Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1873-02-21
THE CHAT OF THE WEEK.

A VIEW OF THE Press 1t is gratifying
TO learn that John P j >nes, the new Ssua
tor from Nevada, who bought the Legisla
ture and paid Jim Nye $500,O0o to with
draw from the contest. entertaius well.
grounded dislike for newspapers. Here is
what he says Of them
The venal. licentious, cowardly, libellous
speaking, interviewing sheet, which fattens
on am bitlons of its own creation, and wakes
fat upon the indecencies, which it's vile i'm.
asination copjures up to defame the just, and
which. for sordid motives panders t, the de-.
PRAYED taste Of the vicious, is & sore upon
tho body polite which sooner or later will
have to be removed by the scalpsl."
There is not thief in the country who will
not cordially agree with Jones in these ideas
TICKLE WoMAN.-It is to be feared that
Mrs Belle Danil, of Natck. is of some
what tickle, disposition. Wsaried Of her
husband, a fortnight ago she committed the
faus pas de -'eu1 of clipping with dancing
master but within a week she became tired
of her new partner and ran away from him
to 20 homo to her mother.
THE DIFEERENcE-Miss Minnie Christy,
aged %. has been elected Engrossing Clerk
of the Missouri Senate, but Miss Belle Fin.
| layson, aged 50. candidate for the same
position in the House. was defeated by W
F. Moore, an ex-rebel soldier So much
for difference of ten yesrs in the age OF the
two asprants.
REMARKABLE Co-1NcIDENcE.-A Boston
detective recently had case given him in
which the hero was described as having q
glass eye on the left side. Bangor, S.lem
and Newburyport each produced man with
the right name, and glass eye on the left
side. but not one of the three was the party
wanted.
EFFECT OF HAIR DYE.-We hear Of con.
sultstion of eminent physicians having been
called to decide upon what is best to be done
for young lady, fashionable. Of course,
who has rendered her complexion almost
black by the use of poisonous cosmetics. -
Boston Globe.
A negro named Henry Bow, and who
pretends TO be from Virginia, has been ar
rested ia Paris for garroting in Quarter
Wagram during the last two months. HE
long exercised in the far West the profession
of buccaneer"
Professor Alboni of Naples, resuscitated
dying woman by the blood Of lamb, the
revivifyipg blood being forced through q
tube into the arteries by the pulsations oil
the animals heart.
Genersl Leslie Combs has taken bath
every morning of his life for the last twenty
years. and has never worn an overcoat dur.
Jog this time He is 80, aud hale and hearty.
If all men we're as fortunate es Mr..
! Hugbey, of Kentucky. this might be hap
py world. He has bad seven wives, and
has not been obliged to commit bigamy once
A distinguished French entomelogist ha,
discovered that there are $1,000 distinc,
species Of insects (and they are all catalogued
with their pedigree - that feed on wheat.
The death of Bulwer has created such an
extraordinary demand for his novels that the
circulating braries are unable to meet it,
The mysterious name of the "monkey
wrench" was taken from the inventor, Mr.
Monkey, who still lives in New Jersey.
There are thirteen newspapers in the
country edited and publishs I'D by negroes in
the interests of their race. -f
The use of n,ercurial hair dye has caused
the insanity of Grattoni, engineer of the
Mont Gents tunnel.
A woman 10 Birming ham, England, was
lately fired 5000 for giving good charac-
ter to bad servant
Mr.. Baxter, who died recently in Eug
land, ives tho largest newspaper proprieso,
in the world. 81
A Rochester IN. " barber was fined
$l6.25 for shaving a customer on Sunday
A new orchestra with a thousand per.
formers is to be started in London.
The two Misses Greeley will spend the
summer at Greeley, Colorado.
Texas has 5000, 900 cattle ready to bs
converted into beef.
An Iowa man has been poisoned by the
bite of cat
Sandwich, ILL.,, pays its mayor an annual
salary Of S..