Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1877-12-28

restoration OF natlOnalLy ana the national
spirit in every part of the counGry.-Louis-
yaUe Courier Journal.
DR.. James w. Poindexter, the oldest
physician in Charlottesville, Va, locked
his office door Monday morning and blew
his brains out with a shot gun, pushing
the trigger with his cane. He had lived
in that town for 40 years and was a promi-
nent member OF the Baptist church, but
morbid apprehension of pending surgical
mind. He was d Past Noble Grand of
Odd Fellows and was 63 years old.
A San Francisco correspondent thinks
that the restaurants in that city beat the
world. In some of them, he says, that are
handsomely furnished, a meal of soup, tur-
key, ham and celery may be had for fifteen
cents. You have what you ask for and
no charge is made. Over the bar is pla-
card, Drinks Is cents.' The drinks
carry the place. For % cents ahne dinner
is given.
The day before Mrs. Emma Shelton, of
Boston was one hundred years old last
week, she read, wrote, and made'three pin
cushions. She is a native of Massachus-
etts, and for tWenty-one years has been an
inmate of the Home for Aged Women.
She was writer of talent, and at the age
of ninety-seven composed a poem in mem
DRY of q friend.
Francis D. Moulton, the famous ''mu-
tual friend' of the Beecher trial, attempt
ed to address DalrymenS' convention at
Chicago, last week, after taking two glasses
of brandy for sickness, and was SO inco-
herent as to attract attention. He eX-
planned the matter at the session next day.
The Georgia farmer who has carried off
the palm this year is Mr.. James H. Book
er. He raised sixty bales of cotton, twelve
hundred bushels OF corn, five hundred of
potatoes, thousand OF oats and wheat,
and twenty-five hogs. The newspapers
chronicle this as the greatest harvest by
any one man during the war.
Clifton Wood, President of the Citizens
National Bank of Sedalia, Mo-, died sud
denly at San Antonio, Texas, on the 9th
inst, just after reaching his hotel. He for
merly lived at BateSville, Abe marie, coun-
ty, Va.
Jno. Carson, his wife and seven children,
travelling from Page CO., Va, to Nortii
Carolina, without money, and in wagon
lum in a station house at Richmond, Tues
day night.
Ben Butler in a speech at Boston Satur-
day night, said: "Mr. Hayes must either
join the democrats or republicans before
February. The republicans in Congress
are solidly against him.
On the 10Th inst. Rev. M. W. Read
married Mr.. Giles johnson to Miss Alice
Richardson, IF Pittsylvania CO.. Va. The
bridegroom was seventeen years old, the
bride thirteen.
The Monroe, W. Va, Register" states
that Miss Lizzie Caperton, a daughter of
the late Senator Allen T. Caperton, has
obtained a clerkship in the Treasury De-
partment.
The Lexington "Gazette'' hopes that
Mr.. Frazier will be expelled from the Leg
islature for his comments on the Cover
nor's message.
The Bank of Berryville: Clark CO., Va,
suspended on the Goth inst. The deposi-
tors will get about fifty per cent. and the
stockholders will lose all-abont $40 ,000
The last Ohio legislature, which was
Republican in both branches, passed a law
excluding colored men from the State mi
litia.
The dwelling of DR.. Henry Gresham,
County Superintendent of Shoots at Tap
pahanock, Va, was burnt Friday morn
ing.
''Belle," a setter bitch, sold by Capt.
Foster, of LoudoEn CO., Va, to Jno. e.
Higgins, of Chicago, was re-sold last week
to II. W. Cause, of Wilmington, Del, for
$500.
Miss Braddon's novels are persistently
ignored by the London Times, which al
lows no mention Of her name in its
columns.
Rev. DR.. E, T. Baird, late Secretary of
the Presbyterian Board of Education,
filed his petition in bankruptcy at Rich
mond, Friday.
1t took R. d. and Mackey Wilson, of
Rockbridge, 5 shots to bring down three
foot wild cat on the Lexington, and Gov
ington turnpike last week.
A marriage license was issued in Wash
ington city, Friday, to Richard r. Jones,
of Lexington, Va, and Mary M. Clark, of
Amherst, Va.
Rev. G.. L. Cook has resigned the pas
toral care of the Presbyterian church at
Collierstown, Rockbridge.
Alabama papers announce that migno-
nette is in blossom and strawberries are
ripe.
Mrs Col. .Jno. H. Fannin, of Thorpe
co., Georgia has sent Ex-Gov. Letcher,
twelve pound sweet potato.
The new year is at hand, and we have all
been taught by Justice Bradley how to
write rs.
A post-of1ice has been established at
Willamson's, Allegheny county, Va, and
L. T. Dickey appointed postmaster.
s'Flora Temple" the celebrated trotting
mare, died near Philadelphia, Friday, aged
thirty-two years.
aGen. VIM. r, Terry, for eight years the
State senator from Bedford, has rented the
Piedmont House, in Lynohburg.
Rev. Moses D. Hoge and Rev. H. Mel
vile jackson have the largest audiences in
Richmond.
I. B. 1. Logan, of Roanoke CO., was
found dead in the road, near Salem,
Friday.
A hog weighing 900 pounds is on exhibit
ton at Winchester, Va. 4