Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1896-01-03
PASSING NEWS OF THE DAY

prints The legal contract under which thu
old preaching House, of the Methodist.
: was built in the year 1887. Bishop Asbur,
held to or three conferences in it, Tn,
building cost ESQ, good and lawful none,
OF the State, and the condition of the con
tract was that Edward Keenan, should
make lawful title to "a tract of lanf
wherein tbs Preaching House stands. ,
John Wesley Was still living when the ole
meeting house IN Monroe was built
The now famous ''Schomburg line" be-
tween the British Guiana and Venezuels
possessions, was run by a young German
OF that name who, in 1928, was partner
in tobacco factory ct Richmond, Va
When the factory burned he went to the
West Indies and thence to South America
He was botanist, surveyor and explorer
and was made Knight by the Queen and
kept in the British consular service for his
work in running the line. He died in
1865.
The Washlngton-Street Methodist church
i'll Petersburg, Va, is in rebellion OH &C.
count Of the removal of its pastor, DR..
Starr, by Bishop Galloway in bis assign.
ment OF preachers at the last Virginia
conference. The Board of Stewards by
instruction of the congregation will pay
the salary of DR.. Edwards. the new pastor
for one year, but will refuse to pay any
conference collections. - An official paper
to that effect is being prepared.
at lexington, Christmas day, a negro
tough, named Cal Hughes, filled with
whiskey, got up a quarrel with party of
V. M. [. cadets who were firing
squibs on the streets, and in the quarrel
cut two Of them slightly with razor. The
cadets pursued hlm and after capturing
him i'll bar room, where he had taken
refuge. gave him severe beating. It is
the same tough who, last Spring, made a
murderous attack On Policeman Halle
wood.
A $500 bicycle, with silver handle bars,
ivory handle and all the frame except the
supporting rods and spokcs Of sterling sill
YER, and which is to hays silver lantern
which adds $500 to the price, is on e1hibi-
tion at Tiffany's in New York. It weighs
twenty=six pounds. The same firm has
made woman & wheel of silver to cost
81 600, the lantern of which will contain
several hundred dollars worth of precious
stones.
Trinity Protestant Episcopal church at
Woodbridge, N. j., was closed last Sunday
for the first time in JAG years, Two years
ago the vestry cut off the salary Of Rev. F.
II. Lighthope, the rector, to force him out,
but he has starved along and preached till
last Sunday when he gave up the fight and
offered to leave if the vestry would pay him
the two Years salary. which they instantly
dii.
The business value of not using liquor
may be inferred from the following from
the Danyille, Va, Register; 1.-THE Regis
ter does not employ young men and boys
who are addicted to the drinking ha bit, and
80 far as We know. not single one of it's
employees drinks. This much as a business
precaution."
An Albemarle county thief celebrated his
Christmas eve by entering st. Pauls Epis-
copsl church at Ivy, and stealing there
from the surplice, stole, altar-cloth and
other outfit. Rector F. W. Newe was
astonished when he went in to put on his
robe tor the Christmas morning service.
Rev. DR.. John A. Scott, who died in
Botetourt, was the oldest active minister
OF the Southern Presbyterian church. He
was licensed to preach by Winchester
Presbytery in 1915, and was for fifteen
years after the war Principal Of the Ann
Smith Academy at Lexington. He was
the Moderator Of the Synod at its centennial
meeting at New Providence church in
Rockbridge in 1888.
Miss Virgie Owen, aged thirteen, of
Co., W. Va, has just eloped on
with her lover, aged twenty,
by her father. cousins, and al the
family cOnnec tion with shot guns.
Chas. w. Jenkins late teller of the Farm
ers' Bank of Nansemond, located at Suf-
folk, Va, has been committed to jail on
The charge OF making false entries and
1000. His psculations are
estimated at Sl3, 800.
at the fashionable and aristocratic
marriage gathering of Mr. Geo. Jackson
ND Miss Jessie Wood in Cleveland, Ohio,
N Christmas eve, everyday WAS promptly
IN time. except the groom who had fled !
rom the city on the Thursday previous and
could not be located.
Walter Cadman. who still held the place
II the War Department to which he was
appointed by Jefferson Davis forty years
go, died last week.
Rev. II. II. Ford of St. Louis, preached
It Detroit to the BARRIERS of that city, from
ne text Ezekiel v, l, ga Barber 3 razor. -
lie bad with him in the pulpit complete
aroer outflt-razor, soap, chair. mirror
nd the like, and gave each moral appli-
alton.
Capt. Ihos. "A. Goodman who has lust
ost his position on the Chesapeake, Ohio
Southwestern Ry., says 1t was done
trough the influence OF persons who were
galnst him on account of the killing of
ol. H. c. Parsons.
Ex-president of the Court of Appeals
J. L. Lewis. gave the present court din !
Ell at the Jefferson Hotel in Richmond. ,
st week.
Joseph Aubrecat who will be remember
by visitors to the Chicago Fair, as the
wax-fgure man" who stood before the
Jenna village for hours without moving ..
zen an eye lash, died last week at tho !
tianta Exposition, where he was exhibit. -
his wonderful resemblance to "a wax n
Sure