Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1886-12-31

The Closing Year!
The following local record of the year
1885, which ends tonight, will be found
interesting:
JANUARY.
1st.-Rev. Geo. G. Min appeared at the
Opera House In Hamlet.
Rev. Dr. D. K. Mcfarland, of
Oxford. Miss. accepted call to
First Presbyterian church.
8th.-Emily Powell convicted Of chloro-
forming and robbing Mrs. Char
lotte Miller, sentenced to the
penitentiary for eight years.
12th.-Mayor Gordon inaugurated move
ment for relief of the poor, which
resulted in the collection Of $3.50
on the first day.
13th.-Wm. Jackson, colored, found fro
zen to death by the side of Kin
ney's pond.
14th.-A. W. Bondurant killed at Goshen,
by being run over by the cars
while at work.
19th.--Andrew g. Woods, hard ware mer-
chant, died. Id
20th.-Meeting of gentlemen from Angus
ia, Rockingham, Highland and
Bath. and it Was resolved to form
the District Fair Association.
22nd.-A lecture of Col. YIN. Allan at
the Opera House, for the Stone
wall Jackson Monument Fund
realized $3.50.
23rd.-Rev. J. P. Strider. D D , of Wash
ington Il Lee University, died.
25th.-At the q. & o. depot the night ex-
press ran into freight train. FL.
II. Cuttings. fireman, Was instant
ly killed, and engineer Ezsk lei
Lowry. and Master Machinist,
Geo. W. Ettinger, badly injured.
FEBRUARY.
lst.-Jos. L.. Alexander, of Stuart IS Draft,
died.
2nd.-Twenty inches of snow.
4th.-Miss Mary V. Dinneen died at
Ashland.
sth.-Ex-JusJice JOS. N. Mitchell died at
Greenville.
10th.-Will of David Baylor, decd, found
in his clock.
l3th.-C. q 0. express train ran from
Clifton Forge to Richmond, 200
miles in hours and rs minutes,
including II stops.
17th.-Baldwin District Fair Association
organized.
14th.-D. *. Mcfarland, D. D., the new
pastor, preached his first sermon
in the First Presbyterian church.
Rev. II. B. Vile of the Luther
an church having resigned, preach
|. ed his farewell sermon.
Mrs. Jane A. Van Lear, relict
of Rev. John A. Van Lear, died,
aged u.
Rev. Daniel B. Ewing died at
Petersburg.
2Oth.-Meeting held at Fort Defiance to
consider starting a creamery.
MARCH.
2nd.-Conoert for Stonewall jackson
Monument fund-yielded 1920.
5th.-Mrs. D. Z. McFalI Of Mt. MERIDIAN
died of lockJaw.
Sth.-Cltizens purchased, for 81 800, a
building lot on Main street and
presented it to the Y. M. G. Asso-
citation.
lOth.-Baltirnore Annual Conference of
the M. Z. Church South, met in
the Methodist church, Bishop
McTyeire presiding.
17th.-Fifteen boys sent by N. Y. Chill.
dren's Aid Society arrived and
got homes in the county.
l9th.-Saml. x. Kerr died of paralysis.
2lst.-Mrs. Sallie e. Nelson, wife of VIM.
j. Nelson, died.
DR.. d. K. Mcfarland installed
pastor of First Presbyterian
church.
24th:-Dr. D. B. Conrad elected Superin-
tendent of the w. L. Asylum.
29th.-T. T. White, merchant of New
Orleans, fell dead on the street,
corner of Frederick and Lewis
streets.
APRIL.
INSTRUMENTATION Of Central Lutheran
church elected Rev. W. H. Settle
myer. of Frederick, Md, to be
their pastor.
2lst.-James W. Hudson. father of Jud ge
W. A. Hudson, died.
24th.-Public meeting presided over by
Col. John FL. Crawford, endorsed
the recommendation of Gov, Lee
to tax payeIs-not to pay taxes in
coupons.
27th.-First reception at Y. M. C. A.
rooms under auspices of Ladies',
Auxiliary.
8oth.-Pubhc meeting at Waynesboro,
presided over by M. W. Quarles, to
consider establishing a creamery.
1st.-Lyttleton Waddell died at Char.
lottesville.
A. A. McPheeters died in tho
county.
The Adams mansion purchased
by Prof. j. Lswellyn Massey for
Sherwood school.
4th.-W iliiam Halk crushed to death by
tram at Brand 3 station.
5th.-N. W Hajnaa pawo Loo Ior d;od