Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1878-11-08
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HOW LIE ldS0 I0pOII Ol b1l. OdLuuel y.
Tilden'S engagement to marry st. Louis
young woman originated is explained by
the newspapers of that city. 1.-The Mistle-
toe Bough" was to be performed for the
benefit OF a fashionable church, and Miss
Hazeltine was to enact the bride. Some OF
the women who were managing the enter
prise thought it would be an effective ad-
vertisement if the public could be told that
Miss Hazeltine was betrothed to Tilden,
and accordingly they gave the item to
reporter, who believed and published it.
Leo XIII has made, among other
changes in his household affairs, one in re-
gard to lighting his room. Plus TX used
always to light four large WAX candles in
silver candlesticks. Pope Leo substituted
stearipe candles, and generally uses large
globe lamp. The servants complain of
this small economy, on the ground that
the wax candles, whether consumed or not,
were changed every day and given to them,
whereas the stearines are burnt down to
mere ends.
Hundreds of thousands of peasants in
Italy are without work, and those who are
employed are glad to labor twelve hours a
day for nineteen cents and foud. which in
variably consists of dry black bread at 10
A. M, and oQun-sdle soup at the close of
the day-the said soup being a bowl of hot
water sailed and favored with few drops
of olive Oil.
DR.. Alfred Leyburn, of Lexington, died
at Abingdon on the 23d ult. He had
been member of the legislature, and Of
ten director in the educational institu-
tions at Lexington. He was a brother of
Rev. Jno. Leyburn, of Baltimore, and was
II years old, 46 of which he had been a
ruling elder in the Presbyterian church.
The prevailing hats and bonnets in Paris
are quite study for an entomologIst.-
Swarms of bees and other insects are set
ting on some of the hats. Arrows and
lizards are giving way to small ornaments
of holly leaves, with pearls for berries.
Owls heads OF various sizes, some very
large, and gilded caterDillars, are largely
used to contine bows on hats and bonnets.
The London "Times" says, concerning
the deposition of Bishop McCloskry: 'In
the Established Church of this country it
costs some thousands sterling to depose a
clergyman in America it costs nothing to
depose Bishop
A practical joker panicked the village of
Buchanan, Botetourt, last week, and sum
moned many citizens to arms by report
that tile convicts at work on the canal had
rebelled, killed their guards and were adj
vancing on Buchanan.
AS the funeral train of Prof L. D. Will
hams was leaving his house at Meadville,
Pa, for the church, his widow, aged sixty,
fell dead by the coffin. They were buried
together the next day.
Having lost a leg in the Union army,
Jacob GARNER sentenced to year in the
penitentiary for tampering with the mails
while postmaster at Warsaw, KY, has
been pardoned by President Hayes.
twenty-five orphan boys sent out by the
Children's Aid Society, of New y ork,
have arrived at Burkeville, Va, and been
provided with comfortable homes through
the society's agent at that place, Nh. J.
W. Carter.
On the 14th inst. Mr.. Geo. Hanger, of
Augusta county, who has had his cattle
ON top Of Allegheny mountain for the past
eight months, sold them to Mr.. Robert
Kyle, of Mt. Scion, Augusta county, for
$2S per head, OIL foot.-Hiqhlaad Recorder.
While attending the Baptist Association
in Carroll county, Va, Rev. John Vass
went to bed in company with Rev. james
Allen, in good health, Friday night. In
the night Mr. Allen aWoke and found him
dead.
The last of the party Of yellow fever
nurses sent from n orfolk and Portsmouth,
Va, to the infected Mississippi valley dis
tricts, returned from Memphis, Saturday.
Only two Of the twenty three died.
Hon. Samuel J. Tilden has given $3.50 to
the great Catholic fair now in progress in
New YORK, aud Hon Fernando W God has
given 800 to the same object. The e.
ceipts of the fair SO far aggregate $50 900.
Rev. J. W. Hedges, sold a lot of cattle
to Mr.. S. A Porter, a few days since. the
heaviest one weighing 1,775. They were
grazed on the celebrated Townsend
Place." Highland county.
J. E. Watson has been arrested at Char
lotte G. H., Va. for paying the dein-
quent tax OF negroes, in the interest OF MI
.Jorgensun. There were 5000 delinquent
colored voters in that district.
Bob Ingersoll has purchased at curl
osity shop in New York, forty-four Chi
nese, Mexican, Hlndoo and other minia ture
idols to be used dis illustrations in his in
tidel lectures.
Capt. Pratt, of the regular army, is en-
route from the Northwest for Hampton,
Va, with fortynine Indian children,
gathered from different agencies, to be
educated at the government expense.
James Gordon Bennett, of the N, Y.
"Herald.' has left Paris for Afghanistan,
taking with him q reporter, in case Eng
land goes to war in that out of the way
place.
The Minister of the italian War Office
recently resigned because the King re-
fused to have soldier shot after convic-
ton Of criminal, characterization.
AT the present time Elton College has
907 students. They include l marquis. l
earl, l viscount, 2 counts (foreign), Is
lords, SO honorables, and baronets.
The expectation of American pork has
made the keeping OF pigs Improbable in
England, and even Irish farmers are Civ
ing up the attempt.
Eight young men left Hartford last Au-
gust to nurse yellow fever sufferers in the
South. Harry Brooks, the only survivor,
has just returned home.
Gen Joseph E. Johnston has thus far re-
ceiyed the highest number Of votes for
gold-mcunted sword at the Cathedral fair
in New York.
Yellow fever has thus far carried off fiji
ty six ctrgymen. Twenty four were Roz
man Catholics, thirty-one Professionals. and
one Jewish rabbi,
Peleg Seahury a prominent and aged ci
tiaen of Lynchburg and the oldest Presby
terrain elder there is dead. He was born
in Taunton, Mass.
Dean Stanley had a reception the other
uht from oil tho hicbopc IF tbo M u