Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1888-05-11

| in quarrel over this suit.
The one hundredth anniversary of the first
Methodist conference held west of the Ale
ghanies, is to take place at Mahahaim Church,
near Saltville, Va, May 10, IA and Is, 1888.
The Norfolk Y. M. G. A. has secured W. D.
Voorhees,, of Smithfeld, Mass, as General
Secretary, in place of E. T. Dadmun who went
to Omaha.
In the year 1856, Melville Weston Fuller,
the recently nominated Chief Justice for the
United States Supreme Court, and James G..
Blaine were both legislative reporters in the
Maine Legislature. Mr.. Fuller reported for
the Augusta Age, democratic, and James G.
Blaine for the Kennebec Journal, whig.
Rev S. K. Wine, of Rockingham, had his
arm SO badly cut by the saw in w-mill,
last week, that it was feared amputation would
have to be done.
The wife of DR.. J. e. Chinn, of Lexington,
KY, held a reception on Monday last to cele-
brate her one hundred and first birthday.
Mrs Chinn, (who was Miss Catherine Mayo
was born in Virginia. and, with her parents,
years old. She was married the first time
when nineteen, and when nearly seventy
years old married DIR. Chinn, who is now
ninety-one.
The Parisians are SO dissatisfi ed with the
weight of the English high hat, that their
matters have invented silk hat weighing little
more than an ounce and half
A hotel located at Erie, Pa, is being adver-
tised as follows: ''There is no gilt-edged bus
mess about this house, and if you want to eat
pie with knife you can do it without fear OF
being ostracized from society,""
In the postoffice at Concord, N. Fl. , the post
master found a pouch the other day which
had been lost 10 years, and which contained
11S letters for that city There were three
registered letters with money in them, and
their non receipt had upset half dozen
Offices
saThe Alarm" the Anarchist journal of Chi
cago, edited by D. D. Lum the self-constitu-
ted successor of Albert r. Parsons, who was
executed for murder, made its last appearance
Saturday. Its supporters did not support it,
anarchy having pretty we'll died out in
Chicago.
Real Estate in Richmond is rapidly improv-
ing in value. Three years ago a piece of
property valued at $15,O 600 got into court.
By order of the court it was divided into IS
lots. Last week eleven of the lots were sold
at auction for 500. 953. The remaining "a will
probably run the total up to $4,000.
On Saturday afternoon, as the steamer Luray
was crossing Hampton Roads, Mrs. E. Dudley
Christian, Jr., wife Of one of the cashiers at
the Hygeia Hotel, took off her gloves, put
them with her pocketbook into her hat, and
handing it to stranger standing near, leaped
overheard and was drowned. She was twenty
one years of age, formerly of Atlanta, Ca,
and later clerk in one of the departments at
Washington. Her husband is from Lynchburg.
It is stated that the information that former
husband, whom she believed dead when she
married Mr.. Christian, was still living unset
tied her mind.
Near Mt. Carmel, Pa, Saturday night, a
parted section of freight train ran into
following one. causing a carload of
powder to explode in front of small vii
lage, on the edge of the road. Seven
teen houses were wrecked and fired. John
Quinn and his two children were burned to
death, as were four children of Simon Kerswell,
one new born babe. Thirty persons were
wounded in all. Windows were broken in
houses for miles around.
Miss Myrtle Peek is giving races at Peters,
burg, Va, this week. At Norfolk, last week,
she made q mile in 1:49, standing on the
backs of her running horses. She has with
her Prof. Hogan, who ascends 5000 feet in a
balloon, leaps out, and safely descends with q
parachute.