Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1875-05-14

luO0GlS pQI1lng C6oLI, anu Ill lie emu OF
that time half the people had empty gums,
and a bone dust factory in the neighbor-
borhood doubled its workmen so as to
grind up the teeth Meanwhile the peo-
pie were waiting for the dentist to fit them
with new sets, but the abandoned sceun-
drel eloped with the hotel-keeper's wife,
and now there are two or three thousand
people in town who cannot eat anything
tougher than soup and farina. All the
butchers have failed; not a cracker has
been sold for three weeks. One man, it is
said, whitfield out set of wooden teeth
for himself, but the first drink of whisky
in a blaze, and his funeral came off next
day. The dentist will hear something to
his advantage if he comes back.
Among the names to the call for the for
nation Of can International Association
for protecting Game and Fish, is that of
Capt. Jacob Wagner, OF Wytheville, Va.
President Grant regrets in note to Miss
Murphy, of New York, that public busin-
esS prevented his attending her wedding.
Public business" Well, that's good.
A teachers institute commenced at Will
liam and Mary College chapel Tuesday,
Lid IL
pated in by the faculty of the College.
Mrs. Betsy Scott, of Botetourt CO., Va,
ate hearty supper Friday evening and
went out to visit a neighbor. As she re-.
turned she fell in the road, dead
The Virginia Maryland boundary line
commission, with Attorney General Dan
lei and Judge Robertson for Virginia, is
ill session in Washington city.
The President has appointed John T.
Gibson to be postmaster at Huntington,
W. Va, vice M. H. Brooks, suspended
under the tenure Of Office act.
Mrs. Sprague, in Europe, has sent
telegram to Washington, forbidding the
sale of the law library of her father, the
late Chief Justice Chase.
Vice President Wilson spoke at Memphis
last week, on his way to Texas, on wb at
looks very like canvass for the Republic
can nomination in '76.
VIM. S. King, ex-postmaster of the
House, has been indicted by the Grand
Jury of Washington for perjury in the
Pacific mail bribery.
The ''Virgn purity of the green and
the quietude that prevails'' is the puff
given by a book agent to the ancient city
of Alexandria, Va.
William S. King, of Pacific Mail subsidy
notoriety, has returned to his home at
Minneapolis, MIMI, and seems to be as
cheerful as ever.
The Confederate Memorial procession at
| Augusta Ca, last week was headed by the
| band OF the 18th U. S. infantry in full re-
gulation uniform.
| Hon. James T.. Morehead, a brother of
the late Governor Morehead, of N. c.. anu
himself once prominent in North Carolina
| politics, Is dead.
Prof. j. II. Hewitt, recently of Balti-
more, has accepted position as professor
OF music in the Valley Female College, at
Winchester, Va.
At the municipal election held in Berk-
eley Springs, West Virginia, on Saturday
| last, L. t. Conn was elected mayor with
out opposition.
1.-THE editorial chair of the late Jno. M.
Daniel' is advertised for sale among the
furniture Of the late COL Thos. III. Wynne,
at Richmond.
MIC. F. Joplisi, clerk of sthe steamer
| Mary Ament, and native of Franklin CO.,
| Va, was drowned at Memphis on Tuesday
of last week.
Robert Bonner, proprietor Of the New
York Ledger, has given $1O9, 900 to Rev.
! DIR. Halls new church, on Fifth avenue, in
| that city.
Gen. Pryor, during the argument in the
Beecher trial Monday was three times
compelled by by attacks Of vertigo to, seek
| open air.
Vice-President Wilson visited General
breckenridge, last week, and it was
| most agreeable meeting, recalling old
| times.
Sixteen illicit distilleries were smashed
last week, near Abingdon, Va, by troop
OF 70 U. 5. officers, armed and mounted.
O. C. Billings, who left Shenandoah CO.,
Va, with his family, for Texas, a few
weeks since, died there on the 4th inst.
Carl Sehurz intended to sail in the lost
steamship Schiller from New York, but
was detained by banquet given him.
The mission meetings at the Lexington,
Va. Catholic Church under the Redemp-
zionist Fathers, are still progressing.
The "Green Forest'' farm Of 400 acres,
in Rockbridge, has been sold to B. F.
Moomaw, of Botetourt, for $4,000.
The Southern Baptist Convention, now
in session, has fixed on Richmond, Va, as
the place for meeting, next May.
Up to Wednesday there had been 2s5
conversions under the preaching of Rev.
DR.. Rosser, at Lynchburg, Va.
VIM. r. Creery, Superintendent of the
Public Schools of Baltimore, died last week
of Inflammation of the brain.
There are entire counties in Mississippi
where there is no resident minister of the
gospel of any denomination!
Rev. Dr.. Geo. Weber, of Kent Hill, |
Maine, committed suicide by hanging at !
that place Monday morning.
The decoration of the graves in Stone
wall Cemetery, Winchester, Va, will take
place on Saturday, June. |
The Wildman troupe commenced an en-
of six nights at Salem, Roanoke !
co., Va, Monday hight.
The Hon. Jefferson Davis has been ten
dered the presidency of the Bryan (Texas)
Agricultural College
McKennon, the bond flu nder, is on his
way from Chicago to Richmond in the |
hands of detective, !
Ben. Hill has been elected to Congress
rom the Ninth district in place of Nc
MILAN, deceased.
John Bowyer Caldwell died at the White
Sulphur Springs, last week, in the 10th
rear of his age.
The farmers long tn Va. s. Tennessee
3, r. are putting in an UNUSUALLY large |