Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1880-07-02
The affairs of the Blacksbure collep


are critical. DR.. Buchanan, the late elect
ed president, regards the action of the
Board at it's late session as working his re-
moval, and has accepted a position in an
other college and will not remain with the
Virginia agricultural and Mechanical
College. Professor Ellzey has resigned
and other professors are about to do the
same. These gentlemen have been doing
their work for year without cents pay,
and those who take their places will get no
salary for year, If then. Without money.
with Board new and untried, with few
students and the prospect for next year
disheartening, the future of this college is
quite critical. Exchange.
William S. Young, master of the steam
boat Narragansett, Sunday evening at
tended the Trinity Methodist Episcopal
Church, in Jersey City, N. j., Of Which
Rev. r. Harcourt is pastor. During the
sermon the minister denounced all the
officers of the Narragansett as towards,
Capt. Young, who sat in front of the pull
pit, arose and said any one who made such
a charge was liar. He was taken to the
station house by one of the trustees,
charged with disOrderly cond uct, and
locked up.
The census of The cities has been prac-
tically completed. In nearly all the Vir-
ginia cities the population has fallen far
short Of the public expectation. Alexan-
dria is set down as having 1900. Peters
burg 21,433, Lynchburg about 1880,
Richmond about rs, 900. There are loud
complaints in nearly all the cities about
the incompleteness of the work of the
enumerators.
The name Of Charley Ross is included
in the census Of Philadelphia, with the
word "absent'' The parents, when ask
ed elbow many children living ?'' could
not exclude his name from the list, as they
still hope that he is alive.
Miss Lizzie May Robinson, the unfortu.
nate victim in the celebrated Campbell
County Va. Conspiracy Case. was married
several days ago to Mr.. J. Booker Smith.
who, it will be remembered. also played
conspicuous part in the case.
Gen. John B. Gordon, of Georgia, has
accepted an invitation to deliver the annu-
al address before the Shenandoah Valley
Agricultural Society, at Winchester, at
the Fair, to come off in October next.
The largest amount given during the
past year by any State to the Southern
baptist Convention was SIC, 217, from Vir-
GINA, Georgia comes next on the list,
Kentucky next and South Carolina next
s'Babe'' Montgomery, a notorious dss-
perado, died in Pittsburg (Pa.) police
station Thursday night. His father was
a member Of the Thirty-fOurth Congress
from Pennsylvania.
There are already over fifty visitors at
the Bedford lVa.) Alum Springs. with
daily arrivals. The first ball of the aeasOp
will take place about the End of July.
Col. Robert T.. Preston, of Montgomery
county, va, who died last Sunday week,
was buried in his old Confederate gray,
at his own request
Don Cameron and Senator Blaine are
among the two hundred visitors already at
the White Sulphur Springs.
Senator Wlthers had his foot badly cut
by a moving machine on his farm on We'd
nesday last.
Judge Jere. S. Black, at last accounts,
was visiting Dublin, Ireland.
The Rey. T. Dewitt Talmage will start
for California early in July,
Vermont bad only l2e divorces last year
against 197 jn 1879,