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

hiring its cannon and whooping up things
March Sd, on its way to the Inauguration, Ou1
people little thought that they had mortgaged
their uniforms, swords and equipments, fol
s32o, to get the money to make the trip with
They had given Edwin A. Chandler and Henry
Greenburg, chattel mortgage to secure to
them the money and per cent. interest and ii
is on record in the city clerks Office at Detroit
Peter B. Smith, farmer of Northampton
county, Va, was shot, March 18th, at East
vile, in that county, While sitting in his chair
by jefferson Adair, with whom he was playing
game of cards. He died instantly. There
was a dispute as to whom the money on the
table belonged. Mr.. Smith is well remembered
in Staunton, as a member OF Otey's battery
which wintered near here during the war. He
was genial man and made many friends here.
He was a son of the late DR.. Geo. W. Smith,
of the Confederate service. He leaves wife
and six children.
Mitchell White, one of the wealthiest color
ed men in Cincinnati and who is janitOr of the
Grand Hotel barber saloon, applied at the
police station there last week for the arrest OF
Mrs. Jno. Coleman, colored on the charge OF
'conjuring" him. When the officer went to
his home the interior looked like snow storm.
Mitchell had bought barrel of salt and with
it covered the carpets, furniture and every
thing else, to break the ''conjure." The officer
refused to issue the warrant.
In PittSburg, Pa, at the blessing of a new
Roman Catholic parochial school, Bishop
Kahn of West Virginia, made bitter assault
on the public school system, which he charac-
terized as a 'divorce from moral and religious
training" and like the pagan schools which
confronted the people in apostolic times" He
said he was informed that 50 Catholics were
received at the Pennsylvania penitentiary last
year, and that over ninety per cent. of that
number were educated in the public schools.
Robert Garrett is at Cincinnati, on his way
to the City of Mexico, in his private car. His
mental condition is much improved and Oh
Friday night he went to the theatre with a
party of friends.
In a sermon at Sacramento the other day,
Rev. Sam Jones offended the Californians by
giving a definition of a gentleman, which eX-
cluded a large part of his male auditors. lie
said: eff you have money in your pockets and
refuse to give anything, get up and give your
seat to somebody who will give something, Oh
YOU are no gentleman" All remained in their
| seats.
Near Bedford Springs, in Campbell county,
| Va, last week, Col. Benz. j. Jordan of Rock
bridge county, aged seventy three, was married
to Mrs. NJ. j. Read, few years his Junior
The aged couple went on a bridal tour to Rich
mond. The bride is sister of Mrs. Decatur
Miller of Baltimore; and aunt of Mrs. Gen
William Kirby Smith of Tennessee, and MI
| William A. Selden of the Metropolitan Hotel
in Washington.
| Ex-President Cleveland left Washington
| for New York Wednesday night, and great
crowds of people were at the depot to see him
and his wife off. Friday morning he took the
street car for his Office down on William street
and on getting there took off his hat and coat
and sat down to his desk and went to work.
| The bill before Congress to enforce Sunday
rest met with unexpected opposition. Among
| the hundreds of remOnstrances against it was
one with the signatures of $50, 900 Seventh-Day
Baptists in all parts of the Union. Michigan
sent 80 900 signatures against it, California
81 600, Minnesota $4,000, New York 10000
| Illinois 5000, Ohio 1000, and Pennsylvania
| 5000. Very few signatures came from the
Southern States,
| 1t is a curious fact that the first Constitu-
tional Congress met on Wednesday, the 4th of
| March, and that none but Democratic Pr6s@
dents haze eger been snaalgtrated on Wednesdays.
The four Presidents entering their official
terms on Wednesday have been jefferson,
| 1901; Jackson, 1929; Buchanan, 1851, and Cleve-
land, 1885. The next inaugural Wednesdays
will be in 1925, 1858, 1881, 2OO9, 2037, 206j, and
| 2O93
The Reading, Pa, Iron Works, announced
| their failure on March 9Th, and meeting OF
their creditors has been called. 1t throws
| 900 hands out Of work. A suspension like
this the day after the Inauguration, does not
say much for the confidence a High Tariff Ad-
ministration was to inspire in home industries
Annie E. Bowling, aged twenty, stood in
the State capitol at Au stin, Texas, March 9Th
| and received from the representatives of the
city of Houston, a gold medal set with dia-
monds. 1t was in remembrance of the bravery
Of her father, Dick Bowling who, with only
forty-two men, drove off a thousand at Sabine
Pass during the civil war.
Rev. Hiram Harrison, of Ogden, Ala, a
| Hard-shell Baptist minister, attacked the
Sledb NIOltIlC0 IL
his pulpit, when they first appeared there
Last week he and his son and his seven daugh
| ters joined their church and left for Utah. He
| is made an Elder.
Philip B. SHIELD of the Law Journal and
| Harvey Wilson of the Daily Record, botl
| young editors Of the law journals named, pub
lished in Richmond, had an encounter OF
March 9Th, over an article that appeared in the
Law Journal. Wilson struck Shield, who il
attempting to shoot him in return, put bail
| through the leg of a boy standing near. Boil
| parties were fined $40.
The will of the late Horatio &, Onderdonl
| of New York, provides that if any of his heir!
marry before % without the consent of hi:
| parents, or habitually uses tobacco. or omit:
rising by 9 O'Clock in the morning, the one 81
offending is to be debarred from receiving any
Of the money. The estate is valued at 1000, 900
| The titled husbands seem to turn out badly
this year. Viscount Vaudeville of England
who married Miss Consuelo Yznaga of Louis
lana, has just gone into bankruptcy Will
5000 900 of debts. Count Mountercole of Italy
who married Miss Virginia Knox of Philadel
phia, turns out to be no count at all but a pen
niless impostor. The Countess has returned
to her friends.
-Four years ago, at Haydentown, Pa.
James Sutton fell in love with Annie Egan
the oldest girl in school. Two years later h,
went to school to her. She, from his being 81
much her junior forbid any love-making
Last week he mailed her letter and ther
blew his brains out in the road she had t.
walk on her way home from her school
In Stultz's bar room at Roanoke, Va, JOIN
B. Smith, the bartender, changed his coat ant
! his niStnl fell ont q nd pYnl ndad w Ii Wal