Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1888-07-06
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The Lewisburg District Conference held its
last session at Ronceverte. Among those who
addressed it was Rev. DR.. J. S. Gardner of
Staunton. The Conference endorsed the pro-
posed purchase of an episcopal residence at
Baltimore, and the proposed establishment of
collegiate institute at Anderson, W. Va.
The final balls of the Virginia Military In
stitute and Washington & Lee University Lex
ington, are said to have been the finest ever
given there. Among the young ladies present
at them were Misses Nelson, Fauntleroy,
Cochran, and Opie.
The Lynchburg papers notice the moving
of the Internal Revenue Office there into
handsomely ftted-up quarters in the new gov
eminent building. They give list of some
familiar names that go into it-Capt Ham
Shepherd, Capt. VIM. H. Fowle, Capt. VIM.
81. Bailie, Thomas N. Williamson, Samuel
Cofman, J. G. Cologne, Mat NJ. Fletcher. all
of whom have many friends in Staunton.
Among the attractions at the Richmond Ex-
position in October is to be grand display of
fireworks, one piece of which is the Falls of
Niagara, which shows cascade of six thou
sand square feet of golden fire. A bill has
been introduced in congress to appropriate
$25, 900 to enable the Smithsonian Institute to
carry large section of its exhibits to the
Richmond Exposition.
"Dudie." the twelve-year-old son of John
W. Whitmore near Newmarket, Shenandoah,
while standing near bureau talking to the
family Thursday afternoon, was killed by a
stroke of lightning. No one else was hurt.
On the same day about the same hour and in
the same county, Mrs. Emily G. Pangle while
hanging out clothes on wire clothes-line,
was instantly killed by lightning.
Mrs. Lillian Warren Hammersley of New
York, has the interest on $4,000 900 during
her life, and her income is $5OO,OOO. George
Charles Spencer Churchill, is a divorced,
ruined, and rotten member of the English no.
bility, and has been forced to sell even his
family pictures. But he is still Duke of
Marlborough. The widow Hammersley mar
ried him last week and sailed for England I'M
der the impression that she would be only the
tenth woman below the Queen at court recep-
fuse to receive the wife of any divorced man
at court.
The National Convention of the Roman
Catholic Union of the Uniformed Knights of
st. John, in session at Louisville, KY, last
week, adopted resolutions thanking President
Cleveland for the courtesy he extended Pope
Leo on his Jubilee day.
The meeting of Consultors to recommend
successor to Bishop Keane Of Richmond, met
at Washington, Thursday, and selected three
names to be sent to the Pope.
The sheriff of Richmond has levied on the
watch of James P. Cooper, the coupon agent,
for taxes.
Gen. John D. Imboden is in Richmond,
where his wife is very ill.
p. G. Dye, passenger whose leg was
broken by stepping into an ash-pit, in the
dark, at Charlottesville Junction, in changing
cars, has gotten a verdict of $4,000 against
the Midland Ry. Co.
The farmers of Minnesota are paying ST.
bushel for grasshoppers, which are swarming
over their crops
The next eclipse of the moon is Sunday
night, July 22d.
Liberty, Bedford. dry town and dry dis
trict, has just gone "Wet' by a vote of 407 to
112.
Bishop White is at Clifton Springs, N. Y.