The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1893-12-21
Personal Notes.

DioHop HdySOOu, Oh the MetIlOuiSt
Episcopal Church, South, has refused
to continue Sam Jones as regular
preacher on the ground that evangelism
has no place in the Methodist polity.
Father Kenelm Vaughan, of England
a catholic priest who spent three years
in a missionary Journey through South
America from Panama to Patagonia, adj
dressed the students of John Hopkins
University the other day ON the subject
of his adventures.
Judge Alexander White died yester-
day at Dallas, Texas, aged seventy three
years. He was native of Franklin,
Tenn, but spent his ,maturer years at
Talladega and Salem Ala, each of
which districts he represented in Con-
gress before and after the war. In 1874
President Grant appointed Judge White
to fill an enexpired term as Chief Jus.
tice of the Territory of Utah.
james G. Mix, Manager of the Man
haitian Department. of the New York
Life Insurance Company who died re-
Gently in the Bahamas, was born in
Hartford, Conn, sixty-seven years ago.
He had been in the insurance business
about forty years, and did much to bring
several companies to prominnce.
j. Stanley Turner, who died yester-
day in Rockland, Mass, was born in
bingham in 1871. He was the inventor
of the pricking and sole trimming ma
chine which revolutioned the manner of
making hand-sewed shoes. He also
invented method of sawing last blocks,
so that shoes could be sewed and stitch>
ed with straight or crooked awl with
out taking the lasts out of the shoes.
Congressman James J. Belden has
withdrawn the offer to present public
library building to the city of Syracuse,
which he made in May, 1891 nothing
having been done to indicate that his
proposition or its terms, were really ac-
to the Council or the city. He
says that he hopes for better success in
other and later efforts in behalf of Syr.
asuse.
Chief Officer bingham, of the steamer
Montana of Baltimore. recently received
a present from the German Emperor, a
a pair Of binocular glasses in an ebony
box, silver mounted. A German in>
scription states that the gift is in recog-
milton Of the assistance Mr.. Kinghan
Fortuna last year Mr.. Kinghan, with a
boats crew rescued the Fortuna's crew.
The City Council of Atlanta, Ga, has
elected Ex-Governor Joseph Brown
member of the city Roard of Education
pear upon the roll as long as he lives.
He is in i'll health and unable to take
active part in the management of the
schools, but it was due to his efforts
mainly that the public school system
was established in the city, and his cleo
ton is in grateful acknowledgements of
that fact.
Mrs Georgia Anne Porter, widow of
Admiral Porter, died yesterday in Wash>
ington. MRS. Porter was seventy-
four years of age, and had been i'll for a
long time with catarrh of the stomach.
She will be buried beside the body of
her husband in Arlington on Friday.
Mrs. Porter leaves four sons and two
Major Essex Porter, late of
the army; Captain Carlisle P Porter, of
the Marine Corps; Lietenant Theodorick
s. Porter, of the Navy; Richard Porter,
Mrs. L. G. Logan, the wife of Lieuten-
Logan, and Mrs. G. II
Campbell Mrs. Porter was born in New
Orleans. She was the daughter OF Com
modore Patterson who assisted Andrew
Jackson in the defence of New Orleans
and the sister of Admiral Patterson and
Captain Patterson, of the the the Coast
Survey. On March II, 1859, she was
married to Admiral Porter at the Wash
ington Navy Yard.
Thomas H. Hassett, one of the Irisf
patriots who was sent in penal servitude
for life for DESERVING from the English
army in Dublin during the attempted
revolution in Ireland in 1865, died il
New York yesterday. He was born il
Cork fifty years ago. The story of hi
esting one. The rescue was planned BY
Ihe Irish revolutionary party in New
York, and $4,000 was raised for tht
purpose. John Boyle O'Reilly hat
already escaped from the penal prison a
Freemantle and he furnished the infor
nation upon which the plans were laid
The rescue party concluded to operate
from the sea, and bought and fitted on
the whaling bark Catalpa. She lef
New York in 1874. Communication wa
opened with the prisoners though IRISH
men who were employed as warders il
the prison. The4men whom it was fount
possible to rescue were Hassett, Colo
Sergeant Darrow, Robert Cranston
Michael Harrington, and Martin Hogan
They were all good conduct prisoners
and had earned certain amount of lib
erty. On the morning upon which
had been agreed to meet them eacl
made an excuse for not going to his reg
ular work, and they met about mil
from the prison. There Brennan ant
Captain Anthony, of the Catalpa, wer
in waiting with horses. They rod
twenty-eight miles to the coast a
Rockingham beach, chased by tn
prison police, found their ships boa
on the beach, and were not more tina
$50 yards out at sea before the polio
reached the shore they had just left
The Catalpa, as had been arranged wa
kept out Of sight of land. They did no
gain her until the following day, an
shortly afterwards she was stopped by
shot from British man-of-war, who's
Captain declared she had fugitive col
yicts on board, and demanded their su
render. Captain Anthony denie
this, and defed the British to VII
late the protection of the Stars an
Stripes. The warship let them go.
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