Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1873-01-24
THE CHAT OF THE WEEK.

| N. I. when the car landed at the bottom
Of the embankment bottom up, Mr., MARI
Haight, wealthy merchant was crushed
under the weight of the stove. There be
lay, the flames gnawiug bis limbs, while the
upper half of his body was in plain view
| Herculean efforts we're made to save him
but the weight which grasped and held him
was too great. Snow was piled about him
and showed under him, but all to no avail
and for more than an hour an age of the
most indescribable torment he was held
there with his limbs buried in furnace fire.
Horrible we're his screams and entreaties,
but human aid could not reach him in time
When the wise like grip of the bonds which
held him was OF last released, and he was
dragged out upon the snow, one of his legs
was found to have been burned off almost
to the hip, and the other to the knee Be.
ing still alive. he was conveyed to Mary
vile, and so great was his vitality that be
survived some time after being taken to the
Chattanooga House.
MARRIED AFTER SIXTY YEARS CouRTsuIp
A few weeks since in East Lyme, Mass. !,
john Griswold, young bachelor of seven
ty.eight, was married to Miss Eliza Deni
zen Griswold, sweet thing of seventy nine
The bans of this couple were published in
church in 1928, and far az is known, there
never was any Misunderstanding or unpleas
antness, or milf or fare u that can be assigned
as the cause of the delay Thav have al
ways been considered engaged" both BY
themselves and the neig hbors, and during
visit to East Lyme, not very long ago.
an editor heard that this ancient beau still
made bis every other Sunday evening call.
ana bad hardly failed to do so single fort
night for sixty years Among the the
guests were two brothers of the bride, aged
united one hundred and thirty.one years
Another brother, aged seventy-seven, was
absent. Alice Rogers, Of New London,
aged eighty-one. brother of the groom,
was detained at home.
The DEAD TRAaEDIAN's DIVORCED WIFE.
Mrs Edwin Forrest, the tragedian's wife,
was at her husbands funeral A reporter
says when she arrived at the house she
moved nervously toward the rear parlor,
where the remains were lying There were
hut five or six persons in the room. Throw
ing aside her veil, she stood for nearly ten
minutes, placed her hand upon bis head,
and followed the arm to the hand down,
which she grasped for few minutes. Then
che UlIdoI f,r rI 70 tho fook &c h.
plu,ked one or two flowers from the cross
which lay upon the dead mans feet. She
then moved rapidly to the front parlor,
where she was seated until the coffin left the
house.
A VALUABLE VoIcE.-Mrs. Imogen
Brown may be thankful to Providence for
the possession of fue, very high. priced
voice-the highest, indeed, in the church
choir way yet Known in Episcopal annals
either here or abroad. Mrs Imo.en Brown
has been engaged to sing forenoon aud af-
ternoon on Sundays at St. Bartholomew's
Church, New York, at $4,000 year In
the evening she is to sing in Christ Church
for another 81, 900, thus realizing from her
beautiful voice and culture about $50
Sunday
The wife of Mr.. Richmond. who wal en-.
gagged in the secret service of the United
States during the late war, committed sui.
eide by shooting herself on Sunday after.
noon, in Berryville. Clarke Co Va.
The reason that Forrest did not retire
from the stage was because he believed man
lived longer in active life-'just like a
ship" said he, ''she'll last twice as long on
tho ocean as she will in the docks"
Miss Sumner Douglass is the wel.souu d.
ing name Of colored Nashville belle. That
she is girl If spirit. young colored man
whom she lately cowhided through the
streets can testify.
Mrs. Ex.President Tyler, who reigned
over the White House once in black velvet
and corouet tipped with diamonds, has
purchased her husbands cid estate in Vir.
GINA.
A young woman at Torquay, England,
was fatally shocked recently by hearing a
door slam in the next room, which she
thought was her husband shooting himself.
Mr.. Thomas Billy, author of the hymn,
>'Oh, that will be JOYFUL" died recently at
lslington England. where be was parish
clerk, at the age of 78.
''It's ah ill wind" etc.; the Portland
sleigh-builders estimate that the recent snow
storms all over the country will benefit them
800 900 worth.
The Allegheny Presbytery Quilted Pres
byterian) has taken ground against secret
societies. especially the Odd Fellows and
Masons
Miss Lizzie Stanton, an employee in a
Kansas City mo } candy store, receives q
legacy of 100000 from an aunt in Eng
land.
A Troy bulldog attacked stuffed tiger
10 front of hat store the other day. and all
the clerks rushed out to see the fight 90 on.
The Sunday liquor law was generally
enforced in California on Sunday last,
though somewhat loosely in San Francisco.
The editor of the Marshall County News
Kansas, has $50, 900 libel suit on hand
His assets foot up about $50.
A mad dog bit Charles, aged IL, son of
Mrs. VIM. Bauserman, of Shenandoah, and
died in 20 minutes after.
A New Orleans burglar CHI oroforued
jeweller Jones and got away with $22, 900
in jswelry and money.
John Adams, respected colored plaster.
er of Richmond, Va, died last week, worth
$4O,O