Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1886-02-12

General Hunton has been employed by the
republican contestee in at least one OF them,
and it ia said. in all the others
The Catholic Diocese of Richmond whicn
has furnished Bishops and Archblshops TO tha'
Church, is now about to have the distinction
of furnishing Cardinal. The U1aioerse states
that the former Bishop of Richmond, now
Archbishop Gibbons of Baltimore will shortly
be created Cardinal in place OF Cardinal
McCloskey deceased.
Seven brothers were lodged in the Illinois
Insane Asylum, at Jacksonville, on the 24th
ult. They and their five sisters had spent
their whole lives in trying to acquire money,
and had deprived themselves of the necessa-
ries of life in order to save it. Lately, stran-
ger induced them to invest all their savings
| in bogus silver mine in Nevada. Upon the
receipt of the news that they had been swim
| dled, all seven of the brothers became violent
ly insane.
Gen Sherman who seems to be spending
his latter days in perpetual hot water, lately
published letter denouncing as false the
statement made by Gen. Fry in the "North
| American Review" that he (Sherman) had
said that ssHad G. F. Smith lived, Grant would
have disappeared from history after Donelson. :"
In return, Gen. Fry produces Sherman's letter
using the very words Gen. Sherman now
| saws he did not mean the full effect of the
| words he used.
At Secretary Mannings pink dinner on
Tuesday week. the centre of the solid mahog
any table was blooming bed of pink tulips.
Pretty pink tapers with pink shades cleaned
in the tall candelabra. Each lady received a
small wicker basket filed with Catherine
Mermet roses and tied with broad pink satin
ribbSh. The dainty rooms and the arched
| openings between, were decorated with bloom
ing carnations and geraniums. Mrs. Manning
received her guests in a splendid toilet, with
train and bodice of claret velvet and wrinkled
front of pale blue brocade and cascades of
Mechlin lace. She assisted by Mrs
| Fryer her sister in law, who wore a becoming
toilet of pink silk and tulle, with crystal lace
| and iridescent passementeries.
The ecclesiastical trial of Rev. Dr. Arm
strong, rector OF st. Phillips church in Allan,
Ia, Ga has ended by the court finding that
that he WAS guilty of conducting himself in
| a manner inconsistent with and in violation
of his ordination VOWS, f" but also finding that
the testimony did not establish immortality.
Among the witnesses against him was news.
paper reporter of the Cincinnati Telegram,
whose deposition was that he saw Armstrong
going along Longworth street in such maud
lin condition that the disreputable women
were guying him. One named Lille Shaw,
beckoned him and he crossed the street and tel.
ing her she was fine looking girl" received
her card. Two weeks after, it was testified, he
was in hack visiting all the disreputabe hou.
ses hunting for ellie Shaw" Other witnesses
testified that they saw him under the influence
of liquor in Cincinnati others that they Saw
him sober. The denizens of several bawdy
houses testified to his visits to their places in
search of woman. DR.. Armstrong admitted
that he drank beer in Cincinnati while spend
ing his vacation there, but was not drunk
He said his search of the bawdy houses was te
reclaim ''lost soul," a young girl who had
fed from her home in Canada and gone to the
bad. He refused to divulge her name to the
court as she lis now living reputable life,
The verdict of the court recommends to Bish
op Beckwith to suspend Armstrong from the
ministry for period not exceeding ten years
telegram from Atlanta says the feeling il
DIR. A's congregation against the court is very
indignant, and the verdict is freely attributed
to jealousy of his more brilliant ministry
The congregation thoroughly believe in DIR
| AS innocence.
Miss Clara Louise Kellogg gave concer
there and had n OF been in the town since sh
was little child. Miss Kellogg's company
marched from the depot to the hotel singing
Home Again, and the theatre was crowded
on the occasion of the concert.
Two nice young Maine persons are in
state of mind and all on account of the care
less business manager of an Augusta newspa
per. One of the young persons wrote to the
other, directing her letter to the newspape
Office where he worked, and the bushes
manager, not noticing the address, tore opel
the envelope and turned it over to the editor
who clapped it in the Young Folks Column
as q communi cation, the name of the sende
) and sendee of the letter both appearing. Th
young man, who had been awaiting som
word from the lady, first learned of the cours
the letter had taken when he saw it in tn
paper. Their feelings are much easier imag
ined than described