Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1894-05-23
JeffersOn's Hospitality to the Students

Mr.. Burwell Stark, of COrder, Mo-,
aged So years on the 27th of this month,
who was the first student to matricu-
late, on March 18th, 1925, as II student
of the University of Va, is the author
of the first article in the first, the May,
number of the Alumni Bulletin of the
University of Virginia, giving his remi-
niscences, in which he says
while at the University remember
that it was my good fortune and great
pleasure to dine several times with ex-
President Jefferson. 1t was his custom
to invite to dinner about a dozen pu-
pills at one time, till all had visited him
two or three times. His hospitality
and sociability made us free in his com
pany and endeared him to all our
hearts AS an instance of the high esti-
nation in which the students held him.
when they saw that he would pass on
a certain side of our grounds they
would often go out of their way in Or
der to receive his recognition and most
courteous how. The day on which he
died | was away from the city on some
holiday excursion"
Mr.. Stark's roommate was the Hon
Robert E. Scott, of Fauq uier (the faith
err of Attorney General r. Taylor
Scott, of whom he says: He was a
studious and brilliant pupil. and fire
quently he very kindly assisted me with
my studies" A case, says the Rich
mOnd Times, in which the boy was
father to the man. 1t will be remeln-
bered that Mr.. Scott had his distin
guished career brought to violent
end by some Yankee marauders in 1862
The jury in the case of Dr. Henry
Meyer, who is accused of having poi
soned Ludwig Brandt, came into court
in New York Friday morning and
rendered a verdict of guilty of murder
in the second degree. Meyer had
previously been convicted of murder
in the first degree and sentenced to be
electrocuted.
Severe hail storms did much damage
in various parts of Michigan Thursday.
Houses were wrecked, bridges carried
away, wires Frustrated and travel in
terrupted.
The body of a man with bullet
hole over his heart was stumbled over
by the brakeman on top of box car
of Union Pacific train near Missouri
Valley, Neb., Thursday. Two men had
been heard quarreling over the posses
sion of hat, and a shot was fired when
one of the men jumped from the train
and escaped.
A Roanoke despatch of May 10th says
that the residence of Rev. w. F. Locke,
the new pastor of St. James's Metho-
dist Episcopal Church South, was bur
glarlzed while he was preaching and
three gold watches, two diamond rings
and small amount of money taken.
In the Senate Thursday Mr.. Faux
ner, from the committee on Terri ories,
reported the bill providing for tie ad-
mission of Utah into the Union.
President Cleveland, on the United
States tender Violet, was at Morehead
City, N. c., Thursday. He had fine
success in trolling.
Congressman Tucker has had Mrs.
O'Tool, of Staunton promoted from a
5000 to 81, 400 clerkship in the Trea-
sury Department
An epidemic of smallpox is raging at
Mazatlan, Mexico. The disease has al
ready caused many deaths. There is
an outbreak of smallpox reported in
nearly all the towns and cities along
the Mexican coast.
The methods of obstruction employ
ed by republican Senators from New
England against the tariff bill have, it
is believed, improved the prospects of
the measure by uniting the democrats
in opposition to their tilibusterng tao
tics.
A paper was circulated among demo-
cratic Senators for their signatures,
pledging themselves to remain in the
Senate during the session.
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OUR NEXT CoNGREssMAN.-W
will be the next representative in Con-
gress from the Tenth district of Vir-
ginia The ReUieoO fails to see any good
reason why the Hon. Harry st. George
Tucker should not be his own successor.
He has during both his terms been 80
clear in his great office" that We think
very few of the Intelligent voters of
the district desire to have him changed
for any other candidate. The people
will not forget that to Mr.. tucker we
owe it, perhaps more than to any
other one man, that the odious Elec-
ton laws were wiped from our national
statute books: and the electors of the
Tenth district can in no way SO we'll
testify to their appreciation for the
noble work he has done for the tire
South as to return him for the third
time to the halls of Congress. Clifton
Forge RepieW, May 18th.