and on the same spot where Mr.. and
Mrs. Beecher were married more than
forty years ago.
The Richmond IVA, "Whig' has again
changed hands, Messrs. Wyatt M. Elliott
Il Go. having disposed of the esta blish-
ment to a joint stock company entitled the
Richmond Wing Publishing Company
Living ffty-four years in one village,
and during that time repairing $4,000
watches, for each of which he received
pay. is the history Of a jeweller of Sandy
Hill, N. G.
The Winchester ssTimes'' states that on
Tuesday morning. the 18th inst Mrs.
Cooke. wife of John Esten Cooke, the
author, fell dead from heart-disease, at
the residence of her husband in Clarke
county.
The family residence Of Col. T. F.
Goode. proprietor of the Buffalo Lithia
Springs. was destroyed by fire last week.
Most IF the furniture of the library was
saved though somewhat damaged.
Dicks, the eleven year old son Of I. G
Fesreter, of Charlottesville has gone off
with two tramps. He was traced as far
as Greensboro. n. c., and there the party
was lost sight of.
The FarmviIIe ''Mercury'' says that Mr..
J. III. Siddons, the elocutionist has become
disc listed with Virginia, and is about to
remSya his ''capital and enterprise" from
the state. This will be a heavy blow to
the old state !
The consumption of horsefesh IN Paris.
which commenced in 1860 in the face of
great prejudices, but which steadily adj
vanced and derived great stimulus from
the siege, last year averaged LOCO animals
per month.
STATED calf for one'' was message to
his father telegraphed by a young man
from Auburn,N Y. who went to Texas
last pring.
man in Harom, n. Fl, has sued the
dilatnv lover of his daughter for $500 Tor
roomrent. fuel and lights during four wears
of courtshfp.