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


rifcally bereaved is without a parallel in
human nature, and any meanness tending
to stir up spirit of animosity between the
North and the South, or between the East
and the West, or the German and the Irish
or the white against the black, that spirit
is the most mlschievous. We are all one,
all united.
Last Sunday, at Watertown, N. Y, the
Rev. G.. j. Porter, pastor of the Universal
ist church, with his father. the Rev. 1. F.
Porter, and his mother, the Rev. Mrs.
church. The son opened the services, the
father offered the prayer, and the mother
preached what is described as very earn
est and eloquent sermon.
Ex-Secretary NcCulloch, in a lecture at
Cambridge, Mass, ON Tuesday evening, in
sisted that resumption cannot be perma-
nent and that the financial question will
not be removed from politics until United
States notes are deprived Of their legal
tender quality by act of Congress or by the
opinion of the Supreme Court.
Orion Clemens, a brother of Mark Twain
was publicly communicated from the
Westminster Presbyterian church of Keo-
kuk, La, last Sunday morning, having been
tt led and convicted on the charge of here
sy. His specific offence was the delivery
OF lecture, in which he disavowed the
divinity of the Christian religion, and at
tributed. it wholly to man.
At the Asylum Hill Congregational
Church, Hartford, Conn, last Sunday, a
Chinese in full Chinese dress oficiated as
a deacon at the communion service He
was one of the first of the Chinese boys
who came to this country to be educated,
and while at school at Monson, Mass, was
converted to Christianity.
The magnificent Catholic Cathedral on
Fifth Avenue in New York is to be dedi-
Gated next Sunday. The prices of admis
sion are five dollars for a front seat, three
dollars for back seat. and one dollar for
general admission for tie morning rvice.
Admission to the vesper service will be
one dollar.
Elias Hampton was so particular in buy
ing revolver in Buffalo store that the
clerk inquired for what purpose he wanted
it. Il am going to si,ooL my father-in-law
and brother in law" he replied. The clerk
thought he was joking, but he wasn't. for
before night he had lodged bullet in each
of those relatives.
Rev. E. E Hoss, who has for some time
filed a professorship in Martha Washing
ton College, has been elected President ad
interim of that institution, to fill the va
cancy occasioned by the death Of DR..
Warren DuPre, deceased.
When General James Simons was buried
in Charleston, S. c., the other day, there
was borne in the procession a flag under
which his father charged, in Colonel
Washington regiment, at C0wpens and
Eutaw Springs.
The United States District Court at
Clarksburg, W. Va, has rendered decis-
ion requiring the executors of the late R.
D. Shepherd to pay to his niece, Mrs.
Catherine S. Lucas. of Jefferson county,
W. Va, the sum of $23, 250.
The town council of Keyser, West Vir-
GINA, have Refused to submit to vote of
the people the question of anting licen-
ses to retail liquor sellers, and the saloons
must CO."
Judge Robert w. Hughes is writing
sketch of the late John M. Daniel, Of the
EXAMINER for the Philadelphia Weekly
''Times.''
LA.hJtdUO S0udtOL ID. SOIuISu, VI Now
Jersey, who was convicted last week of
conspiring to d. fraud the county Of War
rent OF $40, 900 was on Saturday sentenced
to one year in State prison.
A Miss Stevens, of Walton, Delaware
county N. Y, died on May OF toothache
Although this is a rare occurrence, this is
an undispnted case of death resulting from
an circulating toothache.
Missouri has new law forbidding men
to meet for military drill unless legally Or
ganized. This is aimed at the ST. Louis
socialists.
Harrison O'Bannon. a former wealthy
land owner Of Jefferson county, W. Va,
died suddenly at Mt. Vernon, Ind, May
9Th of heart disease.
Hamlin, under sentence of death in the
Connecticut prison, sells photographs of
himself, and gives the proceeds to the
widow of the man he murdered.
Saturday May 31st., has been set apart
at Charlestown, w. Va. as memorial day
with Hon Chas. 3, Hooker, OF Mississippi,
as speaker.
Maj. John W. Daniel will address the
lLOO 4AAoOAoSAy AoCtCUv VI ouO
Institute, New Market Va, on Thursday
night, May 10Th.
The corner stone of st. Luke's Evan
gelical Lutheran church near new Column
bia Furnace, Shenandoah county, was laid I
May Sth.
One dealer alone has shipped from Win
chester, Va, depot, 1900 lambs for which |
he paid the farmers the average price Of 49, !
Nothing makes bald headed man SO |
mad as fly that doesn't know when it
has enough.
Rev. Mr.. Talmage has been granted a
three months vacation, and will sail for
Europe May 2S.
Mrs. Ellen Corcoran Hill, a sister of W.
w. Corcoran, the ban ker of " ashington.
died in Baltimore last week.
Ripe peaches are selling in the Calves
ton (Texas) market at SIS per bushel. Ripe
water-melons are also in market,
Alexander Gallagher, a railroad con-
tractor, was drowned On Monday near
Charleston, W. Va
.sMark Twain" pays taxes on $67 $50, in
Hartford, Conn,