Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1891-08-28
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A noted company from the Shenandoah Val
ley has in the Court house square at Berry
vile a large monument erected by the sur
vivors to their dead comrades. On one side
are inscribed the names of all those who fell
in battle, and each year as living one passes
away his name is carved in the stone and the
date of his death. Each year this company
meets at the residence of some survivor. The
roll is called and some one answers for each
departed comrade, telling where slain OF from
what cause he died, and this will be kept up
yearly as long as one man remains to answer
the call.
Owen Clarke, merchant, aged sixty-fve,
of Cleveland, Ohio, drew up his will. Later
in the day he sent for an undertaken and had
a bill for a respectable funeral drawn up.
His will conveyed his entire estate, valued at
$40 900, to the widow Murphy. The next
morning he went with the widow to the church
of the Immaculate Conception to be married.
AS the priest began the ceremony, Mr.. Clarke
fell forward in an apoplectic fit and died in a
few moments in the arms of the intended
bride 1t has been learned since his death
that he had promised his first wife on her
death bed that he would never marry again.
! The residents Of Dover, Del, living near the
| jail, had to go to friends houses more distant
and spend the night Thursday. James Thor
oughgood an inmate of The Jail. was to be
hung Friday morning. AS the sun set Thurs
day he commenced Shrieking: Il shall never
see another sun set,' SO as to be heard blocks
away. He screamed until the moon rose, and
changed to CPL never see the bright moon
again." His cries lasted all night, and as the
town got stiller towards midnight could be
heard all over it. He was executed Friday
afternoon.
| Mrs. James Brown Potter, who has been in
Yokohoma, Japan. writes home that she met
just outside of that city Harold Dulaney a
young Virginian, who has become Buddhist
priest. lives at the temple, wears japanese
garb, and had his head shaved and was bare
footed.
The biggest doctors fee of the age is the
100000 marks $500, 0O0) paid iby Herr Won
Bonner. Hamburg merchant, for DR.. Mich
elsen's cure of his wife. The money wasn't
given to the famous Wiesbaden practitioner,
however, but, at his WISH to found hospital
in Hamburg.
| A Missouri farmer filled out the census
blank requiring the cause of his farm mort
gage, with the simple statement: "Mortgaged
to buy negroes" Before the war he had
placed an incumbrance on his farm in order
to add to his stock OF negroes. He has never
been able to lift it.
Dr. James Woodrowe whose advanced views
on evolution got him in trouble with the
Southern Presbyterian General Assembly, has
been elected President of the South Carolina
College at Columbia, in place Of Dr.. j. Nc
Bryde who has taken the Presidency of the
| Virginia Blacksburg College.
| Rev. Edward Beecher's adopted daughter
received at her baptism the name of Voice
Adams. She was one of a family Of fifteen
children; whom her father, great grandson
of John Quincy Adams, supported by lectur-
ing on 1.-The Voice of Nature
Sir Augustus Harris is now the title of the
manager of the Old Drury theatre in London,
Queen Victoria having made it SO. He is the
only actor in England that is knighted.
Fitz Lee of Va, will be in command at the
sham battle at the Atlanta. Ga, exhibition,
Oct. 2Sth.
Rev. John G. Dinwiddie has resigned the
pastorate of the Leesburg, Va, Presbyterian
church, to accept that at High Point, N. &.