Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1894-04-06

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JURISDICTION OF A TRIAL COURT.
During the trial of criminal case :
summons, rule OIL attachment may he is
sued by the trial court for witness in an
other county and be executed insuch Other
county by the officers of the county OF the
trial court.
COUNTRY POST-NIASTERS AS NOTARIES.
Fourth class postmasters are permitted
to act as notaries. Heretofore they could
not do SO.
Deaths.
Mr.. John Booker, the father of Rev. j.
E. Booker of Hebron, and father-in- law of
Rev. DR.. G. W. Finley of Thinking Spring,
died Oh Wednesday last at the home of his
son-in-Iaw. Judge r. W. Daley, at Romney.
w. Va. aged SIS. MI. Booker was for many
years one of the most prominent merchants
of Richmond. Rev. J. r. Booker left for
Romney on Wednesday,, Dr.. Finley was
unable to 60 on account Of the illness of
his wife.
MI. Timothy Hounihan died at his home
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aged about 20 years. He was born in
county Limerick, Ireland, and came to
Staunton in 1914. He leaves four SONS
Messrs. Michael, James, Thomas and VIM.
Hounihan, and four daughters.
Mrs. Maria Gardner, wife of Rev. DR..
James S. Gardner, Presiding Elder of
Rockingham District of Baltimore M. E.
Conference, South, died at the district par
sonage here on Sunday afternoon, in hel
18th year. Her husband. who was attend
ing Conference at Fredericksburg, had
been telegraphed for Oh Saturday and was
present at her bedside. Mrs. Gardner was
Miss Maria DIcNeal of Wilmington, Del,
and after spending her youth in Baltimore,
first husband, Mr.. Benoni Wheat, and also
her second husband, DR.. Gardner. By he1
first marriage she leayes four children, Rev.
Quincy A. Wheat of Strasburg, MI. Cas-
sius Wheat OF Staunton, Mrs. Annie
Frazer, late of Staunton and now Of Wash
ington city, and a son who resides in Tex
as. Her remains were taken to AleXan-
dria on Monday, where after funeral SER
vices at the residence of her niece, Mrs. G.
c. Smoot, they were interrel. On the re-
/ ception of a telegram announcing Mrs.
Gardeners death, the Conference passed
resolutions of sympathy with the bereaved
husband, and Rev. Drs. J. III. Boyd and L.
e. Carson were appointed to conduct the
funeral services in Alexandria.
Mrs. Elizabeth Dull, wife of David Dull
died at her home near Arbor Hill on We'd
nesday night of last week, after a long ILL
ness, in her Goth year. She leaves a hus-
man, and three sisters-Mrs. James Far
row of Salem, Roanoke, Mrs. Jacob Bailey
Of Augusta, and Miss Mary Zimmerman
of Augusta. The interment took place last
Friday at Mt. Tabor, of which church she
had been a member for many years.
Mrs. Sallie Opie. daughter Of the late
Col. Michael &. Hartman Of this city, and
wife of DR.. Thomas Opie, Dean of the Fac
ulty of the College of Physicians and Sur
geons, Baltimore, died at her home in that
city on Friday last. Three daughters and
two sons survive her. Her funeral took
place on Monday from Grace Protestant
Episcopal church, of which she was mem
ber. Her brother, Capt. Lewis Hartman OF
this city, went to Baltimore to attend it.
The interment took place at Loudon Park
cemetery.
Miss Mamie Repass, daughter of Rev
S. A. Repass. who was for a time pastor OIL
the Lutheran church here, died on the 90
ult., at Allentown, Pa, in her sixteenth
year. DR.. Repass is now residing at Allen.
town.
The funeral Of the late Geo. W. Hutch.
inson, who died here at the home of his
son, MI. Henry Hutchinson, took place at
Union, Monroe county, W. Va, on Sunday
the 25th ult. The remains were accompa
MED there by Messrs. Arista Hoge, Sam
P ilson and MI. Porter, and all his children
except Nj. Henry Hutchinson. who was
too ill to go. The funeral services took
place in the Presbyterian church there OF
which he had been a member for fifty years
The Union Waterman says:
The church was filed to overlooking by hi
old neghbors and friends, who remember
but to love and revere him. Services were
conducted and most appropriate and i'm
pressive sermon delivered by Rev. DR.. M. L
Lacy, after which the interment took place il
the cemetery which overlooks our little town
Mr.. Hutchinson was 70 years Of age at thu
| time of his death. He was Clerk of the Cir
cult and County Courts of Monroe county fo
% years prior to 1865, when he went out O.
Office. When first elected he succeeded lsaa,
Hutchinson, his father, who had himself
served as clerk for 81 years. No man in thi:
| county ever had more friends or more trul,
merited their affection. No man ever NOR,
fully and fairly met all the responsibilities:
of life; and the sheaf of ripened wheat placed
upon his casket, the beautiful symbol OF {
beautiful life filled out with usefulness ant
good works, was never more appropriately
used nor more justly deserved.