Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1878-06-14

| ex-Secretary OF the Navy Bore. lie leaves
q wife and one child. The wife was the
niece and adopted daughter Of the late
Admiral Dahlgren, Of the United States
Navy. Mr.. Paul declined the Republican
nomination Of the Colorado Goyernorship.
1t vas said that he would be nominated
this fall for the United States Senate.
He was largely interested in gold mining
interest and owned the famous Painter
Boy Mine in Lake county.-Nep York
| World.
DEATH OF THE MOTHER. OF MRS. SUR
RArr.-Mrs. Elizabeth Jenkins, the moth
er of Mrs. Surratt, who was hung in Wash
ington in 1865, died near Surrattsville,
Prince Georges county, Md, ON Friday
last She Was eighty-elghJ years OF age
| She was inferred at St. J0Seph'S church.
opposite Alexandria, Va.
A numbsr Of tracts addressed to the
"Parents of the late Minnie Mitchell, Har-
risonburg, Va.,'' from the Tract Depart
ment, sos Broadway, N Y are here. This is
is tue name given by young girl whose
death occurred at the Bellevue Hospital,
New York, about tea days since. The
name Aiiunle Mitchell appears To be I'M
| known here, which leads to the SUPPOSE
Iion that the unfortunate girl gave dc-
| titious name 10 shield her family and men,
ory from disgrace. -Harrisen6lYg Common
sDedjth.
Elan Potter is pushing q wheelbarrow
from Albany TO San Francisco. He wears
very long hair and Whskers, and the
wheelbarrow is saudily painted, so that his
arrival in a village causes excitement. He
goes to hotel, as previously arranged, and
i crowd follows Business at the bar is
brisk while he stays, and he gets share of
the profit. Probably his journey will ter
inmate at the western limit OF civilization
and bar-roOmS.
The effort of the managers to induce
women not to wear bonnets in the Cincin-
natl musical festival was generally success
iul; but it excited anger in an unexpected
quarter. The dealers in millinery regard
ed the move as blow to their business,
and refused 10 illuminate their stores on
the night when all ether stores in the Main
street were blazing with light.
James S. Barclay, an employe in a New
ark IN. j. tannery, rubbed his hand, while
handling some Russian hides, on a pimple
on his chin. The next day he was taken
violently i'll, and on Sunday night died, a
malignant puStule having developed itself
1t is said the skins Of diseased ANIMALS will
communicate the poison months after
slaughter.
The rules of q ladies' club in Warsaw,
Poland, declare that no member shall give
more than $50 for morning resS, S52 for
an evening dress, or S. for a bonnet, and
that at each quarterly meeting each mem
Der shall truthfully declare that she owes
neither mllllner's nor dressinaker's bill.
The appeal from the Synod OF New Jersey
deposing Rev. John Miller, formerly of
Rockbridge, for heresy, WAS advocated be-
fore the General Assembly at Plttsburg by
DR.. Miller himself, but the Assembly re-
fused to grant the appeal by a vote OF 274
to 8.
Major Dan Simpson, aged IS, has for
sixty -eight-year been the drummer OF the
Boston Ancient and Honorable Artillery
Major Stanley has been the Iksr for fifty.
) seven years, The aged pan made the
music for recent parade OF the company.
A majority Of the members of the M. E
Church, North, at Mt. Crawford, dis
| pleased Will the new minister, Rev. Nj.
Clement, sent them 10y their Conference,
and the division Of the Circuit by that
body, have, says JAe Rockingham ''Regis-
| GGC, 8" W1LHelfdWu from the church,
Mrs. Harriet A. Van Auken, who plead
guilty to murder in the second degree for
killing her husband in the town of Parish
OswegO county n. Y, has been sent to
Sing Sing for life. She SHOT INN, cut him
up and buried The pieces III two different
| places.
4 The Exhibition bouquet is the latest
article de Paris. IL is d tiny artificial lose,
| 10 De Worn Ill the DuJGonhoie, With d Gays
| Gal deWurup on Que OF Glc pessais" and Or.
looking Into Tile de adtop q miniature view
| OF Gno Exhibition is discovered.
Mrs. Carrie r. Davis, of New YORK.
who was falsely accused a lew weeks 0
by d nltrCnttnL OF HAVING siOltl an article
from Ills store, and WHO Was subj c, d t.
Tue lndignlcy oi a search, has Just been
aMaideu $l50 damages by I. july.
The New York State Gan; Lodge OF
tree Masons has passed the following res
| olutlon: "Iila5 We refuse to recugnlZu as I.
Free Mason any p9rson initiated, passed Oh
raised IL a body Where tie ext ,Lence of a
Supreme Being is denied or ignoretl7'
The jury in the case of Alexander B.
sayers, who killed his wife by shooting her
IN church at Philadelphia in November,
| has rendered a verdict of guilty of murder
in the first degree.
| Good-by Mitchell! Farewell, Nipple!
| Such the TIDAL waves first ripple,
| And it sweeps from out the Senate
One WHO never should be in it,
I Nipple ll-Aitchell-Hipple-
| Viii no more extract his tippla
| Freely from the public nipple.
Martin Moran Of Covington, KY, chal-