Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1874-02-20
THE BEpEy1LMENrs or A Con

MAN-That is the business your new
gresham land your old, for the matte
that) has to do day and night. I know
one who had letter from a preacher iii
the State of Pennsyltucky, we will say
who stated that his meeting house haC
been struck by lightning, and he appealed
to my friend for contribution. My friend
(who is not by any means rich) sent a libe-
raj donation. A few days after he receiv-
ed another letter from the same man, say
ing that the writer knew President Grant
to be a good Methodist, and that he had
written to that pillar of the church for a
small contribution and he requested my
friend to go up and see the President, and
ask him whether he had received the let
ter, and urge him to contribute the small
sum of fifty dollars to rebuild the walls of
Zion. All such duties as these the Con-
| gresham must attend to. 1.-The has served
in the army every soldier in his district
will write him for a pension every idle
young man will write him for clerkship
! idle young mans father and soldiers
| friends, influential local politicians, will
write urging that Congressman to do what
he is asked, and he is reminded that his
| term.will expire soon, and votes will be
wanted again. Pretty young girl comes
on to Washington and demands that her
Congressman shall get her a clerkship.-
She has read that Congressman do that
sort of thing for pretty young girls, and in
| har cho bot no
is easy. Congressman's wife hears that u
young hussy has beset her bald-headed but
] beloved Congressman, and she becomes at
once frantically jealous, and starts for
Washington with the whole family, at a
terrific expense, though Johnny has the
measles and Dolly has the whooping- cough,
and board at the Arlington is anywhere
from S35 to 500 week. Washington
Correspondence Columbus Journal
| DRINKING WARM Decentralization
was made recently of gentleman in a very
feeble state of health, who had been for
some time at the Butchers Abattoir, in
Brighton, for medical treatment, simply
drinking a half tumblerful OF warm blood
twice day. This course the gentleman,
MI. G. II. Stickney, who is willing that his
name shall appear, has followed until
week ago, having been there ten weeks,
and during that time gained ten pounds in
weight, and, to use his own words, my
appetite is good; I sleep well and feel like
a new man, and am soon to commence
| business again in Boston," He also says
| that there are ten OF twelve others there,
drinking the blood, all of whom are gain
| ing under this treatment. One gentleman
| from Boston, a consumptive, so feeble that
| it was with difficulty he could get to this
| Abattoir, is now able to handle an axe
skillfully enough to ''knock down a bull
lock-" A lady from the city who has been
sick six years, stricken with paralysis, is
| improving wonderfully by the ''blood
cure" A gratifying feature of this cure
| is that it is without money and without
price," and Mr.. Stickney speaks in praise
Of the gentlemen in charge Of the establish
| ment and says strangers visiting the place
will find courteous treatment Boston
Journal.
B. K. Bruce, the new United States Sen
tor from Mississippi, was formerly slave.
After the war he became a porter on
steamboat, subsequently he attended
school for time at Oberlin, Ohio, entered
politics as sergeant-at-arms of the Missis-
sppi Legislature, and when elected was
serving as sheriff.
Madame Dita Fry, the widow of Captain
Fry Of the Virginius, has arrived in Paris
with her two children, one Of whom at
tanned her ninth year on the very day her
father was shot. Madame Fry is from
Louisiana, and goes to France to visit re-
latives living there.
Jenkins, writing from Washington, says:
''There is quite a controversy just now be-
tween the admirers Of Miss SchurZ, Miss
Comings, Miss Fenton, Miss Hoar, Miss
Conkling, and Miss Etheridge-I believe
l have given all the Manassas to which is
the most attractive"
Miss Hammond, the young lady who re-
covered $4,000 from her faithless lover in
Brooklyn, last week, now finds that his
total assets foot up to only 81 800. But
she has got another fellow, which is just
as good.
The Maryland Commissioners on the
Virginia boundary, officially report their
inability to agree with the Virginia Com
missioners, and recommend the reference
of the question to the Governors of the two
States for conference.
Mrs. A. I. Stewards dress at the Infant
Asylum ball was the most expensive dress
worn on that occasion. 1t was a pale lilac
silk, covered with white round point lace.
1t was imported for this ball, and made by
Worth.
There are lot of people in the town of
Patton, Me-, who are related so much that
they don't know what to call each other
Three brothers there have married three
sisters, whose brothers, in turn, have mar
ried their sisters-in-law.
The heaviest fall of snow in Virginia,
this winter, fell in Page county, last Fri
day. In the mountains it reached the
depth of about fifteen inches in the Val
ley only seven or eight inches.
The present Congress contains eighty
eight straight democrats, besides liberals
and disaffected republicans. The gain of
sixty seats next fall would give the opposi-
ton absolute control of the House.
Mr.. William Trotter, of Taylor county,
KY. has fallen heir to S500,000, beg ueath
ed by an aunt in England. Before his good
luck overlook him he used to be Old Bill
Trotter.