Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1886-03-12
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Bishop Beckwith has sentenced Rev. Or.
Armstrong of Atlanta, to five years suspension
from the ministry, for his Cincinnati escapade.
DIR. A. addressed to the Bishop letter saying
that his decision is unjust and unwarranted
by the testimony presented to the court. AS
such he protests against it and as no hlgher
ecclesiastical tribunal exists before winch ne
can make this protest he says: 81 can make 1t
only to God, who searches all hearts and
lives, and to humanity, whose average Judg-
ment is neither unjust nor uncharissble. )" Dn
AS resignation of the rectorship of 80 PHI
| lips church was received by the vestry with
tears. Both the vestry and the members OF
the church, sustain the convicted rector; anes
Outraged al the Bishops verdict" and age
cloud in denunciation of it,"
At a meeting OF the Farmers Club of Fred
erick county last week, ex-Gov. Holiday,
who has returned from his European tour was.
present and was called on for speech. His ex-
ordium in which he deprecated the apparent
idea that he knew anything about agriculture
worth telling. was cut short by a farmer
round the world for ?" After the laughter
subsidized the Ex-Governor made very enter
tanning speech.
Konrad Kramer, native of Germany, who
was for many years a contractor on the Stauua-
ton and Parkersburg turnpike, died in High
land last week, aged seventy years He was
originally member of Staunton Lodge No.
| 10 A. F. & A. Masons. He was buried with
Masonic honors by Highland Lodge.
| Genteel poverty is not always shrinking.
Mrs. Stanford widow of the California mil
| lionaire, has received letter from a Chicago
lady telling her that as she is now in mourn
ing she cannot make better use of her ball
dresses and gowns than to send them to her.
The writer says she belongs Ito that genteelly
poor class who are compelled to present an
appearance out of all proportion to their hmi-
| ted income"
| Gen. w. T. Sherman in declining to sub
| scribe to a fund to pension Mrs. Catharine
Scales who has spent forty five of her seventy
| five years as a teacher in the public schools
| of St. Louis, says he has paid thousands of
| dollars in tax and never received cent in re-
turn, because ''my family is Catholic, and
Mrs. Sherman wonld no more consent to have
her children enter public school than a COM
| mon tavern"
John B. Cough, the Temperance orator,
died worth $50, 900 in property. 1t goes to
his widow and after her death to her relatives
and his brother, except 81 900 each to seven
philanthropic, religious and temperance Or
CARNATIONS.
On Friday evening last James Murray and
Miss Maggie Hutchinson stood in her moth
Rev. Mr.. Lightfoot. The bride was dressed
in her wedding outfit, and when things were
about completed, tue bride was asked if she
was ready She answered eyes" and at the
same time arose from her seat She had no
sooner gained her feet than she gave heavy
sigh and fell over, a corpse. The guests
could not realize the situation for few mo-
ments, and for while it was thought that she
had only tainted.
On the day that merchant purchased a
burglar proof safe he went home slightly ex-
liberated. Navigating to chair he managed
in muf1ed voice to call to his wife who had
retired to bed-'I can't get my boots off"
'What's the matter with your boots" 'Noz-
zin," Gin a faint whisper.) ''Whats the mat
ter with your hands, them" she cross ex-
amined. "Nozzin. !" "Why don't you pull
your boots off, them" maria, I've forgot
the combination"
A Victoria, B. c., merchant was so we'll
| VII ,botoo nh of n
man living in Nova Scotia, that he struck up
correspondence with her, and then invited
her to join him and be his wife, She made
the long Journey, but when he saw her, and
found that she wasn't nearly as good looking
| as her portrait, he refused to marry her. She
is suing him for $4,000.
] A rhymlng signal service officer has formu-
lated the flag code for weather predictions in
| the following easily memorized lines:
sun Of red is weather warm
| sun of blue is general storm,
| crescent red is weather cold.
] crescent blue is. fair foretold,
star of red no change implies,
| blue star local stormy skies,
A square of black ON flag of white,
l. A cold wave comes in all its might.
colored woman, Miss Carrie Bragg, is ed
itor of the Virginia Lancet" published in
Petersburg, Va.-the only newspaper in the
Union conducted by colored woman
Gov. Fitz Lee has two scars on his person
from wounds-one while in the United States
army, one while in the Confederate States
army. His colored coachman is named Abra-
ham Lincoln, and another colored man in his
employ Jefferson Davis.
daughter of U. s. Senator Warner Miller
of New York, got off at Charlottesville last
Wednesday and took hack to Edge Hill
School, where she entered as a pupil
The health statistics for Selma, Ala, town
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