Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1891-01-30

In the division of Virginia into two dioceses
Of the P. Episcopal church as recommended,
the cities of Richmond, Petersburg, Ports
mouth and Norfolk will be in the diocese
of Virginia. All the other cities, including
all in the Valley of Virginia, will be in the
other diocese. The property in the Episcopal
residence at Richmond is vested in that do
cese. The Committee on division further rec
commended that the Virginia Female Institute
at Staunton shall remain the property and
under the control and management of the two
dioceses, Oh such terms and conditions as may
hereafter be determined.
Miss Carrie Townsend member of the
BrantIy (Rev. Dr.. II. NJ. Wharton's) Baptist
church of Baltimore, has commenced suit
against Deacon Geo. B. White of that church
for SO, 900, for publicly urging at a meeting
Of the congregation that she should not be
given letter of dismissal, as she requested
on the ground that in the recent trouble in
that church, ''She had used very sharp words
about the pastor" She claims that his action
Injuries her prospects of going to Africa as
a missionary, for which work she is an ap-
plicant.
Several weeks since, young lady while
looking in the window OF q ieWelTy store on
Pennsylvania avenue in Washington city, in
some way got her feet between the iron bars on
which she was standing. She found it impos-
sible to eXtricate herself and became very
much alarmed. In the meantime crowd
collected, while mechanic who had been
sent for sawed the bars apart. The young
lady was much Frustrated when released and
had to be taken home by friends. She never
recovered from the nervous fright occasioned
by the incident, and on Saturday last she died
King Kalakauhua OF Hawaii, died at San
Francisco last week, where he had come for
treatment for Bright's disease. His death
was unknown at home, and while his subjects
were building arches over the streets and
making the streets of Honolulu gay with
flags to receive him on his return in full
health, the United States troops were follow
ing his corpse to Z. 5. war ship at San
Francisco to be shipped to his home. The
dead king was an Episcopalian and was a
Thirty-third Mason.
The son of Hon. John S. Wise, having been
found deficient in mathematics at the West
Point Military Academy, and having been
notified that his resignation would be accep-
ted, Mr.. Wise has secured the good offices
of the President and Secretary of War to have
his son furloughed for year in order that
his physical health may be restored and he
may have chance under more favorable cir
cunlstances. Young Wise is proficient in all
tie branches save the one named
In the store Of DR.. w. W. Murray Can Au-
gusta MANI at Suffolk, Va, there is the pho
tograph of remarkable horse sent him by
Geo. f. Young of Providence, r. I. The ami
NAL has no popularity save his name and tail
which differ entirely in color with the body
of the horse and are of unusual length. The
foretop is feet inches long; name, feet 8
inches; tail, u feet 8 inches. The color Of
the horse is dark and the name and tail be-
tween yellow and gold.
The year 1890 was prosperous one for the
railroads. The result of the years business
shows that nine roads gained in gross earnings
81 900 900 each, among them being the New
York, Lake Erie and Western, Chicago, Bur-
lngton and Quincy, Chesapeake and Ohio,
Lake Shore. Louisville and Nashville, East
Tennessee, Virginia and Georgia, and Rich
mond and Danyille. Fourteen other roads
show gross increases of from $500. 900 to $780,
90 each.
sold Hutch (B. P. Hutchinson) the yeter-
an and noted Spectator at the Chicago Board
of Trade, has withdrawn from the pit and
will hereafter only do a commission business.
1t is said that his fortune has by losses been
reduced from twenty million dollars to one
Million and that his son, who is President of
the Board Of Trade, to save the remnant of his
fortune to his family, threatened, if he did not
retire, have his affairs brought into the courts
A Bible agent called at the home of Rev
G. 0. Branch pastor of the Second Baptist
church in Portsmouth,, Ohio, and made i'm
proper remarks to his fourteen-year-old
daughter. The father on hearing of it met
the agent in the street, fractured his Jaw with
blow and compelled him to kneel on the
sidewalk in the presence of several hundred
people and beg the child's pardon.
Grover Cleveland has written to Isaac II
Montgomery of Bolivar CO., Miss, enclosing
his check for S25, to aid the Negro school
opened at Mr.. Montgomery's home, and en-
closing with it the opinion that 'sthe opportr-
mites for education and practical information
among the colored population are most nee
essary to proper solution of the race ques-
ton in the South
John Meehan tramp and drunkard, drank
tanned bay-rum in Philadelphia barber shop
1t was "sea-foam'' for the hair, composed
largely of ammonia, and caused his death
Thomas Brown, the barber, who deceived him
| as to the contents of the bottle, has been ar
rested and will go to the State prison for his
murderous Joke
| Emma Abbott wears in her coffin part OF
the handsome veil that she used to wear il
her performances of Juliet This veil she
bought in Paris, and she was wont to cal
| it her mascot, because fortune favored
! her from the moment it came into hel
| possession. At her death half Of it was
cut up into souvenirs for the members of hel
| troupe.
| The u. 5. Senate, all its expenses told, in
Guiding salaries incidental expenses, &c. cos
the country last year S1,019, $685.. During
the year 814 pen knives-or ten for each mem
| bef-Were bought for it. and 200 pairs of peck
ct scissors. Among the items charged are six
bottles of Italian cosmetic, gallon of castor
oil, and three thousand nine hundred grains
of quinine.
/ Prof Koch's breakfast, which he takes
| shortly after 0 o'clock, would hardly please
the palate of an American. 1t is composed
solely OF an uninyiting white soup, into
which he puts any amount Of little squares
Of toasted bread His dinner, taken at 2
consists Of one course of meatand vegetables
one light, sweet dish, and, to finish all, a
plate of soup.
AT the Charity Hospital in Berlin the breast
OF consumptive patient was cut open to in
ject some of Koch's lymph into the cavity of a
diseased lung. Prof Sonneberg who exhibit
ed the patient at his clinic said he had been
making rapid progress toward recovery since.
This is the first operation of the kind con-
nected with the use Of the lymph.