Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1878-05-17

attention or received more unqualified
praise. In oratory, argument, and style
it was eminently the effort OF a statesman.
MISS Catherine E. Beecher, a sister of
Rev. Henry Ward Beecher, died Of Apo
plexy at Elmira, N. Y, Friday night.
Mr.. Beecher getting the telegram that
night at church. made it the subject of his
discourse, giving history OF her early dis
appointment in love, by the drowning of
her lover, and her subsequent utter loss Of
religious faith which she never recovered.
She was the authoress Of many works on
female education.
The New York Women Suffrage Socie-
ty at it's meeting Friday night in that city,
discussed the case of Mrs, Sothern to be
hung in Georgia for murder through jeal-
ousy. Mrs. Matilda Fletcher, a member,
said that the women of New York should
petition for pardon for Mrs. Sothern. 1t
would be right for an army of women to
20 down there and take Mrs. Sothern for
chilly from the Jail.
A number of bar-room keepers in this
city have closed up their places and mott
fed the Commissioner of the Revenue of
their intention to discontinue business.
The cause of their discontinuance is, they
claim, the excessive requirements OF the
Moffett Liquor Law.-AleG. Gaztte.
When Gilman, the eminent and pious
defaulter in New York, confessed his for
geries, Mr.. Beecher preached a powerful
sermon on the value of confession to
guilty soul. Mrs. Tilton heard the ser
mon and was so wrought up that she never
tod oh bod do hnr.
fession.
The Rockbridge County Court has, I'M
der the act of the legislature re-assessing
the Rockbridge Alum and Jordan Alum
Springs, ordered $632.88 taxes to be re-
funded on the former, and $414,O8 on the
latter.
Mrs. Jessie Case, of Asheville, n. G., has
presented her husband with five children
in thirteen months, twins and tripletS.
She is doing well but her husband is in a
low state of mind.
Pope Leo has, since his accession, given
sittings to two photographers, expressing
himself dissatisfied at the likenesses taken
from his old portraits, thrown upon the
world since Feb. 10.
Gen. VIM. R. Terry has disposed of his
interest in the Piedmont Hotel, at Lynch
burg, to his partner, and has returned to
his former home, at Liberty, Bedford
county.
The Fincastle oHerald" says that box
containing fish, intended for the streams
of that vicinity, was deposited in the
town branch for future distribution, when
thief came along, and stole the box with
its contents.
Rev. Mr.. Dame, of Blacksburg, played
as third baseman in the match game of
base ball at Emory, Saturday. He is an
Episcopal minister. Abingdon Standard
Small boy (entering shop)-"I want .,
pennyworth Of canary seed" Shopkeepelr
(who knows the boy)-''Is it for your mo :
Their ?" Small boy (contemptuously)7 f.
"No; it's for the bird"
L. N. Shanks, son of Rev. D. W ShanEss,
pastor of Falling Spring church, Rock
bridge, has been awarded the Debater'S
medal, of Washington Society, of Ws.sh-
ington & Lee University.
DR.. Morrison, brother-in-law of Rev.
Dr.. Dabney and Rev. DR.. Ben Smith, and
a grandson of the Captive of 4. bb's Val
ley" died at Brownsburg, Rockbridge, a
few days ago.
A Charlottesville letter in the Harrison
burg Commonwealth says in that town
there were three thousand colored people
from the country, Easter, and not a
drunken one in the crowd.
Mrs Sarah E. Cunningham, of Brooklyn,
cut her throat Saturday. She previously,
with woman's tidy instincts, took up the
carpet from the floor and fixed her head
over a bucket.
Among the Virginia graduates at the
Louisville KY. BAPTIST Theological Semi
nary, was W. Y. Abrams, of Rockbridge
county, Virginia.
"See," said Borrowing wife, ''how
peaceful that cat and dog are.'' eyes,"
said the petulant husband, Shut just tie
them together, and see how the fur will
fy!"
DR.. J. J. H. Straith. an old and emf
nent physician of Charlestown, W. Va,
fell while mounting his horse near town
on Friday last, the fall being succeeded by
paralysis.
VIM. M. Burwell, has been confirmed
as Register of tie Land Office, at New
Orleans. He was formerly in the Virgin
ia legislature from Bedford county.
James G.. Barr, last year student at
Washington Lee University, Lexington,
was killed in Tennessee a few days ago by
the accidental discharge Of his pistol.
On Memorial day in Vicksburg. the
graves of both armies were decked with
flowers, and the blue and gray marched in
the same procession.
One little boy in Wytheville, Willie
Boiling, succeeded in raising over $50 for
the Lee Monument.
Miss Nellie Hutchinson, a Scotch wo-
man, has been for eight years the stock
reporter Of the N. Y. "Times."
Peter Cooper, of New York, with a
partv of seven, was in Richmond. seeing
the sights. Saturday, on his way to Lime
stone Springs. Georgia.
The forty-third anniversary Of the New
York ssHerald' was celebrated on Monday
by the members Of the staff of that paper.
Gen. Joseph E. Johnston has been vjsi-
ting Gen. Longstreet at Gainesville, in