Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1878-08-09

Quite a large party OF ladies and gentle
are rusticating at Shannondale-living in
tents-in addition to a numDer of our
county people, who annually go there, APP
preciatlng the efficacy OF the waters, the
shade, mountain breeZeS, and e%njoyments
afforded by the beautiful Shenandoah, such
as fishing, boating, &c.-Charlest9aon w.
Va.) Journal.
Two tramps stopped at a farsner'shouse
last week near Trenton, Iowa. we're given
a good dinner by the farmers wife, and.
finding that the husband would not be
home till evening, outraged the wife and
left her insensibIe. They had stopped the
cries of the farmers little daughter by roll
ing her up tightly in a blanket. When
unrolled she was nearly suffucated. and
died within al hour.
Henry Haldron, of Bedford county, Va,
from nineteen bushels and one peck of
wheat, sowed, raised four hundred and
twenty-five bushels. From one bushel and
one peck of Fultz wheat be raised sixty
five bushels. From five bushels of State
| wheat he raised 113 bushels.
Jonathan Walker stole some negroes in
Vic oOuCH OClOlC OllC Wdl, Tllu iG Was
branded IS. S." (slave-stealer) the hand.
He died some time ago. and st week a
monument to him at Muskegtn, Mich,
was unveiled with speeches 10y Ex-COn-
gressmen, generals and others.
The man who, it is believed, has dis
covered the planet Vulcan, is Lewis Swift,
a hardware merchant of Rochester, N. Y,
who pursues astronomy as an amusement.
He got the 500 Vienna prize last year for
the discovery OF a comet.
Waldemer Bodisco, the Russian Consul
General of the United States, died at the
Jordan Alum Springs on the Is! inst. He
came to America when quite young and
graduated at Georgetown College.
American live cattle are arriving in
London in great numbers. One thousand
reached there on one day, and The London
"Graphlc" Says thai some of them were 80
mountainous that they might i've made fit
subjects Of decent itinerant sho vs..
A Piedmont, W. Va. letter says last
week was the largest weeks work of freight
ever done over this third divisia.n of the
Baltimore and Ohio railroad. The train
men averaged nine days, some making as
h Ugh as twelve days.
1--we negroes were killed by Ii sltningl y
Preston Bend, Texas, and the be iEf among
their people was that they were objects of
dlvine wrath. A revival Of religion as
the immediate consequence, and nearly
every negro in the county is a convert.
Rev. DR.. Vaughan. fer many years Prin-
cipal of the Culpeper Female n s,itute and
Who was recently negotiating for one in
Stanton, has taken charge of the Cor
louisville Female Institute, nearly built by
the enterprising people of that town.
1t is stated that $50, 600 has been spent
this year in building and febuildin g
bridges on the Atlantic, Mississippi Ohio
railroad in Virginia, and $200, 90 in laying
new rails.-AleIandria Gazette,
Lord Beaconsfield's physician is a. disci
pie of H~ahnemaun, and his i4ordship's
speedy recov. ~ at Berlin is claimed as
due to homeopathic treatment.
The singular spectacle of a hearse drawn
by men WIS witnessed in Auburn N. Y,
The harness broke. and fifty Of the dead
mans fellow Wolkman took the place of the
horses.
There are one hundred and fifty guests
at the Healing Springs, Va, among them
the wife OF Senate Christiancy, of Michi-
gan, and Gen. j.. e. Johston.
Mrs. President Hayes is expected at
Newport in a few days. She will be the
guest or Mrs. Swayne at one of the Cliff
cottages.
Christopher Erb, a Carroll co .nty far
mer, who settled in Clark county, Va.
since the war, raised this year $3.50 bushels
of wheat on 40 acres of land.
Geo. Avery, Jno. Parr and Frank Dill
WORTH were all killed at Enterprise. w.
va, Monday, by the explosion of "a boiler.
Major JQhnsson, the President, says
that the canal will be open to Lexington
BY September lst,>