Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1895-08-02
THE NEWS OF THE DAY.

Philip Norman Nicholas, a white man, was
hung in Richmond last Thursday for drown
ing James Mills and VIM. JudSon Wilkeson,
in James River, in December. 1892. He had
established improper relations with Mills
wife, in whose house he lived, and determined
to get rid of him. He bored four holes in the
bottom of the boat, stopped them with corn
cobs, invited the two men to cross the river
with him, and in the middle of it pulled the
cobs out. The boat filled at once and neither
Mills or WilkeSon being able to swim they
were drowned. Nicholas selected the Catholic
faith to die in, and the morning of the execus
ton the Bishop administered the communion.
He showed no fear, but made no confession
on the scaffold
Rev Theron H. Rice of Alexandria, who
has declined calls to Baltimore, Nashville.
Macon, Ca. Norfolk, Lynchburg and Pitts
burg, Pa, and has now been called by the
Lexington, Va, Presbyterian church, preach
ed last Sunday in the First Presbyterian
church Of Lynchburg. on invitation OF COM
mittee of that congregation. In addition to
his pastoral destinations he has declined a
professorship in the Union Theological Sem
mary and the Chaplaincy Of the University
of Virginia.
Rev. j. B. Hawthorne Of Atlanta, Ca,
preached a sermon recently against women
bicycling. He declared that personal
devil' was responsible for the desire on the
part of women to disport themselves on bicy'
cles. This personal devil, he said, got in his
work at Boston, when the Christian Endeav.
orerS had bicycle parade. and that "lf some
thing is not done to stop this Satanic conta
gion, the world will soon not be worth the
saving
Prof. D. 3. Williams. eol0red, native OF
Richmond. and for the last ten years professor
of Greek and Latin at the Virginia Normal
and Collegiate Institute at Petersburg, died
at the Home for the Sick there on Saturday,
just after being etherized for an operation fol
intussusception of the bowels. The opera
ton had not been begun. Plof. Williams
was the President of the Colored Virginia
Teachers Association.
A gray-haired old negro got off the e. d .
train at Columbia, Fluvanna, Friday, and
asked for the home of the cOlored minister
Rev. Benton Langhorne. When he got there
there was great rejoicing, for it was George
Langhorne, the minister's father, who had
gone off from Fluvanna with the Federal
troops in 1865 and had been living in Penn
sylyania and Delaware ever since. He will
now live with his son.
This is your little sister. Tommy, said the
father, showing him the baby ''you will love
her dearly, Will you not?' Yves, OF
course" replied Tommy, inspecting the --latest
arrival "but it'll cost great deal to keep
her, won't t?'' 81 presume So" "l es: said
Tommy, with long drawn breath "and
when l asked you the other day to buy me a
VIII tie rabbit you said you couldn't afford it.
Baltimore News.
Le7i Samuel Miller of Shenandoah county
who lost his wife year ago, went to the
ce netery of ST. Jacobs church on July 2Oth
a I'D fixed up her grave. As he was returning
by Henry Moormans farm he was called In
to help where steam thresher was at work.
The boiler exploded killing him instantly
and he was buried next day by the side OF
his wife.
Sunday School Teacher (to little girD-
''Do you say your prayers every night before
going to bed ?'' Little Girl promptly
''No, ma'am." Sunday School Teacher
"Are you not afraid to 60 to sleep without
asking God to watch over you during the
darkness ?" Little Girl-"No, ma'am; I'm