Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1878-04-19

A religious revival amounting to frenzy
is proceeding among the colored people of
Richmond, Va. On the streets may be
seen new converts singing of visions OF
glory.
Bishop Andrews preached the sermon of
the New York Conference in New York
Sunday from the text He saved others :;
himself he cannot save"
Rev. DR.. Seymour has declined the Bish-
opric of Springfield, Illinois, on the advice
he says, of his own and other bishops,
though, he adds it is ''stern act of self
denial"
D. F. Maddox has sold his farm in War
rem county, Va, to Robert Compton for
$4,000, being an advance of 81 800 over the
price he paid for it some two years ago.
A Front Royal IVA, rfisherman caught
one day last week fifty -four fine bass in the
Shenandoah river, near that place. Anoth-
er caught thirty two, weighing over fifty
pounds.
The Harrisonburg sold Common
wealth. says ''From all accounts, we will
have wheat enough in the Valley next fall
to board England and Russia at reasona-
BILE rates for five years.
The Congregational Church of Flushing,
L. l., has invited all leading Congrega-
tional churches to attend it's Congrega-
tional Council, ''except Beecher's
Church,
Mrs. John King, nearly ninety years of
age. fell from a preciplce thirty feet high,
in Botetourt county, last week, and was
instantly killed.
Jefferson Davis, Jr., is described as, ''an
awkward, loquacious, good-natured sort of
an overgroWn boy, about twenty-five years
of age" He lives in Memphis.
The expenses of a student at the Uni
versity of Virginia, who adopts the mess
system. are only 5000 for the session of
nine months.
Bass, weighing three pounds, are being
caught in North river near Lexington,
Va, where they are engaged in devouring
the smaller fish.
The Lexington ''Gazette" says Ex-Gov.
Letcher has written to Montgomery Blair,
endorsing his efforts to reopen the cleo
tOral commission decision.
No minister who smokes can now be
admitted to Methodist pulpit in Tennes-
see. This is a novel way to weed out the
clergy.
''She isn't all my fancy painted her,
bitterly exclaimed rejected lover, "and |
worse than that, she isn't all she paints |
herself"
A woman caught the high French heels
of her shoes in railroad track in Meri-
den, Mimi. and was held fast while train
cut off her legs.
Rev. E. @. Pioneer, pastor of colored
Baptist church at Frederick Md. has been
expelled for exercising his muscle on the
brethren. |
England has among her clergy, million
aires and paupers. The Rev. Francis
Swan, lately deceased, left $1,750,0O0 per-
sonalty.
A dinner was given in Warrenton, Va.
to twelve old ladies, whose aggregate ages
was eight hundred years. They danced /
quadrille and the minuet.
A fashionable church congregation of
Bryan, Ohio, was sued by a sinner for in
fu6NcInq his Vile TO Q6SHrU lOr nome. tie
claimed So, 500 as damages, and got it,
A novelty Of the Paris Exposition will
be an enormous BALBOA capable of convey
ing 70 persona.
Maine had 500 divorces last year-an in
crease of 100 since 1874, and about one to
every twelve marriages,
For the last $50 years the lawyers fee in
has been six shillings and eight
pence.
A shooting match at Waco, Texas, was
won by A. L. Brown, an old Monticello
6 uard of Charlottesville.
Col. J, M. Wistena of Tazewell county,
who represented it in the legislature be-
fore the war, is dead.
The residence Of the widow of Col.
Francis atoCormic, in Clarke county Va,
was destroyed by fire last week.
Prof. Cushman, the ''Boss'' horse man,
denies the language about Virginia wo-
men, attributed to hims