Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1878-04-05
The new English war songs are out
One of the sprightliest says:

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The new English war songs are out,
One of the sprightliest says:
I'm satisfied there's no decay
In British pith and pluck;
Before the world Well have our say,
And trust to,.'strength," not ''luckr'
We've means! we've right! we've we've common sense
We've courage? force! and skill
So-hang the question of expensel
Old Engand'S England still.
At Clarksburg, w. Va, Mr.. T. F. Good
rich, about IS years of age, has taught
singing to large class, led a union church
meeting, spoken with great fervor in class
meetings and played the organ at the tenn
perance meetings, and the citizens were
deeply grieved to see him committed to
Jail last Saturday on the charge of having
FIVE wives.
Two clergymen, representing two fac
tions in the congregation, were in the pull
pit of the Methodist church in Beverley,
Mass. Each. being determined to conduct
the services, gave out hymn; but the
choir adhered to the Rev. Daniel Dorches
ter, and the Rev. A. z. Adams and his
adherents withdrew to the basement,
where they worshipped.
In restaurants gentleman and
scrub are seated at the same table. The
scrub is just finishing his dinner, the gen.
tleman just beginning his. The scrub
ligh cigar and blows cloud of smoke
over his coffee. The gentleman rises, anu
says in the politest tone: Excuse me.
sir, will it annoy you if I eat while you
are smoking 7"
A number of men called for oysters in
Flushing, L. L., saloon, recently, with the
understanding that he who ate the least
One John O'Brine proved himself the
champion. He swallowed two hundred
and fifty. Payment fell upon John Brady,
who was equal only to twenty-five.
The Charlestown, W. Va, ''Free Press"
contains some astonished and indignant
comments on the remarks Mr.. s. w.
Lightner, a teacher, made at the county
teachers institute there, to the effect that
he had not only whipped boys severely but
also several large girls.
It seems to be really fact that the la
dies Of Warrenton, Va, have organized
society to aid in paying the State debt.
a small monthly contribution. They hope
to enlist the other women of the State in
the cause.
Thomas Homer, Esq, wealthy British
settler at Clarendon. Prince Edward coun-
W, Va, las offered to give ten acres of
land at Clarendon, on which to erect sui
table homes for impoverished members Of
the st. Georges society.
The christian Observer" says if the
same mortality shall prevail in the min
istry of the Southern Presbyterian
church, that has visited it so far this year,
one twentieth of the ministers will die be-
fore this year closes.
The ruling passion cropped out in a
New Orleans barber, who, while shaving
the face OF a dead man, gave the corpse
| the whole history of the Silver Bill, the
rise and fall Of gold, and the attitude of
the foreign bondholders.
One of the wealthiest citizens of Rich
mond, Saturday, gave fine lunch to a
| large company of friends at his residence,
| on which occasion the betrothal of his
daughter to prominent lawyer Of Wash
| ingtOn, d. c., was announced.
The tattooed man who was exhibited
| here by Barnum's circus jostled two Irish
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taken by them for a painted negro, was
| set upon and severely beaten.
Thursday afternoon Andrew Jackson,
citizen of Louisa, and an attache of the
Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad, got to
| drinking in Richmond, and it is supposed
| was drugged and robbed of his watch and
$57 in money.
Lydia Wingo, imprisoned in Tazewell
county jail for violating the U. S. Revenue
law, and James Head, sent from the same
county to the West Virginia penitentiary
for the same offence, have both been par
doned by President Hayes.
Senator W. N. Stevens, colored, whose
| speech in the Virginia legislature, attract
ed so much attention has been appointed
deputy U. S. Internal Revenue Collector,
at Hicksford.
1t il estimated that every man who lives
to be sixty years old has spent seven
months of his life buttoning his shirt
collar.
Mr.. A. M. Folks is raising gang of
hands in Lychburg, to work on the rail-
road in Brazil. Mr.. Jno, Connoway, in
Clark county is similarly engaged.
ouo0Ou LULU L uIhlSu SulGduS 10 WedT
any al ticle of dress twice. From fez to
slippers, he must be clothed anew each
each day, and the worn clothes are relin-
pushed to an attendant.
DR.. Charles Brown, of Albemarle county,
agednlnety-five dropped into the 'sRegs-
ter" office at Harrisonburg, last week, af-
ter ride of thirty-fve miles, without
getting out of his saddle.
Elijah Gilmore, colored, who killed
another colored man at Goshen, has been
received at the Virginia penitentiary to
undergo his sentence Of two years i'm
prisOnment.
The recent session of the Louisiana leg
islature cost 5000, 900 less than any that
has been held since the State was recon-
structed.
Abraham Hall, one of the earliest col
ored Conservatives in Virginia and once
door keeper of the Senate, died in Rich.
mond last week.
Aldermen Markley and Male fought
with knives in the Common Council cham
Der in Austin, Tex, over pending
measure, and Magkley was killed.
Sixteen men who were colonies in the
late War, and who could kill private SOL
der at one glance, are now driving teams
or working in the lumber woods.
Col. Caddis B. Luck, the ,well-known !
hotel proprietor, has been appointed su
perintendent of the Viaduct Hotel at the |
Relay House.
Thomas B. Grim, formerly newspaper
publisher at Harrison burg, Va, died at |
Hagerstown, Nd, Sunday.
Senator Withers is confined to dark
chamber, preparatory to undergoing an