Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1890-03-14
Personal.

Mr.. A. NJ. Howison of this city, has re-
ceived notification from the U. S. Treas
~ Department that he is entitled to an heir S
share of the three months extra pay voted by
Congress to his uncle, the late 1t. Neil M.
Howison, U. S. Navy. after the close of the
Mexican war. This is under the appro-
priation of Twenty-One Millions for the
pyament of these claims. If the government
allows interest for the forty-three years
that have elapsed, Mr.. Howison' S share may
be worth applying for.
Dr. Thomas Opie, Dean of the College Of
Physicians and Surgeons of Baltimore, who
has been SO seriously i'll from blood poison
ing, contracted by scratching his finger
with an instrument while performing a
surgical operation, has returned from the
springs of North Carolina and Georgia,
and expects to be able to examine his classes
at the final examinations. He is a brother
of Capt. Jno. n. Opie.
Judge James Kenney of Harrisonburg, is
about making his future home on the
Mckay homestead near Fort Defiance. He
was born and raised in Harrisonburg, and
in the seventy years Of his life has not been
absent from that town a month at time
The Tressler Orphan Home at Loyds-,
vile, Pa, of which Prof. E. e. Campbell
of the Staunton Female Seminary has been
elected Principal, is under the control OF
the Lutheran church, and at present con-
tains 235 orphan children.
The Roanoke Herald in an appreciative
notice of the death of Maj. j. Marshall
McCue, says Of him as a citizen of
Augusta, that ''no man in his Gay welded
greater influence Oh did more for the
common good"
Two more of Dunsmore's Business Col
lege graduates have obtained positions
the Calwell House at the White Sulphur,
and Daniel Sites of Rockingham, as a
Stenographer in Washington city.
Mr.. j. Z. Booz, one of the editors of that
wide-awake journal, the Waynesboro
Times, was in the city, Friday. He gives
most encouraging account Of the develop
ment of that town and the surrounding
towns.
The Harrisonburg State Republican says:
''Rev. VIM. C. Thurman, of Second Ad-
vent fame, and Mrs. Martha A. Kyle, widow
of William Kyle, near Taylor Springs, were
married near Mt. Sidney last fall, and now
live in Lawrence, Kansas"
From the names of gentlemen elected on
+lo Poor1 of Stouardc of tho M + (Iburob
South, published last week, that Of Mr.. E.
B. Lipscomb was accidentally omitted by
our informant.
Among the graduates Of Bellevue Hospi-
tai Medical college of New York city, who
received their diplomas at the commence
ment there last Monday evening, was Wal
ter Fitzgerald Hartman of Staunton.
The Highland Supervisors have elected
Hull Kramer, Superintendent of thai por-
ton of the Staunton and Parkersburg turn
pike lying in that county, his duties to COM
mence April 1st.
Capt. 7. S. Doyle, Principal of the D. :.
D. & B., has received an invitation to de-
liver an address at the Convention Of Prin-
cipals and superintendent of institutions
for the blind, to be held at Jacksonville, Ill.
The Society fol- the Preservation Of Vir-
ginia Antiquities, the headquarters of
which are at Richmond, has established a
branch Association at Staunton with Mrs.
Gen. J. E. B. Stuart as Director.
Mr.. W. M. Smith of Staunton, formerly
at Berkeley's photograph gallery, and later
of Ashville, n. c., has been engaged by
Reed & Wallace to conduct their branch
photograph gallery at Selma, Ala.
Miss Nellie Baker of Winchester, who
has been visiting Mrs. G. S. Baker and
other Staunton friends, for some weeks,
returned home Saturday morning.
Councilman Clifford Bargamin, who left
the city some weeks ago, has returned here
and opened the gas-ftting and plumbing
business on New street.
MI. Samuel NJ. Woodward of Roanoke,
his many friends here will be glad to know,
is rapidly recovering from the serious fall
he got few days ago.
DR.. P. L. Murphy, formerly of the w.
l.. Asylum here, was reelected Superlnten-
dent of the Western North Carolina Asy-
lum at Morganton, last week.
Senator Echols Of Augusta is on the Sen
ate Committee to settle the boundary line
between Maryland and Virginia.
Miss Phoebe Holt Of Lynchburg, is visit
ing her friend, Mrs Frank Alexander, N o.
2O9 Kalorama street.
Miss M. r. Shipley Of this city left on
Tuesday last to visit relatives in Philadel-
phia.
Capt. Ham Shepperd is in Salem with a
view of locating there.