Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1878-01-11

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State prison at hard labor, for swearing to
false returns showing the company's sol
vency. He made speech two hours long,
reading it from manuscript and as usual
in such cases attacked the press.
From 1870 to 1874 the profits to the gov
ernmeht from public lotteries in Austria
to nearly s35,0O0,000. The
prizes won by ticket holders in the same
period amounted to SIG 100000. In Italy
the net receipts of the Government from
lotteries in three years reached $40 500 900,
while the sum won by the people was $780,
100000
Fred Douglass being telegraphed that
Mrs. Sears, the daughter of his former
master was dying in Baltimore, went
there Monday and paid her farewell visit.
He was affected to tears at the kindness
of the family, with whom he has always
held kindly relations, in telegr aphing for
ium.
General Lee said, not long before his
death. eff had had Stonewall Jackson at
and if l had won great battle there [
should have established the independence
of the South'' Who doubts this in the
light of recent discussion of this great
battle?-Reu. J. Wma. Jones.
The very latest Turkish atrocity'' is to
be seen in Cheapside, in London, where a
peripatetic vendor of penny wares is carry
ing about trayful of Bulgarian ears"
made of flesh-colored india rubber, and i'm
itating, with frightful fidelity, a human
ear severed from human head.
Maggie O'Brien, once dashing eqaes-
trienne of Dan Rice's circus, tried to
drown herself last week at Milwaukee,
where she is leading a wreIched life be-
tween the streets and the house of cor
rection. having been brought thus low by
her lovesof liquor.
The Roman Catholic hierarchy in fire.
land has forbidden any persons to be pre-
sent at kes, except the Immediate rela-
tives of the deceased; and no spirituuus or
intoxicating liquors are to be used on such
occasions under penalty of the deprivation
of the services OF the priest.
Congressman Walker, of Virginia, is in
Philadelphia Oh business, it is reported,
connected with a Virginia railroad enter
prise perhaps the Shenandoah Valley
with which it is understood he will active
ly connect himself after retiring from Con-
gress.
Thos. TT. Ellis, proprietor of the Ellis
House at Bardstown, KY, has taken the
premium by clipping it'll his widowed step
mother who is fat, pretty and not forty
This event will go far to ameliorate the
prejudice againt step-mothers.
1t is a printed rumor that the widow Of
A. T. Stewart is about to marry Rev.
John G. Middletown former rector of Cal
vary church in Stonington, ct. Judge
Hilton denies it, saying she ''has never
seen the man but Once.n
Morgan W. Thompson, one Of gang OF
desperadoes and murderers Of Gentry CO.,
Mo-, was followed to Independence Gray
son county Va, by the sheriff, and arrest
ed Christmas eve He is described as
Every handsome and only % years Old"
Hon. Jno. Randolph Tucker had con-
ference with the Lynchburg tobacco men,
Jan. Sd, and took their suggestions about
the reduction of the tax on plug tobacco.
The meeting thanked him for his activity
in the matter.
Father Walters, for the past nine years
pastor of the Catholic church at Grafton.
W. Va, has left there to assume the du-
ties of priest In Mt. de Chantel, Wheeling
He has been succeeded by Father Welsh,
formerly of Lewisburg, W. Va.
Last week the Catholic Bishop of Balti-
more ordained to the priesthood Rev. Mr..
Southgate, an Episcopal clergyman and
son of Bishop Southgate of the Episcopal
Church, and Rev. Mr.. Murphy, a minister
of the Baptist church.
A run on the Newark, N. J. Savings
Institution, last Friday, caused an investi-
cation of its assets, among which were
found 100000 in Chesapeake & Ohio
r. r., bonds, which the N. Y. "Sun" says
are rated as we'll nigh worthless"
VIM. Johnston, of Pittsylvania CO., be-
gan his Christmas morning at an egg-nog
drinking and started to run his horse
home. He was found the next night lying
in the woods dead, having been thrown
against a tree.
r. Head, Mayor of Leesburg, died on Sat
nrday Of lockjaw, and was buried Sunday.
The disease was caused by sticking a
nail in her foot.
1t is when dry goods clerk Of 81 pounds
attempts to help from a country wagon a
farmers wife weighing 203 pounds, that
the reporter seats himself contentedly on
the curbstone and awaits the catastrophe.
Samuel Spencer, late of the B. & O. road
and still later Of the Virginia Midland
road, has been appointed General Superin-
tendent of the Long Island, N. Y. road.
The Wheeling Register" notices the
marriage in Pocahontas county, W. Va,
of a young man of sixteen to a blooming
maiden of forty-two. Winter crowding the
lap of Spring.
Harry Beirne, of Lewisburg, w. Va,
was dangerously stabbed in the neck in an
affray with Jordan Lynch, Christmas eve.
Lynch was bailed in $4,000 to answer.
Madison McCuliock, of Botetourt CO.,
killed seven hogs, six months and two
weeks old, which averaged $50 pounds,
and two of them weighed 200 pounds.
Cyrus H. Mccormick has recovered $751;
600 against the Pennsylvania Railroad
Company for baggage lost on that road
sixteen years ago.
The unhappy father of the young lady.
Winindger, who was killed in Norfolk re-
Gently by her insane lover, died Friday Of
grief for the loss of his daughter.
Lis MeSSIs. hdiH ole1oH, VI DalCiLAoIe,
who planned the Staunton Water Works
have organized Telephone company in
Maryland.
Mrs. Matte Houston Ward. formerly
teacher at the female school of Rev. W.
u. Roedal, in Wytheville Va, died in San
Francisco, a few days ago.
Speaker Randall, who looketh not upon
the wine when it is red, had bountiful
lunch for his friends on New Years day,
but no liquors Of any description.
It is stated on good authority that Prof.
J. W. Mallet of the University of Virginia
has been decided on for one or the u. S.
to the Paris Exhibition.
The Protestant clergymen of Dhila-
lelphia. at q meeting Monday night. re-