Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1873-04-11
THE CHAT OF THE WEEK.

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burned to death last Monday night at Smith
field, Jefferson CO., Va. The other men,
bers of the family had retired leaving Miss
Roberts 10 the room That was the last
time they saw her alive On Tuesday
morning Mr.. Roberts descended the stairs,
leading from his room, and stumbled over
something Upon examination he found it
to be the charred body of his daughter.
Close by her was broken kerosene lamp.
LOVERS YOUNG DKEAM.-A Quincy girls
young dream of love came to sad ending
at Rutland (Vt.) hotel the other day.
The old folks didn't like the match, but she
knew better ; SO when she woke up the Sec
ond morning of the honeymoon and missed
her other half with $3.50 aud her best toy
gerry, twas something of an illumiu alton
CorToN IN MICHIGAN. The first cotton
mill ever established in the Northwest was
opened in Jonesville, Michigan, few days
ago. The occasion was celebrated by bal
and banquet. which was attended by six hun,
bred persons. The company has capital
of slO0, 900, and is engaged in the manu-
facture of brown sheeting.
FEMALE VorIxG Miss Sasas B Aatho-
ny has been voting again. The Rochester
Union" is authority for tha statement, that
she voted at the election in that city recen.
y, and that two other .'strong minded VIZ.
men" also cast ballots. Nobody was boil
enough to challenge them
UNLUcKY SHor.-At Gadsden, Alabama
Mr.. G M. Crouch, hearing noise ia his
hen house, fred and brought down his son
who had heard noise and was looking for
thief. 1t is thought that young Crouch
cannot recover.
Edmund About having been twice arrest
ed for abusing the Germans. is now under
indictment tor publishing letter rejecting
upon President Theirs.
The ship jerome Eastman, of Bath,
Maine, has been wrecked on Coyo Ferde-
total loss She was valued at $50, 900,
and partly insured.
The Minnesota Legislature censures the
State treasurer for 'irregu'arity, involving
SUI, 600, but vote on articles of impeach
ment failed
A murderer was hung by mob in Utah
town the other day, .and young woman to
whom he was betrothed, on hearing of it,
fell dead
Gen. j. B. Kersbay, the Come lerate
officer has turned hts attention to journal
ism and become editor of South Carolina
paper.
Two colored men recently cut II 900
shingles from pine tree near Raleigh. N.
o., and had timber enough left to cut 1000
more.
james Mcqueen, the killer of the motto.
rious Boss Strong. WAS paid the $4,000 RS
ward by the North Carolina public treas.
urer.
An Indiana paper has already run up the
names of o. P. Morton and B. T. Butler
for President and Vice President in 1876.
The Little Rock ''Gazette" reports "a
dastardly attempt to hurn a boarding house
in which one hundred men were sleeping"
Before 1910 there were not more than
forty German newspapers in the United
States; now there are no less than 1856.
The Fredericksburg "News" says that
the paper mill in that place makes 800
day from the manufacture Of cane fibre
james Corcoran, of St. Louis, is under
arrest for numbering "friend" by putting
in bis whiskey four drops of croton oil.
A bill has been introduced in the New
Jersey Legislature to remove the capital Of
the State to Elizabeth from Trenton.
The Quakers in England propose to take
an interest in missionary work. the temper
ance movement and Sunday Schools
J, B. Walters Of the Norfolk "Jonrnal
and Jas. Barron Hope of the 'Virginian'
have been arrested to prevents duel.
A new line of ten 6rst-c'ass p~opellers is
to be engaged this year in the lake trafio
between Montreal and Chicago.
Some twenty immigrants, direct from
England, reached Raleigh, N. G. recently,
and will settle in that vicinity.
The tax 10 California, State, county nd
ranges from three to four per
cent on the value of property.
Hou. VIM S. Groesbeck declines to be
for seat in the Ohio Constitu.
tional Convention.
In China wives are legal tender for
debts, and bankrupts, as rule, do not con-
ceal their effects,
Mrs. Anna Pomeroy, the divorced wife
of Brick" of La Crosse, Wis. has taken
another husband.
A farmer near Lyons. Ia, has ninety
acre orchard with ninety apple trees to the
acre-S100 trees.
Sixteen members of the Montgomery AL
ALBANIA bar were fined recently for practic.
ing without license.
The Supreme Lodge Of the world of
Knights of Pythias meets in Richmond on
the 18th inst.
The Chinese Of San Francisco have gone
into the pocket-picking business with great !
success.
1t is said that a son Of Brigham Young
is going to marry newl y.estabished female
seminary.
Serious troubles are reported in Porto Ri.
co, growing out Of the slavery abolition ag-
itatlon.
Fifteen female doctors of medicine have
been commissioned to drive gigs in Chica.
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