Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1886-05-21
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lished list of assignments of the delegates to
residences, we see that Rev. w. Q. Hulhhen
goes to the residence of Mr.. II. B. Niche, and
Judge H. w. Sheffey to that of Col. Peters.
Rev. Pike Powers, of Richmond, was
knocked down by wagon and badly bruised
one afternoon last week while crossing Broad
street.
Rev. R. H. Fleming, for ten years pastor OF
the Presbyterian church at Woodstock, has
received and, it is believed, accepted call to
the Gurley Chapel Mission in Washington
City, The salary is $4,000 which is paid by
the N Y Avenue church in that city OF which
it is an offshoot This is the third call that
congregation has given him.
At the meeting OF the Board of Trustees OF
Union Theological Seminary at Hampden Sid
ney last week. Rev. W. T. Richardson was elect
ed President of the Board There are IA gradu-
ates this year-two of them, James E. Bear and
L. Fl. Paul are from Augusta. During the year
| a legacy of $4,000 has been left the Seminary
| by the late David Baylor, of Augusta county.
In the suit of the Virginia Military Institute
| d3dluSl OdSs n. EEdLlOI, I'D lOidOA AAOoouAS>s
| Commissioner Charles Fl. Locher reports the
indebtedness of Frazier to the Institute at
| ST., 1886, 80, in which is included $685. over
drawn on his salary.
At the M. E. Church, South, Conference in
| Richmond, resolution offered by Rev. Rum
sey Smithson, of the Baltimore Conference,
! that the discipline be changed so as to allow
| lay members of annual conferences to vote on
questions touching ministerial character, was
laid over.
Shenandoah has gone up head with fine
and valuable stock. On Monday evening
there was shipped from Woodstock heifer
calf five weeks old that weighed $50 lbs 1t
was Durham stock and was raised by Mr..
| VIM. Borden.
A Baltimore drummer offered coupons to
the city treasurer of Portsmouth, the other
morning for his license, but when the news
nunciation of the act and the determination
| to buy nothing from him, that he quickly with
drew his tender of coupons to the treasure,
and paid for his license in money.
The property of Adelbert Ames (the forme,
carpet-bag Governor of Mississippi) at Fari-
| bault, Minnesota, has been attached by his
father-in-law, Gen. BENZ. F. Butler of Massa-
| chusetts, for $25,000 and interest for ten
years, less So, 900 paid in 1882.
A girl from Bath Me-, had scarlet feve,
while at boarding school. She recovered and
! went home, and trunk cont aiming clothing
! worn while she was ill was put away in the
garrett. Six months afterward two little chill
| dren playing in the garnet opened the trunk,
| and took out some of the clothing. In week
both were taken very sick with scarlet fever,
and one died. No other persons in the neigh.
borhood were ill.
Capt. John Newland Mafitt, prominent
officer in the Confederate navy, and a son Of
J the once famous Methodist minister of that
| name, died at Wilmington, N. c., Saturday,
aged sixty-three. Semmes, Waddell, and
Mafit have all died in this year.
The Labor Question.-Mrs. Jenkins-Do
| get up, Henry, and hold this child a while.
Jenkins-Not much; we have just decide
that eight hours per night should constitute q
nights work-that's the kind of union man
am.
The women of the Salvation Army in Bris-
| toll, Conn, have armed themselves with Cay
enne pepper, to throw in the faces of the ruff
fans who are accustomed to annoy them in
their street parades.
! Hon. Jefferson Davis is in his seventy eighth
year. 1t is just nineteen years ago this
| month he was arraigned at Richmond in the
U. S. Court for high treason, and gave bail in
| 800, 900 to appear whenever the government,
called on him. The government came to itf
senses and never called-except to quash the
Indictment. Among his bondsmen were
Horace Greeley, Cornelius Vanderbilt, Ger
rift Smith and other famous names of that
day, and some Virginians who are still alive,
W. W. Crump, Isaac Davenport and Thos. W.
boswell. Among Mr.. Davis counsel was
| Hon. John Randolph Tucker.
Patrick Laughlin, of Brooklyn, N. Y, un
der the new Civil Damages Act, has just re.
covered $500 damages from Augustine Oleto
| for selling his son liquor after being notified
not to do it.
Francis T. Hurd, attorney general of Indi
ana, has been declared insane, and has beer
| taken to an insane asylum His mania had
taken the form of jealousy of rs wife, an es
Unable lady of ffty-fou years of age.
At Jefferson Davis reception in Atlanta
Ca, Gen. Longstreet rode in the procession
dressed in full Confederate generals uniform
| When he mounted the stand and shook hands
with ex-President Davis and others, he was
received with loud and prolonged applause.
During the past year the American Bible
Society has printed 1, 4a7, 44O Bibles and New
| Testaments and added three languages
Corean, Siamese, and Muskokee. Rev. Jos
Wickham, who was present at the organiza-
ton seventy years ago, addressed the meeting
last week.
Eight anarchists have died since the Chicago
riot, from drinking liquids in drug store
which they sacked during the riot. Wine Of
colchicum seems to have been mostly drunk
by them, and more than teaspoonful of il
brings on death accompanied by. terrible
agony.
Capt. Ed. r. Smith, for many years agent
of the B. & o. railroad at Winchester, and
police justice and councilman of that town
died last week, aged ffty-seven years.
The colored people of Charleston, s. c.,
have 1924, 936 on deposit in the five Savings
banks of that city. The largest colored depo
sitor in the Carolina Savings Bank, who hal
$6,747 to his credit. is a pure-blooded Afri-
can, but born fnancier. He has recently
bought valuable plantation for $40, 900, and
has paid 1000 of the purchase money.
Queen Marguerite of Italy, at an entertain
ment she recently gave in Rome, wore an
apron worth eight hundred thousand dollars
1t was made of black Chantilly lace embroider