Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1885-05-29
GLEAN NED FROM THE MAILS.

The Salem (colored) Baptist church of Bos-
paper for pastor. Rev. F. A. Vandeberg, of
Utica, N. Y, replied, and correspondence
arranged terms of salary, &c. Saturday even
ing the church committee met the new pastor
at the depot. They were astonished to find
he was white man, and he was no less aston
ished at seeing black committee of reception.
The colored people, however, treated him
well, let him preach Sunday morning, and
made up purse Monday and paid his way
back home.
The Supreme Courts of both New York an
Massachusetts, have decided that the drug
gist has "a sole and absolute right in and over
prescription after he fills it. He can file or
destroy it, and refill or refuse to refill as he
pleases Nor is he obliged to submit it to the
| inspection of the physician who wrote it. 1t
is as much his property, so the courts decide,
as the medicine on his shelves.
The number of men Gen. Lee surrendered
at Appomattox, has been variously stated
The official record shows that he surrendered
49, lis, and for that number the u S. Commits
sary issued rations. The men paroled there
were LIZA cavalry; 1904 artilerymen; 1850
infantry, of Longstreets' corps; and 6,5O7 in
fantry, of Gordon's corps. Gen. Fitz. Lee
came in with his cavalry afterwards.
cold Sam. Newberry," the gallant leader of
the Big Four, in the Senate, some years ago,
has just had little brother. His father,
Allen 7. Newberry, is eighty-two years of age
and was married for the third time last June.
Besides the Hon. Sam'l. H. Newberry, ''uncle
Allen'' has nine other middle aged children,
and about three score of grand and great grand
children
Minnie Hauk has been singing with great
success at the Imperial Opera House, Berlin,
In Carmen" 'sMignon," ''The Daughter of
the Regiment" and 'Faust." The Emperor
has conferred upon her the honorary title of
Imperial Chamber Singer" distinction
shared by only three other foreign prima
donnas, Adelina Patti, Nine. Jenny Lind
Goldschmidt, and Artot Padilla.
Francis Fargus, (''Hugh Conway,") the
author of s'Called Back, :" Ozark Days" Qately
published in the V1ND1cAToR, and other works
Aao Juoe ol0u dG h1oudCO, llt1ly. he was an
auctioneer at Bristol, England, with no fame
beyond the block in which he did business,
until he wrote that startling story "Called
Back"
Miss Mary Yergin, daughter of one-armed
Confederate soldier, of Laurens county, S. G.,
graduates at Columbia, S. c., Female College
this week. on tuition and board money earned
by herself, in running her fathers engine,
which works the cotton gin. Lilah Yergin
her 14-year- old sister will take her place at
the college next session on money earned the
same way, while her older sister was at col
lege.
Fame doesn't last long. During the John
Brown raid at Harpers Ferry, the name of It.
Green of the U. S. Marines, who broke open
the door of the engine house and captured him,
was in the mouth OF people everywhere, and
every illustrated paper had his picture. To-
day we read in a Washington despatch: i
'sAmong the famous characters who are turn
ing up as candidates for Office is the man who |
captured JOHN Brown. He is a Mr.. Green, and |
he halls from Minnesota. He wants Land |
Office appointment. He was one of the United |
States marines whom Lee took up to Harper's |
Ferry, and who burst into the engine house
which Brown had barricaded, Green getting
the first clip at the old man with his sabre"