Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1877-04-20
Jno. W. Arbuckle has been elected mayo
of LeWisburg. W, Va,

| Jno. W. Arbuckle has been elected mayor
of Lewisburg, W. Va.
| Major Baker P. Lee has been appoi nted
clerk to Col. Carter, recently elected State
Railroad Commissioner
DR.. A. Chapman, of Giles county, Va.
WIS paralyzed last week, while leading his
horse to the stable.
The real estate delinquent list Of Lexing-
ton, Va, for 1876, is only $63 rs, and the
| insolvent list, $55.l1.
( Jos. B. Wilson, of Collierstown, Rock
| bridge, has given $1,000 to Hampden-Sid-
| ney College.
One hundred guns were fred Wednes-
| day in Worcester, Mass, in honor of W ade
| Hampton.
Bishop Doggett lectured in Front ROYAL,
| Va, last week, for the benefit Of the Metho-
| dist parsonage.
| All who know Judge Cochran of Staun-
ton, will be rejoiced to learn that he is rapid
ly recovering from his recent severe attack
of paralysis Warren Va.) Sentinel
N b. Meade, Chairman of the Conser-
vative State Executive Committee, has
resigned, and will take a short vacation
from editorial duty in the Valley.
Rev. Joseph Keebraugh has been
| sentenced to nineteen years in the Mis-
souri, penitentiary for forging $50, geo worth
Of paper in settling up his father-in-law's
estate.
Capt. Chas. Levy, clerk CT the St. Louis
city court, and who was formerly a rner-
chant-tailor in Charlottesville, Va, died
act Ia +oI So
Thaddeus Norris, the great locomotive
builder of Philadelphia, died, Wedn, s(lay.
of paralysis. He was native Of Warren
ton, Virginia.
A Richmond man, IS years Of age, was
a arunkard at So, but swore off and never
touched anything but water since. His
entire diet is cat meal and two boiled eggs
Il day.
Col. Joseph J. Graham, who several ses-
sions represented Wythe county in the
Virginia legislature, both in the Senate
and House, died suddenly Of rheumatism
of tue heart, last week.
Under the preaching of Rev. g. M.
Howard, at Floyd c.. H.; Va, over zoo
persons have come to the seat of PRAYER.
and one hundred and thirty have protested
conversion.
Joseph Sprouts, OF Washington county,
| Va, has pet black perch in his spring,
which allows itself to be picked I'D, ted,
rubbed and played with like dog. il was
put there five years ago, aud is 20 inches
long and six wide.
Senator Moffett has word from the pa
tent office i'll Washington that there is no
difficulty about his patent for the punch,
though the agents OF the liquor men from
Richmond are there bitterly opposing it.
In Baltimore the proprietor of d colored
boarding house has exemplifed the negro
idea OF the civil rights bill by turning
Rey. j. W. Dungee, THAT Conservative
Niger from Richmond" out Of his house,
on account OF his politics.
Gen. G. W. Custis Lee has entered suit
for tie recovery of the Arlington, estate,
bought for taxes 10y the United States in
the begll mig OF the war. Francis L.
Smith OF Alexandria and VIM. j. Roberts
son OF Charlottesville, are his lawyers.
Chas. L. Roadway, the agent of Wheeler
d Wilson's sewing machines, in Rich
mond, has been arrested for seducing Laura
Mitchell, a nllllners apprentice, from her
home, and attempting the same thing with
a younger sister. The gills were from the
country, MlddleseX county, and the elder
sister fell an easy prey.
Miss Emma Abbott said to a Toledo re-
porter that she did not esteem it a disa-
greeable task at all to talk to a newspaper !
man. This was very kind of her, indeed |
Now we should like to hear the enewspa-
per mans side OF the question. J