Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1889-03-15

Rector Clarkson had done much work among
the colored people.
Capt Frank W. Dawson, editor of the
Charleston, S. c., Newsstand Courier, and a
member of the National Democratic Commit
tee for South Carolina, was shot and killed in
Charleston Tuesday afternoon, by DR.. G. B.
Dow He had visited Dow Office to remon-
strate against his intimacy with a white ser
want girl in his (Dawson's) employ. Dow,
who surrendered himself three hours after the
killing claims that it was done in self de-
Tense. Mr.. Dawson was member of Gen.
Ftz. Lees staff during the war and after
wards on the Richmond Dispatch He was a
man of great personal courage, and moral
courage as WE'LL and the Pope Knighted him
for refusing to fight duel The flags at
Charleston were at half-mast Wednesday.
J. B. Magruder of Albemarle has been
elected Chairman Of the Executive Committee
of the Virginia Farmers Assembly.
John Ericsson, the great inventor, and the
builder of the first monitor, is dead, aged
eighty-six.
The oldest Doctor of Divinity of the Balti-
more Conference of the NJ. E. Church, North,
is Rev. Lyttleton Morgan, d. D., native of
Bath county, Va. He is Sc years old
Mary Louise Booth, the editor of Harper's
Bazaar, who died last week, received salary
of IS, 900 year.
Jacob White, colored, over one hundred
years old, and who drove the carriage of the
eat-great-grandfathe of Hon. VIM. A. Glas
gov, died in Botet )urt county, Va, last week.
An Englishman named st. John, travelling
in the West, has had six fights with hotel
clerks about the pronunciation of his name
which is s'Sinjen." If it is the same English
St. John that used to live near Staunton, the
hotel clerks are finding it pretty hard to ham
die him.
The Musical Mutual Protection Union has
had to pay Matthias Meicheim, clarinettist,
$500 for blacklisting him and preventing his
getting Engagements.
Senator Barbour has appointed his nephew,
Mr.. r. G. Thompson, to the private clerkship
allowed him by the regulations of the Senate.
Mr.. Cyrus Hall Mccormick, Jr., president
of the Mccormick Harvesting Machine Com
pany, and Miss Harriet Bradley Hammond,
niece of Mrs. Edward S. Stickney, of Chicago,
were married at Monterey, California.
VIM. d. Howells, the novelist, has just lost
Winnifred his eldest daughter, aged 26 years
Tilman Snodgrass, who went up Gettysburg
Heights with the 2Sth Va, in Pickett's Divis-
ion, has just died in Craig county, Va.
Tho belled buzzard which has excited so
much interest in the Valley, was near Rock
bridge Baths March 1st.
Rev. II. NJ. Wharton, who has been elected
President of the new Female Seminary Co.
at Luray, has purchased the farm of Mrs.
Dr. Rust near there
The Maine legislature has passed bill al
lowing druggists to sell liquor.
Ex-President Cleveland has been elected an
honorary member Of the New York Chamber
of Commerce.
Messrs. w. F. Powell and c. II. Hyde,
merchants of Clifton Forge, have made as
signments.
Front Royal district, Warren county, Va,
Monday, voted in favor of local option by a
majority one-third larger than at the former
election.
The Virginia Grand Lodge Of Odd Fellows
will meet in Danville, April 9th.