Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1860-02-17


countenance was haggard like shat of ma
MAC, and ever an anon he flung his long and
bony arms on high, as if grasping after
thunderbolts.
He drew picture of murder in such ar
allng colors that in comparison, hell ltsel
might be considered beautiful He painted
the slanderer so black that the sun seemed
dark at monday, when shining on such an
accursed monster, and then fixing both por-
traits on The shrinking Hopkins, he faaten-
ed them there forever. The agitation oil
the audience amounted all most to madness.
All at one the speaker descended from his
perilous height. His voice walled out for
The murdered dead and living-the beauti-
full Mary, more beautiful every moment as
her tears flowed faster-till all Wept and
sobbed like children.
He closed by strange exhortation to the
jury, and through them to the bystanders
He advised the panel after they should bring
in verdict for the plaintiff not to offer the
defendant, however richly he might desc ve
it, violence in other words, not to lynch
the villain, but leave his punishment with
God.
This was tie most artful trick Of al, and
the best calculated to insure vengeance.
The jury rendered a verdict of $40 900,
and the night afterwards Hopkins was taken
out Of his bed by lynchers and beaten almost
to death.
AS the Court adjourned the stranger made
known his name, and called the attention Of
the public with the announcement-John
Tayor will preach this evening at early can
die light.
The crowd all tnrned out, and Taylor'S
sermon equalled if it did not surpass the
splendor Of his forensic effort This is nc
|exaggeration | have listened to Clay, Web
ster and Calhoun-to Dewey, Tying and
Bascom never heard anything in the
form ofsublime words even remotel approx
mating to the eloquence of John Taylor
massive as mountain-and wildly rushing
as cataract Of fire. And that is the opin
ion Of all who have heard this marvellous
man.
T'Eae scEaooazs2asseE's An That bed
4 correspondent Of the New York Wa
verify gives the following as enc Of the many
incidents that befall boarding round school
master:
| had been teaching in Mason county il
this, the Sucker State, and this term wa
boarding round One evening, after school
one of my littla scholars stepped up to me-
and said
Mr. Jones, father said you would com'
home with me.
Very we'll, [ replied, and forthwith Sc
out fer my patrons house, Which was dis
tant some two miles. Now, be it known
James NcAarry, for such was his name
had two daughters, the pride and envy o
the whole community. / had heard SO TucE
about them that was naturally anxious t.
see them. It seemed. however, that ! wa:
TO be disappointed, when we CARVED learn
ed the gals had gone to party the Other
side of the creek; so T went to bed, execra
ting the luck which deprived me Of seeing
them that night.
The night had we'll advanced when
heard one Of the girls come home, and pas
sing into the adjoining room; she warmtc
herself before some Goals which were alive
on the hearth It seems the old gentleman
and lady slept in the same room, but | was
not aware of it then. Having warmed her
self, she turned to leave the room, when the
old man spoke-Girls, said he, the school
masters in your bed.
Very well, said Sarah, and passing thro
the room [ slept in, went up stairs. About
an hodr had elapsed, when heard Judy,
the other one, come. She stood st the doc,
a long time, talking with her fellor, then
entered softly. Disrobing her feet she en-
tered the room where I lay, in her stocking
feet, carefully unaressed herself, and COM
ing to the side Of the bed prepared to gotin.
Now it happened that I lay in the middle,
and turning back the clothes, she gave me
shake and said in a suppressed whisper;
Lay over, Sarah.
I rolled over and whipped the corner Of
the pillow in my mouth to keep from laugh
ing. In she bounced, but the bed would
speak. The cd man heard il and called
out:
Judy
Sir, was responded in faint voice from
the bed beside me.
The Schoo7naaster IS IN that bed.
With one loud yell and Oh Heavens she
landed on the floor, and fed with the rapid
ty of a deer, up stairs. She never heard the
last Of it, can tell you.