Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1879-05-23

OLD TIMEs.-The "Senthern Intelli-
gencer" of Richmond describing the scene
there Immediately following the end Of
hostilities has the following paragraph.
Information reached Richmond that in
pursuance of call signed by Hon. A. II.
Fl. Stuart, DR.. f. T. Stribbiing. and other
prominent citizens Of Staunton, a large
and enthusiastic meeting was held at the
courthouse in that place on Monday, May
Sth-Hon, A. Fl. H. Stuart presiding.
John b. Baldwin, Esq, delivered an ad-
dress. which was listened to with marked
attention, aud was well received. Before
adjourning, resolutions were adopted de-
claring that all armed resistance in the
county of Augusta was at an end.
Governor Smith was in Staunton on Sun,
day. He stopped at the hotel in the town.
and converSed freely with the citizens.
Els most interesting announcement was
that he had appointed a committee of two
gentlemen to proceed to Washington and
ascertain whether 1.-The present State Gov
eminent" of which he was the head, was
TO continue its functions. Hearing that
the Union forces were approaching, he left
suddenly during Sunday night, and his
whereabouts was not known.
A VETERAN CoNDUCToR.-The Charles
town esprit of jefferson" makes the fol-
lowing notice of veteran railroad con-
ductor who. to our mind, is as active and
as saucy as he was forty years ago:
"Probably the Oldest railroad conductor
in the United States, now. in the active
discharge of his duties, is Captain Lewis
Barley, of Winchester, Va, running on
the mail and passenger line OF the Valley
branch of the B. & 0. Railroad. He en-
tered the service of the old Winchester
and Potomac Company In 1871, and has
been continually engaged in the business,
running on the old Virginia Central (now
the Chesapeake and Ohio) during the
war, and since and up to the present on the
Valley Branch of the Baltimore and Ohio,
which includes the old Winchester and Po-
tomac. He has Travelled over eleven hun
cred thousand miles, Oh more than enough
to go forty-four times around the world,
AID is, to all appearances, good for many
hundred miles more"
DEATH OF A TALL MAN.-The Bridge
water s'Enterprise' has the following
notice of a gentleman of extraordinary
height in Augusta county:
Mr.. Crawford Harris, brother of Mrs.
Sophia Harris, widow of Alanson Harris,
d., and uncle to Prof. Jas. III. Harris,
u. D. S., of Baltimore, died at the resi-
dence of his nephew in Flshersville, Au-
gusta county, recently, from complica-
ton of diseases contracted while resident
Of the malariouS districts of Missouri, of
which he was a citizen for many years.
Mr.. Harris was perfect giant in height
He was a school-mate and play-fellow of
ir,n oh h io bnirht
when boy, that it was the custom Of the
smaller boys to climb him as they would
pole. At the age of nineteen, just about
the time he left his native county, Abe
marie, for the West, we saw him measure
six feet ten inches in his bare feet. The
coffin that contained his remains was sew
en- feet and six inches in length.
DISTINGUISH MASONIC VISITORS
On Friday night last Peyton S. Coles, of
Albemarle, Deputy Grand Master of the
Grand Lodge; DR.. M. Mckenzie, Master,
W. P. Connell Past Master, and Cornell
Gus Duke, Senior Deacon of Widows
Sons Lodge, of Charlottesville: Thos. M.
Smiley. Master of Laural Hill Lodge, and
Joel S. Wallace, Past Master of Waynes-
boro Lodge visited Staunton Lodge No.
IL Of Stanton. After the exemplifcation
of the work by the Deputy Grand Master,
the workmen were called from labor
to trefreshment and an admirable
collation. furnished by ''Tom Burke of
Ours" was partaken of in the Town Hall
in which strawberries, ice cream and other
luxuries were present.