Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1889-07-12
Staunton indicator.
FRIDAY MORNING. JULY IL, 1889.
LOCAL.
LOCAL.
Personal.

~ '-'AN ~ AASA
Goode, Is Green street.
General Secretary E. T. Dadmun left
Tuesday morning for Alexandria, in the
interest of the Y. NJ. c. A. of Virginia.
Miss Blanche Taylor of this city is in
Richmond visiting her friend Miss Katie
Burress.
Miss Laura Nelson of this city is visit
ing her friend, Miss Nora Rice, at Farm
vile.
Capt. o. r. Funston, Steward of the d..
ID. IL b. Institution, left last week. accom-
panied by Mrs. Funston, for the seashore
Mr.. White, wife and two children. of
Texas, are stopping with their uncle, Dr..
VIM. III. Goode, Is Green street.
Prof. B. F. Humphreys of Dunsmore s
Business College, is visiting friends at
Monroe, w. Va.
Mr.. Geo. Mari left Tuesday for Chatta-
nooga. Tenn, to takea position in whole
sale house.
Mr.. Jas. A. Wehn left last week on a
visit to his sister, Mrs. Edward Herndon,
at Warm Springs, Bath county.
Mr.. and Mrs. Geo. D. Levy of Pittsburg,
Pa, are visiting Mrs. Levy's parents, Maj
and Mrs. Alexander Hart.
Mrs. J. L. Luxford of Buffalo, N. Y, is
visiting her father, MI. j. e. Taylor, of
this city.
MI. J. H. Lindsay of the Faculty of the
D., d. & B. Institution, left Tuesday
morning for High Point, N. c., to spend
a few weeks with his friends there.
Dr.. w. L. Walters and Capt T. C. Nor
ton OF Staunton, spent several days in
Richmond, last week. They were the
guests of Mrs. KidWell.
Mrs b. T. Terry and her two daughters,
Misses Carrie and Libbie, left last week for
the North, where they will spend two
months visiting relatives.
Miss Mary Brown left Wednesday for
Roanoke to spend a few weeks with her
brother, Mr.. John Brown, and her friends
in that city.
Gen. John Echols and Maj. J. B. Dor
man, were omitted in our list of those pres
ent at the Y. NJ. l. semi-centemial last
week.
Mrs. Maj. II. NJ. Bell of this city is Wis
iting her mother at Charleston, w. Va.
Mr.. JOS. Barkman of Staullton was in
Winchester last Saturday.
DE-. Blackford, the Superintendent of the
Western Lunatic Asylum, has rented the
late residence of Mrs. N. P. Catlett on
Gospel Hill and it is being put in order for
the occupancy Of himself and family.
During the absence of the Rev. DR.. Mel
son, who is in Europe, Rev. II. w. Tribble
of Jackson, Tennessee, will fill his place as
the pastor of the Baptist Church. He will
he here Sunday.
Two prominent guests at the Greenbrier
White Sulphur this season are the senior
professors of the University of Virginia,
DR.. J. J.. Cabell and j. B. Minor, Professor
of Law.
Montgomery Messenger: .'Mr. and Mrs
G. T. Kearsley of Radford were the guests
of MI. 7. w. Spindle on Saturday last.
Mr.. Kearsley is one of the active real estate
agents of Radford.''
U. S. District Attorney VIM. E. Craig,
MI. j. B. OComell, of Staunton, and
Messrs. G. A. Roller S. Brown Allen. Jno.
A. Noon and John Rodgers of Augusta,
were present at Gen. Mahones conference
i'll Petersburg, Tuesday.
Intelligence has been received here of the
sudden death of Mr.. Flournoy X. Barksdale
a prominent merchant Of Halifax c.. H..
Va, and the youngest brother of Mrs T.
c. Morton. He leaves widow and one
child.
A letter from Capt. VIM. II. Sale of
Capon Springs, says: "The Korean Lega-
ton are occupying the Egerton Cottage
here and will remain till the close of the
season. Their appearance and dress creates
no small degree Of interest,"
Prof. John Fl. Hewitt, of Baltimore, the
father of Mr.. G. w. Hewitt, of Staunton.
celebrated his SSth birthday yesterday, in
that city. The Baltimore Sun publishes a
long and interesting sketch of the life of
the venerable professor.
DR.. M. Mckenzie of the University of
Virginia, was present at the seni-centen-
NAL Of the V. NJ. I. last week. He was
student at the institute in 1914, and is
one of the three surviving members of
that class.
Gen. Custis Lee, president of Washing
ton q Lee University, was in Richmond
Oh Saturday on his way to West Point,
Va, to visit his brother Robert. The
General resemblance to his distinguished
father is becoming very striking as he
grows older and wears his beard as he did.
Roanoke Herald, July H. miss Jennie
Henkle, of Staunton, is whiting her sister,
Mrs. E. 2. Echard, at Roanoke--Mrs
Charles E. Rusmisell, of Elkhorn, w. Va,
who has been visiting friends and relatives
i'll Staunton, stopped over a few days on
her return home"
MI james Lewis Bmgardner, eldest
son of Capt James Bumgardner, j., who
was admitted last week to practice at the
bar of this city, made a fine impression,
Monday, as one of the counsel for the de-
Tense in the case of Henry Spears, colored.
rs. the Commonwealth.
Rev. DIR. Hoge of Richmond is at North
field, Mass, where he has gone to deliver
two discourses before Moody's summer
encampment Of college students and young
Christian workers. From there the rev.
erend gentleman will go to Narragansett
Pier, to Test for couple of weeks.
Louisville lKy.) Christian Advocate
lebanon Church, near Stanton, has had
a visit from Rev. E, G. Gordon, D. D., of
Lexington, Mo. Lebanon was his first
charge, and, although he was a young pas