Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1888-12-21
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member of the Baltimore M. Conference
since $780, died near Baltimore on Sunday
night. in his o0th year. Last year the Baltimore
Conference North granted him supernume-
rary relation. During his active ministry he
was stationed among other places at Licking
ton, Woodstock and Rockingham. One of his
sons is Rev. VIM. S. Edwards a Presiding
Elder of the Baltimore NJ. E Conference
The property of the late A. S. Abel,
proprietor of the Baltimore Sun" has just
been appraised. 1t aggregates $5,O67. 756.
Among the bonds is S 80 of Staunton city
water bonds.
Jim Smith. the former colored body servant
of the frontiersman, 'Big Foot Wallace" died
in Lexington last week. He was q colored
Democrat and his race had SO completely ostra-
cised the old man that he had to be buried
by his white friends.
The applicants for the places of letter car
riers in Roanoke, are in an awkward position.
Four are to be recommended for appointment,
but the system does not go into effect there
till January LIST, and on March 4th a Republi-
can President comes in.
The South Carolina Senate has passed hill
making it a nlsdemeanor, punishable by dis
missal from the body, for any member of the
legislature to accept a free pass from any
railroad This is to prevent undue railroad
influence.
Ex-Gov. Wv. Holden, who as Governor of
North Carolina, was impeached by the legis-
lature seventeen years ago, has made an ap-
peal to the present legislature, not to rescind
the sentence of the legislative court, but to
say that in its opiuion he was actuated by
good motives in what he did, and that " had
for my object, the best and highest interests
of the State"
Miss Gertrude Gibson of Amelia county.
Va, aged sixteen, has just preached very
effective Prohibition sermon to the young
men of the day. She had several offers but
eloped with Samuel Marsden, aged fifty, to
Reidsville, N. c., and was married. She said
the offers she had had were from drinking
men and she wanted a sober man.
James Redpath, the author of the life of
Jonn Brown, and the lifelong friend of Wen.
dell Phillips and Charles Sumner, has just
been spending four days as guest of Jefer-
son Davis, He describes the ex-President of
the Confederate States as ''ths most refined
and charming old gentlemen whom he ever
met among the public men of America" He
says Mrs. Davis is "a great woman both in
character and intelle Ct"
The Hebrews seem to be getting in some
very effective missionary work now in cons
verting Christians Miss Kate Lawn of
Brooklyn, N. Y, member of DR.. Talmage's
congregation, has, after a months doctrinal
instruction from Rabbi Lustwig, professed
the Hebrew faith and married Isidore B.
Brooks wealthy young Hebrew lawyer of
that city. The same rabbi has in the last
two years married four young Christian
women, who had adopted the Hebrew faith,
to members of his synagogue.
]. II Parnell, the brother of the Irish
leader, has Just returned to his home in
Georgia, where he has large peach groves.
Mr.. Parnel has lived SO long in this country
that he considers himself an American,
Mr.. Langtry, husband of the ''Jersey Lily"
was in New York last week. He denies that
he ever had cent of his wife's earnings. He
said that he always lived happily with his
wife until she met the Prince of Wales, and
then came chaos. Mr.. Langtry, the ''Stage
News" says. seemed to have plenty of money.
Alfred Daniel Of Douglas county, Co.. b s
reached 80 years OF age without ever having
uttered an OATH He has been a deacon in
the Primitive Haptist church for IS yeara,
goes coon hunting as nimbly as boy, was
never drunk in his life, and hasn't lost
TOOTH
Charles G, Baker of Oil City, Pa, has one
leg amputated q short distance below the
knee, and the other, four inches below the hip
Joint. And yet with his two artificial limbs
he walks easily up or down stairs, and rapidly
on leybl ground.
The body of Irene HAYES, whose murder by
her father caused the Birmingham, Ala riot,
was found last Saturday. weighted with rail-
road iron under the water near where her
mothers body was found 1t is estimated
that the loss to Birmingham by the paralysis