Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1878-06-28

81 when the Massachusetts regiment was
attacked going through there he was City
Marshal and tried to protect them from
the mob, but. being Southern man, tele-
graphed for Bradley johnson after they
left, to bring reinforcements and capture
the city. For this last he was sent to Fort
Lafayette and was then sent South. After
the war he returned and was elected first,
Sheriff and then Mayor. He had been an
elder in the Presbyterian church. but short
ly before his death joined the Catholic
church.
The cruelty of which Wisconsin wife
complains in her suit for divorce, is that
her husband tied her securely and shaved
her head. The defence il tina, she bleached
her black hair to le.nnn color 10y the use of
acid, aud that he, deeming such q thing
highly scandaIous, took the only means of
undoing what She had done. He says that
he boughta wig for her. initiating her
be concealed while nature was remedying
the ais6guIation.
j. Walker Gore. who has just completed
his mathematical fellowship in the Johns
Hopkins University, has been unanimous
ly elected to the chair OF natural science
in the Southwestern Baptist University Of
Tennessee. Mr.. Gore is native Of Fred
erick county, Va, and graduate of the
University of Virginia.
The Lynchburg News" invites the
attention OF the companies of Danville,
Charlottesville, Staunton, Richmond, Pc
t0rSburg, Norfolk, &C., to all offer Of q
gold medal to the best-drilled white mill.
tary company present at the Lynchburg
Fair next October.
An entire set of vestments of the colors
required by the rubric, with dalmatics to
match, also abs and surplices, of the most
beautiful gold embroidery, said to be the
handsomest ever manufactured III this
country, have been prepared bv the ladies
OF st. Patrick g Church. Washington. for
Rev. Father Bishop Keane's use at Rich
mond, Va.
There are few positions more snviable
than that Of the English judge. A salary
of $25, 600 year, with pension of $15,-
600 on retirement. are pickings for which
a French or German judge, who does
much the same work for about 900 or
$1,000 q year, must long with all the
strength of his judicial mind.
Thomas Ewing Sherman, aged twenty
two,a son OF Gen. Sherman, sailed for
England on the 5th inst, to enter the No
vitiate of the Society of Jesus. He was
lately in the Jesuit University, Of
Georgetown, D. G.
Mrs. d. A. Dodd, of H umbolt, Ia, has
given birth to twenty two children; seven
time she made her husband the unhappy
father Of twins. When he heard OF this
arrival of Dodd, Jr., XXII., he merely said
my Dodd.''
Mrs. Kate Sothern, who in fit of jeal-
ousy killed woman at ball in Georgia,
and was sentenced to be hung, is now
cooking in = convict camp, the Governor
having given heI ten years instead of the
gallows.
containing Miss Belle Harris, daughter of
John T. Harris OF New Kent, and Mr..
Rush Cowherd Of Columbia, overturned
at full speed, the lady sustaining the sever
est, if not fatal injuries.
Lancaster wheat seven feet high by John
Frasher, rye II feet high by Geo. w. An
derson and Mediterranean wheat yielding
thirty-fve bushels ard more to the acre,
are being boosted over in Frederick coun-
ty, Va.
The fact has leaked out to the irrepar
able damage of Buchanan, Botetourt
county, Va, that Jim Anderson, the pre-
MUM witness before the Potter Com
mittee, is native of that town.
Botetourt county, Va, is rapidly be-
coming a tobacco growing county, and
finds great profit ia it. During the month
of May, from only two depots there were
shipped over quarter Of = million of
pounds.
"Uncle Jimmie" Barrett, of Tazewell
c. H., Va, who enlisted in the Confed-
crate army. though then over eighty years
Of age, died on the 18th INST, aged one
hundred years and six months.
Rev. John Bowling, of New York,
well-known Baptist divine. author Of tho
"History of Romanism," has been sent to
an asylum, for the cure of insanity pro-
duced by fall.
Gov. Holiday has relieved the political
disabilities of w. D. Coleman, Ex-Secre-
tary of the Virginia Board OF Public
works, arising out Of imprisonment for
felony.
The New York papers pay marked and
complimentary attention to the sermons
of Rev DR.. ]. L. M Curry, of Richmond,
who is now filling temporarily the pulpit
of Dr. Armitage, OF New York.
President Hayes has photographed posi-
tive acceptance Of the invitation to attend
the celebration of the Wyoming centenni
al, near Wilkesbarre, Pa, on tue 3rd and
4th of July.
Jno. D. Patton, aged seventy one, a
clerk in the Patent Office. while in st. |
Johns church, Washington, Sunday dur
ing the service, rose, prayer book in hand,
and fell back dead.
Col. Jno. E. Penn, late State Senator |
from Patrick. aud G. T.. Pace, member of |
the House Of Delegates from Pittsylvania |
county, were both paralyzed last week.
II mean business" said a burglar who
entered Mr. Patterson's house, in Sterling,
Ill. $50 do L. said Mr.. Patterson, and
shot him through the head.
Miss Hattie Harrison of loud0un CO.,
while riding out with Mr.. Lewis H. Pow
I'll on Saturday, was thrown from her horse
md received fracture OF one OF her limbs.
It is very Important to fishermen in Vir-
.inia to know that even the possession of
lack bass at this time of year is $40 fine
md 40 days in jail.
The 264 acre farm Of the late Geo. Isler
lear Charlestown, W. Va, has bsen sold
o Esro.n Sitter Of that place for saA4O
ash.
Horse Aesh j. lover in Wythe county
,st now than ever befora known a oood |
nimal brin sing only abAat $TA
The local elections IN California have
ssulteA largely in favor Of the Kearney,
iss o. opponents OF Chinese labor,