Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1872-11-29

nail, anu refused uer an escort. ne crOWQ
attempted to force way up into the house
where Mrs. Fair lived, but they were driv-
en- back Mrs Fair remained in her rooms
aaa in twazAlaks = = asizs,
Judge Underwood, Of Alexandria, and
Col. Edward Daniels, editor Of the Rich
mond State Journal, have been elected vice
presidents Of the National Woman's Suffrage
Association.
The wife and daughter of Rev j B.
Smith Of Raleigh, n c., who were arrested
for poisoning him have been discharged,
there not being particle Of evidence against
them.
They are setting out shade trees at the
new depots along the line Of the A. M. & 0.
Railroad. The President is having an eye
to the ornamental as well as the useful
Thos. Walker, son Of Gen. Lindsey
Walker, was accidentally shot while hunting
in Bedford Co. Va, last week, and it is
feared will lose an eye.
Maj. Theodore B. Hill, formerly Lieu
tenant in the U. S. Army, and a Confeaer-
ate Major during tho war, died suddenly at
Charlottesville, Va Sunday night.
The barn of Mr.. Mahlon Armstrong, near
Doe Hill, in Highland county, was destroy.
ed by an incendiary on Tuesday night last.
Quite an amount of grain, wheat, rye and
corn was burned.
Col. Anterior Fl. Stevens, the first Fed
eral soldier who entered Richmond at the
surrender died at his home in Fast Cam
bridge, Mass, on Thursday last.
In the Essex, (Va.) County Court last
week Watson R. Wentworth, member of
the House Of Delegates, was fined $50 for
carrying concealed Weapons
The salary Of the postmaster at Leesburg
Va, in consequence of the increase of rail-
road facilities has gone up from $40 per
annum in II to $1,000 now
Duluth is so sure that she is going to be
big city that she has appointed an official
historian to set down the details Of her days
of small things.
Tho Grand Lodge of Masons Of West Vir-
ginia, has elected Dr. 7. FL. Logan, Grand
Master. There are 50 chartered lodges in
that State.
S. A. Trenholm of Charleston, S. G.,
formerly Secretary Of the Treasury of the
Confederate States, sent $500 for the Bos.
ton relief fund.
Jennie Reese, Of Columbus, o just out
of her teens, has been sentenced to three
years Imprisonment for forgery.
Lord Westminster denounccs as untrue
the asssrtiaaAat -ceiiug il
rooms of Holland House cost $4,000.
There was but one Greeley and Brown
vote cast in Groson, Mass, the home OF
Secretary Boutwell,
VIM. jackson. colored, has been sentenced
to be hung at Alexandria, Va, January
1st for wife murder.
Mr.. Linton, Of Chester, Pa, is dying
from virous of a epizootic horse getting in
sore on his hand
This years tobacco crop the inConnecti-
cut Valley is pronounced the best ever
raised.
Shops FOR the building Of cars for the
Fredericksburg Il Orange R R are being
built at Fredericksburg.
The wife of DR.. VIM. Dunn, of Washing.
ton, Co. Va, died last week from an over
dose cfmorpkine.
Rev. Robt. N. Sledd, of Lynchburg, Va,
has accepted call to the Trinity (Methc-
dist) church in Baltimore.
A colored man named Thomas, was
drowned in North River near Rivertop.
Rockingham Co. Va, on the 18th inst.
Wood haulers in Lynchbarg, Va, are
demanding So, so cord. Epizootic is the
cause.
: a man in Mcpherson, Kan. can walk
sixty-four miles a day and keep it up; so
be smiles at the horse disease
Thomas W. Kes e, the we'll known auc.
tioneer Of Richmond, Va, is dead.
The London Post has just passed its hun.
dredth anniversary.
There were 80 deaths in Richmond last
week
Railroads have now three gauges
broad gauge, narrow gauge, and mort.
gage.
Elk City, Kansas, offers $4,000 in
bonds to the first railroad that reaches the
town.
The Tichborne trial for perjury is set
down for the goth insi.
$4,000, 900 worth Of bridges are to be
built in Philadelphia in the next five years.
The loser Of an election bet in Connecti.
cut swallowed dozen rotten eggs.
The horse population of the United States
in February last was $685. 900.
Charles O'Gonor is in Jail at Terre Haute
for theft. This is the other Charles
Minute diamonds are now worn for vest
buttons in full dress.
1t is calculated there are 100000 peach
treeSsin Western Michigan.
Tom Taylor, the English sdramatist, gets
a nension of So $50 a wear.
Belgium is applaudng Yankee circus.
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