Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1889-03-01

there was not room in the depot at Mt. Craw-
ford to store the wheat brought for shipment
to the Richmond market and adjacent build
ings had to be used. Thirteen teams were
standing there at one time. Over $1,000 bush
els were shipped to Richmond
Mrs. Mary Calder, of Hartford county, Md,
died last week from a strange cause. E. Han
ma Calder, aged thirty-seven, her eccentric
and masculine ''old maid'' daughter, made a
discovery about herself similar to that made
by Rebecca Payne and her sisters of Freder-
lex county, Va, and went off and eloped with
and married Miss Beall, the 19-year-old daugh-
ter of Lemuel II. Beall, with whom she had
long except company The excitement of
the whole affair killed the aged mother.
Leesburg District in Loudoun county, is to
vote March 21st, on Wet OF Dry. In 1884 the
Vets carried the District by 4S2; in 1886 they
carried it again by 176, and the Drys encour-
aged by the diminishing numbers, are to try
them again in March.
On Saturday last in the Steamship Wieland,
the first American Catholic pilgrimage to
Jerusalem, sailed. Bishops Wiggar of N. j.,
and Radamacher of Tenn, are the leaders of
the party which consists of sixty priests from
men, and fifteen ladies. They carry a banner
with the colors of the American flag on one side
and picture of the Resurrection on the other.
They celebrated high mass at the New York
Cathedral before they sailed. They will visit
various European cities, including Rome; be
in Jerusalem during Lent, and return home in
sections, the first leaving May 1st, the second
May 21st, and the third June 4th.
1t will interest the female world to know
that Mrs. Harrison will wear Oh Inauguration
day pearl-white brocade, en- trGdne with a
front of almost solid gold embroidery; her
dinner dress is of Nile-green MORE, square
neck, not low, and with Greek border; her
house dress is of heavy armure cloth, black
and perfectly plain, except slight opening
in the side of the skirt to sh ow heavy panel
of hand embroidery.
st. Philips Protestant Episcopal church in
New York is the wealthiest colored congrega-
ton in the country. Its altar is of marble, its
pulpit of solid brass and its lectern of the
same material. The reredos is Of polished
chestnut and the sanctuary is tiled. The fur
niture of the church, chapel, vestry rooms and
Sabbath School is all of the handsomest and
most expensive character.
The proprietor of the famous Ponce de Leon
Hotel in Florida, has spent S6,000,000 on it,
He is building $500, 900 Opera House in ST.
Augustine, magnificent church, and gorg-
Gus depot all as additional attractions to the
hotel, and is about to build a bridge over the
st. John river, so that the vestibule trains may
run up to the hotel. He says $11 100000 will
about accomplish all he intends to do for it,
Though in the first part of January there were
only twelve guests in the hotel, he had
Spanish band and New York band playing
there. The manager wrote him that probably
under the circumstances but one band would
do Mr.. Flagler replied that he didn't want
any suggestions how to decrease expenses, but
if the manager had any suggestion that would
make the hotel additionally attractive he
would like to hear it.
ST. Pauls Protestant Episcopal Church at
Richmond has called Rev. Canon Carmichael
of Hamilton, Canada, and he has accepted. He
was educated in Dublin and is extremely Low
Church His salary is $4,000 per annum. He
is a fine preacher and of commanding figure
and handsome face. He pronounce poet, po-ut,
and poem, po-um. He commences his rector
ship on Easter Sunday, April 2Sth
'sCharles Egbert Craddock,' Miss Muir
free), by far the greatest American novelist of
this day. has little taste of the decorative kind
Her writing room is bare and the furniture
common She has high writing table and on
it a Webster's dictionary unabridged. She is of
medium height, with square, colorless face,
blue-grey eyes, and a mass OF red-brown hair
gu. Sc hon. 81, of
strangers.
A serio-comic occurrence took place at the
Lexington (Ga.) Baptist church, last Sunday
1t was Communion day. Rev. DR.. Gibson pro-
ceeded to bless the wine, and continued the
blessing as he slowly turned the vessel up to
pour it into the cups, 1t was not until the
vessel had been turned upside down that he
found there had been no wine in it. The Incl
dent created such an uncomfortable ripple in
the congregation that he at once lined out the
doxology and dismissed the congregation.
A telephone wire is a mute but important
witness in the divorce suit of Mr.. Rutherford
Trowbridge of New Haven, Ct, against his
wife, Alice. MI Trowbridge having his sus-
picions aroused some time ago; had the tele-
phone wire running into his residence tapped,
and listened to many affectionate conversations
over it. Jonathan Ingersoll Clerk of the
Superior Court of New Haven, fled from the
city after it got out that the telephone wire had
been tapped.
The real foreign princes in New York do not
seem to be much better than the bogus ones.
Prince George Erestoff de Gourke, Russian
Prince. got a $500 seal.skin overcoat from
10; Do 1y 70 o lail for WppkS
The Prince straightway took it to a pawn
broker and got S10O on it, Being arrested, the
Prince who has swindled many more tailOrs
and other men, claimed that he had bargained
with Rockwell to have his photograph taken
in the coat and it was to be called and adver-
tised as the "Erestoff coat" and that was to
be the pay of the maker. He is in jail, with
Freddy Gebhard trying to get him out.
James G. Flood, the California millionaire,
and one of the ''bonanza four," O'Brien, Fair,
MacKay and Flood, died in Heidelberg, Ger
many, last Thursday. Flood and OF rlen once
kept bar-room in San Francisco, while Mac
kay and Fair, the two miners, made prospecting
trips--the saloon keepers furnishing the money
They first got hold of the Consolidated Vir-
ginia mine and speedily went on to fabulous
wealth.. Only MdcAdY dht Ea!l alo III"
alive. Miss Jennie Flood, aged twenty-five
is the sole heir to her fathers S1oO,OOO,0OO.
Hiram Barker Of Dover, N, H., is making
the fight that his father might have expected
His father left him $1,000 a year for life
$3.50 900 at the end of ten years if he kept sober
for that time; and $3.50, 900 at the expiration OF
each ten years until 81 900, 900 is reached-al
ways providing that he has not been drunk
Hiram is attacking the will Ga The ground
that his father was insane.
! In Beverley, Mass, last Friday, Miss Eva
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