Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1880-12-31
At the ordination services in the ]


copal church, at Charlestown, W. Va,
last week, when things were blocked by
the snow, John T. Colston, member Of
another denomination put his fonr-horse
wagon-bed upon runners. hlGcned his
strong team to it, and went from mouse to
house gathering in those who DESIRED TO
attend the ordination services at the Epls-
copal church-thus making a compara-
lively full congregation where otherwise
might, under the stress Of weather, nave
been slim one. The Free fresS" says
Eugene Fairfax Williamson, who was
sent to the New York penitentiary last
summer for three years for attempting to
black mail Rev DIR. Dix by postal cards,
died there Friday. He lived for number
Of years at Winchester, Va, and left there
IN account of irregular transactions. He
was an expert dead beat and had even sue
ceeded in making the tour of Europe in
that way.
Mr.. Thomas G. Wales, leading mer-
chant Of Boston, died in that city last
vsek. aged seventy five years. He failed
a 1887 and settled with his creditors at
lift, CENTS on the dollar The other fifty
'.ents HI paid in 1859, and in 1867 he paid
ne interest on the principal. Here Is an
-xample for all bankrupts to follow
whether states or individuals.
Henry E. Nelson, a tramp who was ar
rested in Poughkeepsie, N. z. the other
lay with several romantic letters on his
person which created much interest in his
case, turns ont to be former, and tor
many years. postmaster at Greenv1lle. N.
g., who disappeared last September after
n ~ IN, 0PdA
1850 worth of stamps.
DR.. James Marshall Vest who leaves a
wife and child, and Charles r. Morrison,
druggist, both well known citizens. OF
Richmond, were drowned in James River,
Monday, with a colored man named Brax-
ton, by the upsettlng of skiff. They
were on a hunting expedition. DR.. Vest
was only twenty-eight years of age.
Miss Malvina Terrill, who for many
years, in connection with one of her sis
ters, kept a boarding house at the Univer-
sity of Virginia and who will be remem-
berpd by many of the old students at that
institution. died near Charlottesville few
days ago.
W. A. Stuart, of the Salt Works, and
Col. J. F. Kent, of Wvthe county, Va,
have sold to Crockett & Co., a timber tract
| of 4, 900 acres on the SOuthSlde Of Lick
mountain. The sellers reserve the miner
al right, the land Astounding in manganese
John Honaker was arrested in Hinton,
| W. Va. on the charge of stealing 81 500
| in money and other articles from Mr.
broderick, of Giles county, Va. He had
arrived there three weeks before and been
| lavish in spending money.
Senator Hill, of Colorado, went to Wales
and worked two years in a smelling furn-
ace as labJrer. in order to get the secret
of extracting all the gold from refractory
ores. His smelling works in Denver now
are superior in results to any in the world.
The Washington hackmen found Colo
mel Thomas A. Scott, the railroad king.
a very profitable customer. He frequently
used to engage carriage for the whole
twenty.tour hours. To serve him was
considered $50 JOB.
Mrs. Ora Langhorne, Of Lynchburg,
represents Virginia on the executive COM
mittee of the American Woman Suffrage
Associati0n-which has been sitting in
convention at Washington.
COL Reuben N. Harrison. member Of
the legislature from Rockil CHAM, has ar
rived safely in Florida and il at the resi-
dence of his nieces, about ninety miles up
the st. Johns river.
I Capt. Ash Hartman, has q fine Packet
horses IN his stables, which have been sup.
planted by that unmistakable evidence OF
advancing civiliZation-the Iron Horse
Lexington Enterprise.
Miss Margaret Randolph, daughter Of
the late Maj. T. J. Randolph, died at
"Edgehill." Albemarle, few days ago
Her brother had died only two days be-
fore.
The Barbour Nv. Va.,) "Jefersonian'
says that Maj. Ran. Stalnaker. Jr., will re-
ceive the appointment, under Gov. Jack
son, of Secretary of State.
One half of the necessary endowment of
$4,000 for the Southern Presbyterian
Theological Seminary at Columbia, S. c..
has been provided fer.
Rev. DR.. E. 81. Chaplin, the famous
Universalist minister, died in New York
on Monday last. He was pastor many
years ago of church in Richmond, Va.
Mr.. Gladstone read the lessons at morn
ing prayers while on visit to this Prince
of Wales, at Sandringham, at the express
desire of the Prince.
The father of W. Il. Robertson, one OF
II New Y ork IS state senator's celebrated hit
95th birthday last week. The senator's
mother Is also living.
A new verb has appeared in Blooming
ton, Ill. A paper there speaks Of con.
vivial citizen who was "shuttered" home.
Diaries for 1881, exhibited in store wind
ows remind man of swearing-otf habits
that his hour of reform draweth near.
1ha report of the State Auditor of North
Carolina shows that the valuation of land
has increased in eight years SIS, $4,000
| Three college daily newspapers are print.
ed in this countryside Harvard Echo,'
the "Yale News and the "COrnell News. d
Gov. Neil, of Idaho. in his message to
the legislature, says that polygamy is be-
ing rapidly introduced in that territory
from Utah.
There is a minister at Virdin. ILL.,, who
recently won bet of SIS, and preached a
sermon defending his act.
The false hair. underclothes. &C., of the
late Dowager Dutchess of Somerset have
been sold at auction.
Gov. Holiday of Virginia, was in Anap-
oils, Md, ON the 18th inst, on visit to
Gov. Hamilton Of Maryland.
Robert Tombs, of Georgia, has given a
thousand acres of Texas land to aid in
founding university in that State.
The share of South Carolina in the Pea