Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1885-01-30
MISCELLANY OF NEWS.

Thomas Fl. Graham was member of the
Baltimore City council, member of the
School Board of that city, and freight agent of
the B. & O. at Mt. Glare station. He is none
of them now, having fed with SIS, 100 of the
railroad company's money ...=..
Elijah Rudolph, who lived near st. Paurs
Lutheran church. in Frederick county, has
left $4,000 to Roanoke College, payable when
his widow dies. .- s.--.t
Miss Celeste E. Bush, one of the teachers in
the State Female Normal School at Farmville,
writes home to the Boston ''Journal of Educa-
tion," that ''the first white State normal school
of Virginia has surprised even its most hopeful
friends by the way in which it has filed its
| ranks and fallen into line with sister institu-
tions. We have nearly 100 students, and I am
sure if you were to drop into the classes at any
time, you would never know by the work that
is being done that you were not in an old and
well-established New England normal school,
At the Norfolk Female College they have in
augurated "soiree' which is of very super.
ior character. The young ladies give short
musical entertainment and it is followed by
ecture, by lecturer of distinction. Prof.
Noah Davis of the University of Virginia, was
their last lecturer, on ''Woman rs. Man.; Rev.
DIR. Ellis late of fremont Temple Boston,
will be their next, "John Bunyan,''
to be followed by Prof. Fitz, on 'sThe Opera"
There seems to be entertainment and instruc-
ton both in that sort of soiree; certainly it is
q step upward in female education
The Confederate Soldiers Home" build
ing, near Richmond, has been purchased and
is now being fitted up, and will soon be open
for disabled Confederates. It will be good
place for. any generous ex-confederate to
which to send an extra barrel of flour or ham
OF anything else the poor fellows can cat. We
see that the ladies Of Norfolk realized the
splendid sum of S., 500, by their fair for the
benefit of Pickett-Buchanan Camp Confed-
crate Veterans, last week. -.f ..
Rear Admiral L. NJ. Powell U. S. N, who
died in Washington, Saturday, was native of
Winchester, Va, and son of Alfred Powell,
a former member Of Congress from that dis
trict. He had been sixty-seven years in the
navy and was prominent with Farragut in the
civil war. He was one of the founders of the
Naval Academy at Annapolis, Md. He had
been on the retired list for nearly twenty
years. ..-.. -..sf.
The National Congress cost the people
$213,0 900 for each session according to the
official figures and this includes such extraor-
binary things charged to the government by
members, as Christmas cards and monographs
opera glasses and soap. 'Dantes Inferno" SIS;
Young Ladies' Journal, 81; trunk, 1923; one
prayer-book, $2.5e; one pearl opera-glass,
$14 81. . IS.
Women do good dea.l Of damage when
they have mind to. The banking firm of
Cisco & Son is one of the Oldest in New York,
and with them Mrs. Edward II. Green of that
city, who is worth 1876 600, 900, had $1,OOO,-
900 on deposit. Her husband had borrowed
$500, 900 from the bank. Last week she
wanted to remove half of the deposit to an
other bank The bank begged her to let it go
in psynasnt Of her husbands debt, without
taking it evt of the vaults She refused, broke
the bank, which at once suspended, and now
has neither tbs $500,000 nor her million,
though the loss Of both do not Inconvenience
her much. - .
The chapel in which John Wesley used to
preach in the old part Of London is still stand
ing. 1t is unpretentious and has steeple.
Its bible that John and Charles Wesley used is
now in Baltimore, having been temporarily
loaned, by the congregation, to the Methodist
Centennial. In the church yard of the chapel
are the graves of John Wesley, John Bunyan,
and Isaac Watts. Wesley rests only thirty feet
from the pulpit in which he won immortal re-
nown.
There is going to be some perfectly lovely
music at the Inauguration and the inaugura-
ton ball. The Seventh and Sixty ninth New
York regimental bands have been engaged for
the former and the Germania orchestra of Phi
ladelphia for the latter. Among the subscribers
to the Inauguration fund, is Lit. Gen. Sheri-
dan, for $50.
Five cents is charged for admission to the
the lecture room of the Lexington Presbyterian
church on the nights of the 'tNiekel Read
ings," by the Sabbath school scholars known
as the sGleaners" REGULATIONS and music
alizing quite sum.
"Kid- glove" oranges, grown in Florida, are
so-called because when peeled they are so dry
that one can eat them while wearing kid
gloves without damaging the gloves in the
least. They small, aromatic in flavor, and
of the Mandarin variety. ----' 1880
John B. Koontz, long practicing lawyer of
New Orleans, died there last week He was q
son of the late John Koontz Of Woodstock,
Shenandoah.
A mule, the private property of Gen. Joseph
E. Johnston during the war, which helped
pull his headquarters wagon, is still living as
the property of John NJ. Britain, of Oak
Ridge, N. c.. She is 2S years old but does
good work and her owner has refused $500
for her.
Augusta, Ga. has had bad luck with some
of her leading inaneiers. Geo. jackson, Pres
ident of the Enterprise factory is to be tried in
April for defalcation of 1852, 900; President
Roberts, of the Bank of Augusta without
his directors knowledge loaned his friends
$3.50, 900 of the banks money and swamp
ed it, and George W. Curry, President of
another bank, was On Thursday last sentenced