Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1880-02-13


out in the walter to his waist, feeling the
bolto with ST lex like he Baptist preach
err He presently came ashore, and select
ing little girl about five years old he led
her into the water. After short ceremo-
ny ne plunged ker in, neck and ears. She
She seemed 10 understand It all, for she
neither cried nor manifested any sign OF
dispieasure. but was led ashore by the
young Baptist. All the while the children
on shore were singing Nearer, my God,
to Thee at tie top Of their voices Wet
eel W. Va.) Democrat
SAD DEATHs.-OD tie 10th of last De-
icember, Mrs. Miranda Wilson was mar
ried at the residence of her father, Russell
Carper, in MONTGOMERY county, Va, to
Montgomery Wilson. A large number of
the guests were taken 81 * after the we'd
ding. The bride died on January 30th.-
On the next day Charles w. Grim, one Of
the guests died His sis er, Miss Mandola
Grim another guest, died about the same
time, and ]. FL. Carper, Beverly Carper,
and Miss Viola Carper and Miss Simpkins,
also guests, are now seriously ill. The
symptoms Of all were those of typhoid fe-
yer.
A negro named HARRISON from Alabama
WHO is COultStiuS q Ct)ilRIGoolOlldl Scdbs
prints a card saying he will try and show
the committee that he is elected to it. ''If
Mr. Harris, of Virginia is not chairman,
and Mr.. E. j. Ellis. of Louisiana. is not a
member. You know how they treated me.
The devil will be comps He'd to look out
when the Committee Oil Election of the
Forty sixth Congress gets there 4 mean
belly, Or they will declare he is not entitled
to the seat he holds. OF not report at all.
r coid hot ,r,if ic
this be so, then may the good Lord have
mercy"
The Leesburg Loudoun ''Mirror" says
Walter J. Harrison has calf upon which
he has been experimenting for the past
four months, with the following results -
From the I'd day of October, 1879, up to
the 31st of January. 1880, his calf-ship took
on 260 POUNDS OF flesh, so pounds of which
were aided during the inonth of January.
The animal is not yet Ell sht months old.
Rev. Job Turner, dtaf-mute Episcopal
divine, delivered a sermon in st. Johns
Church last night, before full congrega-
ton. Judge W. H. Boiling repeated the
discourse from the written sentences and
signs. The text was from the 7th verse Of
the End chapter Of Mathew Wythuille
Dispatch
AS Rev. Mr. Broadway was closing a
West Brantford (Ont.) revival with prayer
the other night, Miss Clneh, a spinster OF
fifty summers, who labored under the de-
fusion that Mr.. Broadway wanted to marry
her, marched up the aisle and pounded him
until the meeting broke up in rush for
outdoors.
Maggie Mitchell, the actress, in prin-
ted card says: Il am i'll no way ashamed
of my age-lt is A years. | was born in
New York city September 10, 1886. and
started in my professional career in the
old Park TAeater i'll that city in the winter
Of 1862
Mrs. Rigney, the white widow OF a for
mer prominent merchant of Springfield. Ill
was married privately last month to Rev.
Il. W. Raymond, Il colored B iptist minis
ter. The congregation OF the latt er imme-
diately on discovering til fact held ameet
ing and dispensed with his services.
John Owens, of Virginia, petitioned
Congress to remove his disabilities, and
when 1t came up, Friday, a Republican
opposed it because Owens petition alluded
to the war of the Confederacy," while
the fourteenth amendment mentioned
''the war Of Instruction.
Ground was broken on Monday last on
the Maryland side of the Potomac at
ShepherdStoWn, for the construction of
the S. V. +. r. to Hager5town-the north
ern terminus. COL Alex. r. Boteler made
stirring speech and threw the first dirt.
There are four vacancies in the Board
of Directors of the Blacksburg College.
made by the resignation of Gen. Lee. and
the expiration of the terms of Gen. Talia-
ferro, Hon. w I'm. Mines and Col. Eggle-
ston, and the death of Thos. Edmunds.
Judge Patton, the new Judge. of Rock
bridge county. was an editor of the Rich
mOnd Wing" in ante-Eellum DAYS and.
later, was editor of the Lexington Ca.
zette."
Gov, Davis who has just got into the
governorship of Maine by the bayonet. de-
nounces the action of his opponents dnr-
ing the recent political dead lock in that
State as great political WrOng,''
Rev. Dr.. Moses D. Hoge, the pastor of
the Second Presby terrain church at Rich
mona, last week announced to his congre
CATION that he intended t. leave for Egype
and the Holy Land soon, to be absent
some time.
Alexander Mitchell OF McGaheysville.
buckingham, short time ago. killed sAv-
en- wild turkeys at one Shot, They weigh
ed together "a pouads,
Rev. John l.. Gilbert, whose death in
Frederick county few days ago has been
published, was the former Presiding Elder
OF Lexington and Lewisburg districts,
The late Col. John Brisbin, of Newark
N. j., left a quarter of a million dollars to.
various local charities and sos, 900 to refao~
lives.
Maj. A. R. Venable, Jr., of Farmvina
'aised this season a hog which after
slaughter, weighed nine hundred And
Ourteeu pounds
Maj. A. A. Pittman, of Lexington, has
'een again elected manag r of the Rawlev
springs, for the season OF 1880.
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