Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1891-07-03

VI 'i"e .o"H ~ sign petltlon Tor his appoint
ment as porter on Pullman car. He then
cut the head of the petition and appended the
signatures to an application for tine postmas
tership at Chester, and was on the eve of APP.
pOintment when his trick was accidentally
discovered
Rev. Patrick F. Quigley, the Roman Catho
lie priest of Toledo, who was recently cOnvic-
ted of violating the Ohio compulsory educa-
ton law in refusing to make returns under
its provisions, was Monday fined $50 and costs
by Judge Pugsly in the Common Pleas Court
at Toledo. This is believed to be the first
case of the kind decided in Ohio.
At the commencement exercises of the Epis-
eopal Theological Seminary at Alexandria,
Friday, among other things, Rev. Job Turner
Of Staunton, was advanced to priests orders,
and Jno. e. Meem, Jr.. of Mt. Jackson, and
Robt. X. Massie. of Charlottesville, were Or
dained Deacons. Meem goes to Brazil as a
missionary and Massie to China.
The ladies of the Christian Church of
Brushton, N. Y, gave the first ice-cream So
cable of the season on Saturday night last.
Forty-three people who ate the ice-cream
were poisoned. The pastor of the church and
two ladies have died, and all the others are
in critical condition.
Last week, Jas. B. Colgate Of N. Y, gave
one million dollars to Colgate University,
and Jno. D. Rockefeller, President of the
Standard Oil Co., added six hundred thous-
and dollars to the Chicago University to which
he had previously given million of dollars.
Both are Baptist educational institutions.
In Chicago: "You remember Vickars and
his wife were divorced about year ago?"
"Yes.''
'They are going to remarry. | have just
received an invitation to the wedding"
$50 have 1. l wonder if they have the
nerve to expect second batch of presents?"
In the Masonic celebration of st. Johns
Day at New Orleans, Thursday, the fireworks
frightened team of horses which ran off
trampling to death Mrs. A. F. Mitchell and
Harry Russell who tried to save her, and
badly injuring Mrs. Jno. e. Fleming, wife of
the Past Grand Master.
Rev. E. NJ. Smith, d. d., of the Hartford
Avenue Reformed Presbyterian church,
Baltimore, last Sunday withdrew from that
denomination on account of the resolution
of its General Assembly eXpelling ministers
for going to the ballot box.
At the opening Of the new U. S. Circuit
Court Of Appeals in Richmond the three
iudges-Chief Justice Fuller of the U. S. SUI
preme Court, Judge Bond Of the Circuit Court
and Judge Jackson of W. Va, appeared in
black silk gowns.
A slight shock of earthquake occurred at
Charleston, S. c., at 11:27 o'clock Friday night,
doing no damage, but recalling the awful
earthquake of August 81, 1886, when two
thirds of the buildings in the city were dam
aged and 38 lives lost
Count Won Moltke, just before his death,
concluded an exhaustive study Of European
ornaments, and concluded that France was
ready for war, Russia nearly ready, and that
great conflict could not be delayed Longer
than 1892.
So far from being at the point of death, as
reported, Gen. Longstreet is in fine health, sc
fine that the brave old veteran kissed the
pretty school girls at a commencement ball
the other night.
James Hughes Chief of the National Cut
tiers and TrimmerS Assembly who used his
| Office to blackmail a Rochester. n. Y, cloth
| ing house ont of 81, 200 to raise boycott OF
their goods, has been sentenced to a year il
the penitentiary.
Hon. Charles F. Collier aged sixty-fve
Mayor of Petersburg, and a former membe
Der of the Confederate States Congress, wa
married last week to Miss Mary Eppes Jone
of that city, aged nineteen. The happy couple
took the cars for Old Point.
In the suit for divorce against her husband
Jno H. Chadwick Of New York, for cruelty
the wife testified that on one occasion h
thrust dead mouse down her back, thereb.
throwing her into commissions.
| Governor Northern, the Methodist Cover
nor of Georgia, preached a sermon to tn
camp of State convicts on the flower day o
the W. e. T. u, and carried a basket Of bou
quets to the camp, along with the ladies.
Trouble in the colored Baptist church a
Petersburg, last week, wound up in genera
fight in the church, in which Rev. IL. W. Dick
erson, the pastor, was beaten over the hea
and badly injured.
Governor Fifer of Illinois, has signed til
bill enabling women to vote for all Schoo
officers. Twenty-six of the forty-four States
a considerable majority of all, have nov
given women some sort of suffrage.
The Pope has ordered that all the employe
of the finance department of the Vatican b
discharged. Last week discrepancy OF tie
million francs was found in the Peters penc
fund.
Gen. Jubal A. Early has accepted the inv
tation of the jackson Memorial Committee
deliver the address at Lexington, July 21s
on the military achievements and characte
of Gen. jackson.
1t is estimated that at recent drawing rooI
of Queen Victoria over S6,25O,000 worth c
diamonds flashed from the persons of the fai
ones present. Of these, the Queen herself col
tributes about $3.50, 900 worth.
At Kansas City, Wednesday night, Jefferso
b. Harlow, a letter-carrier, slept near
open window with the moon shining full upo
his face. When he awOke he was total
blind.
Judge Lucas, of the Supreme Court of Al
peals. Governor Fleming, Captain WEIGH, {
Roanoke, and Col. W. A. McCorkle, hay
purchased ten thousand acres of land at til
forks of Coal River, W. Va.
At the home of Howard Joynes, in Prince:
Anne Co., Va, last week, lightning splinte
. l an oak tree and entering the house kille
HIS WIG anu llGtIt Udpy UlldG WAS ~ my
y her lap.
, Rockbridge is going ahead of Augusta. 1t
Board of Supervisors has recommended a
appropriation of $50, 900 for new court hou:
at Lexington.
, Dr. Randolph r. Stevenson, who was IL
surgeon in charge of the Confederate prise
at Andersonville, Ga, during the civil wa
died Monday at Halifax, N. S.
The Anderson Guards of Woodstock, ha,
. procured their white CATERS, and are gettir
in shape for the trip to Lexington on Jul
Dist.
q Hon. A. NJ. Kelley, judge of the Intern
: tional Court at Cairo, Egypt, has arrived
y Richmond with his wife and children for Il
summer.
a Rev. DR.. G. Talmage, brother of the famol
Rev. Dewitt Talmage, died suddenly la
l xyooly of opoployv of S0marvi11a