Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1888-05-18
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IhoS. q. Peek was chosen Chairman. Various
committees appointed at the Staunton meeting
reported progress. That on Hotels and Liv-
cry, W. H. H. Lynn, Chairman, reported that
it was preparing a circular to the hotel keep
ers and livery men of the State making inqui-
ries as to rates, replies to which would be
communicated to the next meeting of the
Board.
The corporators of the Washington, Wes-
tern and Southwestern railroad to the number
of forty-fve, met at Luray May 10th accord
ing to their Staunton adjournment. Gen. L.
A. Bingham was chosen Chairman, and J. A.
Jeffries OF Fauquier, Secretary. Committees
were appointed to solicit stock subscriptions
along the proposed route of the road, which
contemplates passing through Augusta coun-
ty. The next meeting will be held at Mar
shall, Fauquier, June 26th.
Rev. Robert G. Holland, paster of the Luth-
eran church at Martinsburg, W. Va, and a
native of Augusta, has received call to. the
Salem, Roanoke, Lutheran church. He was
| formerly a professor in Roanoke College.
| Madame Janauschek, who sprained her
| ankle at the Perry House, Newport, r. l., and
got a verdict for $12, 900 damages against the
proprietor of the hotel, has compromised
! at $4,000 The compromise was based on the
ground that from the financial condition of
| the proprietor it was that or nothing.
Farmville is to have Rev. Sam Small on the
| 18th inst The Cora Van Tassel troupe plays
there the last three days of this month.
| John Ryan the well known type-founder, OF
Baltimore, died last week. He was well known
| to the printing business all over the country.
His funeral services were conducted by Bishop
James A. Latane of the Reformed Episcopal
| Church.
The graduating class at the Virginia Militia
ry Institute will number seventeen, The
following is a list:-H. Fl. Alexander, Va;
P. Aylett, Va; H. B. Baya Fla: W. B. Cor
coran, Va; S. G.. Davis, Nd; G. M. De
Vain, D. c.; J. D. Fauntleroy, Va; c. P.
Fenner, La; V. W. Flowerrer, Mss R. R.
Kane, Va; W. H. Milton, Va; S. K Owens,
| Va; G.. Shackleford, Miss; Fl. Smith, Va;
N. B. Tucker, Va; S. B. Walker, Va; G..
Williams, Va.
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hanging the wires between Woodstock and
/: Edom. The next points connected, it is
stated, will be Harrisonburg and etaunton.
| DR.. W. F. G. Young, North Carolinian,
forty-seven years of age, who had resided in
Lynchburg, and Forestville, Shenandoah, has
been sent to the penitentiary in Baltimore for
two years, for marrying Miss Aimee Carey,
aged twenty-six, of that city, while he had a
wife living in North Carolina
| The bar of Danville has appointed dele
| cation of five to represent it at the convention
| of lawyers to be held at Virginia Beach in
July or August, to form Virginia State Bar
| Association,
Intending that Miss Maggie Winfield, whom
he intended to marry, should be his heir and
to avert all possibility that she should not,
John M. Hall of Richmond. Va, made will
| leaving her his property. Later, he became
i'll and to make it more sure married her. He
died, and now as the widow, the lady finds
herself only entitled to her thirds, whereas if
she had not married him she would have re-
ceived all. The Judge of the Chancery Court
refused to admit the will to probate
Commemorative Attorney Burroughs of
Lynchburg on Saturday, intimated to Judge
Latham, on the bench. that he had, by previ-
GUS advice, disqualified himself from sitting
in the case then pending. The Judge con-
strued the intimation as contempt of court
and fined the Commonwealth Attorney 1926.
The grand jury of the Criminal Court of
Baltimore on Saturday, made report MOTTO
ing the recent wholesale nolle prosequis by
Commemorative Attorney G. G.. Kerr, of vio-
lations of the Sunday liquor law, and in their
| report declare that he is incompetent, and
that the law in his hand is a farce.
The health of Bishop White of Virginia,
says the Southern Churchman," sshas been
!! wretched. Troubled almost beyond endur-
ance by eczema; pain is bearable, but itching
unbearable. However, we trust the worst is
over, as he does, but no one can tell. He will
be at work just as soon as possible.''
A meeting of packers and Gamers of fruit
and vegetables in Virginia held in Richmond,
has organized the "Virginia Fruit and Vege-
table Packers Association" with j. G. Tinsley
of Richmond President, and Arthur Grey of
Powhatan, Secretary. There are now forty
canneries in the State and it is proposed to
get better rates from the railroads.
In Norfolk, Sarah Miller, colored, has been
sent to the penitentiary for ten years for
throwing her little son on the floor and trying
to burn his tongue with a red hot poker. In
the boys struggles his lips, face and neck
were dreadfully burned. She had charged
him with stealing which he had denied
Mr.. A. W. McKim has purchased the Page
''News" at Luray. Capt. Parks and Judge
Brand will continue to be it's editors. Capt.
! Henry L. Crockett of Onancock has purchased
the ''East Virginian," published at Tasley in
Accomac.
meeting of representatives of various
French Young Mems Christian Associations
was held in Paris, Friday. Mr.. Gaylord.
delegate from the American Association,
delivered an address. 1t was announced that
wealthy American had offered large sum of
money to erect an institution on scale un-
dreamed of in France.
Rev. Dr. j. B. Hawthorne in a recent Pro-
hibition meeting in Georgia, is reported as
making the following extraordinary wholesale
assertion: "Thank God that every honest
man in Georgia is a Prohibitionist, and thank
God that there is not virtuous woman in the