Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1873-08-15
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Il THREE MEN BURNT TO DEArH.-A dis
patch from Pittsburg, dated the 4th. says
On Saturday evening terrible accidcn
occurred on tho farm Of Mr. William Pres
ton, at Butler, by which three men wer
burned to death. They were boring for OF
and we're in the well at the time oil wa
+ struck. The oil scarcely reached tho sur
face before it took FIRE, blazing up hundred
feet or more. The bodies of the men VIII
were burned we're not recovered until to
day.
A FEARFUL FALL.-Mr. H. L. Bein, al
employee Of the Monticello Cigar Factory
on Sunday night, Aug. Sd, fell from .
fourth-story window Of the Monticello House
in Charlottesville, distance of thirty.6ve
feet. He was taken up by friends, and,
strange to say, with no bones broken, and
expects to resume his duties in short time.
A New CHOLERA PREVENTIVE.
one has sent us a Journal de Lyon, con.
tanning letter which asserts that the well
TODD Chinese protect themselves absolutely
from epidemic by wearing silk shirts. The
writer advocates the manufacture of silk
fabric for this purpose cheap enough tor all
purses.
A son Of Mr.. Madison Mays. living
near Saltpetre Cave, Botetourt county, Va ;,
recently fell from barn on ferce stake
distance Of fifteen feet, where he was sus-
pended until relieved by his father. The
wood entered his side, and when withdra wn
the lung could be plainly seen. The wound
is mortal.
A lady from abroad stopped at Oswego,
Kansas, last week, put up at hotel. sent
for Judge Perkins, who heard her plea of
divorce and in fifteen minutes after it Was
granted she turned around married another
man.
Lemonade parties" are now the FASH
lonable sumner amusements in some parts
Of Illinois-happily not Chicago First
they lemonade, then they promenade. then
they gasconade. and then they firt-all on
sour stomacEs
The Supreme Court of Alabama decided
on Monday last that the lien Of the land ord
upon the crop of the renter for the pay
ment of the rent is not such lien as is dis.
solved by the death of the renter and the in.
solvency of the estate.
Bishop Gibbons, Of the Catholic Church,
will administer confirmation at Harrison.
bur. on the 18th, Martinsburg the 18th
and Harper's Ferry the 10Th insts and on
the Oath inst, dedicate new church at
Berkeley Springs.
Susan Lewis, colored, died in Amherst,
Va Aug. 9th. from noccasin snake.bite,
though wnskey and all the other remedies
were given her.
That was a terrible scene in Memphis
where colored woman, fighting with an.
other, used an infant, scarcely one year old,
as a weapon, and hurled it about until the
poor little thing was almost dead
Mr.. Alexander Mcdonald, assoeia to edi-
tor of the Lynchburg "Virginian. late rep
resentative Of Virginia at the Vienna Expo
sition, has just returned home.
One Of the stories told of the Shah's visit
to Paris is that, while there, he received
5000 begging letters, which have been
duly packed in barrels by his attendants to
be preserved for home reading.
Six out of the twenty-four Governors Of
Massachusetts, have had names comm encing
with B, which may be considered favore.
BILE omen for Butler-if he is elected.
Hoods Texas brigade proposes to spend
ten thousand dollars in purchasing the pic.
ture Of "Lee in the Wilderness" that it
may be placed in tie State Capitol at Aus
tin.
The colored Baptist Association. 10 ses-
sion at Charlottesville, Va, refused to re
cognize the title of mothers" viii Oh for
women, had been adopted for deAvons
among men among the congregations.
A gardener in England claims to have
discovered method of varyi e the colors
of flowers by means Of chemical applications
to the earth in which they grow.
The son of Louis Napoleon has returned
to his studies in the Military Academy at
Woolwich, England.
Two Boston MERCHANTS were recently
fined $50 each for administering dose of
spirits Of turpentine to cat.
Mr.. Jefferson Davis is still engaged at
intervals on his History of the Confederat.
States" though suffering from defective
eye sight,
1t seems that the great Buchu man is a
lunatic, and his wife has had him confined
in an asylum. He escaped not long ago,
but was taken back.
Savannah being opposed 20 give women
chance, employs a few as street.car conduc-
tors,
Jacob Lineweaver, an old citizen of Rock
ingham county, Va, was foun dead in bed
Aug. 9Th
At Rhinebeck, New York, recently.
John s. Cole, aged S5, married lady of
76 summers.
Thomas Colbert died in Albemarle coun-
ty, Va, last week, at the good old age of
81 years.
The HOG cholera is raging in Page coun.