Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1874-04-03

The Congressional district OF Alexandra,
Va. is talking of nothing but the can dida-
CIV of Colonel John S. Mosby The Co lionel
and many. Of his friends were at Kappa
hammock Circuit Court last week, which IS
published as ''straW." Hon. IL. M. i.
Hunter. is spoken of in the Frede ricksburg
district.
A Waddill. owner of the sLynchburg
ssNews,' has been elected an honorary
member of the Washington Literary socl-
ETY. of Randolph Macon, for his active
service to our noble old State" He de-
serves the honor.
Ed. F. Minnick, arrested at Hagers-
town, Md. with two horses in his posses
sion belonging to J. Lincoln u Brother OF
Rockingham county, is III JAIL at Haffls-
onburg. He denied his guilt and came
wi thout a requisition.
Miss Annette Adelia Mckee, the Penn
sylyania $2.0o0,OG0 heiress, has just had
the modification, in defending her proper
ty, of having to prove in court. that pelhg
slle Ultimate. the legislature had passed all
act making her legal child.
Plymouth Church, Brooklyn, Rev. Mr..
Beecher, pastor, on trial before the Con-
yrepational Council during the past week :,
has been declared not guilty OF lndepen :
dence. but recommended to be more clr-
cumspect in the future.
General G.. W. GUSTS Lee, is peGitioning
Congress for $500, 900 in payment for the
Arlington estate, and President Grant
has promised Senator John st0n to lay the
matter before his cabinet.
Caroline K. Mallam wife Of Major NAL
lam. former military mayor of Frederlcks-
burg. Va, is suing for divorce. He came
to this country with the English General
Hayelock.
William H. Reynolds, is suing Ed. j. Ell.
Hill. for 81 900. for injuries sus aimed in
a fight with him. They are Amherst peo-
pie but the case has been removed to
Lynehburg.
Mr.. Edward Roxbury, formerly men,
her of Co. II, 18th Virginia Infantry, G. S.
A.. dropped dead in the restaurant OF Mr..
John Skinner, in Alexandria, Tuesday af
ternoon, from heart disease.
The Emperor of Brazil has been sued for
his hotel bill. Stopping recently at the
Grand Hotel du Louvre, Ill Porto, he was
presented. upon leaving, with SO extrava
giant a bill that he refused to pay it.
John Mcclellan, telegraph operator has
ing caused railroad collision by his neg
ligence. which killed two men on the Penn
sylvania railroad.
The House Committee has agreed to re-
port favorably for paying $l5,170 to Peters
L Reed, .'eX-rebels," of Norfolk, for ma
sonry work done at the navy yard just
before the war.
Professor Charles S. VenaEle. of the
University of Virginia, for the Society of
Alumni. and Major J. w. Daniel, OF
Lypchburg for the Literary Societies, are
the June orators for Hampdan Sidney.
The parties are holding meetings to ar
range for the spring elections. There was
a sample Radical one at Lynchburg, Va,
Monday night-one hundred negroes and
three white men.
The Michigan legislature has passed
bill submitting the question of female sui
frage to popular VOTE The majority IN
favor of this course both in the Senate and
House was heavy.
The Richmond Enquirer notices the
fact that the Virginia Senate numbering
AZ members, only mustered IL for business
on Monday, and rebukes this inattention
to their duties by the members.
The lower house of the Missouri Legsla-
ture has passed bill appropriating 700
to enable Governor Woodson 70 bring the
highwAymen James and the Younger
brothers to justice.
While DR.. Patrick Crogan, well known
Washington physician was talking pleas
antly at the fremont House, Friday, his
face flushed suddenly and he fell against
the wall a corpse.
The House of Representatives has passed
hill 121 to 116 instructing the Naval Com
mittee to report on the propriety Of NOV
Ing the navy yard from Washington to
Alexandria.
Ex-Governor William Smith, is out in a
letter declining to run for Congress, and
advocating the reelection OF General
Eppa Hunton.
The city council Of Danville, Va, has
agreed for $15O, 900, to let the Lynchburg Y
Danyille Railroad Company, off from their
.ontroct re- locate a depot within it's limits.