Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1878-02-22

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A Baltimore druggist openly advertises
sulphide of arsenicum, a preparation of
arsenic, as 5eautifier of women. do
you wish to be beautiful ?'' he asks, and
then continues, ''Your complexion can be
made like milk and roses" He also prom
ises that the poisonous preparation lean
o no HARM" but. on the contrary, lis
highly benefcial' and will s'cause the
most angular and scrawny to become plump
and rosy"
The Third Regiment of French Zouaves,
observing Victor Emanuel's bravery at
the battle of Palestro during the war with
Austria, elected him a corporal Of the reg
iment, a distinction of which the King
was proud. His name was, until recently
daily called by the officer on duty, and the
oldest soldier present would advance
and reply, ''Absent ON leave.'' The
Regiment has conferred the same rank on
King Humbert.
A Minneapolis boy was sent by his teach
er, woman, to tie superintendent to be
whipped. The lad suspected the contents
of the note and hi ed boy he met on the
street to deliver it, giving him ten cents
castigation was over that the boy he had
logged had not seen the inside of school
house for month.
John Walton, areturning emigrant from
Texas to his old home in Christiansburg,
Montgomery county, Va, was found dead
in sleeping car only a few miles from
home, on Saturday, emaciated almost to
a skeleton. Chas. 0. Denny, of Clarke
county, who went to Texas and died of
fever, was brought home and buried last
week.
A member of the Kentucky Legislature
got very drunk one Sunday in Frankfort,
bnt, being a deacon, his home habits led
him to go into church, where he insisted
on passing a contribution plate, and be-
came so boisterOus that his removal by
force became necessary.
A San Francisco tailor advertised that
he would make dresses for women; and q
fashionable dressmaker, resentful of the
rivalry, advertised that she would make
mems clothes lin the latest styles, at low
prices, and warranted to fit.'
While the two children, boy and girl,
Of Mr.. Sug, living near Raleigh, were
swinging Saturday, the boy fell out and
the rope became twisted around the girls
neck, causing death before she could be
released.
The first strawberries received in New
7 DIRK this season were sent there from
Norfolk last week. They were OF the Will
son variety, and brought 81 per box.
These berries We're of course raised in a hot
house.
A telegram from Richmond, Va, says
Dr.. A. S. McRae, former professor Of
anatomy in the Richmond Medical College
and Ex-State Senator from that city, has
just been appointed by Gov. Holiday a
member of the capitol police force,
A wagon load of misery recently passed
through Carson, New. 1t contained sick
mother, a tired-out father, two children
dying with diptheria, and the dead body
of an infant.
A resolution to censure Senator Lamar
for his speech against the silver bill, and
another to thank Bruce for his efforts in
its favor, have been defeated in the MISS
issippi Senate.
Two thieves entered Judge Alexander's
residence in Thomasyille, S. c., and find
ing the dining table set, took the table |
cloth by the four corners and carried it !
away with everything ON 1t.
Maj. Charles H. Lee has sold bis farm, |
''Dhnbarton," lying near Middseburg, in |
Loudon, and containing 2l3 acres, to Mr..
Boiling Haxall, of Culpeper, for $5S per
acre.
Mrs Anna Barner, formerly a lady Of
considerable means ard station, died in T
the poor house at Lenoir, N, c., Sunday |
night, of a broken heart,
Chicago is in abad way. There is no mon
~ III the city treasury, and the Supre me
court prohibits borrowing in anticipa ton
If the taxes.
Mansfield Tenn sent its negro centen-
arian to the Philadelphia Exhibition in
1875 and in 1878 let him die of cold and
starvation.
The deaths Of John Clarke, Of Lynch
ourg: Chas. /. Wood. of Frederick, and
samuel Watkins, of Botetourt, all old and
Hell-knoWn citizens, are announced.
In France murderer Of his father or
mother is guillotined in q particular cosz
ume-yiz., a long shirt and a black veil
around bis head.