Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1888-03-30

and we'll developed hustle, we have not met
it on the street. Why will mothers allow their
little daughters to get themselves up in such
ridiculous costumes ?-DGn0ille Register.
John E. Doherty, a leading merchant tailor
in Richmond, died suddenly, Saturday morn
ing from apoplexY. He was highly esteemed
citizen and was Hon. Jefferson Davis tailor as
long as he was resident of Richmond.
Gov. Fitz Lee attended the funerals of two
rine Z. Jamison, an aunt in Annapolis, and
the other that of Capt. r. R. Carter, an officer
of the Confederate Navy, who died on his farm
in tidewater Virginia.
In Charlottesville, last week, Miss Emma
Birkhead, aged forty, was married to Mr.. VIM.
Jackson Wood, aged seventeen.
Hon. John Il. Harris has been invited by
the Lee and Maury societies of Backsburg
Agricultural College to deliver the address be-
fore those bodies on the 9th of June.
daughter of Sam Jones, the Evangelist, is
attending college at Milersburg, Ky, and
was present at revival meeting there Sun
day night, conducted by her uncle, Rev. JAS
Jones. Her uncle called on J. B. Shockley
theological student, to lead in prayer, which
he did, and prayed that while Sam Jones was
going through the land saving the lost, mercy
might not fail to reach his daughter, who was
going to hell as fast as she could. A great SEN
sation ensued. and Miss Jones Indignantly left
the church.
Geo. M. Balm, the Cashier of the late Ex-
change National Bank at Norfolk, who con-
spired with the President and other officers
to gut it, and did SO to the amount of over
ST. ,OOO, 0O0 has been convicted for the second
time in the U. s. court there and accorded
five years in the penitentiary. He has been
taken to Albany to serve out his sentence.
President Cleveland was Fifty-One years
old last Sunday week.
James W. Tate, State Treasurer of Ken
lucky for twenty-one years, and whose name
on the lips of all political canvassers in every
campaign has been ''Honest Old Jim Tate, -
has just fled to Canada, being defaulter for
$250,000 He was believed to be ''the soul
of honor in Kentucky, and his crime has
created great sensation there.
Elections are now being held in the coun-
ties of Missouri on the question of prohibi-
ting the sale of spirituous liquors. So far
elections have been held in 81 counties and
20 cities; 20 counties have voted s'wet" and
81 dry" not reported. Of the 20 towns, Is
have voted dry" and Z ''wet." Elections
will be held in April in seven more counties.
The congregation of St. Paurs church Bal
timore, have presented petition to Bishop
Wilson of the Baltimore Conference, asking
him to reconsider his removal of their pastor
Dr. S. K Cox to Harrisonburg. They have
no objection to Rev. DIR. John S. Martin,
their new pastor, but wish to retain DR.. Cox
as their pastor for the next two years, which,
they claim, they are entitled to under their
| church Discipline, which fixes the pastoral
limit at four years. Bishop Wilson declined
to grant the petition.
The decision of the U. S. Suprem Court in
favor of the Bell Telephone Co., will close
many of the small telephone lines now in op-
Grafton. The Warrenton, Plains and Alex
andria Telephone Co., "a pan-electric line)
which connects Alexandria with the small
towns of the neighborhood east of the noun
tains, has closed business until arrangements
can be made for new license.