Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1885-09-04
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When the Episcopal Council assembled in
Staunton in May, 1877, Rev. j. G.. Armstrong,
D. D., of W. Va, attracted attention by his
handsome presence and his eloquence. He
was spoken of for Bishop of that new diocese,
when 1t should be erected. Later, he was
called to the Monumental church at Rich
mond, where with his High Church views he
antagonized Bishop Whittle, and little later
accepted a call to st. Philips church, Atlanta.
In that city he had controversy through the
newspapers with Rev DIR. J. B. Hawthorne, who
criticised him severely and whose criticisms
have just received startling verifcation.-
Last week DIR. Armstrong started on visit to
Cincinnati and on Friday last his vestry at
Atlanta were shocked at receiving the news by
telegraph that he was on drunk and visiting
houses of i'll fame. His startling likeness to
J. Wilkes Booth had attracted curious street
crowds to look at him, and added to his fear
full exposure. His vestry sent on a committee
to investigate the affair. They found him and
took him home. The Cincinnati papers pub
lished long accounts of his fall and it was
telegraphed over the country. His arrest in a
low dive for fighting, was the beginning of
his exposure. His explanation after arriving
at Atlanta was that he was not drunk, but
hunting in the lewd houses for niece of his
who had fled from Canada.
Cyrus Field, the Western Union Telegraph
co-parcener of Jay Gould, claims that the
Baltimore Ohio R. r. Co., is sinking $685.
900 month by its telegraph line. The fact
that the Western Union failed to gobble it up,
however, has a strong bearing on Mr.. Fields
statement.
Michigan girl outdid her companions in a
craze for autographs albums by having about
hundred letters from the same number of
men bound in volume for her parlor table,
AS the missives represented her extensive and
us'ally sentimental correspondence since she
had arrived at the age of chirography, the
collection proved very interesting to callers
One of the evidences of lunacy offered in a
New Orleans contested will case, was that the
man, while changing his high silk hats twice
year, invariably had them made in the
fashionable shape of precisely ten years be-
fore
Before going to shoot John E. Beck, Jr.,
for writing slanderous letter about her, Miss
Sadie A. Westly Of Spottsylvania county, Va,
put on pair of pants SO as to have a pocket
to put the pistol in. She wore her dress over
the pants. When she attempted to get at the
pistol, she was SO long about it that her victim
escaped.
Roht. q. Lee, Jr., Miss Mildred Lee, Judge
David Davis, of ILL.,, and DR.. Agnew of Phiadel-
phia, one of Garfeld's physicians, are at the
White Sulphur Springs.
Allan Magruder of Ere derrick county, Va,
who was one of the counsel for Daniel E.
Sickles when he killed Philip Barton Key in
Washington, is dead. He was brother of
Gen. John Bankhead Magruder.
The following was the standing in their grad
uating classes at West Point of some of the
famous Confederate Generals-Gen W. H. c.
Whiting, l; Robert E. Lee. 2; P. T. Beaure-
gard, 2; Stonewall jackson, II; Longstreet,
81; J. E. B. Stuart, 10; Jubal Early. 10; Joe
E. Johnston, 10; A. Sidney Johnston, 8; A. P.
Hill, Is; JEFF. Davis, 20; B. Bragg, 5; R. S..
Ewell, 10.
Hon. L. P. Morton will shortly leave Sara
toga, N. Y, for the Red Sulphur Springs, w.
Va. He takes with him party of friends to
see property bought by him several years
ago. upon which he has expended over $780,
OOO IN improvements, and yet has never seen.
The committee for investigating the defal-
cation of Capitol clerk W. R. Smith, at Rich
mond have concluded their labors and find
that his defalcations running through nine
years amounted to $40, 193 TO- The redeem
ing feature, financially, of the matter, is that
the investigation brought on by his detection,
has recovered to the State 1871, 10000 in ar
rearages against court clerks, banks. &c.
which would otherwise have escaped
In taking the recent census in Virginia of
the school population, children under one
year old and not yet named, were put down
by census takers, as ''Little Farsi
DR.. Lafferty, of the Richmond "Christian
Advocate, " has purchased farm near Green
wood, Albemarle county, which he proposes
10 uuake peTfQa u6nt nome.
In Hoboken, N. j., Sunday night, DR..
Lowenthall young physician who was,
betrothed to Miss Gretchen Holtz, the daugh-
ter of millionaire of that city, prescribed
quinine for her and her sister who were suffer-
ing from chills. M. A. Ende, the most noted
apothecary of the town, put up the prescrip-
ton and instead of quinine put in morphine
by mistake. Both young girls died. The
apothecary went to the room and saw the vic
tins, and went off in despair to his own room
and took five grains of atropia He is dying.
Col. A. L. Rives, General Manager of the
Richmond & Danville r. R. system, posi-
ton worth $l4, 1000 per annum, has resigned
1t has long been the practice of Tom Davis,
noted New York gambler, to send out secret
circulars to people whose name he finds in
money at very low price. Some of the people
in Staunton and Augusta have received them
When victim bit at it and went to New York,
Davis would show him some very handsome
counterfeit bills sell them to him, and then
60 into another room on pretence of better
secrecy, to pack them. When the victim
got into the street he would find that the
other rascal has gotten his good money and
given him strips of brown paper in place of
counterfeit money. A Texan called on Davis,
Saturday, and gave $500 in good money for
lot. When he discovered the fraud he shot
Davis dead on the spot.
Cluyerius has little declined in health in
the past few days. He received last week
bouquet of flowers from Mrs. Gen. W. r. Ter
nv, for which he returned note of thanks