Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1889-08-16

UilHS sui IN The courts.
Miss Laura e. Strider, a well-known teacher
OF Jefferson county, W. Va, having offered
herself as missionary, has been accepted by
Bishop A. W. Wilson, of the Methodist Epis
copal Church, South, and will 60 to Japan
She is sister of the Rev. DR.. j. 2. Strider
deceased.
Dr.. j. b. Workman, native of Huntsville,
Ala, and who was surgeon in an Alabama
regiment and settled in Winchester, Va, was
was found dead in bed there Monday morning
with pistol in his hand having shot himself
through the head. He had attended church
the night before
Rev. X. w. Altman, young Baptist preach
CT of Franklin, Ga, does not seem to lack
nerve when his conscience is all right He
ran away with and married Miss Minnie Lee
Glanton on Friday night, and on Sunday morn
ing appeared promptly in his pulpit and for
his text took the return of the Prodigal Son
On Sunday night, August 9Th, Mr.. j. A.
Irellinger, a young merchant of Cataw ba, N.
G., escorted Miss Adde A. Reid, aged nine
teen, to church. On returning from church
they took seat on a sofa near the fireplace in
the parlor. The lightning struck the chimney
and the two lovers were instantly killed.
VIM. Blankenship, colored, aged twenty. at
tempted to outrage an orphan white girl in
Charlotte county, Va, Saturday night. With
the aid OF the lady with whom she lived, the
girl locked the negro in room till help came
He was taken to Jail. On Sunday night he
was taken out by the people and hanged.
Mrs. w. w. Brown of Nashville, Tenn. has
just paid an expensive bet she made on Cleye.
lands election. She had to pay the fare and
expenses of twenty young ladies from Nash
vile and vicinity to Niagara Falls. The par
ty left last week for the Falls.
AT the Ocean Grove, N. j., camp-meeting
last week, there was large meeting of the
kings Daughters, Mrs. Margaret Bottome
presiding. One speaker said that the silver
cross was now worn by nearly 100, 900 women
| Col. Benz. j. Jordan, aged sixty-nine, who
about four months ago married Mrs. Mary j
Reed OF Bedford, died suddenly at Lexington
Va, Sunday evening, of hemorrhage of the
lungs.
Mrs. Cook, the mother of young Henri,
| Wyatt who was killed at the battle of Bethel
June 10, 1861, now lives with her daughter il
INDECENT circumstances in the Glover Greek
neighborhood in Highland county.
Rev. DE-. j. Il. Hawthorne has resumed
charge OF his former congregation at Atlanta
Ga, no regular pastor having been elected
during his absence, and his residence will
hereafter be in that city.
Iron works in Eastern Pennsylvania ar
during the present strike, being supplied wit
coke from Southwestern Virginia, over the Shen
andoah Valley Ry.
The year 1889 has two total eclipses of TIL
sun, something-two eclipses in one year
that has not occurred since 1712, and will no
occur again till the year POSI-
Judge Thurman and family take tbei
meals in the general dining room at the Ho
Springs, and the cold bandana' is popula
with everybody on the grounds.
EX-Attorney General Garland has beel
appointed resident attorney at Washington
city of the Northern Pacific Railroad com
pany at salary of S25, 900 per year.
George Gossber has presented the Centur,
Wheelmen's Club with handsome specimens
OF stalactites from the Grottoes of the Shenan
doah.
Mai. r. d. M. Charlton of Montgomer,
county, Va, ninety-eight years of age, VIII,
had voted for every Democratic nominee fo
the Presidency since Monroe, died last week
Gen. Henry Dupont, for forty years the heat
OF the powder manufacturing firm at Whining
ton, Del, is dead.
Mr.. Stephen Hunter having retired from tn,
st. Claire Hotel at Richmond. Mr. G. G
Petit of Petersburg has taken it.
The wife of Bishop Alphaeus Wilson made
a missionary address at the Wesley Grove
(Md.) camp-meeting, last week.
Miss Anita Mccormick of Chicago, whom
Emmons Blaine is to marry, has blonde
complexion, dark hair, and 100000.
w. E. Rowell of Surry Co., Va, from thres
acres OF bottom land Ga former mill pond)
cut this year oats to the value of $500. so.
5. 5. Cox is the only living man in publ,
life who voted for the admission of Oregon a.
State on February IA, 1859.
MolaSseS rubbed on grass stains on whit,
dresses will bring out the stains when thu
clothing is washed
DANIEL X. Stewart, living near Richmond
worth S1,6OO,000, one of the richest men il
i'll Virginia, died Sunday.
The wheat crop in Minnesota and Dakota
will reach 90,OOO,OOO bushels-the best in 81,
years.
w. L. Yancey, once prominent lawyer il
Lynchburg and its representative in the legis
lature, died in Bedford county, last Sunday
Jake kilrain, the pugilist, was arrested in
Baltimore Wednesday and is on his way te
join Sullivan in Mississippi.
Mrs. Mary mclaughlin, who for forty,
eight years kept the Warm Springs pike toll
gate near Harrisonburg, died on Friday last