Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1886-01-15


airy Society, died. Three weeks ago their
daughter Lula, aged eighteen, pupil at the
Wesleyan Female Institute, Staunton, was
brought home sick. Her illness developed
into typhoid-pneumonia and she died on
Tuesday, Jan. 9Th.
The first inmate of the s'Soldiers Home" at
Richmond to die, was Saml Harvey, sixty
years of age, o private in the Farmville Guards,
who served until he was captured on Gen.
Lees final retreat, and who died few days
ago. He was gotten into the Home last sum
mer through the efforts of DR.. II. Fl. Halves,
then pastor of the Presbyterian church in
Farmville, of which the old soldier had be-
come member.
1t is stated that the latest Investigations In
dictate that the shortage of S. r. Sterling,
County Treasurer of Rockingham, will reach
$4,000. No clue as to where the money has
gone can be found. The Treasurer is said to
be wholly demented, imagines he is worth
$500, 600 and tells his friends not to trouble
themselves about the shortage as all will be
made right. The books of the State Auditor
show that Treasurer Sterling's commissions
from 1879 to 1884, after paying his deputies
net him less than an average of $3.50 per year.
His net commissions on the county funds
were probably about $500 per year, and on
the school funds $3.50, making an aggregate
amount of $500 per year, out of which he
still had to pay clerk. The Harrisonburg
''People' thinks that gross Irregularities in
the accounts of the Auditors Office in those
years, which have been discovered by the
sureties, will greatly lessen the amount
thoughtto be missing, and it adds that 'if Mr.
Sterling's mental and physical conditi were
such that he could make his own settlement,
which we are sorry to say they are not, but
little, if any, shortage would be. found. Mr..
Sterling is in town at home sick; he has turned
over for the benefit of his sureties, all of his
property, amounting to $2O.OOO.'
DR.. Jos. A. Eve, distinguished physician
of Augusta, Ga, died on Wednesday of last
week, in his 80th year. He had held several
professorships in Southern Medical Colleges,
and his professional reputation was made
national by the authorship of several valuable
medical papers. He was the father of DR..
Eve, who married daughter of the late Col.
M. G.. Hartman of Staunton, and who died not
long since.
Charleston, S. G. Presbytery has, by vote
of Is to 2. adopted resolution declaring
DR.. James Woodrow unfit to teach in tho
Columbia Theological Seminary, on account
of his evolution theory, and directing the
theological students under the care of the
Presbytery to withdraw from the Seminary.
A strong protest against this action was filed
by DR.. Bracket and J. Adger Smith.
The will Of the late Governor Henry A.
Wise made in 1869, was admitted to probate
in Richmond last week, with Hon. John S.
Wise as executor. It directs that after the
payment of the amount duo his wife by him
as administrator of his son, O. Jennings Wise
deceased, and the amount whatever it may
be due his children, Richard Ellen aud John
by him as coming from their mothers estate,
the residue of the estate is to be divided equafs
ly among all his children and per stripe
among the children of his deceased son Henry
A. Wise.
On the End instant, Prince Alexandria of
Bulgaria bestowed at Prot special mark of
attention on the Jewish battalion. With his
own hand the Prince pinned on the breast of
the commander of the battalion, Lieutenant
Misrachi, the gold medal for valor. The bat
talon, which originally was 500 strong, lost
onefourth of its number before Slivnitza. In
the other battles eighty-fve men fell, 80 that
exclusive Of sick and wounded, it now con-
sists of but half-250 men.
Miss Sarah Althea Hill, alleged widow of
the millionaire, ex-senator Sharon, and the
heroine of the suit against him during his
life. was married to her counsel ex-Justice
David S. Terry, of the California Supreme
Court, at Stockton last Thursday. The bride
is 80 and the groom SO. He it was who many
years ago slew U. s. Senator Broderick in
duel. The groom's son, who was much annoy
ed at the marriage, is about to express his an
noyance by leaving Stockton to reside else
where
Young ladies who expect to be singers with
out more practice than is amusing to them.
will read with interest the fact that Miss L.,
Allemand, who is one of the leading sopranos
at the American Opera in New York, sang
scales for four hours every day of her life
from her eighth to her sixteenth year.
After Senator Beck's speech on silver in the
Senate, he received from daughter of JEFF
ferson Davis little water color painting rep
resenting a silvery moon looking down
through sheet of silvery clouds upon pros
porous landscape, with brilliant silver tone.
Underneath, in Miss Dayis's hand writing. is
this: "Diana's Tribute to the Champion of
silver"
Gov j. B. Foraker of Ohio, has been APP
pointed by the Bishop fraternal delegate to
the General Conference of the M. E. Church,
South, which meets in Richmond, Va, in May
next.
The Charlestown w. Va, Gree Press" says
that John Bruce, an old bachelor of Wheeling
died few days ago worth 300, 0OO He gave
Rt- Rev. Bishop John J. Kahn, formerly of
Harper's Ferry, about 100000 of his estate.
For chilblains the 'Lyon Medical' advises
that the parts affected be bathed twice daily,
ten minutes at a time, with mixture of half
an ounce of sulphuric acid and one quart of
water
d. $. Pierce, lawyer of Wytheville, Va,
has brought suit for $1,000 damages against
DIR. " G. Huff, Cashier of the Farmers Bank
there, for writing anonymous letters damaging
to his character to one of his (Pierce's) cli-
ents. Judge Boiling and Gen. James A. WAL
ker appear for the plaintiff and Judge Waller
R. Staples and Gen. Terry appear for. the de-
PENDANT The high standing of both parties
to the suit gives it widespread interest.
Prof. ]. Mercer Patton, son of Col John M.
Patton, of Richmond, Va, has been appoint-
ed to fill vacancy in the chair of modern