Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1889-01-18
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Rev. J.. Rice Bowman, D. D., formerly
member of Lexington Presbytery and well
known in Staunton, who removed from Har-
risonburg to Gainesville, Texas, and after
wards accepted call from there to Pomona,
California, has resigned his pastorate at the
last named place. At farewell reception
given by his Pomona congregation, at which
all the ministers of the place were present,
Dr. Bowman was presented with gold head
ed cane. The floral decorations of the church
were handsome, and one was presented to Dr..
B. with the label presented to DR.. Bowman
by his little friends of the Second-street
School," The congregation adopted series
of highly complimentary resolutions to DR..
Bowman.
The Baltimore Sun speaking of the apple
market there, says: ''The Valley of Virginia
produces some choice apples, which are most
ly bought up by eastern dealers for shipment
t Europe. Principal among these are the
Newtown Pippins, favorite Of Queen Victo-
ria. They are whitish-ysow in color. are
good keepers, of fine flavor, and we'll packed
will keep till spring. They were sold in the
orchards at So to So per barrel"
The Manufacturers Record speaking of the
James River Valley ores, says: ''The large
deposits of manganese in Augusta county
Virginia. which for years have been worked
on a large scale, also in easy reach of
Lynchburg, and would afford an unfailing
supply of this material for the largest works."
The Richmond correspondent of the Pc
tersburg Index-Appeal, says that the peo-
pie of Virginia are paying out $500 day for
nothing. There are 1900 prisoners in her jails
and the State pays out $500 day for feeding
them, while, as the correspondent claims to
have discovered, only 5000 day is really paid
for their sustenance. He says Senator
Heaton of Loudoun, will find out in a few
weeks who gets the money thus thrown away
by law" At the House of Correction in Bal
timore, the cost of maintaining prisoner is
only five cents and seven -tenths of q cent per
day.
Samuel B. Woods of Charlottesville seems
to be of the right sort of timber for Mayor.
He published letter last week warming the
people that the murderer of Policeman Seal
would be returned to Charlottesville for trial
this week, reminding them of the Birming
ham tragedy, and telling them that any at
tempt at violence would be resisted by himself
and the Monticello Guards regardless of the
result" A few more Mayors like Mr.. Woods,
and Sheriffs like Smith of Birmingham, and
an end would be put to mob interference
with the law.
Little Emma Abbott was on the train at
Garden City, Kansas, when she got tele-
gram saying poor Gene died at o'clock
this morning" She dropped the telegram
with a cry and then locked herself in one of
the compartments of the sleeping car and
moaned and cried piteously all night. Her
dead husband had been her manager, advisor
and friend ever since their marriage, which
was soon after she went on the operate stage.
She will fill no engagements for two weeks to
come.
Harrison Waggoner, a colored man of
Washington county, Va, who has been en-
gagged at wagon driving at 500 month in
Honduras, railroad building with Capt. Frank
Imboden, returned to Washington county last
week and carried back to Honduras with him
his brother, three other colored men: Laura,
the colored chambermaid at the Hattie House
in Abingdon, and Rufus Carmichael, the col
ored porter at the same house. They are to
get $50 month each. The voyage out costs
$40.
Several letter writer's in the Richmond
Dispatch, agree in fixing the date of the great
snow storm of 1857 as beginning on Saturday
night, Jan. 18th. and continuing all day Sun
day and Sunday night. The year before, in
1856, there had been heavy and general snow
storm, January 18th, but nothing like as
great as the storm of 1857. In the storm of
'57 the passenger train. which left Richmond
January 18th on the G. & O. did not reach
WaYnesboro till January 9th.
The meanest man on the Christmas record
little boy into store and gave him five
cents worth of candy. The father of the boy
shortly returned the candy to the merchant,
and saying he didn't approve of such a waste
of money, asked to be given the five cents
back, and he would buy spool of thread
The merchant refused, with some strong Ian
guage added to the refusal.
The combined wealth of the Vandebilt
family to-day is 1914 coo, 900. It is divided
by millions as follows-Cornelius Vanderbilt,
100; VIM. K. Vanderbilt, So; Frederick W.
Vanderbilt, 16; Geo. W. Vanderbilt, Is; Mrs.
Elliott F. Shepard, -; Mrs. VIM. D. Sloane,
IL; Mrs. Hamilton Nick. Twombly, 10, and
Mrs. W. Seward Webb, 10. Mrs. W. II. Van
derbilt, the widow has no fortune, but has
an annuity of $20O,O00
A few days ago, Perry J. Chace of Provi-
dence r. l., a retired merchant of eighty-two
and very wealthy, asked lady friend to find
him wife. She recommended Mrs. Sarah
Ann Tilton of Boston, aged eighty three.
Being asked, Mrs. Tilton said laughingly that
Mr.. Chace might call on her. On his second
call he proposed, on his third call the wed.
ding was arranged, and in three weeks the old
couple were living comfortably at Providence
AS an Atlanta lady was dressing for we'd
ding the other evening, she happened to break
one of her front teeth off close to the root.
She thought she'd try and stick it on with wax
and succeeded admirably, went to the we'd
ding and from the church to the reception
and forgot all about her broken tooth until
she took a swallow of hot coffee, when, as the
tooth went down with the coffee, she re-
membered all about the accident.
The total amount of tomatoes canned in
the United States during the year 1888 was
3, 245, 447 cases. of which one-third was pack
ed by Virginia and Marylaud-the total num-