Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1878-04-26


gold regions of Spottsylvania by colored1
man prospecting. 1t weighs 100 pWI, ana
gr, pure gold, and is worth $l00. IL IS |
sald o be the largest, but one, ever found
in Virginia. fredericksburg Ne0s.
Hon. r.. M. T. Hunter, vino failed to
take the oath Of office within the time pre-
SCI lied by law after his election by the
General Assembly OF Virginia, has been
appointed treasurer by the. Governor, and
has duly qualified.
TIE Catholic Bishop for Virginia is J.
J Keane. aud of West Virginia J. j.
Ruin. 4st1+ &sAssf
Mr.. Henry G. Jarrett and Commodore
Tooker, Wa,n are in the extreme South,
ltAya gath 90 many Georgia and North
Calc 81" field hands, principally OF
family giUe''s, winch they will send to
New ors or Shipment to London to APP
pear in . .ilet2 4 Palmers version OF
'Uncle II MS Cabin
The following young gentlemen from
ockbfidge are am 9ne. The graduating class
OF Ilampdcn Sidney tnis session: E. W.
McCorkie, w. M. McPheeJers and J. A.
Preston. is
Blasius istorius, the eX-priest recently
convicted OF murder IN Pennsylvania, has
addressed :. communication 10 President
HAY rs rem ,nstratlng against the taking OF
his case TO he State Supreme Court, and
demanding TO be executed without delay.
''Drop postal card,'' Philadelphia
firm advert lseS, and we will send sales
man or SaltsW0mau TO your residence with
/ fine lot OF shoes Or samples, who will take
your measure if desired
Waynesboro, Augusta county, Va, may
without doubt. boast of the banner tenn
perance organization of the Virginias. The
Council of Friends Of Temperance there
has contributed 800 each to two new
churches presbyterian and MethOdist) re-
| Gently erected in that place.-Cbarlesto,on
Nv. Vo.) Spirit.
| President VIM. Orton, President Of the
Western Union Telegraph Company, died
suddenly in New 7 ork, OF appoplexy., He
| was an able business man.
| An old negro woman of Alabama died
from a bite by a grandchld whom she was
chastislng.
| At VIM. M. Tweed's funeral there were
| twelve persons. If he had died in 1870 the
| streets could hardly have held the crowds
that would have followed his hearse.
| The second revision of the authorized
| version of the New Testament, in London
| has proceeded as far as the 18th chapter of
! Hebrews.
| DIR. James Mcdowell, son of the late
Governor of Virginia, and former u. S.
Consul at Constantinople, is on visit to
! his relatives in Salem, Roanoke co., Va.
| He resides in France.
| Col. Edmund Parke Curtis Lewis of the
| New Jersey legislature. is candidate for
| the u. $. Senate. He is a brother of Dain-
gerfeld Lewis, of the Virginia legislature,
and married a daughter of Mr. Stevens of
Hoboken, N. j., who died worth forty
millions. sr
| Moffett and Edison is the Porcupine's
ticket for 1SS0.-Boston Post.
An eminent Western clergyman who
recently visited Washington, being asked
| by his friends on his return what he
thought of the President, made answer,
| "Well, [ believe that before man his walk
| is upright. but [ fear that before the Lord
| he wobbles.''
Henrietta Woods, free colored woman
who was living i'll Cincinnati before the
var and was kidnapped and carried into
| Kentucky and sold into slavery by Zeb.
| Ward, a sheriff OF that State, has recover
! ed $1,000 damages from him in the U. S.
| -ourt at Cincinnati.
Max L. Meyer, a German who had been
a tobacco merchant in Lynchburg, CO.
! adJutor OF ParsOn BrOWnlOw in Tennessee
a n tni
suicide in the last named place last week
| by taking poison.
Among the fashion items of a Colorado
paper it is stated that ut will be quite the
thing for society gentlemen to wear socks
[ this summer"
The annual meeting of the council of
the Episcopal Church of Virginia will be
| held this year in the city Of Lynchburg,
| commencing On the 18th of May.
| A solicitor at Manchester, England, has
been sentenced to five years penal servi-
| tude. He defended a client who had
stolen portmanteau from Mr.. Parnell,
M. p, and was convicted of taking pay
ment from his client derived from the
stolen goods. knowing the money to have
been thus obtained.
Pope Leo XIII. recently received in
private audience committee of Ameri-
can ladies headed by the authoress, Mrs.
Turner, and with her, as spokesWoman,
his Holiness conversed very benevolently
III regard to the United States.
Effie DaCostra was burned to death in
Philadelphia, Monday, by her clothing
taking fire from her treadiDg on a match.
Edlson's photograph was exhibited to
the Congressman at Washington, Friday.
1t repeated accurately everything that was
said in it,, including good deal of poetry,
DR.: Geo. w. Bagby has procured one
which he will exhibit in the towns of Viz
ginia, accompanied by lecture. Every
body will Want to see it.
The Richmond Chamber of Commerce
erected a monument over the grave of
David l. Burr, it's first President, last
Thursday. Speaking OF it, the Dispatch
says: Perhaps III the long history of
Richmond no man ever did more good
among men than Mr.. Burr
Andre Gauthier is creating a sensation
in Paris by painting a landscape in five
minutes, portrait in six, and also by
painting two pictures simultaneously, one
with each hand. !
1t is now the mode in England to be |
buried in an open wicker-work coffin filled |
with flowers.
Barbara Allen, a professional beggar,
who died suddenly in the ferry house in
Brooklyn, N. Y, left $40 900, a portion of
which she willed to the society for the |
support of disabled seamen.