Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1889-06-07


was filling the pulpit by invitation. The
building was struck by lightning and the
minister received blow on the back of his
head He turned summersault and fell APP
parently dead When he had recovered it was
seen that his face was badly burned and his
sight nearly destroyed He is under treatment
for his sight.
Rev. Mrs. Ellen Rinkle, a regularly ordaln-
ed minister of the United Brethren church,
in Wooster, Ohio, applied to the Probate
Judge of Wayne county for a license to per-
form marriage ceremonies. The application
was taken by the Judge up to the Attorney
General of the State, who decided that there
was no law against it, and SO Mrs. Rinkle Is
now the first woman in the United States
licensed to perform marriage ceremonies.
The coroners jury investigating the death
of Washington Irving Bishop, the mind read
er. rendered a verdict in New York Saturday
that he died while in state of coma, and that
while Doctors Irwin, Ferguson and Hunce
acted in good faith in performing an autopsy
upon Bishop, yet Dr.. Irwin, through over zeal,
acted in some haste in ordering its perform
ance. The three doctors were released from
bail.
DR.. Buchanan State Superintendent of Pub
lie Instruction has selected the colored Meth
odist church at Lexington, June 18th, as the
place and time for holding the Summer In
stitute for colored teachers in this section OF
the State. 1t will be in charge of Prof. Frank
Trigg of Lynchburg, with Miss Lucy Bould
ing of Lynchburg, Geo. E. Stephens and d
w. Davis, assistants.
Fifty-two years ago, Joseph Battin of Phila
delphia, failed in business and made partial
settlement with his creditors which left him
penniless. Now, at the age of eighty-three he
has accumulated a fortune. He has an adver
tisement in the papers calling on all his OLD
creditors, OF their heirs, to come forward will
their accounts and interest, and he will pay
the whole.
MI A. B. johnson, editor of the Ogdel
(Utah) Commercial, a few days since EDITOR
ally called attention to the "beautiful stanza:
in another column from the pen of Mrs
Amanda II. Davis,'' saying that cher SOU
gave vent in its overlooking music in these
chaste lines" Several days after, the public
discovered that ''these chaste lines" presen
ted the acrostic GA. B. johnson is puppy
hODG. hdllllty dScU OF dIlu ulS WIG dSCu o.
died at Franklin, Tenn, within an hour OF
each other. MI. Raimey was buried as he hao
directed, in a black locust coffin he had made
many years ago, and dressed only in an ole
Confederate blanket that had served him il
four wears of soldier life. His wife was buried
| in handsome walnut casket.
Emma Juch was plumply asked her age by
a Pittsburg reporter, and responded: "Well'
with a Taught will tell you truly, for
have nothing to hide. don't look to be TWEEN
ty-one, do I?'' you most certainly do not. .
ssWell''-with brilliant smile-'I am just
twenty-seven."
! At an entertainment given at the Omar
louisville Opera House last week forthe ben
eft of the Rives Boat Club, the programme
consisted of a rowing drill by sixteen youn&
ladies handsomely attired, minuet by si2
couples, and different selections from cele
brated operettas.
| In Holland an unmarried woman Away:
takes the right arm of her escort, and the
married woman the left. At church wed
| ding the bride enters the edifice on the RICH
arm of the groom, and goes out on the lef
side of her husband.
come of s21, 900. Her total wealth is eStima
ted at $40, 900, the most of which came from
the Cyrus w. Field fund. 1t is invested prin
cipally in real estate and government bonds
Louis Conlon, a Frenchman, claims tn
proud distinction of having the longest bear'
in the world. Although scarcely five feet il
height, his beard measures seven feet, and h
wears it around his neck
John D. Davis, a farmer, residing at New
Diggins, ILL.,, put his milk cans on the wood
pile to dry and the reflection of the suns ray
from them set the wood on fire, doing consie
cradle damage to the house and barn.
Miss Nina Kirby Smith, daughter of Gen
Kirby Smith, a professor in Suwanee, Glenn;
University, eloped with a student last wee
and was married.
VIM. Roane Ruffin, son of Second Audito
Frank g. Ruffin, and former Rector of til
University Of Virginia, died at his farm
Chesterfield, last week
} "Another Pig IN Clover is the way Mi
sissippi paper put it when Negro was al
pointed postmaster of the town.
| Dr. S. Temple Chandler, a native of Rocl
bridge county, Va, died suddenly in st. Lou
The $4,000 tannery of Smoot 81 Sons
Alexandria, with only a light insurance, VIZ
burnt last week.
Miss Agnes Herndon is to have leadiI
part in new sensation drama, ''The E
: Convict
/ Hon. John W. Daniel of Va, has been a
pointed by President Harrison, one of Il
Board of Visitors of West Point.
John Echols LETTERS of Organ Cave, is Il
I tallest man in Greenbrier county, W. Va. l
is six feet seven inches in height.
t Lexington, Va, is about to have an ice ia
O tory with the use free of tax Of 900 gallo
/. of city water daily.
Gov. Beaver of Pa, and Gov. Lee of V;
will visit the Winchester, Va, fair in Oct
her.
" Capt. Chas. w. Statham prominent citiz
:. of Lynchburg is dead, at the age of seventy.
IS There was snow-balling by the school CHI
l. dren at Findlay, Ohio, Wednesday, May %
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