Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1885-07-03
Master OF Arts was conferred. at the six.

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ty. eighth annual commencement exercises
of Georgetown University, District Co.
lumbia, was Mr.. Charles OBJ. Cowardin,
junior editor Of the Richmond "Dis-
patch"
Roanoke City. Va, has completed ar
engagements with the Standard Tool
Works of st. Louis. guaranteeing the re- |
moval OF that enterprise from st. Louis to
Roanoke at an early day.
Boiling W. Haxall, one of the great
Richmond millers of that name, and
whose name has been familiar to the
wheat growers Of the Valley for nearly
half century, died last week.
Having no American navy to 60 aboard
of, the Naval cadets at Annapolis are en-
ploying their time in going to the bad.
Several OF them are now under punish
ment, their offence being that when Sun
day School excurslOnlsts arrived from
Baltimore on the steamboat, they went to
the wharf to see the pretty girls there
on, ogled the excursionists with pieces Of
glass, hailed others with the greeting,
"Aln't she daisy" and others still with
| "Pipe to the Sides" q nautical expression
when some dignitary comes aboard ship.
At Berryville, Clarke county, Va, last
week, the military company. the local
band, and long procession of ex-soldiers
| followed to the grave the remains OF l..
| p. Topper, Pennsylvan ian, who was q
Confederate soldier and fell near Luray in
1854. His remains had just been found
and brought to Berryville.
| W. W. Flanagan, Cashier Of the Peo-
pies National Bank, of Charlottesville.
Va, has just been elected Cashier of the
new Commercial National Bank. of New
York, located ut the corner of Wall and
Pearl streets, of which Orson Adams is
| President.
The Fauquier White Sulphur Springs
have been finally sold to Mr.. Adams, the
surviving partner of the contractors fol
its erection, for twenty-five thous and dol.
lars, about one-fourth of the actual costs
Of the recent improvements.
Solicitor General John Goode is In Ida
no looking up evidence on which to pro-
cure the extraditlon of Q de faulting post.
master who has fed to Canada. Mr..
Goode will 60 on to Victoria in British
Columbia.
| OF the girls names in the Philadelphia
Normal School. Mary leads off with 30,
but she is rather closely pressed by Anna
Laura is good fourth with 16. Margaret
Is, and Katherine IL, are the only other
double figures. Then in order come these
choices of Names Helen 8, Emma 3, Lii.
liam s, Clara Z, Jane 7, Louisa 8, Alice 6
Caroline s, Emily S. Harriet s. Florence s.
The first shipments of green peas thia
season from Onancock netted the ship
pers IS per barrel.
Samuel D. Hall, who assassinated Chas
A. Bowyer in Montgomery county in
1872 and fed, returned home three years
ago and was arrested, tried and sentenced
to be hung, has just been granted a new
trial by the Court Of Appeals in session at
Wytheville. 1t was with difficulty when
he was captured after his return to the
State three years ago, that the mob was
restrained from hanging him, by the as
surance that the law would do it for them.
A new trial after three years waiting il
likely to still further try the patience of
the regulators"
The Catholic Diocese of Richmond has
the most extraordinary good fortune.
Two Of it's priests have been made Bish-
ops, one an Archbishop, one Vicar
General, and now DR.. O'Connell has been
made Rector of the American College at
Rome.
Major James Dick Hill, noted Ten
nessean and former millionaire, died at
Nashville last week. Like the late Gen.
Dick Taylor he was while in Europe q
great favorite of the nobility, and on one
occasion in Paris gave the Prince of
Wales banquet that cost SIS. 900. He
vas an accomplished linguist and anna
teur musician.
The Aaron Wilkes Grand Army Post.
Of Trenton. N. j., has contributed to the
Confederate Soldiers Home at Richmond
5000 pieces of erockery. It filed four
large hogsheads and a barrel.
at the competitive drill at the Encamp-
ment of National Gaurd now in progress
at Fairmont Park, Philadelphia, and
where $4,000 in cash prizes ranging from
$4,000 down to $500 will be given to sue
cessful companies, Virginia is represented
as follows Company B, First Regiment,
Richmond; Alexandra Light Infantry,
Alexandria; Richmond Howitzers. Rich
mond; Gray Invincibles (colored), Rich
mOnd.