Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1890-02-28
NEWS MATTER.

Ex-President Grover Cleveland and wife
were formally admitted to membership in the
Central Presbyterian church on West 9th St.,
New York, last Sunday. They had been at
tending that church some time. Mrs. Cleve-
land is said to be much stouter than when she
lived in Washington. A letter writer who sees
them coming from church, says Mr.. Cleve-
land impresses one as good, big, solid, sub
stantial unpretentiouS American citizen. Mrs
Cleveland chats with him all the time with
the utmost vivacity as they walk along. Once
in great while the ex-President turns and
answers her with all affectionate CLEAN in his
eye, or with quiet smile, but for the most
part, the wife carries on the conversation by
herself
Eugene Callahan, a precocious school-boy
of sixteen, at Cheyenne, Wyoming, loved
Maud Hall, his fifteen-year-old school-mate
who did not return it. On Saturday he fired
three shots at her without effect, and then shot
himself dead.
The U. S. Senate has passed bill to pay the
law firm of Porter, Harrison & Fishbock,
president Harrison's law frm), s., 800 for
defending suit brought against Gen. Hovey
for arresting some Knights of the Golden
Circle in Indiana about the close of the war.
sAnd now, Children remarked Professor
Hailes, in the public school the other day, eff
family consisting of father and mother and
seven children should have pie for dinner
how much would each one receiver" 'Why,"
remarked bright boy, leach would get an
eighth 'But there are nine persons, you
must remember ''Oh | know that; but
mother wouldn't get any. There wouldn't be
enough to 60 around
Clanne Kimberling, colored, who was
owned by the great-grand-fat Of the present
Superintendent of the aims housein Botetourt
! county, Va, died there last week, several
years over century old, according to the
superintendent computation.
A cablegram from st. Petersburg says that
Louis Rubenstein, the champion fancy skater
OF America, won the championship of the
world in that city, Saturday, in the competi-
ton under the auspices of the ST. Petersburg
Amateur Skating Club The contests took
place on the Open-air ice, and among the
countries which had representatives Compel
ing were Austria, Finland, Norway, Sweden
and Russia.
Campbell of Ohio and his party and John H .
Inman and the Boston and New York capital
lists whom he had with him was the formation
of gigantic land company. Gov. Campbell
s president, and John H. Inman, John G.
Calhoun and others are directors. The CAPT.
tai stock will be one million dollars Its
purpose is the purchase of Southern lands and
their settlement with people from the North
and West.
Over thirty English and Irish noblemen are
now living on charity, and bill is to be in
troducel in the House of Lords to provide
house of refuge for them Lord Isle, an Irish
nobleman, is living in the depths of poverty
in small house at Bayswater. He is the head
of an ancient family The father of the Duke
of Buckingham died at sixty lone years of age
in extreme poverty. More than twenty baron
cts are leading precarious lives. One is
pawnbroker and another Photographic az
fist. Five have been convicted of swindling
during the last ten years.
In sparring match at Dallas, Tex, by
Jake Kilrains combination, Thomas James
volunteer novice received blow over the
heart from Jos. Benhna the lightweight
champion of the company, and died in a few
minutes.
H, McF. Barksdale, son of Dr. Barksdale,
Superintendent of the Colored Asylum for the
insane at Petersburg, was married at Will
mington, Del, last week, to Miss Ethel Du-
pont, daughter of the late Victor Dupont, of
the Dupont powder making firm.