Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1878-12-06
ov. McMullin has added the secon

Gov. McMullin has added the secon d
codicil to his will. In 1874, hen Scott
county gave the old Governor $50 majority
over Terry he added codicil one. instruct
ing his friends to bury his remains in
Scott. But when the returns got in the
other day, and Scott had gone back on the
old Governor, they say he fairly tip-toed,
and said he'd be damned if he wouldn't be
buried in Buchanan, if they had to Gre
mate him and carry him over in a cigar
box.-Lee County Sentinel.
Mrs. Maria Michel, a well TODD widow,
who owned a bakery in Brooklyn, was en-
gagged to be married to q tradesman in her
neighborhood on Sunday last, and she had
made preparations for a wedding feast.
She was seized with sudden illness, due, it
is believed, to pverwork in her prepare
lions, and on Saturday she died. She was
buried ON Sunday in the dress in which she
was to have been married, and her jewels
were buried with her.
Staunton is fitting up a first class thea
tire, which will prove to Staunton a first
class tax. what is the populat lon of
Staunton ?'' inquired d stranger. "Five
thousand, ;, responded citizen. s'B ess
me-" said the astOnlshed inquirer, sis that
all? L thought from ie noise she made
it was two hundred taousa nd .''-Char-
lottesUil!e Chronicle.
The Lee county Va. "Sentinel" says
According to General Johnston's prophe-
sy, we will have a fall of snow this week
Fot many years in succession, the old
Gene al, while resident of this place,
would wager quart of chestnuts on its
snow ng duIin the week following the
third M day in November, aid never
failed 10 viii.
Me. H. D. Banks, of Dayton, KY.
hough without constancy is person of
business habits. Last week he settled d
large part of his fortune of $3.50, 900 on his
wife, and then eloped with widow of
New Richmond, Ohio, having previously
settled $4,000 on her and $4,000 on her
mother. The post Office address of the
new couple is Europe.
Capt. Geo. W. Pettigrew, who sold his
splendid estate near Fancy Hill to Mr..
Brown, day or two a.O received check
for $500 payment in full for the real
and personal prcperty-$7, 900 for the land,
and sz,0nO for the personality. This brings
to memory the good old days. in Virgin
ia.-Lenington Gazette.
While young man, named Martin, the
champion banjoist, Of johnson county.
Tenn, was picking his banjo for delight
ed crowd Friday night, Harrison Osborne
who had an old grudge against him. shot
him through the heart, the ball first pass
ing through the instrument.
VIM. H. Metcalf and his son. aged fifty
and thirty, went to bed in room at the
New England House, in Blackston, Maine,
on Friday night, after blowing out the
gas. In the morning the father was dead
and the son in d dying condition from the
effects Of their ignorance.
Mrs. Powers, the widow of the Philadel-
phia millionaire who died the other day,
has employed four men to watch her hus-
bands grave and see that his remains are
not stolen by bOdy-SnatcherS. The vigil
will be kept up at least two years.
Frank B. Brightly, young lawyer of
Philadelphia, has commenced suit against
Gouveneur Korbright, leader OF fashion
in New York for $500 900 damages for
having alienated his wife's affections and
otherwise damaged him.
Hon. Robert L. Taylor, Democrat,
member of Congress elect from the first
district Of Tennessee, will be the youngest
member of the Forty sixth Congress, be-
ing now rs years old, just the constitu-
tiOnal age.
The fashion of imported buggies hay
ing reached Greenboro. n. c., Daniel Co.
BILE, native carriage maker, fred the
building containing lot of them just ar
rived. He was arrested.
Cyrille Dugal scared his aged father to
death, in Quebec, by brandlshing a knife
and threatening to kill him. The old man
only survived ten minutes. The son has
been convicted of manslaughter.
A. P. Deltrick, postmaster at Manni-
kintown, Goochland, Va, died few days
gun.
A we'll was struck in the Bullion oil dis
trict. Pa. on the 18th ult., that has for
several days produced the wonderful
amount of one thousand barrels of oil per
day.
CAPT. Andrew Dickerson, who was an
officer in the 54th Va. regiment during the
war. fell dead in the road in Floyd CO.,
last week. He was sixty wears of age.
A faithful Newfoundland dog owned by
Mai. W. II. Dobb, of New Castle, Pa. bit
bis owIer who has since died horribly of
hydrophobia.
May F!ske performs with her "Rritish
Blonde Burlesquars'a On six evenings in
the week. in THE vest. and on Sunday lee
lures on uWamanly Duties"
Rev. Father Hasty, of Lexington, Va :.
has heen in Washington collecting for his
-t,nrch, and 80 far has gotten about $1,000
The latest cure for hydrophobia, discov- /
cred nv the Carlisle (KY.) messenger" is
! drink Of vinegar, s'a9cciidden!tally taken"
The wife Of Rev. ]. H. Maynard, and
niece If Gov. Holiday, died in Sussex coun-
y, Va, last Wednesday.
Rev. James Grammar, Of West Virginia
las accented call to the passionate of the
shland protestant Episcopal church.
The brunswick telegraph" publishes
+ot;st;os r. show that the use Of opium is
,raat,v IN the increase in Maine.
Mrs Anna D. H. Thompson has been
,nnointed postmaster at Memphis, Tenn.