Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1881-04-29
The Rev q. M.Cousens said in SER

The Rev. o. M.Cousens said in a SER
mon at Portland, Maine, that every menu
her of his congregation was a ''clder guz-
zler.'' and is to be tried for it by his Con-
ference. A revivalist gave almost as much
offence at Fairfield, Iowa. He said 1t was
frivolous for women to wear feathers IN
their hats, whereupOn two girls left tne
house with feathers flying. The preacher
called after them: This is Gods grana-
~; there goes the chaf; thank God the
wheat remains"
From 1904 to 1907 inclusive, 2O2 cargoes
of negro slaves were brought into Charles
ton. S. G. Of these slaves, 1914 were sofa
for account of persons residing in Bristol,
r. L.; 3,4SS for Newport, r. l.; 556 for
Providence, R. l.; $50 for Warren, +. l.;
200 for Boston, Mass, and 25Q for HarG-
ferd. Conn. This was, it will be observed,
at only one port in the South, and during
period of only four years.
The report of the Minneapolis Associa-
ton regarding the amount of wheat still
in stock or remaining unthreshed, esGl-
mates that from ten to twenty-five per
cent. of the crop of 1880 in the Northwest
is still in that condition.
Five hundred thousand pounds of pow
der in the magazihe of the Dittman pow
der works at Binghampton, N Y, was
exploded last week by some boys firing at
target. The shock of the explosion was
felt thirty-two miles off. ..
Col. Chas. S. Darlington, of Richmond,
has obtained from the Kanawha Circuit
Court, the option. till October lst., the
whole of the ''Splint Coal'' property in that
o100 00Q Tho prioo IF rronortU
is now in suit in that court.
The proprietors of Museum in New
York have just been compelled to pay ST.
500 damages for the biting of Flora Rem
necki, little girl. by monkey that had
escaped from their place Of exhibition.
The Annual Meeting of the preachers
and elders of the Christian church of Vir-
Wednesday. Among the essays read, was
one by Elder l.. A. Cutler.
Tabner Riddle, aged eighty years, re-
siding on Naked Creek near Burke g Mill.
while shaving on Sunday morning. the
10Th INST, fell out of his chair dead, from
rheumatism of the heart.
Judge Joseph H. Sherrard, Judge Of the
county and corporation courts Of Winches.
ter, attained his eightieth year last week,
on which he was congratulated by bis
friends.
Margaret Bryan, colored, convicted at
Harrisonburg OF attempting to poison her
employers family. has been sentenced to
four years in the Virginia Penitentiary.
Mr.. Richard Lamb, of Norfolk, has in.
vented combination brush, comb and
mirror with hollow headed walking cane,
intended especially for travellers use.
VIM. G. Mcdowell, of Philadelphia, has
been appointed treasurer of the Norfolk
| and Western Railroad Company, with
headquarters at Lynchburg, Va.
There is in Springfield piano made in
ITO, by an uncle and brother of John ia.
cob Astor, both Of whom were at that
time piano-makers in London.
Judge W. J. Ferguson, of Louisa. KY.
died on the 22d inst. He was from Vir-
ginia, and was Colonel of the Seventeenth
Virginia regiment at Gettysburg.
The Monticello wine company of Char
lottesvllle, Va, has just contracted to
| furnish a New York firm with ten thous'
and gallons of wine.
Mr.. Samuel Pryor, former resident of
Lynchburg, Va, and uncle of Gen. Roger
A. Pryor, of New York, died recently in
Georgia.
Mr.. Christopher Hutchinson, an English
man, who recently purchased farm and
settled in Orange county, Va. died few
days ago.
"A Cleveland Presbyterian pastor has
been arraigned before his presbytery fol
sending his family to theatres and balls.