Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1877-07-20
A Ringing Letter from a Lee.
ssRIcHLAND, STAFFORD CO., VA,
july Ia. 1877.

1.-THE dispute of meeting it is to be
solved by the Legislature.
ssIf were so nonored as to be Governor
of Virginia [ would in all earnestness CO.
operate with that body in every measure
that strictly complied with an observance
of the sacredness of the public faith.
ssTo the remaining portion of your queS-
ton answer that [ consider the State and
its public schools are co-exlstent-th death
of the one to take place at the termination
of the life of the other.
''For the harmony of the great Conser-
vative party, Ideprecate the agitat ion of
these subjects no,C, and were it not dis
courteous would not have replied to your
letter, though 1 care not who knows my
ing the honor, glory and prosperity of Vir-
ginia.
"Most respectfully, your obedient ser
want, FITzHUGn LEE"
In meeting of the Massachusetts Den
tai Society, DR.. G. F. Waters described
and tested very simple and easy remedy
for burns and scalds, consisting simply in
covering the affected part with the COM
mon bicarbonate of soda-the ordinary
soda used in cooking and then OVERLAPPING
wet cloth. The severe pain is Immediate
ly relieved, and the burn rapidly heals.
DR.. Waters poured boiling water on one OF
his wrists, aud then he applied the soda
and the wet cloth.
All of the original manuscripts of Dick
| ems novels, except those OF the "Pickwlck
Papers, and Nicholas Nickleby," with
| his autograph corrections OF most OF the
| proOf-sheets, are now exhibited at the
South Kensiugton museum, TO which they
We're bequeatned by MIR. John Foster.
Philadelphia's vagrant dogs are kept a
few days in the pound, and then, if no one
claims and pays for them, they are thrown
Into IL small tWo-story brick building ill
which charcoal fires are started, the doors
and windows are closed tight, and in three
VI four minutes they die OF asphyxla.
| J. w. Adams, of Pittsylvania, varied his
already married life by going over to Roa-
noke CO., a few weeks ago and marrying
| his cousin, with whom he lived for six
Weeks and then went back to his former
wife, He will have tO>explain this freak
to the county Judge.
Judge RAelne, OF Luzerne county, Pa,
had case before him in which the funeral
| expenses were $40 - olie-fuu,th of the
| Whole p SOlal estate OF the deceased. He
| refused to allow it, and delivered whole
some lecture on expensive funerals.
Joseph Maphis, of Mt. Jackson, Shenan-
doah county, has cut a crop Of thirty BUSH
els Of wheat to the acre, Off land that cost
only $50 per acre. Fifty bushels to one
acre is the latest brag cutting III Page
county.
A man's body was found bound to a tree
in the Blue Mountains Of Oregon The
| throat WAS cut and there were marks of a
terrific lashing. Fas. eneG to the tree was
Il piece of paper with d nearI, oblitera tee:
Inscription.
w. X. Bocock, a Master of Arts of Wash
ington Il Lee University, and who received
the Sanlini medal for the best essay pub
ished in the ''Colleg ian" during the past
year, has received Il position . Il the Ph.a-
| delphia Times"
| Virginia Gs fell off in Baltimore 10 per
cent. in few days, owing, the "GaZette's"
commercial review says, ito recent polti-
Cal speeches in Virginia, i'll which repudia-
ton or semi-repudiation was virtually ell
dorsed.''
A sudden draugbt of hot air is reported
to have passed through a cotton field and
| peach orchard i'll western Texas, Il few days
ago, Scorching and killing every green
thing it touched for d space of 40 yards
wide and 400 yards long.
The monument of the Sunday school
children to Bliss, the sweet singer, was I'M
Was f H5 eaee f fnnH VAS cohtriba1sd
10y 3,G63 Sunday schools some away off in
India.
Gen. Jubal Early was in St. Louis on
Sunday, on his way home from the Arkan-
sas Hot Springs, where he has been for
S me weeks enueavoiing TO find relief for
rheumatic affections and an ailment of the
| right eye.
Rev G. NJ. Howard is still preaching at
Rocky Mount, Franklin CO., VA, some
nights to as many us lie thousand people.
The meetings Are i'll the open air and the
lumber of converts sometimes rs high as
l25 in Il night.
Buffalo Bill was drunk ON his opening
night, in a Nevada theatre. He bunglcd
through his PAL t, and the manager deduct
ed $500 from his pay iii consequence. TIE
actor has commenced a lawsuit.
Most of the Maine hotels Lave no wine
lists. The Bangor House, however, still
has the heading ON its bill Of lare, but be-
Meath it there is only this: "W would, if
we could.''
Just as the Empress of Brazil stepped
| INTO thu railroad carriage to leave Paris,
| size n Used u casket containing Diamonds
worth $500 900. 1t had been left behind,
but was quickly recovered.
The coal she'd at Mt. Vernon Iron
| Works, near Port Republic, in Rocking
ham county, caught fire from sparks from
| tie furnace and Were destroyed, together
| with a considerable quantity of charcoal.
| Several circuses this year pay no wages
| to ordinary laborers. Work is so scarce
that men are willing to engage for their
| board alone, the privilege of travel being
| also an incentive.
Grant, who is to he the Republican can
didate in 1880, writes back from England
that he is "a lirst-class Hays man, and
| believes i'll his policy"
The I.odies of Gen. Custer and his regi-
ment have been brought in from the West,
and will be buried at T 1T Leavellsworth.
except Custer, who will be buried at West
Point.
Intelligent farmers estimate that in three
square mills around Big Lick, Roanoke
county, Va 100. 900 bushels of wheat were
raised this season. One farm of sixty acres
in this area yields forty bushels to the
acre.
The infant son of Mr.. Oliver j. School
craft and the late Mrs. Matte Ould School.
craft, died in Richmond on Thursday, the
18th inst.-aged two months.
In a district of Northamptonshire, Eng
land, school board has decide to give
glass of beer to each of the elder pupils
WHO at the end of the day is at the head of
his class.