Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1896-04-10

voted that the cost Of their new court
house shall be 1000, and county bonds
will be issued to that amount. The Super
visors of Rockbridge have voted to build a
new court house to cost 900, and to
issue bonds all IF which shall be paid with
in five years one-fifth each year.
Mrs. Langtry, who has just turned A. is
set down as being worth 81 600. She
| is said to be one of the closest women in the
world, getting out of her admirers all she
can and never spending a cent that she can
avoid spending. In her contracts with her
managers they have topay for nearly every
| thing.
| At the Disciples church in Baltimore of
which Rev. Peter Ainslie is pastor, last
Sunday, strange lady walked in during
the singing and placing an envelope in a
niche near the pulpit, walked out. On the
outside of the envelope was My Easter
| Offering" and inside was three hundred
| dollars.
| The registration in South Carolina I'M
! der the new property and educational
| qualification began in Charleston, Mon
day. There were very few negroes who
applied to register that did not show them
selves qualified, though in a few cases they
were required not only to read, but con-
strue section of the constitution.
| Ex-State Senator VIM. E. Bib of Loui-
sa G. H., who is candidate for congress
in the eighth congressional district, was
bitten by rabid dog last week. He shot
the dog and then took the next train for
New Y ork, to be treated at the Pasteur
Institute.
The Church Congress of the Protestant
Episcopal Church in the United States has
accepted the invitation of the Bishop of
Southern Virginia the Rev. A. NJ. Ran
dolph, D. D., and the clergy of that vicini-
ty, and will hold it's next session in
Norfolk next fall. 49,. .e-.. 3.
Mrs. Fannie Bagby of West Points the
lady appointed by the town council of that
town to be a member of it's School Board.
State Superintendent John E. Massey, has
decided that under the law she is not eligi-
BILE.
Frederick A. Humphrey, the Oldest men,
Der Of the Masonic Order in the United
States, died at his home at Shopiere, Wis,
Saturday, aged IS years. He was born in
Troy, n. Y, in 1901, and had been Free
Mason for "A years.
In the New York Methodist Episcopal
Conference, last week, a resolution looking
to putting colored man on the bench Of
bishops, created a sharp debate very I'M
complimentary to the negro race, and was
withdrawn.
On the complaint of the Crawford. Neb,
saloon keepers, that liquors of all kinds
were sold at the fort, the sheriff entered
Fort Robinson last week and captured four
dray-loads of liquor and lieutenant and
sergeant.
Warrenton Virginian ''Mr. Joseph A.
Jeffries has been buying butter from one
man ever since he has been housekeeping,
and has paid him in all close to three thou
sand dollars. The money was saved and a
farm bought with it. -
Little Esther Cleveland has the measles,
and Mrs. Cleveland and the children have
moved from the White House to the Pres.
dents suburban home.
J. P. Pettyjohn & Son, of Lynchburg.
have been awarded the contract for the
erection of an Office building for the Nor
folk & Western Railroad at Roanoke, to
cost $125, 200.
Rev. E. b. Pollard. for the past year
pastor of the First Baptist church of Roa-
noke, has resigned to accept the professor
ship of English literature and Ango-Saxon
at Columbian University, Washington, D.
:, c.
: General Nelson A. Miles, United States
0 army, and his Secretary, Lieutenant T..
S Michler, accompanied Col John w. Fair
fax on a visit to the latter s son, State Sen
a ator Henry Fairfax at Oak Hill, Loudoun
county, last week.
The death of MI. Charles NJ. Jones, at
the ripe old age of eighty-three, removes
one of the Oldest engineers in Virginia.
He had charge of the first engine that was
: run from Richmond to Danvllle in the days
when the cab was unknown.
The Tygart Valley News says that at a
meeting held in the Opera House at Elkins,
w. Va. last week, and addresses by several
e ministers and others. 81 SOC was subscribed
as a start to the local subscription to the
e projected Presbyterian college there.
Each congressman each year hereafter,
will have Il, 600 packets OF vegetable seeds
, in packages containing Is assorted varie-
. ties, and 400 packets Of flower seeds in
! $50 packages Of 5packets each, to distribute
: among his constituents.
2 The woman physician is in demand. The
Marine Hospital, New York, will shortly
place four graduates of the John Hopkins,
Baltimore, at salaries of from $1,000 to
e 81 500 each, and the authorities speak en-
a Enthusiastically Of the out look for them.
e The License Court of Philadelphia last
e Monday refused to grant additional liquor
/, licenses. They said that since high license
/ was adopted in 1883 oJ.e-third more places
had been licensed than before, and it was
D time to curtail the privilege.
The 3-story factory of the Vandergrift
5 Construction company and the 4-story
) grist mill Of John L. Waters at CharIottes-
vile, were destroyed by fire Friday night.
5 The total loss is $50, 900, on which there is
only $1,000 insurance.
Gen. Roy Stone of the Road Department
Of the Agricultural Bureau, has just lost
an only son, twenty-four years old, fine
looking and highly gifted, who was idolized
by his parents. --.
: Charles Broadway Rouse is now taking
2 st secondhand through tue body OF n icola
Tesla, the electrician, shocks OF one hun.