Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1879-06-27

killing the wheat, just then in fall bloom,
and damaging vegetation geiiefally, pu1
5his time his visitation was more tender,
and he left no blight on tree Oh flower to
tell that he had come and gone.
A most unique trial of skill is to take
place in Philadelphia this month. A Wor-
thy Episcopallan has given $3UO, which Is
to be spent in prizes to be gwen TO Inc
Young students of divinity who can do the
best reading either Of the services OF the
Church or the Scriptures. Students from
Eve Of the seminaries will compete for the
prizes. Nine gentlemen are to sit as an
examining board, and with this select con-
gregation before them the young orators
are to exhibit their gifts and graces.
Rev, P. f. Stevens, lately elected Bis
hop by the Reformed Episcopal Council
at Chicago, commanded the y. nfederate
battery that fired the first shot of the war
at the steamer Star of tie W. ST, when she
tried to provision Fort Sumpter. The
Council which elected him is Republican
in politics. 1t seems everybody can forget
the war bus members of congress.
The Ohio Legislature has passed a law
imprsoning ramps from O. e to three
years and providing that 'anN .elson, not
being in the county in which usually
lives OF has lis hon e, who uund going
about Begging and asking >l. stence by
charity, shall be taken and &c med to be Il
tramp"
A poor woman giving her name as Mrs.
Lucinda Graham and saying At she is On
her way from Edlnburg. Indi "a. to her
brothers somewhere iii the W. I part of
the Valley, was badly injured s'y lightning
Shenandoah, in which she bad taken
refuge last week.
General Ewing, John Sherman, Blaine
and Don Cameron are all bouiri together
in one beautiful family tie. John Sher-
man s brother, William TecEtnseh, mar-
ried Thomas EWing's sister and Donald
Cameron married daughter Of Judge
Sherman, brother of John ard Tecump.
Mr.. Blaine's mother was a Gillespie and
the Gillespies are related to tie EWings.
Weston, the great American pedestrian,
has been victorious in the match at Lon
don, England. Brown, his English COM
petitor. gave out during the race, and Yves
ton walked the rest of the match against
tune, beating any pedestrian record
ever made. The excitement in London
over the match was very great, pervading
all classes.
Mrs. Agnes Hall, Of Boston, ended hel
life on Wednesday by taking dose OF
prussic acid. A female friend of hers had
been arrested for larceny and Mrs. Hal
was to be the principal witess against
her. The fact that she had to appear as a
witness so preyed upon her mind that SHE
concluded to take her own life.
Who leaves the dmly- burning light,
That may find my way all right,
When come home a little --?
My wife.
Who'll weep when death has sealed my doom,
And plant sweet roses on my tomb,
And not marry again until they bloom?
My wife
An infantry company has been organized
at Mt. Jackson with forty-ive members
aud the following officers: Captain. J
w. r. Moore; 1st Lieutenant, John P
I.onas; I'd Lieutenant, Thos. j. Meem; 81
Lieutenant, Tho. H. Kimball; LIST Sergeant
Chas. A. Lantz.
Chas. A. Freeman has been arrested fol
wrecking passenger train at Canandai
qua, N. Y. He is evidently insane on tht
subject Of Catholicism and s;t d that th,
train was loaded with Catholics and hi
was bound to exterminate very man
woman and child of that religion.
Emma Sands, twenty-four years Of age
left the home of her wealthy father in Essex
Vt, June 18th. 1t was thought she had
been murdered until she was found on 9
canal boat at Whitehall, N. Y dressed in
male attire, her hair cut short and her
mind hopelessly insane.
Major James G. Hill of Scottsville 'sCou-
rier" and gallant wearer of the empty
sleeve, is to lecture there on ''Recollec-
tions of the rebellion and some reasons
why its memories should be cherished by
the youth of the South"
While about two hundred men were en-
gagged in rifle tournament beneath a long
shed at Boswell, Ind, on the 18th inst,
lightning struck the building instantly
killing two men fatally injuring two 9th
ers and seriously injuring physician who
was in the party.
The Harrisonburg esprit" says, Harvey
Rogers has just lost two young cattle by a
strange disease. The left shoulder wa:
dead the whole side was black. One lived
A boy in Crawford coun y, Ind, married
when he was II and was father at IS.
He lately married a second wife, and now,
at the age of 50, is happy with a second
child. There is 81 years difference between
the ages of the two children.
Near Liberty, Bedford county, on Mon
day, little son of Mr.. G. L. Oyerstreet
shot his little sister in the head 18th q piS-
toll, with which they were playing. The
wound was mortal.
Senator Jno. W. Johnston and lady, and
their son, Mr.. Joseph B. Johnston, have
returned from Washington, and are rusti-
eating at their residence, "Egleston. two
miles and a hali from Abingdon.
DR.. Thomas Buckler, an American ply
stefan of note in Paris has just arrived in
Baltimore on his way to the Healing
Springs, Bath county, Va, to spend the
summer.
The Baltimore District Conference of
the NJ E. Church, colored, has just resell
we'd that the time has come for the cleo
ton of bishop OF African descent.
Marie Gordon Pryor, d daughter of Gen.
Roger A. Pryor, has Just been married at
the Church Of the Pilgrims in Brooklyn,
N. Y, to Harvey Rice, of Virginia.
A meeting of colored citizens of Abe
marie held at the court house resolved that
haryesters should get more than ST. per
day.
Col. Edward James, who had represen-
ted the county OF Princess Anne in the
Virginia legislature before and since the
war, died on the 14th inst.
Nothing can be more painful to the feel
ngs of minister, when he comes to water
his flock, than to find that many of them
are not at the WELL
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