Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1877-07-13

Elijah Killam, farmer OF Wayne CO.,
Pa, last Saturday kissed his wife and
family, saying he would be dead man De
fore night He went into the field with
a pitchfork on his shoulder. and lightning
struck the pitchfork, killing Killam III
stantly.
Mr.. E. V. Smalley who has recently
made tour of the South, writes to the
New York "Tribune'' that ITO give TIL
negroes in the South political ascendancy
over the whites was the most horribly gro
tesque experiment ever tried in the science
of government"
Regarding the meeting called for Au-
gusta county July court, the Piedmont
'sNews" says it is glad to see the call for
it will now give an opportunity for testing
the real sentiments of the people OF Au-
gusta upon this important question, both
parties having full notice, and equal OPP
pOrtunltleS.''
The term of VIM. D. Coleman, Secretary
of Board of Public Works. four years in
the penitentiary, will expire in October
next. and the Richmond "Whig." says:
''Coleman's friends say that he will marry
and 90 into business here as soon as he re-
gains his liberty.
Rev. M. D. Hcge, of Richmond on his
VOYAGE across the ocean to the Pan-Presby-
terian Council, occupied the state room
with Vandenhoff, the actor. who told many
anecdotes of Kean, Mrs. Nisbet, Madame
Vestris and others.
An infantry company was organized at
Woodstock, Va, last Saturday night. j.
w. Magruder was elected captain, John
G. OFT, first lieutenant, and I. Hite Bird,
second lieutenant.
Miss Van Lew, postmaster at Richmond,
paid the taxes and added the following
protest: fakes paid under protest, hav-
ing bitterly realized the need Of the ballot,
and being as Il woman denied that right"
VIM. Hicks, natl of Charleston, W.
Va, who fought through the war in Car
penter's Confederate battery. was killed at
| Connellsville, Pa, Oh the 4th of July,
whilst rammlng a cannon, salute firing.
! S. T. Grands.atf. died suddenly of
cholera morbus i'll Page CO., Va, on Fri
| day morning. On Monday The neighbors,
/ to the number Of thirty-slx, assembled and
harvested his whole crop for his widow.
! While the government and big people of
I.ngland are receiving Grant with eclat
| q London papers give some unsavory
collections of the corruptiOns OF his ad-
| Illustration.
| Col. "Lige" White, who commanded
| y. hite's guerillas so well known i'll Vlr-
q mia has become a Baptist minister and
! preached in Page CO., Il few days ago. He
| described as I'LL admirable preacher.
DIR. Satter gave another concert in Char.
| l,ttesville, Friday night, assisted by
| Messrs Knox and LentZ, and Misses Will
klns and Mcpherson. His audience was
very small.
The Winchester Chimes says G. E.
Fisher, the manager OF the Taylor Hotel
took French leave Friday night with about
5000 of the hotel funds, and some jewelry
belonging to one Of the clerks.
The second trial of Anderson Shiflett at
Harrrisonburg, for the murder of DaviC
e. Lawson, ended Wednesday with a YER
dict of murder in the first degree.
A divorce suit was filed in the County
Court of Ba>trop county, Texas, and il
| one hour the divorce was granted. The
| divorced man married another woman thai
night.
Tilton is now at home again in Brook
Ign, having finished a lecture tour which
! took HIM into every State in the Union but
three, and over 26, 500 miles of travel.
The circulating medium of England anc
Ireland is $50 per capita, that of France
| $40, while that of the United States is on
| " $16,4S.
Justice Fields circuit requires him tt
travel nine thousand miles every year
The expense is borne by himself, the judges
not being allowed mileage.
Geo. c. Tanner, of Spartansburg, S. G..
an ex-Confederate soldier, has been appoin.
| ted consul to Liege, Belgium, on recon.
mendation of Gov. Hampton.
Billy White, Georgia's strong negro, kills
a steer by throwing it over his head, and
lifts two hundred pound man by the belt
with his teeth.
Capt. John Freeman, we'll known citi-
zen of Richmond, died on Sunday night
last He was the father of Capt. John
Henry Freeman.
Gen. Joseph E. Johnston and lady are
stopping at the Hot Springs, Bath county,
! Va.
Robt. Garrett, of Baltimore, Ex-Presi-
dent of the Valley r. R., sailed for Europe
last week in search of health.
Archbishop Bailey, of Baltimore, is in a
Trappist monastery in France, suffering
| from softening of the brain.
Rev. DR.. Mcbride, late Chaplain of the
| University of Va, has been called to the
Episcopal Church, of Fredericksburg.
Governor Kemper has returned to Rich
mond from the Virginia Military Insti-
There are 200 visitors at the Capon
Springs.