Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1891-10-09
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An emergency unproyided for in the Code
OF Virginia, has just worked the pardon OF
Carleton Marks, young man who shot and
killed N. M. Balm prominent citizen of
Sussex Co. two years ago, on the report of his
little sister that Balm had insulted her. Marks
had two trials, the first jury giving him ten
years. and the second ten years and eight
months. AS usual he got an appeal. While
the Court of Appeals was looking into the
case, Marks, who was in Southampton Jail
procured the certificate of three physicians
that he had malarial fever and would die if
not moved from his present surroundings
The law makes no provision for removing a
prisoner OF bailing him under such circum-
stances, SO Gov. Mckinney pardoned him
and he went free. He was taken to a hotel
where he died in few days.
Dr. Jas. A. Reed of Madison county, Va,
who made the unsuccessful campaign as
Democratic candidate for the House of Dele
gates against the Readjusters in 1881, has just
received the following note with $50 in bills
enclosed:
Dear Sir:-In your canvass of several
years ago, at the close of the election day
there then was in my hands $50 90 left.
now will try to pay it with interest. l can't
remember the year, but think it is about ten
years. Here is $500. Hope it has not incon.
venienced you so very much.
''REMoRsE."
Rev. w. w. Page, D. D., a Virginian, edu.
Gated at Hampden Sidney and Princeton, and
for twenty-five years Presbyterian minister
in New York city, has asked his Presbytery
to dissolve the pastoral relation. He will
take orders in the Protestant Episcopal
church. Rev. Howard McQueary of Cleve.
land, Ohio, also a Virginian, who resigned
from the Protestant Episcopal church on &C.
count Of disbelief in its doctrines, has taken
charge of a Unversalist church. He has been
formally deposed by the Bishop of Ohio.
Charles r. L. Findley. of Abingdon, Va,
just graduated from the University of Virgin
ia, was telegraphed to by the School of Mines
at Rolla Mo-, notifying him Of his election to
the chair of chemistry at 81. 800 year. He
happened to be visiting elsewhere and the
Abingdon operator returned the message to
, the sender with the notification that 1.-THE
party lived out Of town." The chair of chem
istry was filled before MI. Findley heard of it
by mail. He is suing the Western Union Tel
egraph Co. for $40, 900 damages.
Thirty-fi years ago, thirty young women
of Milford (Conn.) church organized Bee
Hive Society," the features of which were Gel
ibacy, and the payment of membership fee
of S30-the interest to be expended in provid-
ing an annual dinner, the principal to remain
untouched, and to revert to the last surviving
member. This year but half Of the original
rf1- in +bo OIL hoy
off by death OF matrimony-and they have re-
named themselves the "Old Maids Society,"
At the Roman Catholic church of the Sacred
Heart in Richmond, Va, last week, pastor
Kelley declined to conduct the funeral of a
member unless the Odd Fellows committee
detailed to attend the funeral took off theil
regalia in church. The committee declined,
and the pastor went to his dressing room and
removed his robes. The Odd Fellows COM
mittee then left the church, and the pastor
resumed his robes and completed the funeral
ceremony.
A score of fun-loving and sensational young
men in Baltimore, lately fitted up club room
with black hangings and skeleton. A skull
into which was stuck candle was on its ban
quoting table. They called it the Suicide
Club" Last week one Of their number cut
his throat. whereupon the black hangings,
skeleton and skull were hastily removed, the
furniture changed, and the name of the club
dropped
Gen. William Henry Fitzhugh Lee, son
of Gen. Robert 4. Lee, and the member OF
Congress from the Sth Virginia district is in
critical condition resulting from organic
heart disease. On Sunday he was so ill that
his two sons, Robert Edward Lee and George
Boiling Lee, students at Washington q Lee
University, were called home. Gen. Lee is at
his home, "Ravensworth, in Fairfax county.
The sentence that First Lieutenant Christie
pher G. Miner Of the 9th U. S. Infantry, con-
victed Of drunkenness on duty, be dismissed
from the service has been approved by the
President The defense that the Lieutenant
made in many "love-sick" letters to the War
Department., consisted solely of the fact that
he had been driven to drink by disappoint-
mentS in three OF four love affairs.
Two negro boys lounged around Morris S
grocery store in Roanoke, Va, the other night
and while one engaged the attention of the
proprietor, the other snatched tempting ham
hanging on hook outside and ran off. The
nam was wooden one used as sign, and the
disappointed thief threw it away in an alley
some distance off.
Mr.. Ficklin Jones a spry widower, aged
Fseventy-one, living on the Culpeper side of
the Rappahannock river, has just eloped with
Miss Emma, the seventeen-year-old daughter
of his opposite neighbor, Robert Wharton,
living on the Spottsylvania side. They were