Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1873-02-28
THE CHAT OF THE WEEK.

TIoN.--The Legislative Committee on amend.
ments to the constitution, have made a re-
port of which the following is the substance j:
Article VII. section LIST, is to be so
changed as to provide for electiDg so many
commissioners of the revenue as may be-
necessary, and for appointing instead of
electiug a superintendent of the poor, and
for appointing county surveyor, an officer
not now provided for. The provision for
attaching small counties together to form
school districts and that for additional super
iutendents Of schools in large counties are
omitted. County officers fare to be elected
10 May instead Of November, and enter
Office on the LIST Of July instead of the LIST
Of January. County and circuit court
clerks to hold Office for six instead of four
years.
Section I'd. same article. is to be so alter
ed as to strike out the words providing that
townships may sue and be sued, and those
providing for township clerk, assessor,
collector, and commissioner of roads. The
word township is to be changed to .mag.
isterial district" One constable, instead O.,
three, is to be elected in each such district.
The justices, constable, and .overseer of the
poor shall bold Office for two years, instead
OF as now. The words ION the first Mon.
day in December" and the words '.appor-
ton the same among the various townships"
are to be omitted. The duties of the su-
pervisors are to be about the same as now.
Section Sd, same ticle, the word "town
ship" to b. changed as above stated.
Section 4th, same article, to DO wholly
stricken out.
Charles Dickens lived and worked always
at high pressure and died at last Of over
strain As Mr.. Forster said of him, "he
did even bis nothipgs 10 a strenuous way
One day he got wet through twice and
dressed four times; another, he walked
eighteen miles in four and half hours in b
broiling SUP.
The conductors on the Pan Handle Rail-
road have been in the ha bit of collecting
| tickets from passengers and reselllng them
60 the irregular agencies that may be fouuo
10 most cities Tue Company estimates it,
| 'ss at $40, 900. One conductor has been
arrested. ~-
A Western paper says: Reports frou
Topeka say that Pomeroy's outlay in ''hote
bills" alone at tina. capital during the Sen.
alorial canvass, averaged 81, 500 day, ap.'
taat the total price be paid for his own p
zeal destruction was not less than $l00, 900.
Mr.. Booth, in playing Hamlet, has fire.
quently used, 10 the graveyard scene, the
skull # a hors--thief named Glover, who
was hanged 10 the West for stealing horses
and who bequeahed his skull to the lde,
Booth as a memento.
In the English turf season just closed.
NJ Lefevre won S11S.17O; Mr.. Saville,
$50 645; Lord Falmouth. S49.87O; Mr.
Nor ly $50 400; and Baron Rotbschild,
s23 4U5. This by skilitul betting on fast
| horses.
The ice in the channel of the upper Mis-.
sissippl in many places is now 80 inches 10
thickness two inches thicker than ever
known. In 1746 it was 80 inches, the
thickest known previous to this season.
An old lady named Brown has just died
in London, leaving 81, 500, 900 and nobody
to inherit it, This will cause vast commo
ftion among the two or three families of that
name in the United States. r3
| The foreman Of the Newborn journal O
Commerce" is only sixteen years old. HI
and bis brother, aged fourteen, set up in .
day fifteen full columns bourgeois.
| There is said to be one corner lot in Chi.
cago which has not been mortgaged, and
policeman is necessary to keep the admirine
crowd off the fence.
An actress 10 New York sued her bus
bend for abandonment, and was adiudged t,
receive the priucely sum of SO a week TO
her support. .Ia -
The jury box" of the town Of Nortl
Providence has been in constant use sine
the year l765, and is considerable of DO,
yet. j.
The Ohio Statesman" says the wickedes
paper IN Kentucky is the L5uirville "Com
merclal. 1t is edited by three clergymen