Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1878-02-01

A thinly clad but intelligent looking
tramp. who gave his name as William
Yates, and declared that he was cousin
of the late United States Senator Richard
Yates of Illinois, asked at several places
in Byron, N. Y. Friday plight, for aid to get
to Rochester, where he expected to find
friends who would send MIN to Springfield
Ill. Next morning he was found on the
road near Byron, frozen to death.
mitted burglary in Newark. N. j., and
fed to Richmond, Va, leaped from the
train while being carried back and was
killed. He was known in Richmond as
James Fox, and in Newark prentended to
be minister.
The Presbyterian congregation of Char
lottesville, has called Rev. G.. L. Petrie of
Petersburg.
The Catholic congregation of st. AIMS
Church, Detroit, have gotten into con-
troversy with Bishop Lefevre, over the
church property. They threaten him with
q civil suit.
Paris, too, has it's Temperance Associa-
tion The officers for the year were elect
ed last month.
Highland CO., Va, hasn't had liquor
bar in it for six years.
Capt Peter Smith, on whose honorable
record was inscribed 1872. magistrate
and sheriff, died in Pittsylvania county
Va, last week.
Nellie has a four-year-old sister Mary,
who complained to mamma that her
S'button shoes" were hurting" "Why,
Matte, you've put them on the wrong
feet" Puzzled and ready to cry, she made
answer, "What'll 1 do, mamma Theys
all the feet I've got 70
Rev. Jno. G. Wolf, VINO was pastor of
the Reformed Church, at Woodstock for
, many years before the war, died at Lam
, caster, Pa, ON the 22nd, inst.
The Woodstock, Va, "Herald'' says
8 they have opium eaters there, but the num-
Der doesn't seem to be in creasing.
8 By the death of his mother, Father Dem
ny, the project in the Catholic church of
ST. Ignatius. attached to the Loyola Col
lege, Baltimore, becomes millionaire.
J, In trying suit over dentists bill in
New York the other day it was shown
that the tenor Brignoli had paid So, 900 for
t filling six teeth.
: Three hundred men witnessed fight
between ten dogs and bear in Sharps-
burg, Ky. The battle lasted two hours
!, and a half, and then Was drawn, for the
# bear attacked a horse. and there was a
stampede of the spectators.
a e. KEENAN, Harris, for many years Com
9 monwealth Attorney of Brunswick county,
! Va, and prominent in politics, died on the
18th instant.
The world moves. A few weeks ago tn
tomb Of Prince Edmund fifth son of Ed.
ward Ill, was taken down in the church
of All Saints at Kings's Langley. Eng
land, to make room for a memorial reredos
to be erected to the memory of simple Mr..
Charles Langman.
DR.. A. Miller, formerly editor of the
Burlington (Iowal "Hawkeye" was killed
in Breckenridge, Texas, few days age by
DR.. FL. s; Brooiles, late of Murfreesboro,
8 Tenn The affray grew out of DR.. Broiles
: having brought charges against DR.. Miller
e in an Odd Fellows lodge, of which they
were members.
t Ed. K. Collins, the founder of the once
# famous Collins line of European steamers,
OF New York. is now in poverty.
s Thomas Beard, son of David Beard near
L Newport, was thrown from mule on his
way from Brownsburg, Rockbridge, some
. four miles below the town, and in sight of
>, | Ills DOuo I16 Was Il lieu dllQOSG instantly
l. his skull being badly fractured.
4 F. D. Stuart Past Grand Sire of Odd
Fellows of the United States, died in
Washington City last week.
l The wig worn by Miss Mary Anderson
in Juliet, was lost Friday night by
Lynchburg hair dresser, who had to paw
F for it.
The legislature has voted 100000 of the
old armory bricks to build an armory for the
!, Petersburg Artillery, Greys and Guard,
and to other companies of Danville. Staun-
ton has two military companies.
Geo. P. Gordon the inventor of the.
Gordon printing press, died at Norfolk
Va. where he was large property owner,
on Monday last.
The marriage of Mr.. Augustus Bowling.
OF Warrenton, Va, to Miss Violet Semmes
OF New Orleans, is announced in the pa
pers OF that city. The bride is the daugh-
ter OF the Hon. T. j. Semmes, who repre-
sented Louisiana in the Confederate SEN
ate.
There is conflict over the settling up
Of the suspended bank of Berryyille.
CLARK co. Mr.. A. Moore, Jr., elected hy
the stockholders as Receiver had to enter
the bank through window and an injunc-
ton of Judge Sherrard stopped his work
after he got in.
William Hartman, wealthy citizen of
Philadelphia, died Tuesday. He was the
son OF Gen. Hartman, of revolutionary
memory.
Mrs. Elizabeth Taylor, Of Washington
county, Ohio, murdered VIM. Miller, her
seducer, Tuesday night, by splitting his
head with an axe. He had renowned her
; and notified the overseers of the poor to
take her to the infirmarv,
-Four monitors are wintering opposite
Lower Brandon in James River.
The Moffet whiskey register, which is
working so successfully in Virginia. is now
before the legislatures of four Southern
States, Mississippi, South Carolina, Ten
nessee and Louisiana, for adoption.
1t requires fifty lone spittoons in one
church in Kent county, MARYLAND. to snn-
ply the Sunday-go--t tobacco
cheWers.
The Rev. DR.. Behrends, of Providence,
r. l., has declined call to the Madison
| Avenue Congregational Church. New
York, with guaranteed salary of $12 900
per annum. saying he is cOntented with his
present position, and is getting all he is
worth.
Sir Henry Thompson, the eminent
English surgeon, is said to perform the
operation of lithotomy ninety times a wear
on an average. His fees range from two
hundred to five hundred vuinoas ond