Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1875-02-12
Represen tatiYe Iewett. of the Kan 60

Representative Jewett, of the Kansas
Legislature for Barbour county, arrived
at Topeka with both legs badly frozen,
and several other Representatives were
snow bound for several days ON the plains
The Senate of Virginia has presented te
the widow of Senator NJ. H. Clarke. who
died recently, the invalid chair which his
health compelled him to use id that body
|. Jno. Randolph Tucker, Jr., is reported
to be. fatally. i'll at Charleston, W. Va.
and Judge Crump, whose daughter he re-
Gently married, has gone to his bedside.
The horse Of the Rev. Father McGurk 9
the Catholic Church at Lynchburg was
| ratified off Friday for 81, 900 at 81 d chance,
Thos. G. Gladman, colored, winning it.
The duty of $75, 900 which he will have
to pay on the diamonds sent his wife by
the Khedive of Egypt. is what detains 1t.
Fitch's jewelry in the custom house.
Evarts is to receive fee of $4,000 paid
by Beecher's friends. We suppose the Til
tons lawyers fees hang upon contlD gency
that they do not hang their client.
Rev. DR.. Wilson's church at Richmond
is in quandary, the doctor not notifying
them Of his acceptance of the call, nor call
yet consenting to gill the pulpit.
B. F. Sheets, of the Leesburg ssMirror, -
has been nominated to fill the vacancy in
Loudon's representation occaSioned by the
death of Matthew Harrison.
Though the starless graves shall shine
out at the portals of eternity, is an extract
from the speech of a member Of the Vir-
ginia legislature last week.
Rev. A. W. Weddel, rector of Emmanue
Church at Harrisonburg, Va, was take n
sick during service Sunday week, and is
still confined to his bed.
"A McNairy county (Tenn.) family was
considerably broken up not long since by
the marriage, on the same day, Of the five
daughters OF it's head.
Isaacs, Taylor & Williams, of Richmo nd.
nave compromised finally with their cred
ltors at 75c. Some of the creditors, how
ever, raise objections.
A committee of the South Carolina Sem
ate has recommended the expulsion of 7.
G. Andrews, for a defalcation. The first
CLEAN of daylight.
Locust Hill, lying On the Appomattox
river, in Amelia county. Va, has been
sold to Mr. Wilkins Linhart, Of Pennsyl-
vania, for $4,000. y
A Vermont widow of Sc has for fifteen.
years supported eight children by laying
stone walls, harvesting and other heavy
farm work.
Paul Lightner, the member from High
land, recently so dangerously i'll. has re-
sumed his seat in the Virginia House of
Delegates.
The Beecher trial has cost the city of
Brooklyn thus far So, 76s, and is daily adj
ding about 5000 to that amount.
The Virginia Midland R. r. Co. has dis
charged 100 Of it's employees, and reduced
the wages OF the rest 20 per cent.
The ice crop recently housed on the up
per Hudson is estimated at $500 900 tons.
valued at S 2S,000,000.
The wife of G. D. Gray, at Culpeper c.
H., Va, fractured her hip joint by falling
down stairs last week.
Rev. G. r. Haine of Cantonsville, Nd. ), |
has been called to the church of DR.. Wing
field, in Petersburg.
The wife of Rev. w. G. Eggleston, Bap-
list minister, died suddenly Sunday in |
frederick CO., Va, 81 '''''s
Prof Jos. Kreuttner of Lynchburg, Va,
sailed ior Liverpool in thu Spain from New
\ ork Saturday,
Col. Seth Halsey, of Lynchburg, died on
saturday after an illness of some months
OF paralysis. '''S4's'''
Saaaaleyy Brooks, colored, was found
frozen to death in Petersburg, Va, Mon
lay night. ''S' II
AS. Gray has Teen again nominated for
marshall of the Western district of Viz
ginia
Woodville Latham, of Culpeper CO., Va,
eas been appointed an Intergnal. Revenue
clerk.
Rev. Leighton poleman has declined the
of N orthern Wisconsin diocese.
Andrew Hartman, 8 soldier of 1872, died
IN Alleghany, co., Va, last week. !.