Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1873-08-01

WILSON. The Posts Washington specia
says {: "Privats advices received here con
firm the worst that has been published re-
garding the condition of the ce-President
His face is represented as somewhat distort.
ed, and he has partly lost the power of
speech. He is at present under severe
regimen and diet, the disposition of nearl
every hour in tho dayg provided lbrsse. o
by bis physicians"
Twenty cara Of cotton, corn and tobacco,
going 40 miles an hour, down grade on the
Baltimore and Ohio R. R., near Altamont,
ran into freight train Monday, killing
Martin and Elliott, two West Virginia dro-
vers, and its engineer and fireman
The Paris "Uoivers' announces with
great joy that Mr.. Darwin was rejected by
"a against 6 votes as corresponding mem.
Der of the French Academy of Science
The six votes were given to him by the
''friends of the Apes
Mrs. Sallie S. Farrell, appointed post.
mistress at Covington, KY, to succeed the
late Jesse R Grant, gets a salary of 49,.
400 year.
Shalmanasser Davis, of Davis & Son,
Baltimore, Virginian, and we'll known in
the Valley, died last week.
The "mess" system at the University Of
Virginia makes living cheap Board is on
ly So month, and one student lived one
year Oh $40, which paid all his expenses
James johnson, one of the wealthiest
citizens of Indianapolis, Indiana, has given
one hundred acres of land near that city,
valued at $500, 900, for the building and
endowment of a medical college.
James Brown, Georgia veteran of the
war of 1912. was reserved for q very igno-
ble death. Last week he was tripped up by
hog, and died in consequence.
Tom Hood, son of the poet and humor.
list, will visit America next autumn
It is said that thirty women are employed
on the daily press of New York city, at
salaries varying from $40 to $50 week.
A writer in the Manassas ''Gszetre,"
from Dumsries, says: I regret to learn that
the Canada thistle has made its appearance
in many places along the railroad. -
The first steam threshing machine has.
just commenced operating in the vicinity of
Woodstock, Va.
A large quautity Of ammuu ition passed
through Lynchbuag, Va, u few days since
via the "alphabe' and Virginia and Ten
nessee Railroads, directed to Gov Kellogg,
at New Orleans
Captain John NJ Brooks, of the Virgin
ia Military Institute, has made an improve.
ment in pumps
Senator Sherman has return. d hi, share
of the back pay grab to the Treasury
Whose will be the next case of awakened
conscience ?
Ex-Gov. VIM Smith, ear WarreEton,
Va, lost $500 worth of wheat burnt by
lightning on the 2Sth ult.
The Shah left his son in England with
physician, to be educated.
U. s. Senator, Mitchell, of Oregon is Pc
titiouing the Legislature to change his name
back TO Nipple, which it was before be ran
away from Pennsylvania.
The Southern Dental Association is in
session at Baltimore Among the members
present are Jas johnson of Stauuton and
G.. G. Davidson of Lexington.
The cholera is virulent at Jonesboro
Tenn, and in Tennessee village called
Unlontown, 29 persons died Of it last week
Nicholas and Hollahan, the Lemprey
nurderers. will be hung in Baltimore at
noon to-day
convention is in session at jackson Ten
10 form new state out of that State.