Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1886-03-05

DIuIy Dului 1sOUeIt SdliaBuah VI
Fincastle. Chas. ". Callaghan of Wythe, and
Ferdinand Callaghan of Washington City.
DIR. Dinwiddie of Alexandria, who preached
at the Staunton First Presbyterian church two
nights last week is, this week, preaching at a
series of meetings progressing at Warrenton.
Rev. G. Stinespring of the United Brethren
Conference of Virginia, now serving at Wood
bury, Md, has been received into the Penn
sylvania Conference Rev. G. A. Marks OF
Floyd c. H., Va, has accepted call to the
Lutheran church at Prosperity, S. c.. taking
the place of Rev J. E. Bushnell, who has &C
cepted call to Roanoke. Rev. Henry Early
of Augusta, is conducting series of meetings
at Dale Enterprise, Rockingham.
John Peer, who has been SO long the pro-
prietor of the Mountain House," at the foot
of the Shenandoah on the route to Highland,
will give it up on April LIST. He will open a
hotel at West Augusta, three miles from his
old stand.
The Virginia legislature has strong reli-
gious cast in it's composition. The presiding
officer of the Senate is Baptist preacher. In
the two branches there are 140 members. Of
these at least ~, or more than 81 per cent,
are connected with Christian churches. Twen-
ty-seven are Baptists, Is Methodist, IS Epis-
copalians, 10 Presbyterians, Disciples, 3
Lutherans, and Catholic.
The Commonwealth of Virginia has enjoln-
ed the SIS, 600 left by defaulting County Treas
urer Sterling IN the First National Bank of
Harrisonburg. Judge Mclaughlin granted the
injunction.
A Louisville sCourier-Journal" sent us by
Mr. A. M. Vaiz of Staunton, who is in that
city, contains long description OF
reception given Miss Mildred Lee, daughter of
the late Robert E. Lee Both Ex-Union and
Ex-Confederate soldiers were present. Miss
Lee entered the parlor of the Gait House on
the arm of Gen. Thos. FL. Taylor. Her Co.'S
tune was white silk, en- train. with wide
folds of duchess lace, and diamonds. She wore
a corsage bouquet of roses and carried in her
hand great bunch of buds. Around her
throat was clasped a necklace of curious
stones, unique and becoming.
Senator Jones, the venerable widowed u. S.
Senator from Florida, is attracting an at
tention in Detroit, Michigan, which is embar-
RAISING to his family and friends. In Wash
ington he met Miss Palm, a lady worth
50. 600, 600 only twice, but became Desperate
ly enamoured of her. He has followed her
everywhere. Three months ago she left for
her home in Detroit and he followed, remain
ing at the hotel there and sending her bou-
quets, walking past her house hourly and
Senator Vance has gone to Detroit to get him
to come back to Washington.
Miss Mamie Shepperd, daughter of Capt.
Ham Shepperd, Collector of Internal Reve-
hue, was married at Warrenton, last week. to
Mr.. W. B. Williamson, a merchant of that
place. Miss Lucy Atkinson Pryor, daughter
of Gen. Roger A. Pryor of New York, was
married in that city, last week, to Mr.. Arthur
Page Brown, son of the late Judge Brown, of
Jefferson Co., N. Y. The marriage took place
at the Church of the TRANSPORTATION.
Some of the colored people of Lexington,
Va, who were scholars in the Sunday-school
taught by Stonewall jackson before the war
have put on foot a movement to secure means
to assist in erecting the Jackson monument.
Mr.. E. T. Elliott, one of the most prominent
business men of Danville and a gentleman of
ample means, became insane last week. He
YVES adjudged insane and sent to the Lunatic
ASYLUM at Staunton. He exhibited the first
signs of his disorder in Lynchburg a few
weeks ago, while on q business trip to that
city.
The first award for designs for the monu-
.,.o+,t :. be erected to Gen. Robert E. Lee at
Ricb,ooph Va, has been given to Charles Fl.
,Tia,,o,,s o,a he second to Mr.. Ezekiel. Mr..
Nicbans ID the sculptor of the bronze statue of
Garfield at Cipeiuna>ti; Mr.. Ezekiel is Vir-
o;ninian q native Of RI chmond, and first
cousin Of Mrs. Major Alec. TART OF o'auh'on'
Harrison Phoebus, proprietor Oh tie hsseia
Hotel at Old Point, died there, lass week, oi
congestion of the lungs, after only tvs 10y
illness. He was forty six years old, comtnsh '00
business life in 1865, at So week, in the erfi<
ploy of Adams Express Co., and died worth
$500, O0O When he opened the Hygeia it
could only accommodate fifty people; he en-
larged it to 1,200.
Sam Small, (''Uncle Sir, who is preaching
with Sam Jones, said in Chicago last week,
that he was Gust five months old in the gos-
pei" having been converted at camp meet
ing in Gainesville, Ca, Sept 18th, '65. He
is a newspaper man by profession, and gradu-
ated at Emory & Henry College in Virginia,
in 1869. When he determined to preach in
Atlanta several of his newspaper friends, think
ing he was just recovering from the effects of
a spree, refused to print his circular announc-
ing his street meeting. He estimates that he
has assisted in converting 80, 900 persons. He
has only been drunk once since he was con-
victed of his sins under Sam Jones' preaching,
and since he began preaching himself has not
been drunk at all. These facts are from an in
terview of his published in the Chicago
Inter Ocean"
Sir Claude de Crespigny an English noble
man, has morbid and depraved appetite for
officiating at hangings. He has several times
assisted the common hangman. At the hang
ing of three burglars the other day. he slept in
the cell with them the night before the execu-
ton, and the next day assisted in pinioning
them on the scafold. He has put up the ex-
cuse that some day he may be the sheriff of
his county.
A pc tition is in circulation in Southwest
Virginia, asking the Board of Visitors of the
Southwest Lunatic Asylum at Marion, to ap-
point DR.. VIM. H. Edmundson to the Super
intendency of that institution.
The Shenandoah County Agricultural So
ciety Board of Directors has adopted resolu-
ton recommending to the Society that Crock
ingham, Page, Warren and Frederick coun-