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

Many pretty things were doubtless said
by many speakers on decoration day, but
it may be doubted whether any speaker
gave utterance to anything more tender,
beautiful, comprehensive, and yet con-
densed in expression, than the inscription
upon tn monument that Pittsfeld, Mass,
has raised to her dead soldiers. Its simple
wards are: For the dead, IA tribute; for
the iivi g, memory; for posterity, an
emblem"
No American lady of the day leads so
brilliant life as Madame Waddington
wife of the French Minister for Foreign
affairs. A strange combination OF nation
a.ists this family presents. He is of nat
uralized British parents, was educated un-
der Arnold at Rugby, and rowed in the
Trinity eight at Cambridge; his wife is a
daughter of the late President King of
Columbia College, N. Y.
Nine acres of G.. W. Warmers land, in
Pittsylvania county, Va, which cost only
$40 an acre, last year yielded 5000 pounds
of tobacco, which the owner has Just sold
at $25 per hundred. Will our Augusta
farmers ever be induced to try it on the
sandy parts of their falms?
English visitors are severely criticised
in Paris for appearing at the grand opera
aud other theatres (where full dress is
uSual) attlred in gray suits, red cravats.
and felt hats. Her Majesty's opera in Lon,
don is rigorous toward Frenchmen in Ell
quette.
A Washington correspondent says that
the name of Senator Dayis's favorite horse
is 'sHoOdle-bug;;" but, as Senator Davis
weighs in the neighborhood of 800 pounds,
there is superstition in southern Illinois
that his Hoodle-bug is an elephant.
Everybody has heard of Glauber's salts.
but how many know whether Glauber is
the name OF place or man. He was in
fact famous chemist OF Amsterdam in
the sixteenth century, who invented the
peculiar preparation bearing his name.
The County Court Of jefferson CO., W.
Va, has authorized the purchase Of blank
book in which all parties who lost proper
erty and more particularly Slaves" dur
ing the war are to put down it's appraise-
ment, after paying the clerk of the county
court a fee.
Harold S. Scott of Smythe CO., Va, was
sentenced at the U. s. Court at Abingdon
last week to SIX years in the Albany peni-
Tertiary for counterfeiting gold and silver
coin. He was captured in Northern Ohio,
where he was prosecuting the business,
Lucien Levy. of highly respectable
Hebrew family of New York, married
Christian flower girl there few days ago.
He was cut by his family and society. and
last Monday ended his life by strychnine.
Mrs. Corwin, the venerable widow of
Thomas Corwin, died suddenly, at her
home in Ohio, on Monday morning. During
her later years she has been feeble in body,
but bright and cheerful in spirit.
The Judges of England attended divine
service at st. Paul's, London, on June 2.
on which occasion, says the London
Times splendid nosegay was present.
ed to each Judge.
"A Bridgeport man sang and played
guitar for an hour before his sweetheart,s
house. the other evening. Then his rival
aappeare d at the windoW apd thanked him
for the Serenade. 1T
New York city has one million inhabi-
tants and consumes 800, 900, 900 glasses of
lager beer yearly.
1t. Totter, U. S. Artillery stationed at
Nyerort, r. l.. was run over and killed by
the cars on Friday.
The Atlanta (Ga.) cadets will make an
excursion to The White Sulphur, w. Va,
about the 18th of July.
Rev. Mr.. Bowman. pastor on that circuit
Of the Colored M. E. Church, died in Stras-
burg, on last Monday.
Moses Taylor, of New York. 1.-THE mil
lionaire, with his family have arrived at
The Hot Springs, Bath county, Va.