Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1891-06-05


$40, 900.
Iii the General Assembly of the Northern
| Presby telian church, Thursday, Judge S. j.
breckenridge of st. Louis, spoke vigorously
in attacking Rev. DR.. Briggs religious views
and opposing his appointment to Princeton.
He closed by saying: Nov gentlemen feel
that l have discharged my duty and wish to
be excused from further speaking,' and
reaching out for glass Of water fell and
died in a few moments.
| Miss Jean Gordon of Cincinnati, upon whom
will be conferred degree at the Philadel-
phia College of Pharmacy, has earned the
| highest average ever attained by any woman
graduate from that institution. Out of the
1S4 gradua ties in the class of this year, only
six obtained the highest rating of "distin-
guished.' Miss Gordon was one of the six.
She was the only woman in her class, and had
to contend with bright young men.
Manager E. II. Stevens of the Pearl of
Pekin Opera Troupe, says that proprietor
Ritche Of the Fifth Avenue Hotel, Louis
vile, KY, who turned himself and Miss
Bertha Fisch out of the house at night for be-
ing there under compromising circumstances,
did so purely from spite, and adds, "Rtchie
tried to kiss Miss Fisch, and what he did Oh
that night was purely for revenge"
John Peters, farmer, living near I4eavcn
worth, Kan, and his family, ten persons in
all, were eating supper Wednesday evening
when a bolt Of lightning passed through the
dining-room and rendered them all uncOn-
scious. Carrie Peters, twelve years old, was
lol 4
serious injuries. All the hair was burned
from the head of the little girl
The General Assembly of the Reformed
Presbyterian Church has adopted bya vote of
100 to IS memorial libe1ling the action of
seven young ministers of the Pittsburg Pres
bytery in voting at an election, as "a heinous
sin and scandal" This means that the seven
ministers and probably twelve others will be
dismissed.
One of the most interesting law addresses
that has been heard in Virginia Will probably
be that of A. NJ Kelley, the American Judge
of the International Court at Cairo Egypt,
to be delivered before the Virginia Bar Asso-
Citations at the White Sulphur Springs, July
2sth It's title is Judicial System of the
Pharaohs."
| Rev. DR.. E. 2. Terhune, who during the
past two years has lifted a debt of more than
| SOC, 900 from the Bedford Avenue Dutch Re
formed Church, Of Brooklyn, has resigned his
pastorate. His strength has failed and he
will seek rest. He is the husband of the we'll
known writer, "Marian Harland." sister of
Rev. DR.. IL. II. Halves of Staunton.
| Mr.. Isaac Weed, of Ronceverte, W. Va, re-
Gently fell heir to $4,000 by the death of an
aunt in one of the Northern cities. Mr. Weed
is ihe father-in-law Of Ex-Governor Sprague
of Rhode Island, Mrs. Sprague, then being
Mrs. Dora Inez Calvert having welded the
| Ex-Governor in Staunton.
The money for Miss Emma Juch, as soloist
at the May Musical Festival at Indianapolis,
was levied OH last week for 1000 she borrow
ed in a Montana city where her late opera
company was stranded before it broke down.
The distressed sngerresponded to the serving
of the attachment by food of tears.
Mr. and Mrs Dulaney of Fauquier county,
Va, who last winter started on their honey
moon trip and before dark were crippled for
life in an accident on the Pennsylvania rail
road, are suing that company for $50, 900.
! They have been three months in a Pittsbure
hospital in adjoining rooms.
Rev. Alfred w. Adams, a we'll known cler-
gyman of Providence, r. l., created sensa-
ton both in social and religious circles re-
Gently by his vigorous protests against his
wite's habit of wearing low neclled dresses.
She was so indignant at his conduct that sh {
| has instituted divorce proceedings.
All Paris is laughing over the joke about
an American inventor, who is said to have
patented a corset that is to bring the reign of
morality at once. If one of the peculiarly
constructed articles is 'pressed by a lovers
arm, it forthwith emits shrek like the wills
tie of railway engine.
Two Of Grover Cleveland's nieces are to be
married at Walworth, Wayne county, N. Y :,
on June 10, and Mr.. and Mrs. Cleveland are
expected to be present. The brides are daugh-
tiers of l.. Il. Yeomans, whose wife is the eX-
Presidents sister.
Mr.. VIM. Ii. Rodgers, proprietor Of the
Mountain House on the Staunton and Parkers-
burg turnpike, was in Monterey, Highland
| last week for the first time since 1885, when he
drove stage from Staunton there for Mr.
| Irotter.
The last new gown Of the honest, but vul.
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of sky-blue satin and canary colored nous
seine, the train being of yellow satin en-
broidered with pink roses and iewels-a blaze
of diamonds and turquoises.
Mrs. Estelle Austin, aged forty-fye, Bar
num's "Strong Woman died in Worcester
Mass, last week. Her great feat was hold
ing a 400 pound cannon on her neck and firing
it in that position. Her husband. ''the mar
with the iron jaw died many years ago.
The Board Of Visitors of the Blacksbure
College has declared all the chairs in the
college vacant after September next 1t has
determined on an entire reorganization OF
the faculty under the newly elected President
DR.. Dabney, for the next session.
A Chicago barber charged Scotch immi
grant $3.50 for a shave and a haircut. TIT
man told policeman, who succeeded in get
ting back 1920, leaving the barber s1.3O TO
his services.
J. Pierpont Morgan is supposed to be til,
man who recently subscribed 100000 for ex
tending the work of St. Georges z. E. churcl
CDR. Rainsford 81 among the downtown poo
Of New York
The geographical centre of population il
the United States is now ten miles South o
Greensburg, Ind. Seventy years ago, in 1920
: it was sixteen miles North of Woodstock
; Shenandoah county, Va.
Among the magistrates elected in Fairfa
Co., Va, last week, was Col. John Powell
nearly ninety years old. He was magistrat
in that county siXty-two years ago under til
Virginia constitution of 1929.
Charles 3. Rouss Of New York, has give
81 800 to have Mt. Hebron Cemetery at Win
chester, Va, which includes the Soldier
Cemetery, fenced in with iron.
In the spring of 1890 Mr.. A. K. Grim O
Page Co., Va, had one eve, and now, in les
5 than IL months he has 10 head Of sheep, tn
product of this one.