Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1886-12-31
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A writ of error, to operate as a supersedeas,
ii the Circuit Court of Richmond, against ex-
auditor s. Brown Allen and his sureties. This
sas She suit in which judgment was given in
esYor OF the state for about $5, 900 on account
q payments made to J. E. Hamilton, Treas
glsoa county, as commissions for
ssalg taxes from railroads, where coupons
been rendered. Judge Hugh W. Shelley
ad Edgar Allan are counsel for the ex-Audi-
] tor, whose snit now goes to the Court of APP
seals.
Rev. W. W Landrum, D. D., who married
Miss Lottie Baylor, and whose bridal tour in
Guided trip 30 Europe, has utilized his trip
IL The shape OF lecture entitled ga Bridal
Trip Abroad with Hand Satchel." 1t was
delivered before the Y M. G. Association at
9.ichmond, Last week, and is highly spoken Of
A conference was held in Baltimore last
y sek of Presbyterian ministers and elders of
lie United States, to decide on programme
FOR the celebration at Philadelphia, in 1888, of
10 centennial anniversary of the Presbyterian
s.prch. Among the Southern ministers pres
AMI were DR.. M. D. Hoge of Richmond, DIR.
3 NJ. Palmer of New Orleans, and DR.. G. B.
Strickler of Georgia. Among the ministers
and elders representing northern Presbyteries
were DR.. Van Dyke of Brooklyn, DIR. Moore of
New Hay en-, DR.. Abbott E. Kettridge of New
York, Judge Strong of the U. S. Supreme
Court, Wnl. E. Dodge of New York, and Hon.
8 L. Breckenridge of st. Leuis.
In the suit of widow Kate Patterson against
eile Piedmont Electric Light Company for
$4,000 for the death of her husband who
#as killed BY the current on street wire of
serdict for So 900.
At s'1'he Bluffs, near Mt. Crawford on the
aiiey Railroad, there was heavy land slide
into the track on Sunday night of last week.
IL few minutes after the slide, freight
train would ba due. Patrick Flavin, the
watchman, managed to signal it as it rushed
around the curve with nineteen freight and
one passenger car. 1t halted in time. Wreck
trims were sent from Staunton and Harrison
burg and by 8 O'Clock Monday morning the
track WIS clear.
AT Charlottesville on Wednesday night of
iszZaaak, Miss Sallie Overton Rosser, daugh-
50 Thos. L. Rosser, was married to
8 CarringtorN Cochran of Palatka,
Florlsss sou of Howe Cochran. Among those
present st She wedding, which took place al
tho Presbyterian church, were Mr.. and Mrs.
Hqwe Peyton Cochran of Richmond, and DR..
Jss. d. Cochran of Augusta Mr.. G. A.
Siiekley, of Strasburg, was married last week
at lovingston, to Miss Cornelia Thomas Fitz-
patrick daughter of Judge Thomas P. Fitz-
patrick. at the residence of Col. William
Palmer in Richmond last week, Mr.. Preston
III ems Of Birmingham, Ala, formerly of
Staunton wag married to Miss Sallie Palmer,
On the Valley train which passed through
Sssunton Dec. ed. were Mr.. W. D. Garvin
ssst Lynchbure. and his bride, late Miss Geor-
gle Estel OFT, who hadsbeen married in Har-
rlsonburg that morning. They were on their
wsy. to Lynchburg, their future home.
At ''Blair Park, in Albemarle, on Christ
mas eve, j. R. Blackburn and Livingston W.
Davis, who had been shooting for turkeys,
disputed over q 'stie." At Blackburn's store
they proceeded to match off the tie with
nickels, but quarreled, and Blackburn started
to put Davis out. Davis snatched up gun
and shot him dead. Blackburn was small
man, and Davis weighs $50 pounds. Davis
J surrendered himself to magistrate. He was
formerly of Augusta county.
On January 9Th the Ohio River Railroad
viii be finished from Wheeling, W. Va, to
Point Pleasant. on the K. & o. railroad which
runs to Charleston, Kanawha, on the G. & O.;
20 the trip can then be made from Staun ton
to Wheeling direct.
The Lexington 'sGazetten learns that Rev.
James Smith, pastor of the Presbyterian
church at Harrisonburg. son of Gen. F. NJ.
Smith of the V. M. l., has determined, on
account of i'll health, to give up his charge
On january 1st It is hoped his cessation
from ministerial labor will not be of long
Duration.
Those who have still held on to Trade
Dollars, will be glad to know that the Senate
has passed bill TO exchange them dollar for
dollar of standard silver dollars, after which
they will be treated as bullion. The bill has
ayet to go to the House, but its passage there
isN ast I. fixed fact.
pieston sais-s 4. ssss,iored, who murdered
arailroad watchanan &c Augus,a, Ga, in 1884,
and robbed the office of $36, and who was
arrested in Alleghany Co, Va, where he was
working as miner, last Spring, is to be hung
January 21st. He confessed the crime.
A young Englisman named Rudd, ,who has
been staying for some time at the Grayeon
Sulphur Springs in Carroll county, w., fell
in love with fifteen-year- girl named
Taylor, living in the neighborhood, who prom
ised to marry him. When the day came, her
heart failed her and she refused. Rudd got
Tarrant for her and had her brought before
istrates Alley and Frost. These wise
Needed that she should marry the
to jail, and the frightened girl
niStrate Frost performing the
Whether both magis-
the State prison for
>Re fidelity to their
kh's Attorney and
Rhe marriage