Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1876-11-10

in New York had closed, large cloMo OIL
enthusiastic Conservatives gathered IN the
vicinity of the Augusta Female Seminary
to shout out the news. The patrlotlc girls
responded with b,zzas = Mayor Balthls
made the crowd of men dispense, but not
before the girls had gotten the news.
THE CENTENNIAL LIAR.-Old MIS-.
Robertson. who has been to the Centennial,
struck in on Pettingill, last week, With a
talk about that exhibition ofnatlonal pros
perity. She tcld him all about what she
had seen, and then what each one OF her
party had seen. After asking about the
butter woman and hundred wonderful
things that Pettingill had to say, he didn't
see, the old lady asked with much interest:
"Well, what did you see?"
II saw,'' said Mr. Pettingill looking at
her intently, II Saw an ice-cream horse,
life-size, galloping around the track"
ooh, MI. Pettingill,' - said the old lady.
''Y es, madam, you may well say ''oh. u 1t
was wonderful that you didn't see it, but
then they took it back, TO freeze it hard
every five minutes, so you may have missed
it,"
"Oh, Mr.. Pettingill!"
"Y es, madam, and saw the lard eagle,
of which you have spoken, and heard it
scream-a wild scream Of agony, like a
bird that had been talked to death about
the Centennial. AS | left the grounds,
Friday evening, it SCARED up, and flew off
to Cincinnati
och, Mr.. Pettingill!"
eyes. madam, and [ saw the carriage
George Washington rode in, and three
queens and jack that he showed under the
seat when he sat outside OF the church
playing draw-poker, and Mrs. Washington
lighted i'll on him earlier than he expected
from short sermon, and l saw a handful
of his hair that Mrs w. took out that
identical Sabbath morning."
"Oh-h-h, Mr.. Pettingill."
eyes, madam, and | SAW the quilt work
ed by Queen Victoria and the Princess
Beatrice, and all the other Princesses, and
1 counted the nineteen billion, four hun
bred and sixty-fve stitches in it, while l
was standing there"
| ''On, MI. EeUGlnglH.
| eyes, madam, and I saw the silk-making
machine, where you put in a silk-worm at
one end and it comes out at the other d
full-blown silk dress ready-made, with a
live humming bird in the back"
| "Oh, Mr.. Pettingill, wait till go and
call Emily to come in and hear all about
it," and the old lady h urried out.
II won't be here when she comes back"
said Mr.. Pettingill, taking up his hat in d
hurry, land so she may not hear all about
it, but am just determined when l am
talking about this Centennial business to
tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing
but the truth, so help me Bob"
PERsoNAL.-Mr. Hugh F. Lyle, Of
Roekbridge, has purchased the residence Ut
Maj. a. M. Bruce, near town, for $12 ,0O0,
and is to become resident of our vicinity.
Mr.. Lyle is a gen tlemen OF enterprise,
being the proprietor of the Agricultural
Implement Works at Steele's Tavern, and
is besides a most agreeable addition social
| ly to our community.
Rev. Jno. Moomaw, of Botetourt, was in
the city ON Monday last.
CIV. Henry M. Mathews, the Demo-
cratic Governor Of West Virginia, just
elected by IA, 1000 majority, was in this Office
on Friday last
Major Jos. G. Breckenridge, who is in
command of the U. S. troops sent to Pc
tersburg, and who is so highly spoken of
| tho jc of nj A
N. Breckenridge, the efficient steward of
| the Deaf, Dumb and Blind Institution
| here.
Messrs. II. st. G.. Tucker and James V.
Brooks, were admitted to practice in the
Augusta Circuit Court this term.