Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1889-03-08
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Dr.. Geo. II. Jordan, prominent physician
of Smithfeld, and Deputy Grand Master of
Masons of Virginia, died there February Goth,
aged 56 years. He would have been Grand
Master at the next meeting of the Grand
Lodge, had he lived. Mr.. John Howard Wayt
of Staunton, is the next officer of the Grand
Lodge in the order of promotion, to the position
of Deputy Grand Master. Dr.. Jordan was a
prominent member of the Baptist church and
an active Sunday School worker.
The leading citizens of Florence, Ala,, have
formed a Social Club, called the "Lauderdale
Club and appointeda committee to purchase
lot for building clubhouse At the meet
ing to organize the club we see some names
very familiar to Staunton-Judge VIM. A.
Hudson, J. Lewis Patton, Samuel j. Graham
J. H. H. Figgatt, and others. Ex-Governor E.
A. O'Neil is the President of the Club.
The Washington correspondent of the Har-
risonburg Spirit of the Valley, gives some
names of persons who have employment in
that city-S. G. Krause formerly of Staunton,
has job-office in the Federal Building; JOS.
K Smith, formerly of Harrisonburg, has a
situation in the Government Printing Office,
and Geo. W. Amiss, formerly of Staunton, has
situation on the F. street Street-car line.
In the Corporation Court of Winchester the
will of Henry S. Baker, decd, Ga brother of
the Messrs. Christian S. and Geo P Baker),
was admitted to probate with his two sons
executors. The executors bond was for
| $3.50, 900.
| Jacob Bonsack the father of James A., the
inventor of the Bonsack Cigarette Machine,
which has proved such a bonanza Of wealth,
died at his home at Bonsacks, on the Norfolk
& Western Ry., on Sunday, aged 20. He was a
! large owner in the machine and realized a
large fortune. He owned a large estate in Au-
gusta county. He was a member of the Thinker
| Church.
On April 3Oth next the centennial of George
Washington taking the oath at New Y DIRK as
! first President of the United States, will be
| celebrated in an imposing manner Gov. Lee
at the head of regiment composed of compa-
MES of Virginia troops from different parts of
the State, will be present
The output of Low Moor furnace last week
was the largest for many years. The average
was about one hundred and twenty tons daily.
Mr.. Geo. Barclay, of the British Legation at
been paying devoted attention to Miss Letter,
the Western heiress who has been so popular,
there this season. The recent sudden cold
wave induced him to buy a heavier pair of
wooden underwear, pants) and the same
evening he ordered a box Of roses to be sent to
his hotel. Both purchases arrived in boxes at
the same time. In haste he sent off one to
Miss Letter, who was going to ball that
) night, with note, "Wear these this evening
for my sake" To his horror the next morn
!, ing the box of roses was still on his table and
the box of unmentionables was not. 1t is
said that Washington society has never en-
ioyed mistake so much before.
Colored society of Richmond has invented
wedding that lays all Caucasian ''pretty'
weddings in the shade At the Rev. John
Jasper's church last week the bride waited at
! the pulpit while ten virgins with their lam pS
burning went down the aisle to meet the
groom. AS they walked, the lamps of five
foolish virgins went out, and these virgins were
expelled from the church according to the
programme. Then the five wise virgins escor
ted the groom up the aisle while the choil
sung 'sBehold the bridegroom cometh.'
Henry Kern, County Surveyor of Shenan-
: dead while surveying farm on Saturday
) Feb 2jth, and at the same moment Jackson
Wymer, who was grinding an axe some three
hundred yards distant from where the survey
or was at work, also dropped dead. The line
being surveyed was between the Lewis Shells
and Moses Copeland farms.
Bishop McTyeire of the NJ E. Church:
South, died poor, his whole estate not reach
ing So, 900. In his will he asks as a favor
that the trustees will permit his widow (to
whom the two millions endowment of the
Vanderbilt University was Indirectly due) tC
occupy the house built for them, until her
death.
At the White House on the evening of Feb
a quiet dinner to President elect Harrison and
: Mrs. Harrison. Mrs. Cleveland awaited heI
guests in the Red Parlor. She was dressed in
a gown of pale blue silk. Gen. Harrison and
his wife slipped out of their hotel quietly by a
side entrance and drove around to the White
House. Mrs Harrison wore a black yelve
gown. 1t was a sort of family dinner party
i, and Gen and Mrs. Harrison staid until IL
o'clock and the ladies got pretty we'll &C
quainted. On last Saturday, President Cleve
land called on Gen. Harrison, and on Saturday
afternoon Gen. Harrison returned the call.
The fastest long distance run ever made Oh
, a Southern road, was made from Savannah t.
| Jacksonville last week, 172 miles in 1919 min
utes- an average of y miles an hour, with {
/ train of baggage car three heavy vestibulf
coaches and veStibule dining car.
JOS j. Parkinson of Chicago, is the only
deaf-mute lawyer in the country. At twenty
three years old he was Chief Examiner in the
patent Office at Washington, place he helt
for six years. LII 1873 he was admitted tt
practice before the U. S. Supreme Court, ant
is noted as one of the most successful paten
: lawyers. His partner is twin-brother who
can both hear and talk.
President Cleveland and his wife will live
5 at the Victoria Hotel, in New York city They