Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1876-04-28
Miss Mollie Stockton. of Wionemucc;

Miss Mollie Stockton, of Wionemucca.
Nevada. has published card in the local
paper Of that place explaining why she
sswhaled" her schoolmaster, ''Althougll
| am only fifteen years of age" writes this
young woman, am we'll aware that the
poor female is too often trampled down
without just cause"
The dwelling of James Stewart, near
Onancock, in Accomac CO., Va, was
burnt Friday night of last week by the ex-
plosion of a lamp, burning Mrs. Stewards
father and five of her children to death.
She and her husband were absent with the
other five of the children.
For terseness and comprehensiveness
Horatio Seymour's boil-doWn of the politi-
cal situation is the most successful to date
1.-The Republicans have lost the confidence
of the country-and the Democrats haven't
gained it," That is the whole thing in u
nutshell.
Last Friday three Choctaws, one Chero-
kee, one negro named Wilson, from Vir-
glnla, and A white man named VIM. Leach,
from Georgia, were hung for murder at
Fort Smith, Arkansas. They were all con-
victed at the last term of the u s. Court.
A prominent tobacconist of Danville,
Va. Colonel J. T. Stovall, proposes that
the Danville tobacco men send at once to
California fol one or two Thousand China
men. and employ them i'll their facto-
rleS, dc.
Not long since Governor Kemper sold
his two farms-one to Colonel John P.
Aylor; the other to Mr.. L. Early. On the
first OF April the Governor also sold all his
personal property.
Rev. J. M. P. Atkinson d. D., Presi
dent of HampIen-Sdney College, is in
New York city, endeavoring to secure
funds for the endowment of That institu-
ton.
Miss Sallie Darlington Mrs. Whitaker),
once a famous and popular danseuse in
i edmond, has just been divorced there
and resumed her maiden name,
1t is said that the Marine Band, in Wash
ington, has BEEN forbidden to play $50
Gently O'er Me Stealing, !" as it is considered
personal by SO many in power.
Rev. Geo. w. Howe, of the United
Brethren, at Winchester, was stricken
down in the street by severe illness last
week. He is recovering.
Mr.. Siddons, the elocutionist, who read
not long ago in Staunton, is to play in
Hamlet, in New Y ork, with the rid iculous
"Count Joannes."
Mrs. Wood, wife of John 9. Wood, of
the Charlottesville Bank, fell down the
steps of her residence last Monday, and
was badly hurt
Ex-Mayor G. P. Snyder, of Charleston,
w. Va, was severely stabbed by school
teacher named Nash, there, Thursday
evening.
A. very clever woman has said: 81 do
not wish anybody to do anything naughty
but if they do [ want to know all about
lt.'
Maj. Cyrus Newlin had hemorrhage in
the saloon of the Wickham House at Hin
ton. W. Va, Friday, and died next day.
A chicken-hawk measuring TWENTY-FIVE
inches from beak to the end of the tail has
been killed near Lacy Springs, Rockingham.
Maj. J. G. Hill, former delegate to the
legislature from Albemarle county, has
purchased the Scottsyille ''Courier.''
Rev. G. M. Howard, the revivalist, is
expected back in Virginia in few weeks
with great improved health.
Milton T. Clarke, late of the Front
Royal, Va, "Sentinel," died at Hot
Springs, Ark, on the 18th inst.
G, B. Rouss. formerly merchant in the
Valley, has been acquitted Of the charges
against him in New York.
Jas. A. Anderson, a member of the Vir
ginia Senate from Nicholas CO., before the
war, died On the Sth inst.
Gen. Braxton Bragg was recently rev
jected as city engineer by the City Council
of Galveston.
Madame Breslau gave reading at Fair
mont, W: va, a few nights ago, to slim |
audience