Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1876-04-14

Staunton and Harrisonburgcfn now add
two grand and glorious records to their
black lists. Whist there may not be many
"black Sheep in these citi IS, some Of them
are becoming very spotty. There were
few, but very few, respectable white astray
sheep in the fold, but, alas, they were gam
moned, and laid out upon a black plank.
If our Valley towns are to have caudle ap
pendages, why not ct them have spotted
ones? They are much prettier than pure
black. Then there is q certain white ele-
ment which so naturally blends with the
colored. Let it be thus. though the odor
may not he pleasant to some.-Newmar&et
(Va.) VALLEY. /
The duty of each individual member of i
the party is plain, and with energy and de-
termination success must follow. The !
time is fast approaching, and the Sprinr [
election will give opportunities for useful |
preparation fol- tie great struggle Of the |
coming Fall Be in the ranks yourself, |
AID see tn IT yoAr friends are there also.
Support the candidates, whether they be
your personal choice OF not; they represent
the party, and supporting tLcm you supper;
the party. This is no ordinary occasion. =
| picI,n.ou,l Enquirer.
Mr.. Attorney Cihel Of two courses:
| one. If Culeman's charges had any wei2! It
whatever, th.y ought To nave been b ought
| to the attention Of the grand jury. lft !'ey
| had no weight, the matter Sh 'uil nave been
| locked in y III own breast. AS 1T Is. tie
| public has an idea that something is With
| held, and at all events it wants to know
what that something is, even if, as the
correspondents allege, that something is
nothing. Richmond Neecs.
Gov. Ii tcner's illness was calamity to
| the State; had his earnest, honest words
| been continued, we believe Il tax bill would
| have been framed sufficient to meet the de-
mands upon the treasury. AS 1t was, tue
House was deprived OF his wisdom at the
most critical time in the course OF leglsla-
/ ton, and the consequence was, nothing
| was done. It would have been better for
| the State had the Legislature never met
Lexington Gazette.
1t is hard to get our people to take any
interest in local affairs, but they must be
educated up to the sticking point, else the
power of the many will go to the few -
Richmond Guide.
Ten dollars to a cent that DR.. Deems
never lectures in Richmond any more
Richmond State.
SAD WARNING TO GIRLs.-A little
girl down town, on Monday, fell W hlie
Jumping q rope, and WAS carried into the
house. Where she expired. She had jumped
hundred times, and the excessive eXer-
else brought on hemorrhage Of the lungs
She had been IN declinin G health for..some
time previous ly.-Philade!phaa Star.
MI Jonn Wood, jr., who was lately in
dicted for ENLIGHTENMENT in connection
with the Charlottesville National Bank,
resigned his position as Secretary of the
Albemarle Insurance Company, but the
directors of that company refuse to accept
his resignation, and say they have per feet
confidence in his integrity.
Mrs. Edwin Forrest complains in the
papers that of the $64 900 she recovered
from her husband estate in the court her
counsel, O'Conor, kept $4,000 for his
! services, and then had the effrontery to &C
cept silver tea-set from her friends as q
recognition Of his disinterested labors
Rev. DR.. A. E. Dickinson closed an ap-
peal for foreign missions in Washington,
D. c., last Sunday, by asking the congre-
cation to contribute tlvo hundred and fifty
dollars (S250). The baskets went ar ound >,
and brought up two hundred and fifty dol
| lars and one cent.
/ The testimonials from all quarters goes
4 to prove that the First Congressional
4 District Of Virginia has the right man in
the right place, in sending Beverly B.
| Douglas to Congress.
! Robert Dabney, one Of the Professors of
the University Of the South, at SuWanee,
Tennessee, is dead. He was a brother-in-
law of the Hon. John L. Marye, Jr., Of
! Fredericksburg.
Rev. Theodore Reed, of Leesburg, son of
the Mayor eff Winchester, has been request
| ed by the Vestry Of st. Paul's Petersburg,
Va, to become assistant rector Of chat
| church.
TIT OF bo inv ii.ati Of N!pS nj
visited the White House on Sunday even
| ing and sang several songs, Mrs. Fred.
Grant accompanying her in a manner
which won the great artists commenda-
GiOn.
Miss Janetta Bennett, sister of the pro-
prietor of the New York 'Herald,n is
about to leave her great fortune to the
Catholic Church, and retire to q convent.
Rev. J. W. Dickey, of the Holston NJ
E. Conference, in charge of the Abingdon
Circuit, is dead. He was quite q promi-.
nent member of his church.
Robertson says he always considered
BeIknap the soul of honor. So Shepherd
considered Babcock Honor seems popu-
lar among these thieves.
Simeon Marshall, ofCarroll CO., Va, is
IS years of age and has two hundred and
tWenty-four desceEdants-a fearful result
of a 81 marriage license.
The Vue de L'Eau hotel not far from
Norfolk, Va, was burned last week. Loss,
$40 900, ON which there was an insurance
of 900.
Rev. Dr.. Bittle, President of Roanoke
College, delivered Temperance address
at Liberty, Bedford, an hour in length,
last week.
Mrs. Ann Ninten, of Rockbridge, fell
dead on Wednesday last at the residence
of MI. John Dryden, while dressing butter.
DR.. M. A. Berry, formerly of Shenandoah
CO., has been nominated by the Democrats
of HagerstoWn for Mayor of that town.
Col. John Mercer Waller committed
suicide at his residence in Spottsy lvania |
county last Thursday night.
Typhoid fever is prevailing in Monroe
CO., w. Va. and many valuable citizens have
died within two weeks past.
A Festival Of all Nations is to be held
in Richmond, Easter Monday, for the
benefit of Grace Church.
DR.. Geo. w. Wayt, popular young
dentist Of Richmond, died Friday, of
bleeding at the nose.
Father tt.,yan, the "poet-priest,' of Mo-
bile, Is lyin dangerously i'll Of congestion
of the Brain.
'sFishtown, " a well known quarter of
va, was burnt last week. :
loss, SIT GOO.
A man near Muretown, Rockingham,
co., Va, has been fined $40 for cutting off +
a cows tail.
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