Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1878-03-29

a lew minutes IL q ed from SullOCdClOn.
The physician who was summoned said
that the child had probably sucked the
smoke into its throat ai had been unable
to discharge it. The father became almost
wild with grief.-Ne.o York Sun.
The Judge of the English Divorce Court
has annulled the marriage of a young lady
who, being sent from India to be educated
in England, in 1879, eloped with her cousin
to Scotland in the same year, and was
married to him after a residence of nine
teen days and parts of two other days in
the northern part. of the kingdom. An act
OF Parliament prescribes that the residence
must be OF tWenty-one Clear days previous
to marriage.
The insolvent capitation tax reported
in the Auditors report just out, is as fol-
lows: Alexandria 81 ,552, Danville S34S,
Manchester $40, Norfolk, 81 497, Peters
burg S2,l56, Portsmouth s. III, Richmond
$3.50, Staunton $766, Williamsburg $50,
and Winchester $226. These returns are
for 1876,
The Executive Mansion at Frankfort,
KY, is rickity.old edifce, built in 1908,
and two OF the Workmen engaged in It's
construction, Metcalf and Letcher, after
ward occupied it as Governors, the former
working on the stone masonry, the other
carving mortar in q bod for the br1cklay-
erS.
Moody tries to prevent the sale of his
portraits, because he fears that people will
regard him as a participant IN the profits,
and the dealers who follow MIN from place
to place have been unable To get good
pictures. One Of them confesSeS that he
has sold thousands OF photographs OF d man
who looks like Moody.
Augustus Lewis, colored, at Culpeper Va,
that boy he Was baptiZlng was Loo small,
to which that DIVINE replied, "a boy who
is big enough to steal at his mothers SD
gar-D0Wl. and run away when lie sees her
coming. is old enough to Know WAaJ sill
is''-and the small boy Was gently let
down Into tile WaLe
Nh Eli Coggswen of n orWalk, had three
wives, and yet he was not happy. The
third one threatened TO expose HIM, and
fear that sine might do 50 led him to end
his days with stlycni inc. There are those
who are charitable enough to say that he
WAS insane.
Daniel O'Leary, Of Chicago. has just
been declared the champion walker Of The
world after week s steady walk against
near score of rivals. In that time he
walked over $40 miles, winning the belt,
the name, and the sum Of $500.
A Georgia judge has decided marriage
at sixteen without consent of parents is
legal, but the bride must go back to her
father who has legal right to her work till
she is twenty-oAe, when she may rejoin her
husband.
Senator Edmunds has said the most
Frenchy thing of the season.-Of an Office
holder in Washington, who went in poor,
gets only $3.50 a year, and spends $4,000
annually, the Senator remarked, son, he
has all economical wife !"
Judge Bond of the q. S. Circuit Court,
before closing the term at Lynchburg,
issued peremptOry order that no perso
who requested it, or was pressed by his
friends, should be permitted to serve on a
Jury in his court.
A Lynchburg piow exhibitor while ex-
planning it to crowd in Danville, was as
tonished on turning around to find that a
thief had shouldered the ploW and walked
out of sight with it.
Rev. Chas. Kings case before the Viz
ginia Conference of the NJ. E. Church.
North was settled by his transfer to the
n. Y. Conference, where he will locate.
So says the Leesburg "Mirror.7'
The U. s. Grand Jury at Abingdon, Va,
gave verdict that they found no proof of
criminal intent on the part of U. S. Mar
shall A. S. Gray, in connection with his
instructions to his deputies.
The Governor offers reward of $IO(
each for the capture Of the Rockingham
lynchers. The county of Rockingham
ought to increase it to 81 ,000.-CharlotteS-
ralle Chronicle.
Mrs. Hayes is visiting Mr.. Scott Cook
at Chillicothe, Ohio. The President will
join her about April l., When they will GO
to Columbus, and attend the Parsons er-
ron wedding.
A Pan-Anglican Council of the English
bishops Of England all over the world and
also the Protestant Episcopal bishops Of
America is to assemble at Lam beth, Eng
land, July I'd.
1t is said that the expenses Of the Brit
ish special envoy and his suite sent to re-
present the Queen at the Spanish marriage
amounted to 81 900 for the twelve days
sojourn in Madrid.
An Iowa clergyman is said to have given
s75 and ''four formal, earnest prayers for
horse. The prayers were for the welfare
of the man from whom the horse was
bought.
1.-THE cases in the u. s. Court at Lynch
burg, against B. C. and W. W. Flame
gan. officers Of the late Charlottesville
National Bank, have been dismissed.
DR.. Cornelius Boyle, who was so we'll
known during the war as the Confederate
Provost Marshal at GordonSville, died
in Washington last week.
The George Washington sociabe, of
men who could not tell lies, was abandon
ed. TheBnly guests who came were two
nsuranceEagents.- Sentinel.
Mrs. Flynn of San Francisco had trip
let's, and her proud husband, as guide to
the many visitors, chalked over his door,
This is where the triplets isl
Mrs. Susanna Briggs, wife of the sheriff
of southampton county and a sister of
Gen: Malone, died suddenly on Friday
last,
The story Of a baby only nineteen
months old that knows and can point OUT