Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1894-02-09
THE NEWS OF THE DAY.

At Gate City, Ia, six miles from Brming-
ham, the roof of the Congregational church,
in which the Christian Endeavor Society was
holding its meeting, was lifted by the wind
and dropped on the audience. Mrs. r. II.
Preherd, wife Of the General Manager of the
Alabama Rolling Company, and Thomas
Williams, were killed, and Rev. W. R. Fast,
the PASTOR e. S. Drumheller and 30 others
seriously injured.
Maj. S. S. Turner of Warren county, thenew
congressman from the 7th Virginia district,
left the Virginia Military Institute at the age
OF IS to join the 18th Virginia, and was with
it till Appomattox. After the surrender he
tried to join Gen. Jos. e. Johnston in North
Carolina, but was blown up by powder eX-
plosion in a Car, the marks of which he car
ries to this day
Rev. Dr. John &. Newton, just elected AS
sistant p. e. Bishop of the Virginia diocese,
is native of Westmoreland county, Va, IS
years of age. He was surgeon in A. p
Hill's corps, and afterthe war practiced med
lcine some time before studying for the min
istry. His first rectorship was at Tappahan-
mock.
week. work horses brought from $3.50 to S2G
apiece. Colts from months to 3 years old
sold correspondingly low, at prices ranging
from S13 to $40. These animals were sold by
the farmers, who, owing to a scarcity OF pro-
vender and uncertainty of farm labor, are
forced to reduce their stock before winter
Miss Mary Powell of Pemberton, N. j.,
was to have been married last Friday night
to Mr.. Horace e. French Of New York city.
An hour before the ceremony he told her he
had confession to make-that he was wild
over with four children. Miss Powell at
once refused to marry him and declared the
wedding off.
VIM. Smith died lately at his home near
Warm Springs, Bath Co.. Va, in his SD year
He had never been fifty miles from home in
his life, and never had never seen a railroad
train till the g. & o. branch to the Hot Springs
was built. The Oldest citizen OF Bath county
left is Col. A. &. McGuffin near Warm
Springs. who is in his Dist year.
The Bedford Co., Va, Board of Supervisors
find working State conyicts Oh the county
roads 50 economical that they are petitioning
for more. They estimate that it costs the
county just - cents day for convict labor.
They have a portable prison which is taken
down, loaded up Oil wagons and carried to
where the conyicts are at work
Queen Victoria is in possession of curious
needle. 1t was made at the celebrated needle
manufactory at Redditch, and represents the
Traian Column in miniature Scenes from
the Queens life are depicted on the needle,
so finely cut that they are only discernible
through a microscope.
Robert Beard, a Bedford county farmer
died of heart disease last week, aged sixty
eight years. He was feet i inches tall and
weighed 800 pounds. The coffin was feet
long, 29-inches wide and % inches deep,
The bar of Campbell Co., Va, Il few days
since, met and adopted resolutions Of regret
at the death of Stafford Spraggins, colored,
for twenty years the janitor OF Campbell
G. Ii.
-Four hundred prominent citizens Of Roa-
noke having signed petition for the pardon
of James b. Richardson, one of the Roanoke
rioters, sentenced to year in Jail. Gov.
O'Ferrall has pardoned him.
Mrs e. L. Taliaferro for some years Prn-
ciDal of Montgomery Female College at
Christiansburg, Va, has been elected Princ-
pal of the North Mississippi Presbyterian
College at Hoiley Springs, Miss.
The Charlottesville Progress says that pa
pers in the possession of Mr. j. NJ. White of
North Garden, Albemarle, prove that Mary
Shelton, colored, who recently died in that
county, was one hundred and fifteen years old!
Lewis. Il. Blair, whose Will is being con
tested in New York, was formerly proprietor
OF the Astor House barber shop, where he
amassed a fortune. lie left real estate worth
S250O00.
At the close of the Fife meetings at Charles
Town, W. Va, purse of $500 was raised for
him and his two assistants, Messrs. McKes-
son and Ramsey.
1t is stated that l76 fashionable families in
New York have gone abroad to avoid costly
entertaining at home during the present social
season.
All the people at Buena Vista are employ
ed, and so far this winter the town has not
had single appeal for aid. Very few towns
in the United States can say that much.
Rev. K. L. King, pastor of the African NJ.
E. Church at Farmylle, Va, has bolted
leaving wife, child, and $500 of debts be-
hind him.
Simon Wolf of Washington, is compiling a
'roll of honor" which will contain the names