Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1879-05-16

q cOlored man tried for shooting. The fine
not being paid. the judge sent him to Jail,
where he remained until after sunset,
when he was released by the payment of
the fine.
Though the Rev. Dewitt Talmage. Of
New York, tried before Presbytery for
falsehOOd and other deceitS was AGO ultted.
his moral standing docs not seem to be
sustained. Rev. DR.. Van Dyke, of Brook
lyn, most influential minister says the
Presbyterian church. big as 1t il, is not big
enough to hold both him and Talmage
any longer.
VIM. Bell, State Railroad Commissioner
of Ohio, while seated in his Office, was
fired at from without, the bullet shatter-
ing the glass. Geo. B. Lyon, Vice Presi-
dent of the State Mutual Aid Associa-
ton, with whom he had had street fight
the night before, has been arrested on sus-
picion.
The Second Advent minister, Charles
Brown, at Pocasset, Mass, attempted to
make public address, Saturday, but the
people, with the child sacrifice still fresh
in their minds, threatened to mob him.
The Adventists held a private meeting,
however, and repudiated the Freeman
murder.
The cornerstone or a new Cat holic
church, to be known as st. Theresa's, at
Uniontown, D. c., was laid last week With
imposing ceremonies, Bishop Kahn, of W.
Virginia, officiating. The Catholic socie-
ties Of the District. white and colored.
in the ceremonies.
At the Georgia State Treasury, few
days ago, the spectacle of colored woman
deposting s65 in gold Of her savings, and
receiving in return that amount in the
new Georgia four per cent. bonds, shows
what it is for State to have credit.
The New York Produce Exchange re-
ce1ved on Monday from Americas, Ga,
the first barrel of flour from this season S
wheat. 1t was cut on April 80 and May
1, and was thrashed and converted into
flour May 2.
Henry Riddle, the Superintendent of
the Public Schools IN New York city, has
become a spiritualist and surprised the
public with book containing communica-
lions from Louis Napoleon, Byron, and
other distinguished dead.
Gen. J. C. M. Wilcox, who commanded
q Division in Longstreets corps, has been
made Assistant D oor-keeper Of the U. s.
Senate, in place of Capt. Charles Bridges,
who served in the Federal army.
DR.. Geo. B. Taylor, OF the Rome Mission
followed. and at this moment is electrify
ing the Convention by an account of his
six years's experiences in Italy. [ cannot
to report his speech. Atlanta Let
ter an Lynchburg Nesos.
At the election in Des MONIES. Iowa,
last Thursday, out Of $50 women who
voted, all but three voted against the
granting Of liquor licenses, but the men
carried the day by nearly five hundred
majority after all.
The first trial under the new United
States law prohibiting polygamy, at Salt
Lake city, has resulted III the conviction
Of the Mormon, Elder Miles. A procession
Of ten thousand NJ ormons paraded the
streets to show their sympathy with him.
The Evangelical Alliance of the United
States will hold it's coming biennial session
in st. Louis, opening Oct. %, 1879. Its
st. Louis branch thinks the disuse of the
catechism is serious loss to the Sunday
Schools.
The Rev. Samuel Adam, formerly pas
tor of the First Baptist church at New.
port, 4. l., was found wandering in the
streets OF that city, Saturday, in an in
sane condition.
One hundred mail pouches with sixty
four registered letters and over $4,000,
are lying in the little post office Of Frank
lin, Va, because the steamer which car
ries the mail has been seized for debt.
W. T. Brooke. of Fauquier, son of
Hon. j. V. Brooke and brother of Mr..
J. v. Brooke, OF stanton, sailed last
week for Hong Kong, China.
The production of s'Pinafore' by ANA
cures. the proceeds to go to putin the
Confederate cemetery at LyHchburg in
'rder. is urged by the papers ther e.
On the first of May the price of gas at
W heeling, West Vlrplnia. was reduced to
i 20 per 1000 feet, less 10 per cent. for
or prompt payment.
Richmond, $780, 1000; Petersburg, $780,
200; Lynchburg, $1S0,000, aud Danville,
'l42 600, were the amounts paid for to-
)acco stamps in one day la st week.
Since ''Plnafore,' which is still being
played there, was first produced in Phlls-
lelphia, the people there have spent $685.
100 in seeing it.
Gen. Caleb Cushing's estate, which was
oughly estimated at three quarters Of a
million at bis death. will not exceed, it is
low stated, 100000 in value.
John Ballard, a well-known merchant of |
Monroe county. W. Va, has just died Of |
3right's disease. |
The public property of Altoona and
two Pennsylvania towns, is
bout TO be sold under judgment for
eut.
Three Durham cattle, only two years
nd eight months old, raised by VIM. M.
hafer, of Rockingham county, aggregated
,230 pounds III weight.
The death of DR.. Finn, well-known
hysician, has just occurred in Page
Ounty, Virginia.
L. 116uCOCh3 VI AlUCluNll0 GUILTY.. i
WINS half brother Of the now famous
.merican horse, Parole.
The amount of money out at interest in
Iew hampshire has increased $4,000, 900
thin the past year.
Gov. Miller, of Arkansas, was burned
eliigy at Hot Springs, for yetoing an In.
me asylum BILL.
Ten car loads OF iron ore were shipped
ON Nelson county. Va, last week to
ittsburg, Pa.
John B shultz is appointed postmaster
Ottobine, Rockingham county, Va,
ce Miss Kate Paul resigned,
Mr.. II. W, Longfellow uses an inkstand
!. ~, mad RI ho1opn fo tho |