Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1881-06-17
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of the W. L. Asylum, left on Saturday
for Toronto, Canada. to attend the annual
| session of the American Association of
Superintendent of Asylums for the In
sane.
Mrs. Brooke Eskridge left; Oh Wednes-
day last to join her husband in Colorado.
Mr.. Eskridge has been for some time sue
cessfully engaged in dairying in that far
western country. Mrs. Eskridge has been
a great favorite with large circle of
friends and her departure is generally re-
GREETED.
Meade F. White, ESQ.,, was on Tuesday
elected member of the Board of Trustees
of the Wesleyan Female Institute.
Rev. j. B. Haskell who has been visiting
his friends in South Carolina, has returned
and is again filling his pulpit.
Rev. Job Turner held a deaf-mute SER
vice at Delayan, Wisconsin, last week.
He is expected in Staunton about the last
of June.
ReY. W. T. Richardson filled the pulpit
of the Presbyterian church at CharlOttes-
vile last Sunday.
Rev. VIM. E. Baker after travelling 800
miles on horseback on his way to Char
lotte, N. G.. has exchanged his mode of
travelling to the railway and gone on to
his destination.
Capt. Pat. Woodward has resumed
charge Of his train on the c. & o. road,
from which he was detained by the illness
of his wife.
The Rev. M. H. Houston and family,
and DR.. R. B. Fishburne, sailed from San
Francisco for China on the 23d ult.
Mrs. Sophie Schmidt. sister-in-law of
Mr.. Frank Prufer, left on Monday for
Carlsruhe, Germany, which will be her
future residence.
Mr. A. S. Emmons has been appointed
purchasing agent Of the Chesapeake &
Ohio railroad, in place of Mr.. John A.
Netherland, resigned.
II. B. Micbie, ESQ.,, formerly of the
Staun ton bar and now residing On his
farm near Leesburg, Loudon, is IN Staun-
ton on visit to his friends. He is in ex-
cellent health and has been warmly well
coined by his old friends.
At the art exhibition at the annual COM
mencement at ''Fairfax Hall" school at
at Winchester last week, two oil paintings
"a castle on the Rhine" and "View in the
Adirondack" by Miss Lizzie Ewing of
Augusta county, attracted much atten-
ton.
Miss Mary Grattan, eldest daughter of
Capt. Chas. Grattan, who took the medal
in the senior Latin class, at the Augusta
Female Seminary, is the youngest pupil of
that college to whom the honor was ever
awarded.
Mr.. A. G. Gordon delivered, last Thurs
day, before the Augusta Memorial AsSO-
citation, one of the most eloquent, chaste
and appropriate addresses we have ever
read.-Charlottesville Jeferson5an.
J. W. Hopkins, Esq, formerly the popu-
lar depot agent of the g. & o. road here
and now its agent at Coal Valley, received
many pleasant greetings on our streets last
week. He says the output of coal from
that station is from 100 to $50 cars per
day.
Rev. J. NJ. Frost of Staunton, is an
nounced to assist at the ordination Of Rev.
VIM. F. Harris at Covington next Sun
day. Rev. J. M. Pitcher, whose former
pulpit Mr.. Harris takes, will also assist.
In giving the vote of the Augusta dele
gates to the June convention last week,
the name of W. H. Bailie was inserted by
mistake 1t should have been W. III. Bal
ley of the county.
DR.. c. H. Getzendanner who is well
known in Staunton, it will be seen from
his card, has resumed his practice in this
city. The DR.. has had an experience of ten
years in hospital practice at Bellevue New
York and in civil practice. He was, before
coming here, President Of the Board of
Education, in Maryland, and brings the
highest testimonials OF his skill in the pro-
fession.
Mrs. M. III. Efinger has gone to the
Rockbrldge Alum for the summer.