Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1896-05-12

SENTIMENT DIVIDED on THE CUR
RENcY QUESTION.
rhe commencement ssason-A List
Of Gradustes-Convent Notes
The Young Mems Christian Assoc
ciation-Propcrty Sale.

sTAUNToN, VA. May n.-(special)-
Up here in Staunton. which Is some
times dubbed Seminaryville, public In
terest is divided. The men are talking
silver unit rule, municipal election, and
the softer sex Is wrought up over the
matter OF bicycles and the seminary
commandments.
stanton is probably opposed to silver.
but the white metal is believed 10 have
the call over it's yellow rival among the
farmers Of Augusta, 80 on the round
up" the silverites will be right IN the
band wagon. Even among the silver"
men there are some who have misglv-
ings as 10 the policy Of enforcing IN
Virginia the proposed unit rule.
In view of the approaching commence
ments, the schoolgirls are busy with
music. millinery. and mantGamakers.
AS you walk By the schools the very
air is vibrant with The tones OF etudes,
Nocturnes Polonaiscs in Il minor. from
the music halls. and In the olocution-
rooms are being TesurrecteG again
"Archle Dean" and "Curfew Shall Not
Ring Tonight"
SWEET GIRL GRADUATES.
The commencement season will begin
Sunday, May 3lst. with the thirty-fourth
annual commencement OF the Mary Bald
win Seminary, when the baccalaureate
sermon will be preached in the First
Presbyterian church In the forenoon by
Rev. Egbert W. Smith. ID. d., OF
Greensboro n. G. On Monday, June
lst, at p. NJ, will take place the an
gA. Coll taftFn la
the commencement exercises and award
ing Of honors Will be had in seminary
chapel
The Dispatch correspondent has secured
n list Of the graduates Of 1885, and they
are these:
craduates-M Mamie Witherspoon
Mcfarland. Staunton. Va; Miss Mary
Eliza Trotter Stanton. Va.
Graduates In Academic Department
Miss Mary Overton Haw. Hanover Va
Miss Sarah Helen Irons, West Virginia
Miss Josephine Stephenson. Monterey
Va; Miss Cornelia Irene Mcmillan. Lou
isiana; Miss Lula Estelle Gardner, Texas
Graduates in Conservatory of Music
Miss Josephine Fawcett. North Carolina;
Miss Mary Elizabeth Kable. Stanton,
Va: Miss Leila Eloise Morgan, Georgia;
Miss Elizabeth Herring Pearsall. North
Carolina: Miss Madeline Barth, Staun-
ton, Va.
Post Graduate i'm Elocution--Miss SAL
lie Conrad Fauntleroy, Staunton, Va.
Graduate i'm Elocution-Miss Carolyn
Baldwin Crawford, Illinois.
Graduates In Book-keeplng-Mis Mat
tie Elizabeth Bickle Virginia; Miss Irene
Stephens. California; Miss Daisy Var
brough, Richmond. Va.
CONVENTION NOTES.
Senator Thomas s. Martin will be the
guest OF City Treasurer Arister Hoge, at
his handsome home on Kalorama street,
during the State convention.
Senator Martin will be at the home OF
his fathers when in Stanton. In the
40s the Senator's father removed
from Scottsville, and was in the COM
mission business with his father-in-law,
MIR. Thomas Staples, and IL is from his
maternal grandfather and fathers part
ner, that the present Senator gets his
Christian name.
The condition Of Colonel John Lewis
Peyton, who was so in few days ago,
has materially improved
MIR. A. J. Ford. Of Richmond, has been
at WaynesbOro', recently, with a large
force Of workmen rehtting his recent pur-
chase-the Hotel Bruins wick-which he
will operate as a summer resort.
The twenty-secOnd annual report or ire
stanton Young Mems Christian Associ9-
tion. made last week. shows that the
library has $500 volumes, and that there
Is membership Of 2S). Treasurer j. A.
Alexanders report exhibits receipts for
the year last past $l.333 Disbursements,
81 1872 81; cash I'm hand. SliO&.
Mr. IL. G.. Eichelberger and Mrs. Sadie
Eichelberger have sold a half interest III
Variety Springs, on the Chesapeake and
Ohio railway, west of Staunton. TO city
Chesapeakc and Ohio Ticket-Agent James
Ker, Jr for $3.50.
The commencement exercises Of the Nlr'
ginia Female Institute. Mrs. j. Il. B
Stuart's school. will be held Monday and
Tuesday. June 18th and 18th.
Friday. May the 18th, the public schools
of the city viii close, with commence
ment proceedings In Columbian Hall
Bishop j. b. Newton, Of Richmond
Colonel William A. Anderson, Of LeXing
ton. and Attorney General r. Taylor
scott were among the prominent figures
It the board meeting of the virginia re
male Institute here this week. AT the
meeting the board was feorganized II
accordance with an act Of the last Legs
allure. necesstatcd by the division oi
Virginia into two dioceses.
Augusta will on saturday, the 10th, II
The various magisterial districts, elect
delegates to the stanton convention. u,
his method the gold men viii be likely
10 get In a delegate here and there.
The belief that WcathorholtZ the Shen
indoah county wife-kller. was exploiting
himself through Augusta this week prove!