Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1890-05-02
STAUNTON, VIRGINIA, MAY 2, 1890,
NEWS MATTER.

The discussion OF selling the grounds al
Richmond of the State Agricultural Society
was attended with some asperity. Colonel
Robert Beverly, of Fauquier, who was presi
dent of the Agricultural Society for several
years, arose to a question Of personal privi-
lege and was recognized by the Chair. 81
object to his being introduced here as Colonel
Beverley" said Major Norman Randolph;
''there are men here who were on the battle
field. He was never in the army, and is not
a colonel" There was some excitement at
this remark and Colonel Beverley, continuing
to speak, said: 81 am much obliged to the
gentleman for the correction, very much
obliged
Chauncey NJ. Depew talked to the Yale
Alumni Association at Delmonicos, New
York, the other night regarding his trip to
the South He told of the beauties and oppor-
tunites of that section and advised any young
man with energy and few dollars to invest
| to go South instead of West. In speaking Of
the negroes he said they would be better treat
ed in the South than in the North if they
would let politics alone. He recommended
that postal savings banks be established in
every Southern post-oftice so that the blacks
| uIiSul SdhC uolldl 1T u tlHc, its WcIC
afraid to trust their fellow men and could not
patronize national banks.
| Rector Rowland Of st. Johns Episcopal
church at Passaic, N. j., is devout and
working pastor His wife is popular society
woman. So different were their dispositions
| that they agreed to separate without scandal OF
quarreling. On Good Friday morning at the
| rectory the papers were signed, Mrs. Rowland
| taking the only child, a 3-year-old daughter.
and Mr.. Rowland agreeing to pay $50 a
month to their support. Mr.. Rowland then
hurried across to the church and began the
Good Friday morning service
The Topeka, Kansas, Western School jour
nal claims that the best English is spoken in
that part of the United States which is bound
ed on the east by the Allegheny Mountains,
west by the Rockies. north by Canada, south
by Mason and Dixon's line. Even Boston
is outside the 'best English circle In Boston
source" is pronounced 'soss" in New York
"bird' is ''boid'' in Philadelphia day is
''dahee'', and in Washington fourteenth" is
s'foteenth''
The poet Of a Salvation Army barracks in
London, having the hymn "By the Rivers Of
| Babylon which he wished to ''bring down
to the peoples level" re-wrote the following
version
| By the waters of Babel we sot oursells down,
We sot oursels down for to croy;
And as for our 'arps they were wringing o wet
So we Jung EN- on trees for to drOy.
| An them as had cOpt us, they arsed lis to sing
The songs of our country, SO dear;
How the deuce can we sing the Lords songs,
sayswe,
In blooming rum place like this ERE ?
! Weston, W. Va, elected Prohibition
Mayor and Council, who have refused liquor
licenses, thereby cutting down the revenue
fifty per cent. The town had made contracts
for lighting and Improvements and now there
is heavy deficit. The Council lodged the
situation by resigning, and now the town has
no town council, everybody refuses to be
elected member, and whskey is being sold
without restriction.
| Pastor Smith of st. Mary's Catholic church
at Plainfeld, n. j., created some excitement
Sunday morning by announcing that two of
his congregation, John Dey and Mary New
man, who had been married by Brooklyn
clergyman during Lent should not receive
| the sacraments OF the church until they had
made public reparation.
| In street-car in New York, Saturday
morning, young woman was taken suddenly
ill., An elderly woman present went to her
and then ordered the passengers to withdraw.
| The car was stopped and the horses. unhitch-
ed. An ambulance was sent for and on its
arrival the new baby and its mother were
taken to hospital.
| The body of Fannie Lillian Madison, who
was murdered by Cluverius, has been disinter-
red from the spot where it was buried in Oak
wood cemetery, in Richmond, and deposited
in the section in the cemetery owned by her
father. On opening the coffin nothing but the
| skeleton remained.
The experiment commenced year ago by
| the Baltimore & Ohio Ry. of burning coke in
| its engines succeeds so we'll that coke burners
are being gradually introduced. The prob
| lem is, however, not yet considered entirely
| solved.
| The Pennsylvania Railroad Company has
| ordered that only books, newspapers, maya
| zines and cigars may be sold on their trains,
and fruit, cOnfectiOneries and novelties are
ruled out. Annoying passengers to buy is also
prohibited
| Gen. r. II. Milroy, not of savory memory at
| Winchester and other places in the Valley be-
cause OF his conduct when in command during
the war, died recently at Olympia, State Of
Washington, where he had resided for num-
| Der of years.
| Rev. DR.. Cuyler, who formally retired
from the pulpit at Lafayette Avenue Presby-
terrain Church, in Brooklyn, on Wednesday
evening was given a purse of $50, 900 by the
congregation.
At the Reform church at Mt. Crawford,
Rockingham, on Easter Sunday, four broth
ers of one family, all gray headed and each
representing a different church denomination,
took communion together.
A meeting at the University of Virginia has
appointed Prof Peters and three others to
visit Washington and protest against the pro-
posed consolidation of that post Office with the
Charlottesville post Office.
1t is expected that two additional bishops
will be elected by the General Conference OF
the M. E. Church, South, which meets at st
Louis May 9th, one of whom it is thought will
come from Virginia.
Miss Rebecca Hinkle of Greenbrier county
W. Va, threw some rough ON rats into the
fire and inhaled the fumes from the burning
poison, not thinking of danger. She was
taken i'll and died in few hours.
Miss Mildred Lee. daughter of the late Gen
eral Robert E. Lee, is at Wormley's Hotel to
spend a few weeks in Washington, as is hel
annual custom.
The distillery of P. NJ Engleman of Rock
bridge, seized some months ago for alleged
violation of the revenue laws. has beer
released.
Among the hundreds of presents sent Prince
Bismarck on his 18th anniversary OF his birth
day were two mastiffs, 43 drinking mugs, hal
a sheep, barrels of eggs, tobacco, bacon, pipe
and cure for rheumatism.
Mr.. &. w. Mathews has sold his farm OF
North River near the town of Glasgow, fo
$4,000, reserving the dwelling and sixteen