Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1889-02-15
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marvellous. In Norfolk and Berkeley the
crowds that rushed to hear him could not get
admission. AT the Venable Street Baptist
church in Richmond, he has just closed a
meeting where hundreds were converted, and
last Sunday morning commenced another
series in the same city at the Second Baptist
church.
The case of Miss Rebecca Payne of Freder-
lex county, Va, who was educated in Staun-
ton and afterwards proved to be a young man
and married young lady in Frederick, has
been again revived by the marriage of his Cor
her) sister, Miss Leila Payne. living near
Rest in that county, to another young lady.
The Winchester Leader says Miss Leila al
ways passed in that town for a woman, but
like Miss Rebecca, turns ont to belong to the
stronger sex.
At Smthfield Va, Sunday, Feb. 5, two
meetings were held i'll the interest of Y. NJ. e.
Association work, at which General Secreta-
ries Dadmun of Staunton, Voorhees, of Nor
folk, and Cummings of Hampton, made adj
dresses, and an Association was organized. The
next day Messrs. Dadmun and Cummings can
vassed the town and raised $500 for Associa-
| ton work.
The Rockbridge News says that ''Buena
| VISTA is to be the name of a new town being
| doomed in that county. 1t says that the cash
payment on the iron property of that name, at
which the town is hoped to be located, is
$50, 900, and that upon the Green Forest prop
erty is 81, 900, and to meet these payments the
! shareholders will be assessed IS on February
Goth, and $40 on April Goth. 1t adds that there
are schemes in the air. for bringing indus
tries there but does not give the name of any
of them.
William Knabe, aged forty-seven, son of the
late William Knabe of Baltimore, the piano
manufacturer, died at Aiken, S. c., of con-
sumption last week Mr.. Knabe was at one
time the travelling agent for the house, and as
such was we'll known in Staunton and the
Valley.
The wealth of c. P. Huntington, of the c.
& o. Ry., is now estimated at $40 0OO 00O He
| is a hard worker and always wears silk cap
at his desk. When young man he traded
clocks in New England. When gold was dis
covered in California he went there and open
ed little trading posts for gold DUST. then
started the hardware business and machinery,
and fronsthat got into syndicate for building
railroads.
The establishment of the German represen-
tative at Washington, Count Arco Valley, is
presided over by his sister, Countess Leopre-
ami, as his wife, the German actress, Nine.
Janish who was in Staunton two or three
years ago, is not on terms of conjugal intima-
cy with her husband.
Rev. DR.. j. B. Hawthorne, and Samuel J.
Graham, while driving near Florence, Ala, on
| no inf a1 will thoi in
buggy, down ravine. Their escape, with only
few bruises, was remarkable.
| James Ellen Walker of Stafford county, the
Private Secretary of Gen. Fitz Lee was found
| lying in his Office at the Capitol Thursday
morning, dead with pistol bullet through his
head and his revolver dropped by his side. He
was thirty-two years of age and unmarried
On the 30th ult. he was best man at the we'd
ding of cousin in Stafford. He had been
nervous and morbid since his return. He was
young man of high character and very pop
ular The Governor and his family accompa-
MED the remains to Stafford.
New York city has the distinction of having
been more robbed in its public contracts than
any city in the Union, but the State of New
| York is about to snatch its laurels in that
respect. The State Comptroller's bill shows
that in the building Of the new capitol at
Albany, to lay four thousand one hundred
hard brick, it took 1855 barrels of cement,
So, 654 worth of brick-masons labor and 81, 1927
worth of brick-masons helpers labor. An
other bill shows that it took 100000 feet of
lumber to cover TO- 900 feet of space!
Miss Lizzie Margolin is suing Abraham Gitt
| lin in New York for $4,000 for breach of
promise, and to be sure of him has already had
him committed to Ludlow street Jail. He is
one of two twin brothers strikingly alike, and
his defence is that it was his brother Lyman
! who courted her and that he himself was new
Ell introduced to her. The brother confirms
that statement. The jury will have to decide
whether Miss Margolin is mistaken in the
identity.
Miss Lucy Price, of jefferson, Mo-, gave a
''Virginia" party to some friends. The invi-
tations were sealed with some WALTERS brought
by the Price family from Virginia thirty years
ago. The cakes were old-fashioned square
cakes of gingerbread, and cider was drawn
from a keg marked '1776,' and served in a
gourd century old on which was inscribed
''There's many slip twixt cup and lip"
Oscar Wiley, Of Gloucester county, Va,
|
two years ago, and last year showed symp-
toms of insanity, went to Baltimore in one of
his fathers vessels last week. Without provo
cation OF warning, he rushed on an aged apple
vendor in the street, and with knife stabbed
| him to death.
| L. j. Dyerle, a baggage master on the Nor
folk & Western Ry., collected 81 from pas
senger for carrying his dog in the car He
did not turn the money in to the company and
was arrested He claimed that baggage mas
tiers are entitled to all "dog money" From
the Mayors sentence of thirty days in jail for
larceny, he appealed to the Hastings court.
| On the farm of Michael Goode in Shenan-
doah county, Va. last week, hawk sailed
into the barn and sailed out with an English
sparrow. The sparrow fell out OF its claws
and the hawk swooped to the ground to get it.
A rooster charged on the hawk and with his
bill and spurs killed him.
| John f. GOchenour, a farmer of Shenandoah,
went to Woodstock Feb. 4th, and seeing
! lawyer, made his will had several deeds made
disposing of his property, and left for home
with his business affairs in final shape. That
evening while talking to his wife and son, he
| threw up his hands and fell back dead.
| President Cleveland and his wife were in
| New York city last week house-hunting. MI.
Cleveland will resume the practice Of law in
New York city March 9Th, and has joined a
law firm in which his partners are Wayne
McVeagh, Chas. E. Tracy, the two Bangs, and
F. j.. Stetson. .-.ss.@-4--------
| No engineer will hereafter want to run loco
motive No. 1876 on the B. & O. railroad. About
two months ago it killed Engineer Carr and
Fireman Geo. Fiske. Saturday it killed
| track walker named John Deiters, near Cen