Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1889-05-17

The income received from the Chair of Surge
ry of the jefferson Medical College OF Phila-
delphia, now vacant, is $4,000 per annum.
Among the names being canvassed for thy the
Trustees is that of DR.. Hunter Mcclure OF
Richmond. Dr. NJ was the Demonstration OF
Anatomy there wEel the war broke out, and
there was a large number OF Southern students
then. When Fort Sumpter fell, he made
them a speech and at their head left the col
lege and returned South If the vacant chair
is offered to DR.. Mcclure, it will be understood
that the Trustees desire to restore the prestige
of the college as the fayorite institution for
Southern medical students. 1t is doubtful
however, if Dr.. NJ could afford to give up his
hospital, and profitable practice inVirgnia for
the Philadelphia place.
A Lexington telegram says that on Friday
last A. S. DOnohoe, printer in the Rock
bridge County News Office, eloped with Ada
Seal, a little school girl between thirteen
and fourteen years of age. They were captured
near Longdale Furnace on the G. & o. road
and carried back to Lexington. The abduction
of girl that age is crime under Virginia
law.
The statistics read at the General Conference
X, L Il.
show a marvellous growth. The total member
ship is now PIC, 900, an increase of 40 900 in the
last four years. The amount given to benevo
lent interests was 81, 037 ,0S6, being an increase
Of nearly 5000, 900 over the sum reported at the
last Conference. On Monday when the pre-
siding Bishop Kephart read the proclamation
that the revised Confession of Faith, and the
new constitution admitting lay delegates and
permitting membership of secret societies.
had been adopted, Bishop Wright and four
teen ministers from the North Ohio, Michi-
gan, North Michigan, Oregon, Rock River,
White River and Missouri conferences bolted
and set up an independent General Confer
ence. The General Conference at once passed
resolution deposing them from ministry
and membership in the church of the United
Brethren in Christ. The boilers only repre-
sent about Il, 900 members.
Rev. j. j. Boyle the priest in charge of the
Roman Catholic Church of the Sacred Heart
of Jesus, at Raleigh, N. g., has for some time
been drinking heavily. His admiration of
women has been so public as to excite COM
ment. A few weeks ago he attended the con-
firmation service at the Protestant Episcopal
Church. His drunkenness was SO fast bringing
reproach on his church that three of the men,
bers reported him to his Bishop. He threaten
ed to kill them for it. On Saturday evening
last his career eliminated in crimefor which
the penalty is death. He sent Miss Janette
Whitaker, the organst of his church, and the
seventeen-year-old daughter of prominent
member of it, into his room which is in the
church, for some music for Sunday; followed
her there, and outraged her. He Silenced her
cries by pointing pistol at her. He was az
rested and jailed, and it was with great diff
Guilty mob of citizens which had gathered
could be prevented from lynching him. He is
from Philadelphia and had been the pastor
there for few months.
While Barnum's circus was performing at
| Williamsport Pa, Friday afternoon a violent
storm struck it. The employees managed by
holding up the poles to keep the main tent up
! till the audience got out in safety, but the
menagere and dressing-room and other tents
were blown down. Nellie Flynn, the rider;
Erie French, the skater; Mollie Thompson,
the hippodrome rider Ko Ichato, the Japanese
| iuggler, and George Marks, the ticket-seller,
were all badly injured, most of them having
bones broken. Several of the animals were
badly injured.
The Scotch-Irish Convention at Columbia,
Tenn, seems to have been rather local eel
ebration, as far as general attendance went,
though Rev. DR.. John Hall of New York, ex-
Gov. Proctor Knott of KY, Robt. Bonner of
the New York Ledger, Hon. Jos. F. johnson
of Ala. and ex-Chief Justice Scott of Illinois,
were among the speakers. Corporal Tanner,
u S. Commissioner of Pensions, was present
| Il do IN, Of,
everybody and everything; the Southern State
governments to have the privilege of pension
ing their own Confederate soldiers !!
Two young people in Page county, Va, had
a trying experience in getting married last
week, Young j. Menefee, son of Hanson
Menefee, ran off with Miss Minnie Beylor
daughter Of Geo O. Beylor They were inter-
cepted at Front Royal and the young lady
taken home. After ali arranged duel with his
loves brother, butaverted by the police, young
Menefee made yet another effort, got Miss
Beylor off and married her at Hagerstown,
Nd
| The Orkney Springs were sold again last
week by order Of the court for $780, 900 to
Franklin Noble Of Philadelphia an adj
vance of SD, 800 over the former sale to Robt.
Wilson Of Mt. Jackson. The court orders
the sale still to be kept open for ten days
more, for an advance bid from W. G. Chase,
(who kept the Springs last season. of 5000. If
Chase does not raise the $4,000 the property
goes to Noble.
The cotton manufacturing is steadily going
South. The cotton manufacturing business
of Windsor, VT, is being moved to Alabama,
where plant has already been built to re-
ceive it. The Whiteield Cotton Company of
Newburyport is having mill built at Spar
tanburg, S. c., and the machinery and equip
ment of the establishment will be shortly
transported to that place
The strike at A. NJ. Coxs broom factory at
Duluth, Minnesota, was settled in a rather
singular manner. The proprietor increased
the wages of all his married employees, and
gave the single men notice that they would
not be wanted after the end Of the month, I'M
less they were married by that time, in which
event they would be retained at increased sal
aries.
Gov Gordon of Georgia, returning from the
New Y ork Centennial, had most remarka-
bic reception at Elizabeth, N. j., by the
Drake Zouaves and other Union veterans.
He dined with the Governor and then proceed
ed to the armory of the Zouaves. The streets
were blazing with fireworks, houses were il
Illuminated and the whole population was out
cheering.
The romance of the elopement of Miss Helen
Trenholm of Washington City, last week, was
considerably taken off. She was niece of EX-
Comptroller Trenholm and ran off with Will
son w. BRAKEMAN and got married. On az
irving in Philadelphia the bride received a
telegram from her mother, extending her con-
CALCULATIONS and inviting the young people to