The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1883-07-13
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CHANGES IN LEXINGTON PRESBYTERY--NE0Ro
EMIGRATION AGAIN-DEAF MUTE KNOCKED
orr Tgg RAILRoAD--THE POISONING CASE
TWO SERMONS AGAINST DUELLINo--PERsoS-
Al, &C.
,t,orrespondence OF the Richmond Dispatch.i
July ~, 1889.
Lexington Presbytery, at called meet
ing YESTERDAY, al the request OF Rev. John
A. Preston, pastor OF Franklin church,
Pendleton county. West Va, dissolved the
pastoral relations existing between him and
his people, aud placed at his disposal call
from Thinking Spring. church, Augusta
county. This IS one OF the most important
charges in the Valley, having member
ship OF $40, and located in a rich farming
section. Besides paying n good salary to
their pastor they furnish an excellent hoiise
and a small farm. IL is the late charge Of
DIR. G.. II. stricken. Mr.. Preston accepted
the call, and the 18th OF August was Sc
lected rs the day for his installation, and
the following-named ministers appointed to
otliciate: Reys. James Murray, Alexander
Sprunt, and +. Gains. Rev. A. +. Laird
is also TO be installed pastor OF Mt. Horeb
church on the 2Sth instant, the officiating
ministers being Reys. a. III. Hamilton and
+. &. Railey. with Revs. L. McCutchen
and ". T. Price alternaies.
The church at Glenvile, Gilmcr county,
W. Va, which IS connected with the
Northern Presbyterian Church, Presby-
terry OF West Virginia. by q unanimous
vote. peti0ned 10 be received into Lexing.
ton Presbytery, thereby severing their re-
lations with the Northern Church. After
considerable discussion as to the course TO
be pursued with reference to considera-
ton OF courtesy due the northern body,
the church was, with only two dissenting
votes. received into the southern connec-
ton.
Rev. Or. G.. =. Stricken, now OF At
lanta. whose health is not good, is spend
ing a siX-wceks' vacation with friends in
his former congregation at Thinking
Spring. His people in Atlanta are pulling
down their church edidce there with the
intention Of replacing il with q much larger
and coStiier building. The name OF this
reverend gentleman, ripe scholar. and
sound theologian is very generally men,
toned in the Church in connection with
the chair in Union Theological Seminary
recently made vacant by the resignation OF
Rev. Or. Dabney. and shortly to be filed
by the Board of Trustees Of the institu-
ton.
A German tramp by the name OF Borchm,
q deaf mute. and hailing from Pennsylva-
mia. was knocked of the track yesterday
afternoon by the Chesapeake and Ohio
train from Richmond as il was approach
ing the city. The man was picked up and
brought into the station, where he received
the attention OF DR.. J. st. p. Gibson, the
company's surgeon. His injuries did not
turn ont to be serious. however.
Major Thomas Shumate left here this
morning with another batch OF negroes,
numbering siXty-tive or seventy, and des-
tined for the cOal-mines OF Iowa. They
went from StauntOn, Nelson, Albemarle,
and Louisa.
The Grever-Meredith poisoning case
drags along beyond all anticipation, though
the interest in the trial is untlagging. This
Is the eighth day, and the evidence is not
all in yet Much Of it is Of character
altogether unexpected, and somewhat
startling.
Two sermons preached against duelling
were heard in this city last Sunday-one
from Rev. X. Smithson. OF the Methodist
church. the other from Rev. j. Il. Booker,
OF the Second Presbyterian church. This
sermon will be repeated by request next
Sunday night in the Baptist church to
union congregation OF all the churches in
the city. there being no services on the Oc-
casion in any Of the other churches.
Auditor s. Brown Allen was in Staunton
this week. He does not like the comments
OF your correspondent on Rockbridgc pol
itics and the political situation generally.