Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1886-05-07
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The Kentucky legislature has adopted reso-
buttons endorsing Mr.. Gladstone's Irish policy.
On the floor of the House was Maj. Dennis A.
Shanahan, formerly of Staunton, who had
been appointed by meeting of Irishmen in
Louisville, where he now resides, to present
to the legislature the resolutions which that
body adopted.
The new Opera House of Berryville, Clarke
county, was opened by the. JEANNE Winston
Opera Troupe in ''Boccaccio' on Saturday
night. May LIST. Between the first and second
acts the curtain was drawn up, and ex-State
Senator Marshall Mccormick at the request
of the managers dedicated the hall to Miss
Winston, and christened it; ''Winston Hail."
Leo Wheat also made a speech.
Our exchanges note that Miss Nellie Van
Lear of Augusta, is visiting Miss Florence
Barclay of Lexington; Miss L ottie Baylor is
visiting Miss Yarbrough of Richmond; at the
Fridays German in Richmond, Miss Nellie
Ryder of Staunton, wore white satin, blue
brocade at the Boys 'tcotillion" German, at
Mrs. R. G. Morton's on Franklin street, Miss
Bumgardner of Staunton, wore cream alba
tross, and Miss Fowle of Staunton wore white
cashmere.
The Presbytery of Abingdon, met at Wythe-
vile last Tuesday. Rev. Frank McCutchan
of Glade Spring, formerly of Waynesboro, the
retiring Moderator, preached the opening SER
mon. Rev. Mr.. McCutchan has been assisted
at his church lately in protracted meeting
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professed conversion.
Fifty young colored men from Lexington,
for the Croton Aquaduct work in New York.
passed through Staunton Monday on the Val
ley road. About a hundred have already gone
from Staunton to the same work.
DR.. R. Baxter Fishburne, formerly of
Waynesboro, was ordained and installed a
Deacon in the Presbyterian church at Lees
burg, Loudoun, few days since.
Judge Turner, last week. granted charter
to the Girls Home School of Luray, and tap-
pointed the following officers for thet first
year: Rev. J. 1. Miller, President: J. E.
shenk, Secretary and Treasurer VIM. J.
shsnk. Jno. A. sheah I as q. eller and J..
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Mrs. Charlotte Pendleton, widow OF Judge
Edmund Pendleton of Winchester, was para
lyzed on Good Friday, and fingered only few
hours. She was buried on Easter Sunday.
Among the relatives who attended the funeral
were Hon. J. Randolph Tucker, Hon. A. r.
Boteler, and Judge G. j. Faulkner. It is a
singular coincidence that Mrs. Pendletons
husband died on Good Friday and was buried
on Easter Sunday, six years ago.
The New River miners struck on May l.,
and all the mines between Kanawha Falls and
Hinton, a distance of fifty miles, are closed
except that of the Longdale Iron and Coal
Company, which does not employ union men.
Mr. Robert B. Holiday, for ffty-six years
cashier of the Union Bank at Winchester, re-
signed last week. The ''News' speaks in high
ly complimentary terms of him. He is the
father of Mr.. Nc. Holiday of Staunton. Last
week, W. J. Dingledine, Cashier of the Bank
Of Rockingham at Harrisonburg, resigned,
and G. Douglass Beard was elected in his
place.
The Timberville Buckingham Brass Band
during the Easter holidays serenaded Miss
Fannie Fisher of Concord, N. c., pupil of
the Staunton Female Seminary, who was
spending the holidays there with her former
schoolmate, Miss BERTHE Cline.
A fire destroying stores ard goods to the
amount of a million dollars, took place in Bal
timore last week. The firm of WITT, Biedler
h Co., Gone member a brother of Isaac Witt
of Staunton, lost $40, 900, which is covered
BY insurance.
DR.. Hunter Mcclure, son-in-law of Hon. A.
Il. 81. Stuart, last week received the exalted
honor of election to the Presidency of the
American Surgical Association which is COM
posed of about one hundred surgeons, repre-
senting tsie chief cities of the Union The
Association held it's meeting, at which by the
bye DIR. MEG. was not present, in. Washington
city.
Miss Mary Tucker McGill, is lecturing in
Norfolk on Shakespeare and his times"
The Governor has appointed Mr.. J. Caskie
Cabell weie hmaster of live stock at Richmond