Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1895-11-29

prices At which they were sold have been
rather high, most sales being made at from
three to four cents.
Through gift of $1,000 Jointly made
by Mr.. w. w. Spence, of Baltimore, and
MI. George w. Watts, of Durham, N. G.,
and through other donations, making to-
tai of $l25.00O, the removal of Union
Theological Seminary from Hampden-Sid-
ney, Va, to Richmond is made practica-
BILE.
At meeting of Paradise Lodge. Order
OF Benai Berth in Richmond, Monday
night, Rev. DIR. E. N. Calisch made an
eloquent address in behalf of the Universe.
ty of Virginia, dwelling especially on the
appreciation and gratitude felt by the Jews
Thomas Jefferson. The lodge subscribed
$50 as nucleus of a fund to be raised by
Jews.
Some time a Capt. McGowen of Nor
folk was drowned between Old Point and
Cape Charles. His body was recovered,
but his false teeth We're missing. On Tues
lay of last week Capt. Brown of the smack
Oracle caught blue fish OIL Cape Henry.
in which were two of Capt. McGowen' +
teeth. which were easily identified.
Miss Clara Campbell of Ironton, Ohio,
who Won from Charles Arbuckle of New
York ("Bunny'1 the largest verdict,
$45, 600, ever given in breach of promise
suit. died last week. She left 100000 to
the Woman's Home Missionary Society of
the M. E. Church, and the International
Missionary Alliance.
Lewis Johnson, colored "a ''voOdOO" doctor,
is to lie tried at the next term of the Cir
cult court OF Montgomery Co., Va, for
getting all the property of Emma Pollard,
a colored widow, while treating her for
being ''conjured, j" and for also assaulting
her.
A woman waiter in boomers in Mas
sau street restaurant, New York, Satur-
day, kept the house crowded with custom
ers, but so large curious crowd In the
street that the police had to keep order.
The proprietor eventually had to discon-
tinue it.
Rev. r. Toombs Dubose, grandson OF
the famous Robert Toombs of Georgia. took
complete Keno set into the pulpit Of his
church at Jacksonville, Fla, Sunday night,
and after explaining the game denounced
the city officials, who he said, were inter
ested in carrying it on.
The difficulty between Rev. VIM. n.
Cleveland (brother Of the President) and
The Presbyterian church at Chaumont, N.
Y, has been adjusted, the pastor having
expressed regrets at any unkind utterances
he may have dropped concerning certain
factions in his church.
| At arevival in the colored Methodist
church at Elkhorn, w. Va. Thursday
night, Silas Jolly, while under religious
excitement. ran up the aisle and upset the
stove. The dresses of several women tool
fire, and one woman was fatally burned.
Capt. W. S. Lurty former U. S. District
Attorney for this district Of Virginia, an(
later candidate for Attorney General OF
the State Republican ticket in 1889, ]ef
Harrisonburg last week to make his hom'
in Washington where be will practice law
Last week train of eighty-three Pull
man sleepers, in from twelve to sixteen sec
tons passed through Charlottesville for At
lanta, from New ork to attend the cere
monies of New York day at the Atlant;
| Exposition.
In Gloucester Co., Va, there are sixteel
acres thick with water melons. many still
sound. They were raised for the New
York market last summer, but the price
we're so low the planter could not shi]
them.
Mrs. Lewis c. Dey of Norfolk, who ha(
gone to Richmond to attend the Virgini;
Methodist Conference. was paralyzet
Thursday night while on her way to churcl
and died on Friday.
Gov. Greenhalge of Mass, Gov. Hast
ings of Pa. Gov. Altgeld of ILL.,, Gov. Lip
pitt of Rhode Island, and Governor-elec
Bradley OF KY. were all at The Atlant
Exposition on the same day last week.
1t was through his boyhood' s friend, Rev
7. M. Carson of Lynchburg, who personal
ly visited him in New FORK. that Charlie
Broadway Rouse made the conditional gift
of 1875, 900 to the University of Virginia.
DR.. J. s. Irwin, clerk of the Shenandoah
Co., Va, circuit court for six years. up tt
1871, died Saturday, aged IS years. He ha
been surgeon in the Union army durin
the war.
The report of MI. Joseph S. Miller, Q
West Virginia, commissioner of interns
revenue, just made public, states tina
the receipts for the fiscal year had falle
below his estimates 1927, 1853 900.
The Valley Virginian newspaper of CHI
ton Forge, w. g. c. Vanneman, edito
and proprietor, was discontinued last wee
for want of patronage.
The Duke of Marlborough S lawyer VIII
arranged the ''settlements. says the Duk
declined to touch shilling of the bride:
five millions. which is all settled on herself
DR.. Chas. L. Culpeper of Portsmouth
has been appointed State Medical Exami
ner for Virginia of the Royal Arcanum.
Rev. DR.. Geo. w. Carter, located by tn
Virginia Conference will, it is said, becom
editor of the Portsmouth Star.
The Portuguese minister to the Unite'
States died IN Washington suddenly Thurs
day morning from hemorrhage of thelungs
SeaSonable Advice.