Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1878-06-21

Howard Miller. the Tunker minister of
Pennsylvania, who recently made tour oil
the Valley of Virginia, writes home thai
the kindness and courtesy he received leads
him to believe that the northern man who
behaves himself, IN the ordinary accepta-
ton Of the term, will find pleasant home
among the people Of Virginia.
Rev. L. H. Boyle, of Hutchinson, KY,
was found dead in his room in the Bates
House, Indianapolis, last week. From en-
tries in his diary it was presumed he haC
committed suicide by morphine. though
there was nothing to indicate it.
In the Senate last week resolution was
reported to pay Joseph Segar of Virginia
So 900 in full compensation for his expen
ses in prosecuting his claim to Sat in the
Senate as Senator from the State of
Virginia.
Prof. John L. Buchanan, of Emory and
Henry College, has been elected to chail
in Vanderbilt University at Nashville
with salary of $1,000 and residence, and
has accepted the position.
Albert W. Edgerly, lawyer of Lynn
Mass, forbade his wife to go to a circus
doors locked against her. He refuses tc
live with her. altho ugh their previous
eight months of married life was felicitous
Two of Bismark's nieces, with whom be
had quarrelled, for some reason reported
as futile, were lately applicants at Lon.
don agency for situations as gOvernesSes
They required the families to be titled
and doubtless demanded handsome com.
peEsation.
The Crown Princess of Denmark is six
feet high and has mania for dancing.
She is sensitive about her height and will
only dance with tall men. Mr.. Montague
Guest was the victim while the Princess
was i'll London.
Mr.. and Mrs. Monroe of Atlantic, Iowa
agreed to separate, but neither would con.
sent that the other should retain their
baby. They settled the question by sell
ing the infant to neighbor for $50.
Grant, according to his hopeful offspring
Jesse, considers the fraud Investigation "a
reckless, foolish piece of business" Grants
anxiety over Democratic mistakes is
affecting in the extreme.
The West Point ssStar'' editorially en-.
dorses Hon. B. B. Douglas for re-nomina-
ton to Congress from that district, and
states that the sentiment in King William
is almost unanimous for him.
Ex-Governor Horatio Seymour, of New
York. has been corresponding with the
War Department in relation to the adop-
ton of cheese as an army ration.
The political disabilities of William C.
Whittle, Thomas L. Moore and H. A. Ed
mundson. of Virginia, have been removed
also of General E. Kirby Smith, of Tennes-
see.
The Washington "Gazette" states that
Hon. B. W. Lacey, Of New Kent, will be a
candidate for Congress in the second Vir-
ginia lGoode's) district.
Gen: Beverly Robertson, the ex-Confed-
crate cavalryman, has been summoned to
West Point, n. Y, as a witness in the
Fitz John Porter court-martial
A Salt Lake husband asked for divorce
because his wife had not inf rmed him be-
fore their marriage that one OF her arms
was badly SCARED.
The students at Wesleyan University,
Midd,etowp, Conn.,, have been command
ed by the faculty hot to attend projected
commencement ball.
The indefatigable Mrs. Gaines has got
ten verdict for possession of the land on
which the toWn of Kennersyllle, La. is
built.
1t has just been discovered that the quail,
ity of humor is not strained. This will ac-
count for it's too frequent coarseness.
Seventy Thousand lots in Chicago are
ADVERTISED for sale for delinquent taxes,
London Society men are said to fall off
in their dancing every season,