Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1874-08-07

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| Last week a man named Charles E. Sal
yards. who has been figuring about Win
chester for some time past, has been ar
rested as horse thief. An examination
failed to fasten any specific theft upon
him, but circumstances justified his being
held to await requisition from the Gov
ernor of Pennsylvania.
Negotiations have been concluded be-
tween Messrs. Moore and Perry, proprie-
Jones' of New Jersey, whereby the
Springs will pass into the hands of a Com
pany having $3.50, 900 cash capital. The
new parties will take possession on May
1st 1875.
The business men of Richmond, Va, are
moving in the matter of erecting grain
elevator at Huntington, the western ter
minus of the Chesapeake and Ohio Rail-
road. Northern merchants are ready to
subscribe $4,000, while the entire cost of
the elevator is estimated at only $4,000.
And now the old man is dead. A tele-
gram announces that George Castalor, Il
citizen of HagerstOwn, Md, died there on
the 25tl, aged one hundred and nine years
and eleven months. He was born in Penn
SylNdlld, August Zu, ltO4.
Saturday. J. H. Van Ness, the self-styled
agent of Cornelius Vanderbilt, who has
been confined in jail for some ten days at
Richmond, charged with forging the name
of Vanderbilt, to the tune of $160,000 was
before the Police Justice and was discharg-
ed for want of evidence.
A Kansas boy earned nice Bible by
committing three hundred verses to men,
DRY, and then he traded his Bible for shot
gun. and accidentally shot his aunt in the
leg-a fearful warning to all aunts
The Rev. j. F. Collins died at the resi-
dence of his son-in-law, Colonel VIM. r.
Denny at Winchester, Saturday and was
buried the following day. He was in the
ninety fifth year of his age.
Monday last a son Of Mr.. WEIGH, resid-
ing at the North River bridge on the Val
ley Railroad, was drowned in North River.
His mother came near being drowned also
in her effort to save him.
Mr., John n. Maddox, farmer of Page
county, has harvested from Il tifty-fve
acre field a crop of wheat, which compe-
tent judges estimate at eighteen hundred
bushels.
Charles Evans was instantly killed last
wee k in Botetourt county, Va. in IL fight
with Babe Wilson. Both were colored la
borers employed ny Messrs. Stair and Bal
ard. contractors on The Valley Railroad
Miss Blair, the only daughter Of Colonel
Blair, of the Virginia Military Institute,
was thrown fraIa horse in Lexington,
Va, while riding out last Friday, and was
seriously injured.
MI James o. Wood, q highly respected
citizen of Scott county, died at his esi-
dence last week. MI. Wood was public
man during most of his life, having served
many years a clerk OF the court,
Mitchell Sallings, farmer, living in
Scott county, near Stnney Greek, commit
ted suicide several days ago, by cutting his
throat. The rash act was caused by i'll
temperance,
The charter of ''The Sons and Daugh-
tiers of the Loving Council of the Cross"
a colored institution, has been deposited
for record with the societies of the Com
Monwealth.
"The Four-Mile Tavern, on the Valley
turnpike, near Strashurg, Va, was totally
destroyed by fire last Friday nlght-loss,
ineendiaries.
Six thousand dollars worth of diamonds
are alleged to have been stolen Saturday
night from tie residence of Mrs. Fowler,
in Ninth street, New Y Ork,
The Rev. J. NJ Rawlings, OF Appomat-
tox Courthouse, has declined the call to
the pastorate Of the College Church,
Hamnden Sidney COLLEGE,
The steamboat, Pat Rogers, was burned |
near Aurora, Indiana, on the 5th, and
about twenty lives lost. The boat was
valued at 100000.
Nj. Walter G. Douglas has disposed of
his interest in the Bedford "Sentinel and |
News" to his late partner, Mr., William
P. Hoffman.
Lexington has q population of 3,203, in
GLIDING the sol students and cadets.