Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1872-03-29

are remunerated IN New Ork. AS rule
they have no reason to complain.
Water costs twenty-five cents per barrel
delivered at the doors of the citizens of
Romney, West Virginia.
Mr.. Abel, one of the proprietors of the
Baltimore San, recently bought summer
residence near the CITY, and paid for it
$474.00O.
Salem has voted 500, 900 subscription to
the Valley railroad, on the condition that
workshops be located there, by vote of
1l9 to "a.
: There is family living in indianapolis
whose children are ragged and almost shoe
less, who keep four dogs, two cats. and use
a quarters worth of TOBACCO per day.
The Halifax Record thinks ''pniform
tax Of l6 cents per pound should be i'm.
posed upon tobacco, spirits, dogs, cats, old
bachelors and members Of the Legislature.
1t is reported that the Washington Dai-
ly Chronicle has been sold to Senator Fen
ton, and that VIM NJ. Grosvenor, late cd
itor of the Missouri Democrat, will be the
editorial manager,
N1eE.-A young lady Of Richmond Va,
intending to be married, recently telegraph
cd Paris for silk -.oekspse, DO ..ss.sl.s to
order, with her name worked in them, and
she got them-,he price being, in green
backs, $40 per pair,
CoM1NG BAcK.-Mr Cuthbert, the Vir-
giuia correspondent of the New York Her.
aid, having effected the release of his asso-
ciate, Mr.. Henderson, from the clutches Of
the Lowery outlaws, will return to his head
auartera here to-day.
The Lexington Gazette says that Mr.. H.
B. Baylor, a distinguished graduate Of the
Virginia Military Institute, has been ap-
pointed assistant engineer to Gen Rosser
op the North Pacific railroad, and left for
Dakota X fes days ago.
A. New York letter writer says :-some
of the millipeFs have held their first spring
openings, bringing out large numbers of the
fair sex. A feature is the ODDLY Warden"
hats Of Leghorn straw. and Weighing about
an ounce price $45. Another style is from
Paris ; it lools like 'Mansard roof and is
priced all the way from $15 to $50. The
ronud hats are reported to be going out. "
Tue SHENANpoAu VALLEY HAILRoAp-
The Board of Directors Of the Shenandoah
Valley Railroad Company held meeting
in Charlestown, on Wednesday, the Goth
instant TIE several contractors to whom
work was assigned have been along the line,
and viii break ground gu. ihe lath instant
at several points between shepherdstown
and the crossing Of the Shenandoah river,
near Front Royal: = N"14en (H) &a-
tiael.
VIRGINIA LEGISLATORS THREATENED WITH
Political PROSECUTION. -Ne,c York, March
pa Richmond dispatch states that three
members of the Virginia Senate and three
memferss # the H4og,sse Of Delegates have
b en- served with notices by Unted States
Attorney Hughes, that he will institute pro-
oeedings against them for violation of the
fifteenth amendment, by acting as members
of the General Assembly white laboriug i'm.
der political disabilities {
Bishop Simpson has recently rendered an
ecclesiastical decision which is not 80 COM
plimentary to the United States Senate as it
might be. 1t seems that the appointment
Of DR.. Newman to the chaplaincy of the
Senate. after his pastoral period in Wash.
ingtou had expired, raised question Of
church government, which Bishop Simpson
promptly decided by saying that, under the
general law Of the CHURCH, be bad the p,w-
er to appoint chaplaina to reformatory insti-
tutlons, and he considered the United States
Senate to fall within the scope of the rule.
-NeU York Post.