Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1891-01-09
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| King William Court House and the town of
West Point, which is in that county, had a
novelty on Saturday last in the first marriage
| by telephone that has taken place in Virginia.
The wedding couple stood at the Court House
| phone with the clerk Of the court; Rev c. L.
Morrison stood at the West Point phone,
| closely questioned the county clerk if all the
papers were right and everything square, and
getting satisfactory answers started in on the
ceremony. The bride and groom answered the
minister's ''Wilt thou take, &c, :" through the
| phone, and the minister wound up by pro-
nouncl1lg them man and wife. The ceremony
/ was heard in the phone offices between the
| two points, the keepers of the Offices having
been notified OF its coming.
''Uncle" Lewis Gray, an old colored black
smith near Gum Spring, Fairfax county, Va,
has disturbed the peace of the colored Baptist
church Of that county. Mr.. Gray, farmer of
| the neighborhood, had promised him a present
of big Christmas turkey. He had an attack
of the rheumatism and so had to send Sister
Sarah, a prominent sister of the church for it.
The sister on her way back stopped at her
own home and changed his fat turkey for a
that to Uncle Lewis. The old man declared
that that forlorn gobbler could not be the one
MI Gray sent, and the church is now divided
into the Uncle Lewis faction and the Sister
Sarah faction.
In Richmond, Va, on Monday last, Judge
Leake gave decision in chancery suit, by
which Bette Thomas Lewis, the colored
! daughter of the late ". A. Thomas, is given
the estate of her white father, estimated at
S240000. 1t was proven by witnesses of the
highest standing that Thomas had frequently
expressed his intention to make her his sole
heir, and that such intention was repeated a
few hours before his death. The suit decided
by Judge Leake was one brought by Thomas
| white relatives, with whom he had had little
| to do during his life, to establish their claim
Oh the property as heirs at law. They will
take the case to the Court of Appeals.
At charity bazaar held on new years
night in school room at Wortley, England,
large body of children dressed in gauzy
attire with cotton used torepresent snow, were
crowded in a dressing room waiting to go on
the stage One girls dress caught from a
lamp and she ran screaming to the door lead
ing to the stage. The other children, panic
i stricken, tried to get out of the same door and
crowded the burning girl from whom they
took fire. Six are dead and thirty badly
burned.
Mrs Mary Reed of Shelhyville, Ind, up to
the closing week Of last year, took in wash
ing. On the last day of the year Alexander
Casenan, wealthy business man OF Lima,
Ohio, arrived in the town and hunted her up.
He told her that her sister, whom he had mar
ried, had died, and that he had promised her
If he ever married again he would marry her
sister for the sake of the children and that
was his business in Shelbyville that day
Mrs. Reed gave her consent end they were
!, married that evening and left for Lima.
: Gen. Francis E. Spinner, former United
States Treasurer, died at jacksonville, Fla.
last week, aged lightweight His name should
be remembered by the women Of his country
1t was under his regime as Treasurer that the
first female was given employment under the
government and he took particular pride i,
declaring that women were the most con
scient0us and the most honest of all govern
ment servants.
In the Orthodox Friends meeting house on
! 4th street in Philadelphia, Friday, the beau
tiful Quakeress Mary Elkinton, was married
to Inezo Nitobe, a japanese OF noble birth
who has graduated at Harvard. He holds a
prominent position in the government OF
Japan The lady's parents objected to the
marriage and petitioned the trustees of the
church to refuse its llSa, but they rejected the
petition.
The Lynchburg Virginian says that in that
city Sunday night, Dr. Lambeth Of Centenary
church, before pronouncing the benedction
said s'For the benefit of gentlemen who put
on their overcoats during the doxoi0gy, viii
give the sexton instructions to keep the church
open five minutes. When l see man strug-
Cling with his overcoat and the doxology at
the same time, ! ali profonndly convinced
that the doyology will fall
The late Macmillan Augustus Dauphn,
President of the Louisiana State Lottery Co.,
spoke seven languages, was sculptor and
painter and was a regularly graduated medi-
cal pra ctitioner He will be best remembe.-
ed in New Orleans, however, for his charity,
which was boundless His money flowed
like water to all in want OF suffering to whom
his attention was called.
The irish sgar is appearing on American
soil Patrick Fitzgerald is being held By
| the philadelphia police to await the iHjurit.s
of Edward schanering. whom, it is alleged,
he assaulted with a iiatehci: fraatHring his
i skull because Schonering sang Il Song in
Mhich it was claimed Parnell was Ireland 5
! lest friend.
i During ,i,e hast saar the Roanoke (Va.)
i Machine Works turnee ont So large lQcqna-
tjycs, $50 thirty ton coal cars, fs5 thirty ton
box cars, 232 coke cars, 119 thirty-ton fiat
GAS, 20 ossbiin and large wreckng cars. The
works now give e.s.RloEmenE to LOO hands,
and the pay roll aggregates nearly s7q.6aa
) monthly.
\ strong movement has been started in
England 70 abolish the pensions of the heirs