Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1873-04-04
THE CHAT OF THE WEEK

Inc OiarAe Couuty, va, 'Courler stat
that about fifty miles of the Sbenando,
Valley Railroad are now graded. Th
work has been accomplished by an ezpend
ture of about $4,000 and the only avail
able means received by the contracting pa
ty outside of their own resources was abo,
$1,000, their own capital having been en-
ployed to pay the other expenses. Clark
county has subscribed in bonds to this roa
$l00, 900 which cannot be used unless th
road is in running order in two years afte
the time of the subscription Nearly all c
the subscription of Jefferson county W. V.
and Page county Va amour ting to $3.50,
ooo, remains to be drawn upon.
AN ARMY PROMOTION Mr.. Frederic]
Grant (son of the Presidency who graduate,
at the foot Of his class at West Point yea
Or two ago, and who, but for being the sol
OF his father would pretty clearly not hav
been graduated at all, has spent the inter
val. while his regiment was Oh duty on tn
plains, 10 juoketiDg in Europe with Gener
al Sherman. This young gentleman ha,
now been raised to the rank either full o,
by brevet, of lieutenant colonial, over thu
several hundred officers his Seniors aud as
signed to the duties. and consequently to thu
Pay aud emoluments of the highe rank
REMARKABLE CASE the little town
of Oregon, Michigan, lady recently was
seized with fever which developed into
mania. Soon after her sickness, which was
plainly due to physical causes, her husband
also became insane. He would be raying
when she was, and again be quiet when she
was quiet SO the case now continues, and
the doctors are wildly puzzled over such as.
tonishing sympathy between man and wife.
In the midst of the chronological Fowler s
lecture ito ladies only and just as the $50
females present had voted their wish to have
MIN tell them something about man. a
male head was seen peeping over the gallery
rail Nest OF the ladies tainted. but the in.
tsrloper left.
The Richmond reporters who were prais.
ing Lucian Beard, the horse thief, for his
determination to 60 right to prison and
serve out his term like man" are % orti.
fed that small saw was found on bis per.
son Saturday.
Gen. Fremont has been sentenced in Par.
is France to S years simprssnment for his
share in the Ri Paso bond swindle. He is
safe in America but his accomplices were
arrested as they We're leaving the French
court room.
An Englishman recently died and left
half a million in requests to various public
charities The will was contested by his
sister on the ground Of insanity, she alleg.
ing that the testator had always hated man.
kind.
The U. S. House passed bill providing
that no officer or private Of the army addic-
ted to the Incorporate use of liquor or drugs
shall be promoted An amendment strik.
ing out the work ''intemperate" was lost
W. s. Pride, correspondent of the Viii.
mington (Del. EVERY Evening"" was ex-
PEELED from the Delaware House of Repre-
sentatives for criticising certain measures
before the Legislature.
In Illinois headless man is making him.
self obnoxious By chasing people over the
prairies. By and by it will grow monoto,
nous, and they will "put head on him."
The Lewiston (Me "Journal'' quotes
fair smell beef at eight cents pound, and
adds that the choicest OK best cam be coax-
ed over twelve cents pound.
A new postofice is established at Bells
Valley, Rockbridge county, Va. on the
route from Richmond to Hinton, with A
D. Bell as postmaster.
Queen Victoria has settled an annuity of
ESQ upon the widow Of Capt Knowles, of
the Northaeet, who sacrificed his own life
to save others.
The Terre Haute City Council has passed
an ordinance imposing fine upon any by
stander at fire who refuses to aid the fire,
men.
The overseers of the poor in Vermont
town set down in their annual report charge
Of So for taking paupers to the menage.
rie."
Bergh is wanted is Minnesota. The
wolves are starving aud the hard. hearted
farmers won't allow themselves to be eaten.
"Her little bed is empty !'-sequel to
"Put me in my little beds the very la.
test popular sentimental song in England
Henry Ward Beecher made only S21,.
600 during his recent lecture t,ur. and saws
he is with the poor man against capitalist !
The people of San Diego, CAL, object to
having Boston man sent there as Collec.
tor of the port. Call out the troops /!
A Baltimore Judge has just quashed an
indictment because the work ..fraudentlg'
was used instead of 'fraudulently."
Mr. B Martin, Of Stafford county. re-.
Gently ordered from Orleans, France, one
thousand choice pear trees.
A man on velocipede has appeared in
the streets OF st. Paul, and the papers call
him relic of barbarism.
The probibitory vote in New Hampshire
this year is fortv-6ve larger than it was at
the previous election.
Apple fritters, containing gifts of jewell
~. are the latest inducements held out by
Kentucky restaurateurs.
There are 10000 Chinese in San Fran
cisco, and it is estimated that they oocupy
less than 700 dwellings,
About forty English and Scotch families
have settled in the immediate vicinity of
Lynchburg Va.
Duluth can endure great deal, but when