Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1882-06-16
Personal.


Personal.
Rev D. 3. Ewing, D. D., formerly of
Augusta, and later of the Lewisburg Fe-
male Institute. has been granted a trans
fer by Greenbrier Presbytery to West Lex
ineton (ky.) Presbytery.
| Pref. Julian Kendrick, of the Augusta
! Male Academy, will, after vacation, 60 to
! TIE University Of Virginia to thoroughly
| Engineer.
Messrs. j. 7. Bear and Il. B. Dunlap,
accompanied by Misses Annie B. Hoff,
Lizzie Bear and Bette Bear, all from
Churchvllle, Augusta county, passed
through our town Thursday, en- route for
Beverly, W. Va.-Highland Recorder.
Miss Alice Clemmer. of Middlebrook,
Va, and Miss Nettie Ide, of Stanton,
Va, are visiting Miss Mary F. Zirkle,
near this place. -Newmarket Valley.
Rev. W. E. Baker, of Staunton, and
Rev. Alex. S. Sprunt, of Old Stone Church
exchanged pulpits on Sunday morning
last.
Miss A. B. Vineyard has returned from
the Staunton Female Seminary, accom-
panied by her friend and school-mate, Miss
Anna Fulcher, of Augusta county. Mrs.
Koiner, wife of DR.. A. q. Koiner.
has been seriously i'll for several days, and
up to the time of our going to press her
condition was unchanged. --Roanoke Neacs,
Rev. DR.. J. B. Hawthorne. of Rich.
mond, delivered his lecture on Eloquent :
Oratory' at the Baptist church here last
night.
Mr.. w. H. H. Lynn has bean appointed
Judge of election In the I'd ward. in place
of Mr.. VIM. A. Burke, resigned.
Among the Americans registered in Par
| is, France, June 9Th, was Fergus Reid, a
son of Mrs. Gen. Echols of this city.
Col. H. D. Whitcemb has resigned the
position of Chief Engineer of the James
River improvement at Richmond. His
engineering duties on his new road pre-
vented his attending to that.
The Binghampton, IN. Y.,) Leader of
last Saturday, announcing the arrival of
Maj. Nelson H. Hotchkiss and his mother
from Staunton, says:
"Major Hotchkiss attended the funeral
OF his cousin, Supervisor D. H. Hctchkiss,
at Windsor, yesterday. It is the first time
in forty years that the MAJOR has visited
the old cemetery, it being then the sad oc-
! casion of the burial of his sister. The flu
neral yesterday was naturally very large,
for thedeceased was gentleman whose
many good deeds made him great loss to
he whole community"
Among the visitors attending the Yves.
/ leyan Female Institute commencement
is w, II. Ricketts,, Esq, Sheriff of Orange
county. Mr.. Ricketts, is a prominent mem
Der Of the Knights of Honor in Virginia.
The many friends of Rev. Jno. Il. Clarke
of the Virginia Conference, will be pleas
ed to learn that he will fill the pulpit of
the M. e. Church, South, on Sunday next
morning and night.
The faculty gold medal in Greek at Ro
ancke College, Va, has be en- awarded tc
Perry Remsen Nugent, of New Orleans
the trustees medal in mathematics to
VIM. Porter Nelson, of Culpeper, Va. .and
the literary societies medal in oratory, to
G. Armand Miller, of Staunton, Va.
The party of Staunton gentlemen who
left last night for a cruise of two weeks OF
the schooner Kangaroo In Chesapeake Bay
and along the coast, was composed of
Thos. S. Doyle, G. L. Cooke. J. P. Haw-
kins, John M. Carol, E. L. Ide, Garter
Berkeley, Ed. Echols, j. B. Scherer, Thos
HUMPHREYS, w. F. Summerson and VIM
Wholey of Staunton. They took two col
ored cooks with them.