Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1890-09-26
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Bishop John J. Kahn, of the Roman Catho-
lie Diocese of Wheeling, W. Va, has return
ed from his visit to Europe. When he was at
Brindisi, Italy, a little girl refused to believe
that he was Bishop because he had legs. He
was not clothed in his cassocl1, and she had
never seen priest otherwise clad.
Rev. Jno. A. Cave, a seventy -nine-year-ol
local Methodist preacher in Page CO., Va,
recently walked across the Blue Ridge on the
New Market and Gordonsville Turnpike, Is
miles, being called upon to preach funeral
and returned home the same day, travelling
So miles.
The Governing Board of the Connecticut
State Normal School, after having engaged a
teacher, Miss Carrie Wells Of Ohio, on rec
concentrations without seeing her, declined
to employ her after she came, on the sole
ground that she was ''too homely." The ac-
ton has created great indignation.
1t is stated that the collection taken up at a
colored meeting held by Sam Jones in Lynch
burg, for the colored Y. NJ c. A of that city
was the largest taken up during any of Mr.
Jones meetings there-either white or color
ed. Mr.. Jones has closed his meetings there,
Police Marshal McGahey has astonished
society in Leavenworth, Kansas, by announc.
ing his intention to arrest persons found play
ing progressive euchre for prizes. He holds
that they are no more exempt from the ope-
ration of the law than crap shooters"
Mrs. Jas. R. Jordan, a daughter of Gen.
Jas. A. Walker of Wythe, narrowly escaped
drowning by driving into the river near Rad
ford Va, the ferryman not having the ferry
boat secure. She had sunk twice before being
rescued.
The Adjunct professor of Chemistry at the
V. NJ. l. has resigned to take the place of
Chemist to land company. The good sala-
ries paid by the land companies are gathering
in some of the best men in the State.
Miss Clementina de We're, soprano in Dr..
Paxtons church in New York, receives
$500 year for her services. This is said to
be the highest salary paid to a choir singer in
either America or Europe.
A Rockingham county, Va, census enumer-
ator reports that George Fridley of Little
North Mountain plowed three acres, he guild
ing and his two sons being the team that pull
ed the pillow.
Rev. j. j. Rumburg of the NJ E. Church,
former financial agent of Roanoke Seminary,
died at Roanoke Sept. I'd, Of typhoid fever,
and his wife died Sept. 18th of typho -malarial
fever.
Judge Diggs of Lynchburg has pronounced
the State law against the passage of freight
trains through cities on Sundays, to be uncon-
stitutional, and in conflict with the Inter
State Commerce law.
Pocahontas, Va, has an eight-year-old 213-
pound colored boy, measuring around the
waist 50R inches; circumference of arm 1917
inches and of thigh "a; length of legs 1917 in
ches; height 80 inches.
The sales of town lots by the Salem Devel-
opment Company from August 18th to Sep
TENDER 18th, aggregated S413. S19 5o-the most
remarkable SO far Oh record.
The Confederate monument at Fairfax G..
II. will be dedicated Oct. 1. Senator John w.
Daniel delivering the address, and James
Lindsay Gordon delivering the poem.
The new Roszell chapel, recently removed
from the old Roszell farm and rebuilt in