Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1873-06-27

to New York and to the great European
wool market at Aix-la Chapelle.
The GRANGE.-The credit Of originating
the Grange" movement is claimed by Mr.
Porte Welch, Of tbs Oscsloosa (Ohio) Re
form Leader, who asserts that be suggested
all the principles on which it was founded
and the policy by which it is guided, as loDe
ago as 1862
Rev. Mr.. Lampe, of Wheeling, West
! Virginia, pastor Of Zion Church, and teach
er of German in the public schools Of that
city, was arrested Wednesday for attempted
rape on girl aged twelve years, one
Of his scholars He denies the charge.
and has given bail.
Daniel Boone's rifle, shot pouch, powder
horn, hunting knife and section of beech
log on which be cut his name and date,
IVA, are in the public libiary at Louisville,
KY. The wooden stopper of the powder
horn still bears the marks of his teeth.
A colored mar in Delaware, ingenious but
unedueated, has made small model of
steamboat, viii, paddle wheels, walking
beam, pilot house, BELL &c. 1t is used as
weather vane, and when the wind blows the
machinery is set in motion.
Judge Underwood and the others. who
bought the confscated property in Alexan-
dria Va, are now trying to get that city
annexed to the District of Columbia so thai
their cases won't come before Virginia
courts
Mr.. r. M. L. Hunter, in letter to
friend, says he will cordially support who.
ever may be the nominee Of the Virginia
Stats Conservative Convention for Gov.
srnor, and will do what be can to further
the election Of the nominee.
NJ. d'Atalie, ''the man with the iron
jaw" who died at Fall River, Mass, on
May 10Th, used his jaw to some purpose,
since, beside lifting weights with it. he
could, it is said. speak several languages.
A will written upon slate in 1853 was
recently admitted to probate in West Ches
ter, Pa, and "6led" in wooden box. Tn
Tennessee, will written upon a papsr
collar is also mentioned.
A Massachusetts farmer recently I'D
vertised farm for sale, and now be
is asserting tibet he has fed out over hun
dred barrels of oats to the horses of persons
who have come to examine it.
A most remarkable curs Of the desire for
tobacco is that of an indianapolis alderman.
He was thrown from his buggy some time
ago, and and since then has loathed the
foul weed.
An old sermon, preached at Hanover,
Va, in May, 1853. by the Rev Samuel
Davies, was found among the rubbish o.
fered for sale at an auction in Stratford.
Conn, recently.
Among the Kickapoo warriors slain DUR
ing Gen. Mechanics recent raid into NIX.
leo, was one of gigantic sizo. measuring
seven feet in height and stout In proper.
ton.
In Burlington, Iowa, there is lady six
feet seven and half inches in stature, and
is still growing, ard she is said to possess
two of the towering virtues-beauty and
wealth
Two colored delegates from Virginia are
described as 'quite at boma' iu the session
Of the national division, Sons of Temper
anco in New York last week.
General Horace Stevens, who was buried
in New York, was the first militia general
appointed in that State, and comm anded
the fort at Castle Garden in the year 1912
Miss Susan Fenimoro Cooper, author Of
''Rural Hours has been fer several years
engaged in writing two works. historical in
character, relating to the Iroquois tribes.
A grand jury in Kentucky has found an
indictment against man for stealing an
umbrella. The reign of law in Kentucky
is not to be kept off.
Mr.. Longfellow AID Mr.. W. Cullen Bry.
ant have been elected members Of the Rus
sian Academy of Science.
The lale Louis Napoleen's villa, at
Vichy, was recently soil at auction for
SO 600 francs. ....;.
Over thirteen hundred persons in Geneva
have joined the Liberal Catholic order, IN.
der the head of Pere Hyacinthe.
The Shah's visit to England will entail .
cost Of over $3.50, 900 GA the Queens PRIV
purse.
Mrs. Glen, the Indianapolis murderess,
believes judicial clemency since being grant.
ed new trial for the fifth time.
Smokers will be pleased to learn that
there is every promise Of an unusually large
tobacco crop in Connecticut this season.
Benz. b Gsntry, formerly of A lbemarle
Co, Va, shot and killed Frank Knight il
an ARRAY in Kentucky few days since.
General John G. Breckinridg,, of Ken
lucky, will deliver Masonic grafton i,
Memphis on the 24th.
A Wyomign female lawyer lstely argued
for tho plaintiff case wherein her busba,,
was defendant, and carried it against him.
Curly Head jack, one of the betrarer, o
Capt. Jack, has shot himself.
The publ shers of an indecent paper i
Newark, N. j., have been fined S10O.