Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1881-04-29
Personal.

April 70, 1901.
Editors VindScator.
In perusing one of your recent issues I
came across statement of names of those
that had been discharged from the service
of the Chesapeake & OHIO railway for ac-
cident, my name was among the number.
which is an error. Justice to myself and
to my many friends calls forth my pen in
defence of my abilities as an engineer.
admit that in the first part of January of
the present year | had an accident at
Smoky Row, but circumstances we're so
plainly in my favor that was exhonerated
from all blame. Again 1 admit that was
discharged from the service of the Chesa-
peake q Ohio railway, but it was done
through personal prejudices.
Respectfully yours,
G.. EASTMAN.
four correspondent will observe that we
have published all of his letter that is nee
essary to justify him and omitted the re-
mainder.-ED.j
Among the more remarkable wreaths
laid upon the coffin of the late Gar was
one of great beauty inscribed: "To the
Gar CiviliZer," from the women doctors
of Russia. Thirty ladies belonging to the
medical profession in st. Petersburg and
elsewhere united in this tribute to the
sovereign under whom their sex was first
freely permitted to practice the healing
art in Europe.
Mayor Harrison, Of Chicago, has just
been reelected on the Sabbatarian issue.
He is against the enforcement of Sunday
laws, and in favor of no other restriction
in the sale of liquor than it's confinement
to respectable places. Mayor Means, of
Cincinnati. on the contrary, goes into Of
flee pledged to enforce new and very
strict Sunday law.
DR.. r. j. Calling, the inventor of the
famous gun bearing his name, was reared,
the Buffalo Courier says, in a rough
little og-cabln in the heart of the North
Carolina backwoods. What in time be-
came the Gatling gun is said to have
sprung from boyish attempt to make
corn-planter.
The old home of Lincoln was recently
torn down at Springfield. A boy bought
all the shingles for dollar, and with
scroll saw, is turning them into ornamen-
from 80 cents to 81 each.
A. temperance movement Is on foot in
Texas. In many towns and villages all
the sots and drunkards have knocked off
whiskey and are taking choral for their
nerves. This exchange of the bartender
for the druggist is encouraged by the la-
dies.
Secretary Blaine has ordered Messrs.
Howe & Dodd, the Boston architects, to
prepare working drawings and estimates
of the cost of the erection of monument
to Washington at his birthplace in Vir-
ginia, for which Congress set apart $50, 900.
Miss Betty Taylor, daughter of the late
Gen. Richard Taylor, was married in New
Orleans on the 2lst inst, to W. r. Stapf-
fer, an extensive hardware merchant
The wedding took place IN the Jesuits'
Church.
Col. Fred. Hecker, noted German rev.
olutionist of l84S, died on bis farm in Illi-
nois last week. His will directed that his
heart should be embalmed and sent in a
metal case to Mannheim, his former home !
in Germany.
Beresford Hope, M. r, to whom Vir-
ginia owes the statue of Stonewall Jack
son in the Capitol square, at Richmond,
has just lost by death his sister, Lady Mil |
dred Reresforal Hope:
Rev. J. Marshall Ward, minister OF
the Methodist Protestant church, died on
his farm in Greenville county, Va, a rev
days since.