Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1886-04-09
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A list of the members of the Senior class at
Union Theological Seminary, who will be
prepared to engage in work at the end of the
session is published, and in it we see the
names of James E. Bear of ohurchville, and
Lamartine H. Paul Of Waynesbero. The
Central Presbyterian says that all who will
be licensed from this and the other theologi-
cal schools OF the church, will not be equal to
the number of ministers who died last year.
A meeting of prominent bicyclisss at Buffa-
10, N. Y j, last week. resolved to have the an
nual tour this year under the auspices of the
League of American Wheelmen. Therrpro-
gramme is to leave Canandaigua, N. Y, Mon.
day, Sept. 9Th, on wheels. From New York
city to Old Point by steamer, then by rail to
Staunton, where they will arrive Sunday
night, Sept. 18th, and then go on bicycles
down the Shenandoah Valley for three days
stopping at the Luray Cave, and the tour
ending at Harper's Ferry.
The Covington Sentinel" says that nego-
tiations are pending between the Misses Nc
Curdy of Covington, and E. T. Powell, of the
firm of Stack, Splitter i Co., of Staunton, for
the purchase by the latter of the valuable
hotel property at Clifton Forge. now leased
and conducted by Capt. W. G. Moody. The
price named is $4,000, and the probabilities
are that the sale will be contaminated.
The room of Miss Agnes Herndon, the &C.
tress, in New York, was robbed on Wednesday
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theatre. To a reporter she estimated her loss
at $1,000. Her husband who was in Phila-
drlphia, was telegraphed for and came on.
He estimated the loss by the robbery at forty
dollars
The High School at Kernersville, N. G., is
under the management of Prof. S. G.. Lindsay,
formerly of Augusta county, while Mrs. Lind
say presides over the Primary Department.
The teacher of music and calisthenics is a
medalist of the Staunton Female Seminary.
DIR. Arthur z. Koiner, formerly of Augusta
county and now of Roanoke, has been chosen
Lecturer on Physiology and Hygiene in Roam
oke College. He is pupil of the Medical De-
partment of the University of Virginia, and the
University of Gottingen, Germany, and in
1878 was Adjunct Lecturer on Materia Medica
and Therapeutics at the Medical College in
Richmond. He is member of the American
Public Health Association. q
VIM. F. Pruette, the ''Poo-bah" of the
Emma Abbott Opera Company at their last
appearance in Staunton, is the subject of an
injunction gotten out in Chicago, by the man
ager of the Abbott company, to prevent his
joining the Boston Ideal Company. The ques-
ton of perpetuating the injunction is to be
argued there April 18TH
On Saturday morning, fire originating in
Green's building, at Culpeper, destroyed the
drug stores of A. G. Coles and T. s. Alcock,
the Exponent printing Office, the job print
ing Office of Geo. S. Krause formerly of Staun-
ton, Shotwell's grocery, the Office of tho Pied
mont Agricultural Society, and other build
ngs. Mr.. Krause's loss is 81, 600, on which
he has an insurance of $780, The total loss
by the fire is $4,000, with an insurance of
$25, 900.
The trial of DR.. White, who ran as an indie
pendent for the Senate in Washington county
last year, for the attempted assassination of
Judge G.. w. Ward, Democratic editor who
commented upon him abusively, concluded in
Abingdon, Saturday, with verdict of guilty
of assault only. and fixing the fine at 1875. 1t
is stated that ten out of the twelve jurymen
were in favor of acquittal. A letter written
from Abingdon at the opening of the trial,
says. 1.-THE sixteen jurors, as obtained, CON.
tanned eleven Republicans, four Democrats,
and so-called Democrat. The defence struck
from the list the four Democrats, leaving
eleven Republicans and an Independent to
,erve." The jury was out forty live minutes
Mrs. George Martin Of North Garden, Able
marie, the widow of DR.. George Martin who
net tragic death at the hands of the Federal
oldiers Immediately after the war, died on
he 22d ult. She had been an invalid for
7esrs. iif -
Two years ago the Office of the city street
ailway of Augusta, Ga, was robbed at night J