Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1886-04-02
oataa il Qualification and gratitude.


gates is qualification and gratitude
Rev. w. r. L. Smith, of Lynchburg' VINO
recently made SO favorable an impression on
our people by series of sermons at the Dap
fist church here, writes home to the al
vance" some of his experience here. he says;
lone of the pleasantest incidents OF my So
iourn in Staunton was call on Hon. A. II. ID.
Stuart. How delightfully."- the venerable ana
courtly statesman speaks of men and things
of forty years ago. His eye kindles Win noly
fire at the name of Webster. He sat with Wep-
ster in Fillmore's cabinet, and his reverence
tor the memory of his dead friend is touching.
''Henry Clay was my political father" he re-
marked with emphatic earnestness. "Clay
was great statesman. Calhoun was poiltl-
cal philosopher, and Webster was born de-
batter, an incorruptible patriot, and the great
est American" Mr.. Stuart entered
Congress in 1888. He looks well, is far from
gray and converses with fuency and power.
= MY first visit to this city has
been exceedingly pleasant, especially SO, since
our meetings at the First Baptist Church have
resulted SO favorably. There were twenty
eight professions of faith. I learn that the
five conversions in the Lutheran College.
leaves not one non-professing pupil In the
school, Two blind young men protested faith
in our meeting"
The Valley train which left Staunton March
18TH took on at Woodstock, Miss Alice Fl.
Hotel, a little blonde, aged sixteen. At
Maurertown. a few stations below, it took on
Benz. H. Hotel, boy of eighteen. They
proved to be a youthful couple running off
from Woodstock to be married. At Harper's
Ferry, license ready procured from Hagers-
town, was found waiting for them, and they
got minister of the Baltimore Conference on
the train returning from Staunton to his
home in Maryland, to marry them.
The portly actress, Miss Ella Wren, who
| supported Mile. Rhea when she played in
Staunton and had been with her for several
seasons, left the company at New Orleans to
make her home in Chicago hereafter as a
teacher of elocution. Rhea presented her
with handsome silver service
Rev. J. W. Shoaff of Salem, Roanoke, who
was in attendance at the Baltimore M. E.
Conference, while on the train home from
Staunton had hemorrhage from the lungs
He had another after reaching home, and is
now quite sick, and confined to his bed.
The Harrisonburg ''Farm and Home" esti-
mates that not less than one hundred and fifty
people have gone and will go West from Rock
ingham, Shenandoah and Augusta counties this
spring. Fifty-eight active, energetic young
men left these three counties last week to find
homes elsewhere. 1t pertinently asks: How
long can Virginia stand this drain?
Prof. J. H. Siddons, the aged elocutionist
and grandson of the great Siddons, died last
Sunday. in Washington City, where he was a
government clerk, in his eighty-sixth year.
He inherited much of his grandmother's his
| trionic ability, but when he was in Staunton,
few years ago, he was SO old that his reading
could not be fairly judged. He had had a
| varied life, having been an officer of English
artillery, manager of theatre at Calcutta,
India, and Shakesperean author of some
note.
In the Shakespeare Club, Society organi-
cation in Richmond, ..'The Rivals was read,
Friday night Among the names of the
readers published, is that of Miss Gussie Raw
son, formerly of Staunton.
The Richmond 'sDispatch," in some editor
| ial comments on the models being exhibited
there for the Lee statue, says of Mr.. Gilbert
| r. Frith's, that The seems to have grasped
more Complementary than any of his brother
| artists the proper idea-that General Lee on a
good horse should be the great feature of the
| monument, and that the equestrian figure
should be the node of all ar tistic lines and the
point to which all symbolism should tend"
| Blue grass is not the only thing grown in
| Kentucky. We see in the Oldham (Ky. }
| 'sHerald,' a description of poplar tree on
the farm of Mr.. P. T. Henshaw, (who mar
, ried the daughter of Maj. J. B. Dorman of
Staunton), which is nine feet in diameter and
about sixty feet to the first limb. 1t is esti-
mater to make 25 900 feet of lumber, and at
$25 per thousand it will bring 1926.
The Rev. Henry Ward Beecher estimates
his earnings during the last forty years as fol
lows: Salary as preacher, 1920. 1000; lecture
fees, $240,0O0; wedding fees, $4,000; sundry
publications, $1,000 incidentals, $4,000,
making grand total of $75O,OOO.
The Rev; Theodore B. Foster, aged twenty
seven, rector of st. Luke's Episcopal Chapel,
Brooklyn, n Y, boarded with the Wales fam
lily, who resided in pretty villa adjoining
the chapel. Lately his congregation have be-
come aware of his engagement to marry Miss
Sarah Wales, aged forty three. The disparity
in their ages aroused such indignation that
the young clergyman has been notified that
his engagement with his congregation will
terminate If that with Miss Wales is kept. He
has gone to housekeeping with his sisters, but
| the congregation want some more formally
explicit announcement of the termination OF
| the affair.
Hon. John Randolph Tucker has accepted
an invitation to deliver the final address be.
before the Literary Society of Emory and
Henry College, at its approaching commence.
cement in June.
The Board of Visitors of Blacksburg College
have elected Gen. Lunsford Lewis Lomax.
aged fifty, of Fauquier county, President c.!
that institution. He is soldier by profes
Sion and was West Point classmate of Fitz
Lee. Since the war he has been civil en-
gineer and was for several years in charge Of
the government works at St. Johns river,
Florida.
Mrs. J. Greene, aged twenty, died at Troy,
N. Y, of, it was supposed, tumor in the stom
ach. She had been in the habit of biting of
them post norton examination discovered
in the passage leading from the stomach, 8
ball, weighing one and one-half pounds, Of
small pieces of silk thread which had formed
Unto hard substance and shut off all commu
nication with the intestines.