Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1892-07-08
aid the young groom 81 200 to marry her

paid the young groom 81, 800 to marry her.
Andrew Fergus, formerly slave of DR..
Andrew Todd Of Paris, KY, has bought
house for 50, $50 and ted it to the Pres
byterian church in Louisville of which he is
a MEMBER.
The neighborhood of the Rawley Springs,
Rockingham, is furnishing some fine noun
tain trout fishing this season. Il NJ. Newman
of IIarrisonburg and two friends, caught four
hundred and seyenty-eight there in one day
The town council of Buena Vista has, in the
interest of retrenchment, abolished the Offices
of city attorney and council clerk, reduced the
salary of the Mayor to $12O and reduced the
police force by two men.
DR.. ]. J. Lafferty has bought the Powell
mill property near Crozet and expects to pub
fish the Christian Advocate there after Janu-
airy 1st, 1894, at which time his lease in Rich
mond expires.
Lightning struck the steeple of the new,
Lutheran church at Woodstock, Va, on
Thursday, badly wrecking it, throwing some
of the corner posts across the street, and send
ing some of the debris a hundred yards away.
Rev. J. S. Gibson. rector of Trinity church,
Fredericksburg, has resigned to accept the
rectorship of the church at Huntington, w.
Va.
+ The Supreme Court of Appeals of West vir-
ginia has refused the application for an IN
innction to restrain the removal of the county
seat of Pocahontas to Marlinton.
J. T.. Bradshaw and others of Mcdowell,
Highland, have bought the distillery and
land near there for $1,000, and will put the
property to other uses.
She (still blushing)-"A the first girl you
ever kissed?" He-"No, darling; but you ale
the last" She-"Am really? Oh, George.
it makes me so happy to think that, Life.
Mr.. Robert Whitehead who declined re-
election as Commonwealth Attorney Of
Nelson county, last year, had held the office
for thirty-seven years.
Judge Roger a. Pryor has taken the Corco-
ran cottage at the White sulphur Springs for
his family, and Mrs. Pryor and Miss Pryor
are already located there.
In Virginia there are s24,27s males and
S31 7O2 females; 1851. 6O6 native born and
1884 foreign born; 1920, 1913 white and 635, s5s
cOlOred.
For fitty-fve years Miss Hannah Fairchild,
OF Westport, Conn.,, has been member of the
church, and has not missed a service in that
period. She is in her seventy-eighth year.
Bishop Lot Smith, one of the four DE
stroyng Angels of the old Mormon church,
was killed by an Indian near Flagstaff, Ari-
IONA, last week.
A wagner named Buzzard, from Greenbri-
Ell River, was instantly killed in sight Of
Millboro Springs Thursday, by his wagon VI :
setting.
Mrs. P. 7. Barnum, widow of the show
man, is annoyed by a Bridgeport crank, who
thinks that she wants to marry him.
The V. M. 1. Board of Visitors have deter
mined that the corps of cadets shall attend
the Worlds Fair at Chicago in 1893.
William e. Ferguson, brother Of S. Dupuy
Ferguson, banker, of Roanoke, died We'd
nesday from drinking too much ice water.
Architect Allen who built the Democratic
wigwam at Chicago. cleared $24, 200 ON the
job.
Mrs. Kate Fox Jencken. the youngest of the
celebrated Fox sisters who originated esprit
rapping," died in Brooklyn, n Y, Saturday.
There was one colored delegate in the Ma
tional Democratic Convention. His name
was Mack and he was from Ohio.
The Strasburg Shenandoah, Virginian
thinks the wheat yield of the Valley this har
vest will be the greatest for twenty years.
Rev. ]. Cleveland Hall of Fairfax, has &C
cepted call to the Episcopal church at Roa
noke.
The "Lowman House. and ten acres in
Rockbridge has been sold by r. Z. Dunlap
to z. NJ. Engleman for $4,000.
A beaver killed last week at the forks Of
Buffalo and Collierstown creek in Rock bridge,
was the first seen there since 1885.
Once every eight years all locks on the
United States mail bags are changed to insure
safety.
Madison county, Va. completed a substan-
tial new Jail in April, 1891, and it was with
out an occupant for eleven months.
The Lexington Baptist church has called
Rev. b. II. Dement, OF Buena Vista.
st. Paul is the first city to make no distinc-
ton in the wages of male and female teachers.
Ducks fly at an average rate of ninety miles
per hour.