Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1888-06-01
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Senator Blair from New Hampshire has in
troduced ID proposed amendment to the U. S.
Constitution prohibiting the appropriation OF
any money, raised by taxation, to any school,
corporation Or institution where instruction
is given in any doctrine, tenets, beliefs, cere.
monials OR observations peculiar to any reli-
| gious sect.
The corner stone of the Catholic University
at Washington city was laid last week, by
| Cardinal Gibbons. On the rostrum sat Presi.
dent Cleveland, Bishop Keane of Virginia,
and many distinguished Catholic clergy.
With them sat Miss Mary Gwendolen Cald-
we'll, who gave $500, 900 to the founding OF
the University, She is described as a very
| pretty woman, of 25 years. She wore white
| straw bonnet trimmed with white Khyber
| cloth and grasses. She was attired in stylish
| ly cut light brown coat, unbuttoned at the
| throat showing a rich white lace dress, with
corsage bouquet of La France roses.
+. W. Dohring of Massachusetts, a graduate
of Harvard University, who had bought a
farm near the University of Virginia, and set
tied there to pursue course of studies in that
institution, was killed last week by being
thrown from his horse.
Division Superintendent Prince of the VAL
ley Railway has, it is stated, assured State
Railroad Commissioner Hill, that a new depot
at Woodstock will be finished in a few
months. 1t will be of stone, and in architec-
ture like that at Charlestown
Sam Jones never lets anybody get the start
of him, but when in Omaha he asked every
man in his audience who had never spoken a
cross word to his wife to stand up, he was per-
fectly astounded to see one stalwart, rotund
old fellow rise up and face the music. After
he merely remarked, as he sat down, that he
never had wife.
Rev. DR.. Dinwiddie, the Presbyterian Evan
gelist. is conducting series of services at
Harrisonburg every day at and P. M. A
great deal of interest is being manifested.
The municipal election of Wytheville, dry
town, turned this year on "wet or dry' in
stead of politics. The Drys elected their
whole ticket for city officers and council. c.
W. Gleaves was elected Mayor over B. w.
Terry and J. Walton Meyers.
The May report of the U. S. Department of
Agriculture shows that the wages of farm la
Dor are almost identical with those of three
years ago. The average wages per month in
Virginia for 1888, are put at $13,4S, and in
West Virginia at $1S,74.
That part of the famous ''Mason and Dix
on's line" running between Maryland and
Lancaster CO., Pa, was inspected last week
under a law of the Pennsylvania legislature
requiring it to be done every year. One of
the stones was found mutilated by relic seek
ers. One stone bears the coat of arms of Penn
on one side and that of Lord Baltimore on
the other.
A law passed by the last Maryland legisla-
habitual drunkard and incapable of taking
care of self and property, may be arrested, and
on proof be dealt with as lunatic. Last
week Mrs. Louise Roman, Baltimore widow
of 40, worth SIS, 000 was arrested under this
law on complaint of her brother. The case
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widow evaded its meshes by marrying James
White, aged So In court next day the charge
was dismissed, her husband saying he would
take care of her.
J. H. Lee Commonwealth Attorney of
Amherst, who in self-defence shot and killed
Capt. Joel H. Campbell, prominent farmer
of that county, month ago, was tried and
acquitted. He was however fined $50 by the
court for carrying concealed weapons.
Harold Brown, of Newport, II. L., descen-
dant of Nicholas Brown, after whom Brown
University, Rhode Island, was named, has given
100000 to the mission work of the Protes-
tant Episcopal church. In his letter OF gift
he says s'The sooner the fund is distribu-
ted the better"
Two small tent wagons drawn by span of
little white oxen and span of poor horses,
dog under the wagon, and a wife and five
children, were all the earthly possessions of
former citizen of Loudoun CO., Va, as he
trudged through the streets of Luray last week
returning home after eight years and $4,000
spent and lost in Arkansas. Mos! of the
money he said had gone for medicine and
doctors bills.
"Betsey," the big elephant of McFlynn's ten
cent circus, which dropped dead in Richmond
a few days ago on her way to the G. & O.
train, weighed 1000 pounds and had seen bet
ter days. She was one of the first elephants
brought by Barnum to this country, and had
brought $4,000, but was sold to her last
owner at $500. She was very old and infrm
of health but did her work in the ring salts
factorily up to the day of her death.
VIM. A. Potts, dissolute young lawyer of
Beaufort CO., N. c., who assassinated Paul
Lincke, whose wife was his paramour, has ex-
hausted all the appeals, and will now hang if
Gov. Scales does not pardon him. 1t was
murder of peculiar atrocity.
Fl. Cabell Maddux has the carpenters and
plumbers at work fitting up the Fauquier
White Sulphur Springs in modern STYLE and
will reopen it to-day.
The Fincastle ''Herald" estimates the loss
to Botetourt county by the late cold spell
at 5000, 600. Peaches, apples, pears and cher
ries were nearly all destroyed in a night, as it
were. One fruit farmer alone, it is estimated
will lose nearly $780, 900.
Col. Fred. Grant, who has been invited to
attend the unwilling of the Stonewall Jack
son monument, near Charlottesville, the 18th
of June, replies that he will endeavor to be
present, and adds: 'My father always spoke
in the most complimentary terms of him, un-
til have grown up to look upon Stonewall
jackson as the Havelock of the Confederate
army"
A special train of eight palace cars made the
run from Philadelphia to Baltimore-ninety
two miles-last week, in one hour and fifty
nine minutes, the fastest time ever made on