Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1874-12-18


successful and skilful farmers.-Poge, Va.
Courier.
Affairs are getting better i'll South Caro-
lima. Hon. j. P. Reed, Il white Rep ubllcan
Win good reputation, Was elected Judge
OF the Charleston district by the leglSla-
cure ny d combination Ut Democrats and
Republicans over W. J. Whipple, Il noto-
rIuus black politician. Reed was the new
Governors Candidate.
Auburn, Maine, has a shoemaker who
vakes contracts to ''slue aud boot" people
DIT d stated annual price, ranging from SID
10 $50, according to the size OF the foot
and the gait of tile Wearer. At the end OF
the year the customer brings in all his old
boots and gets credit on the next year for
wear left in them.
Jno. l.. Shelton of Amherst, Va, who
drew $3.50 from his Lynchburg commission
merchant on Saturday evening, was found
Sunday morning dead in the road two
miles from home, with his money gone,
but his watch left. One leg was broken,
and bruise on his head. 1t is thought he
WAS murdered.
Charles Whittlesey, who came to Vir-
giHia as captain in q Connecticut regi-
tnant, and afterwards became editor Of the
Richmond estate Journal" and was on
the Radical ticket for Attorney General,
died on the 9TH inst in Alexandria, Va,
where he had been practicing law for sew
eral years.
T. 7. Brooks, the defaulting President
of the Merchants Bank of Petersburg,
Ma y1TuC cto ind fn,, A lhn., itor,
tiary, Saturday, under five years SEN
tence. U. S. Attorney General Williams
said he wouldn't recommend his pardon
s'if every man in Virginia were to petition
for it,
Mr.. Pleasant Waddill, a brother of the
editor OF the Lynchburg, Va, s'News,0
WAS dangerously wounded last week by the
accidental explosion Of the gun OF gen.
tleman riding near him in a buggy. He is
now recovering at Danville, near which
place the accident occurred.
California salmon have been planted in
the Rappahannock river, giving the editor
of the Fredericksburg, Va, HERALD an
opportunity Of saying that he has seen
''tish taken from the Sacramento nearly as
large as the sturgeon taken i'll the Kappa
hammock"
The wife Of Mr.. Alfred J. Twyman, Of
Greene co., Va, on Thursday night last,
while her husband was in Charlottesville,
hung herself to the post Of the bedstead on
which her granddaughter was sleeping.
She had been at times partially deranged.
At a meeting of members of Prospect
Avenue Presbyterian Church, Jersey City,
Wednesday night, a resolution was adopt
ed calling upon Rev. John s. Glendenning
to continue his pastoral relations with the
church.
Paul Morono, an italian laborer, was
sentenced to twenty years in the peniten-
tiary at Richmond, Va, last week, for at
tempting to violate the person OF an eight
year-old daughter OF countryman OF his.
George Scofer was shot through the left
lung, cheek and both legs in Bath CO., Va,
Dee Sth, by I. M. Trimble, who was deer
hunting with him, and fired into the
bushes, thinking Mr.. Scufer Was deer.
District Attorney Lewis has recon-
mended to the Commissioner of Internal
Revenue to compromise the case against
Hiram W. Powers, distiller, of Richmond,
upon payment by Powers of 81 800.
Harry G. Young, a conductor on the
Richmond and Atlanta Airline railroad,
was accidentally killed on Saturday night
at Kings Mountain, n. c., by falling be-
tween the cars of Il moving train.
A little boy and girl of Samuel Thomas,
living near Emory & Henry College, in
Washington CO., Va, while playing under
a pile of seasoning plank last week, were
killed by its fall.
The wife of ex-Judge Pratt, of San Fran
cisco, has applied for a divorce on the
ground Of desertion, and asks fo- division
OF their common property, which is valued
at $2,000,000
DR.. J. E. Halter; of Marion, who was
wounded recently by the accidental dis
charge OF his gun, is recovering rapidly.
About l35 bird shot have worked out Of
the wound in his ann.
A young man went into barber shop
Saturday, in Boston, and standing before
a mirror cut his throat with razor. He
was out of work and became desperate.
Nine young men of genteel appearance,
destitute from the want of EMPLOYMENT.
were committed to the House of Correc-
ton in Philadelphia last week at their own
request.
Benz. Moran has been appointed minis
ter to Portugal to succeed Hon. Chas. H,
Lewis, :; brother of Senator Jno. f. Lewis.
resigned.
Judge Don A. P. Pardee, a man accep-
table to the New Orleans people, has been
appointed Y. S. Judge in place of the infa-
nous Durell, resigned.
Henry M. Baker, one of the most highly
esteemed citizens of Frederick CO.. Va.
fell dead at a restaurant table in Winches
ter Tuesday while eating oysters.
W. II. Reynolds has obtained verdict
from Lynchburg, Va, jury for ST 500
damages from Edmund J. Hill of Amherst,
for manning him with a pistol shot.
Edwin Booth is said to be wholly cast
down by the tearing away from him of his
magnificent theatre. Since it's sale he has
scarcely been tie same man.
The Ruggles Grange, at Fredericksburg.
asks Of the Virginia State Grange to pre-
pare plan of organization Of agricultural
fairs throughout the State.
The State Grange of Alabama has taken
steps already for a grand State fair, to be
held next fall, near the city giving the
most liberal subscription.
Marcus H. Hopkins of Va. has been ap-
pointed examiEer-in- chief of the U. S, Pa
tent Office, ;and .Jno. w. Thacker of Va,
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