Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1892-05-13
THE NEWS OF THE DAY


THE NEWS OF THE DAY,
A unique scene was enacted at tine Southern
Baptist Convention at Atlanta, Ca, on Sat
urday. 1t was announced that there were
present in the Convention six brethren who
had been present in Augusta forty -seven years
ago, when the Southern Baptist Convention
had been organized. They were DR.. S. g.
Hillyer. of Atlanta; DR.. W. IL. Roberts, OF
Mississippi DR.. A. W. Mahoney, Of South
Carolina; DR.. E. M. Erwin, DR.. L. P Smith,
of South Carolina, and DR.. j. T. S. Park.
Weak and tremulous and white haired old
men nearly all of them were, and as they
stood up, hand-in-hand before the Convention,
by the side of the president, the audience, led
by strong-lunged preacher, arose as one
man and sung that old-time hymn, How firm
a foundation We saints of the Lord
A fragment of the arm of st. Anne the
mother OF the Virgin Mary, piece from near
the wrist, is on exhibition at the French Ro-
man Catholic church of St. Jean Baptiste.
1t is.on its way, in charge of Rt Rev Mgr.
Marquis, to the church of st. Anne of Beaupre
in Canada. Its identity is fully certified by
the Abbot Of the Monastery at Rome from
which it came. and as to its genuineness his
tory tells that while the great st. Bridget
was generating the arm at Rome on her pill
grimage in 1873, st. Anne appeared to her in
vision and assured her that the arm was her
own. 1t was on written request of Pope
Leo himself that the Benedictine Monks con-
scented to send the piece of the arm to the
Canadian church.
Henry Houston, aged sixty, special taker
of the industrial census in Philadelphia, has
been arrested on the charge of fraudulent
performance ofalis duties, 1t seems that he
just took the city directory and prepared re-
turns wholly imaginary. In one case he put
down a man as a carpenter and builder,
doing business of $4,000 year. 1t turned
out that the man was foreman in dye works
and had never been carpenter. H put down
another name as carpenter and builder, doing
100000 OF business year. When the address
was investigated by the Washington authori-
ties it was found the man had been dead three
years, and in life had been a college profess
sor and not carpenter.
DR.. w. E. Evans pastor of CRANKY Street
Methodist church, Norfolk, who surprised his
Board of Stewards with a letter announcing
his resignation, and determination to enter
the Protestant Episcopal church, was quite
prominent in the Virginia Conference of the
NJ. E. Church, South, and had held some i'm
portant charges in large cities. When he was
in Richmond, says the State, he was the neat
est dressed member Of the clergy. His salary
in Norfolk was S2,4Oo.
A year and half ago the Harrisburg
'.CalI' iptimated in the midst of a campaign
that Gov. Pattison,had withheld veto dur
ing his former term, for consideration. The
Governor at once brought a criminal libel
suit against the editors. Last week, after Sc
curing frequent postponements of the case, the
two editors plead guilty and disclaimed be-
lief in the charges they had published. Judge
Thayer fixed three weeks hence as the day to
sentence them.
The system of refusing liquor licenses at
villages where there cannot be any effective
police supervision, is gaining ground in Vir-
ginia. In the last few weeks Goshen and
Iron Gate on the Chesapeake g. Ohio Ry., and
Burkville and Pamplins on the Norfolk &
Western Ry., have been made dry by the
court refusing license. At Burkville, which
is in Nottoway county, there had been bar
room for thirty five years.
DR.. Woodson Toler Merchant, young col
ored physician. born in Lynchburg, but prac-
ticing at Eagle, W. Va, wrote to the New
York Post Graduate Medical School to enter
there, without saying he was colored. He
was welcomed by letter, but when he arrived
and his color was seen the faculty declined
taking him. They said it was simply impos-
sible as the white students would leave if they
did,
For several months the five sons of Joseph
Brumback OF Shenandoah have been taken III
of typhoid fever, one after the other, and two
weeks ago as the last boy began to recover,
the mother worn out with nursing, was pros.
trated by the salne fsFsr. When to crown all
this misfortune Mr.. Brumback was kicked in
stomach by horse on Tuesday, and was car
ried home and died in forty EIGHT hours.
A popular singer at the opera house at Mon.
Gala, Italy, in La Trayiata and Linda, is
Miss Julia Taliaferro Of Louisa county, Va,
and who went to school at Louisa e. H.,
where she was noted as fearless rider The
family moved to Omaha, after the death of its
head, Nathan c. Taliaferro, where Miss Ia.
liaferro studied music and later went to Italy
A drunken man who boarded the G. & O.
passenger train at Hawks Nest and drew q
revolver OIL the conductor, was taken off at
Charleston Station, and while the train wait.
ed, seven minutes, magistrate heard the
witnesses, nine in number, find the accused
$50, and committed him to jail in default of
payment.
Ex-Congressman Gaines living near Burk.
vile, the junction of the Richmond & Dan
Vile and Norfolk & Western roads, has a
goose chat rises to the railroad trains and
flies along side Of them as far az tie Junction
and then returns, 1t screams loudly as it