Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1878-02-15

s'Enquirer' of SATURDAY. last. says:
"Of fifteen. Richmcnd couples Of the best !
society married this seasons ten have I
eloped Sc The latest sensation of the kind |
happened last night, when Miss Mamie |
Freeland, d beautiful belle,s17 years Of |
age, ran off with James Fox, an attache of
the Richmond and Danville Railroad. Miss |
Freeland is the daughter of a deceased |
millionaire, and Mr.. Fox ispoor but hand |
some. When the mother learned the news, |
she gave vent to her feelings by rushing |
into the street (Franklin. street, the bou-
levard of RichmOnd) and crying, sob, my |
daughter!'' The daughter was supposed I
to be affianced to wealthy banker in |
LouiSville.' |
have formed union for the establishment |
of fixed grade of fees. All requests for
immediate attendance, or for attendance
at fixed hour, are charged double the
amount of visits at the convenience of the |
physician. Night visits are charged 50, So |
and 81, according to the social grade of the !
patient. The Havre public are excited on |
the question, and consider the rate eXorbi- |
tant.
A Zurich newspaper has the following |
my friends and acquaintance the sad news |
that at 2. M. tomorrow 1 shall incine-
rate, according to all the rules of art, my
late mother-in-law, who has fallen asleep |
with faith in her Lord. The funeral urn |
will be placed near the furnace. The pro-
foundry afflicted son-in-law, Brandolf |
Lichter.''
The English army has long enjoyed the |
reputation of being the most extensively |
dressed in Europe. The most costly uni
form is that of staff sergeant IN the Foot |
Guards. to clothe whom entails upon the !
country about $40 per man per annum, and |
the cheapest man to equip is the negro |
private OF the West India regiments, whose
picturesque Zouave uniform costs about |
$12 per annum.
The State of Georgia lets out its con-
victs for $14 year apiece to companies
that furnish guards and employ the prison.
ers in mines or ON farms. A contract has
just been entered into between eX Cover
nor Brown and che State by which the for
mer agrees to pay the latter $500, DOC in
yearly installments of $25 900 for the use Of
all convicts for 20 years from April, 1879.
In the contest for President of Bryan
(Texasl College between S. Minor, a Mis-
sissippi black and grad uate Of Western
college, and two white ministers, Minor
is said to be highly recommended as a
scholar by Jefferson Davis, as well us by
Senator Lamar.
Mr.. Madison Poe, Of Rappahannock CO.,
Va, has lost by diptheria three children in
the course of the last ten days. Mr.. John
Poe, his son, also lost three during the
same time. Mr.. Edward Poe, another son
of Madison Poe, lost his wife with the
same disease. I'tA
Among the gentlemen who have been
appointed delegates of the Virginia State
Agricultural Society to the National Ag-
ricultural Congress to assemble in Wash
ington city next Tuesday, are Robert Bev-
erley, b. Johnston Barbour, Gen w. IL. F.
Lee, Henry W. Peyton and S. S. Brad
ford.
Miss Sarah Wilson, only twenty years OF
age, while in dentists chair at Staten
Island, N. Y, under the influence of
died in few minutes. Her death proved
to have resulted from the blood flowing
from her mouth into her lungs.
Rev. R. Sheffey, of Montgomery county,
Va. about the time Shelburne IS Mere
dith's distilery was erected, went into the
neighborhood and prayed for its downfall
and. sure enough, last week it fell in and
smashed things generally.
]. II. Sherrard Jr., Senator from Rock
bridge. Bath and Highland, publishes
card i'll the Lexington "Gazette' saying
that the assertion that he in any way, after
the Senatorial Convention, solicited, in
any manner, support for the position is
IAN Infamous falsehood."
At Battle Creek, Mich crazy woma n
endeavored to make little colored girl
white by using a scrubbing brush and
strong lye or the child's naked body. The
neighbors rescued it only after it had been
literally skinned and was in terrible agony.
A Monroe, Iowa, Justice of the Peace
has ruled that a father has no right to oc-
cupy his parlor while the daughter and her
beauX have possession. A young man
bounced" a gentleman from his room aud
was locked up for assault, but at trial ac-
quilted.
Gospel disturbers have more than their
match in the Rev. s. Dunbar of Adair,
KY, who is also constable. Whenever the
services of his sanctuary are interrupted,
ne closes his Bible, marches down from the
pulpit, collars the disturber, and leads him
to prison.
Mrs. Antoinette GENE is suing in N. Y.
for a divorce from her husband, on the
ground that che has beaten her, threatened
torunh her through with ascrewdriver, that
he has approached her with Ratchet,
poker, land knife, and has thrown glass
aquarium at her."
A resident of Los Angeles, CAL, is now
gathering ripe tomatoes from the top of a
twenty foot ladder. The vine, which is
twenty-five feet high, has been trained on
the sunny side OF the house, and shows
blossoms and fruit in every stage of
growth.
Joseph Faulkner, who has just died at
Windsor, N. s., at the age of 103 Years,
was one of the crew of. the British frigate
Shannon when she fought her celebrated
battle with the Chesapeake.
Birds killed on the Western prairies and
packed with paper in barrels, without
freezing OF any other artificial process of
preservation, are sent to England by
every steamer, and arrive in excellent con-
dition.
King Humbert, of Italy, is to settle his
fathers debts, 100000 lire, out of his
own means. He will sell Castel Perziano.
vast hunting estate, bought by the ma
ton as a present to Victor Emanuel.
Rev. DR.. Leroy M. Lee, we'll known
member of the Virginia M. E. Conference
was taken suddenly ill Sunday while
preach in Cambridge. Md. At last ae-
counts he was better.
A stick Of wood loaded With gunpowder,
charged by farmer whose pile was too
often visited by thieves, exploded in the
stoye Of the Congregational church at
Bellevue, Ohio, but with no serious results
Professor Peck of the Homer, N. Y.
has been fined s24O for sevoretv