Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1896-03-20
Missionary Secretary of the NJ. P. General

lne cornwall Hotel which WdS bHlft ny
the Irish Creek Mineral and Development
Co, at Il cost OF IS 900, is still standing
there and has never been occupied.
Drs Grace Peckham-Murray and Hen
rietta z. Johnson were lately sent as dele
gates to the New Y ork State Medical Soci-
ETY. from the New York County Medical
Society. This is the first time women have
been chosen. In addition, Dr.. Peckham-
Murray was invited to read paper before
The State society.
| The widow Of the late Thomas B. Sloane
IT New York, is paying a good price to
narry Nj. Barclay. which she will do i'll
>n.ll. Her husband left piece of proper
II II New York city worth 5000, eco to- her
win the condition that if she married
again it should go to Yale college.
| The New Y ork Journal says that J. NJ.
Il i'll and the Jones family of that city have
determined to open the st. Asaph race
Track within the next month, and not only
race, but have book betting at the trac k,
| on exactly similar lines as heretofore done
| in Virginia, and they will test the consti-
tutionality of the Maupin law.
The Board of Visitors of the University
of Virginia has elected Adjunct Professor
w. H. Echols to the full chair of mathe-
MATES to succeed Professor G. S. Venable,
who has long filled that position, but retires
ON account Of ill health. Mr.. j. Morris
Page, now an adjunct professor at Johns
Hopkins, was elected adjunct professor.
George, Dear!'' She looked anXiotsly at
the clock which pointed to 1880. ''What is
/ it, love?'' 81 don't wish to hurry you
away, George, but you know that papa is
not overly fond of you, and be is an early
riser" AT this hint George commenced to
Bazaar.
Irate Patron-sY GU advertise to cure
consumption, don't you?" Doctor-'1 es,
sir; never fail when my instructions are
followed" Irate Patron-'My son took
your medicine for a year and died an hour
after the last DOSE" Doctor-"My in
structions were not followed. l told him
to take it two years. Tit Bits.
!
vile who sent up the revolver by a string
let down from his cell window in the jail,
! to George Evans, the colored convict, with
which he directly afterwards shot and kill
cd Deputy Sheriff Cooke, has been convict
ed as accessory to the murder and given
eighteen years in the peniteutiary.
Mrs. Ann BurweIl Norton, widow Of the
late Rev. DR.. George Hatley Norton, died
at her home in Alexandria, Friday, in her
65th year. She was Miss Marshall OF
Fauquier, granddaughter of Chief JUS
tice Marshall.
When Leon Raclin Of Switzerland, step
ped off the Bremen steamer at New DIRK,
Saturday. it was found that lie had twelve
gold watches Oh his own person and eigh-
teen more in the clothes of his baby. He
was arrested for smuggling.
Jefferson M. Levy of Monticello is ar
ranging to have large party there on April
18th, the birth day Of Thomas jefferson.
Elk, Governors Pattison Of Pa, and Russell
of Mass, National Democratic Chairman
VIM. Harrity, Chauncey f. Black, and the
President and his Cabinet have been in
vited.
It is estimated that in the current year
West Virginia will sell over ,000, 900
worth of lumber, slaves and ties. The
two largest mills in the State are Senator
Camden s in Webster county and the Alex
ander Lumber Co.'S in Upshur county,
which cuts over $50, 900 feet daily.
The dissensions in the Chesapeake &
astrous to the enterprise. Its completion
to Elkton by April lst is now mere mat
ter of expectation. The $150,000 of bonds
of tue Rockingham people is in the hands
of the depository, but are useless until the
road is in operation to Ekton. No trains
are Icing run on the road.
Col. Wni. Lamb of Norfolk, who was so
badly wounded in defending Fort Fisher,
and Gen. Newton M. Curtis of n. Y, who
lost and eye in leading the Union troops
who assaulted the fort, gave joint lecture,
descriptive of the engagement, at the Uni
versity Of Virginia Tuesday night. The
, lecture was for the benefit of the Univer-
sity.
The debt of the American Board Of For
eign Missions of the Congregational
Church, $115, GOO, has been paid through the
personal eXerticns Of Misses Mary and
Margaret Leitch without compensation.
They are now engaged il raising fund OF
$lUO, 900 for the same Board to be done BIZ
Sept /, 1896 and their services are given.
us before, free.
Both the President and his wife have i'll
creased in weight very much during recent
years. Mrs. Cleveland it is said, now
weighs nearly two hundred pounds, and
the Presidents girth has been enlarged
two inches and a half in the last year OIL
two. The President was ffty-nine years
old on Wednesday.
The report going the rounds Of the news
papers, of a matrimonial bureau alleged to
have been established by the Womans
Christian Temperance Union of Ports
mouth Va, is d fake of the worst sort and
without the slightest foundation.
The old Exchange Hotel, Richmond,
which has been open for fifty years, and the
! Ballard House opposite, which has been
| run with it for twenty-five years, were
closed on Monday for good. The, new jeff
erson Hotel had captured the best paying
class of travel.
Mr.. Thos. Swami of Leesburg, Presi-
dent of the Loudoun county Agricultural
Society, died suddenly Monday of an acute
attack of 5right's disease, at the home IF
his uncle, ex-Mayor Latrobe, in Baltimore.
John V. Jacobson Of Morrison, H., died