Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1874-09-25

Harding, MI. e. Is. H. Kelly, MI 1nOS.
Kelly, Miss Rose Kelly, Miss Smithwick,
MI, Edward Leroy. special correspondent
of the team, and MI. John Crosby, M. 2.
BARNUNLs MARRIAGE.-In the interval
that followed the taking of the recess of
the Universalist Convention this morning,
it was announced that MI. Phineas Taylor
Barnum was going to be united in the bonds
of matrimony with Miss Nancy Fish, of
Southport, Lancashire, England. In a
few minutes the couple made their appear
ance and walked up the aisle to the com
munion table, the organ III the meantime
playing the wedding March," The bride
was dressed i'll a slate-colored dress and
wore black velvet hat with blue feather.
From her ears depended diamond earnings.
The bridegroom was dressed IN black
dress suit, The twain were made one by
the Rev. DR.. H. Chaplin, and at the con-
clusion Of the services left the church III q
chrriage. The bride is tWenty-six years of
age and is Barnum'S second wife, his first
having been buried about year ago, the
bridegroom being about siXty-seven years
of age.--N. y Commercial, It'll.
REMARKABLE COLLISION ON A RACE
TRACK.-Two race-horses entered for a
mile dash, one ridden by white Jockey
and the other by a colored boy, collided at
full speed in front Of the judges stand, at
Fort Wayne, yesterday. They were eXer-
csing preparatory to the start, and riding
at full speed, and collided as above stated,
striking squarey forehead to forehead
One horse was Drained outright and fell
dead in his tracks. The other was seriously
injured. The two boys were thrown for
ward high in the air, and were taken up
apparently lifeless. The colored boy had
recovered at 8 O'Clock last night, but the
other rider was in d comatose state and
not likely to recover. The owner OF the
Drained horse said he had been offered
81 GOO for him that day.-Latayette Courier.
A YOUNG BR1oEGRooM's SUICIDE
On Saturday Mr.. Kirk was married to a
daughter of Isaac Nichols at Ailoways
town, and that night at the wedding cele-
bration the bridegroom was apparently the
merriest Of the party. On Sunday he wrote
a letter to his father enclosing memoran
dunn of his financial affairs, with a request
that they be settled as speedily as possible.
A letter to his wife contained expressions
of warmest affection for her, and concluded
with bidding her farewell and advising her
to get married again. After finishing the
letters he went into a shed at the rear OF
the house and shot himself through the
heartily. Y. Sun.
e.
A REMARKABLE INSTANCE OF the grail
fcatlon Of morbid spirit at a comparative
ly heavy cost is the action OF MI. Allder-
son, Il citizen of Toronto, whose two sons
were among a party drowned in the Ma
CARA river by the capsizing Of yacht. He
purchased the vessel and then, perhaps,
with the idea of destroying forever what
was to him hateful object, burned it to
the waters edge.
ACCORDING to the "Whig," the total
assessed value Of real estate i'll Richmond
is SO 1G7. 2G9, on which the total taxes is
S406. 1885, OF this the negro does not
pav, at the most liberal estimate, more
thar three thousand dollars. About fifty
negroes out Of the whole number inhabit-
ing the city pay taxes
MI. Sol Smith Russell, who has deter
mined to address himself hereafter TO the
regular drama, made his appearance at the
Fifth Avenue Theatre, New York: on
Monday evening, in the character OF
"Trip in "School for Scandal The
.sHerald's" critic says 'Mr. Russell's was
a very neat effort, and he made much OF
little"
The Hon. G. Y. Thomas, of the Danville
Virginia District, announces himself a
candidate for reelection to Congress, mot
as the nominee of Il convention, but be-
cause his friends, upon consultation, deem
ed It unnecessary to hold a convention,
and requested him to announce himself a
candidate"
Willie Taylor, while asleep, walked out
of the second story window of his hotel at
BIC Lick, Virginia, one night last week,
falling on the track in front of a passing
locomotive His arm was broken.
The Hon. Bev. B. Douglass has things
60 much his own way in his own district,
that he has stepped over in the second dis
trict to give Mr.. Goode a helping hand. |
He smoke in Norfolk Monday night
The Louisville Chancery Court has deci-
aed to place the Louisville, Cincinnati and
+ LEXINGTON Short line in the hands OF a
Receiver,
E, A, Penn had one of his legs torn off
at the knee while running a threshing ma
chine in Amherst county, Virginia, last
week.
IT is said that Senator R. E. Withers in
tends to. make Alexandria his future home, |