Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1878-03-15

Senator Dorsey's wife is a beautiful and
amiable brunette; the wife OF the Japanese
minister is gentle and ladylike.
James O'Neil, railroad engineer, whose
bravery in the Say Bridge disaster, a year
ago, was published and praised, was MUIR
dered recently in Bloomington, Ill. There
was no clue to the identity of the murder
Ell, until Mrs. Catherine Wheaton, at the
grave of O'Neil, in melodramatic man.
ner, denounced her husband as the guilty
man. Wheaton has been arrested and the
evidence is strong against him.
An Old man, managing performing
bear, was attacked in Tennessee the other
day for his money, of which he had but
little about him. though certificate of
deposit of 81 900 in Lynchburg bank
died from his injuries, after living long
enough to leave the money to a brother,
and to ask that his bear be killed, as no
one else could manage it.
The widow Of the late President Lincoln
is living secluded in an interior town of
France, declining to return to America
lest she may again be placed in lunatic
asylum. 1t is said that she still INDUCES
chasing things for Which she has no use,
which was one of the forms her mild lunacy
at first assumed.
At the Lyceum theatre in New ork ON
the I'd inst, play written by Mr.. VIM.
Minturn. was performed to full house for
the benefit of Washington & Lee Univer-
sity of Va. Among the audience were
MANY Federal and Confederate officers,
10 1nt T IF 10 ,fcv,
The house was very full and Mr.. Tilden
applied for box but his application came
| too late.
Miss Julia Lewis only seventeen years
of age and girl of great beauty, residing
| near Piscataway, Md, climbed cherry
| tree and tying rope around her neck and
ran screaming to the house, but she was
quite dead when help came. The reduced
| circumstances of her parents is the alleged
| cause of the act.
| DR.. Mary Walker who is more famous
for wearing bloomer pants than for any
thing else, has appealed for an appoint
ment as special policeman in Washington
that she may have authority to protect
herself from the street boys who cry after
her to pull down her vest, and otherwise
persecute her.
| Kanawha county. W. Va, is prolific
country. The wife of Addison Childers
presented her husband with triplets, all
! boys, and two days afterwards the wife of
Robert Childers, his brother, presented her
| husband with twins, and Mrs. Samuel
Martin. a neighbor, hearing ofthese pro-
ceedings, Immediately gave birth to two
BOYS, weighing together twenty pounds.
A mob of forty masked men took Hiram
Mitchell and his three sons from their
homes iii Femingsburg, KY, gave them
twenty-five lasheS apiece, and ordered them
out OF the county in four days under pen
atty of being hanged. This was done be.
! cause they ill-treated woman.
The religious observance of Sunday
practically ends at noon in San Francisco
In the afternoon the law permits all public
amuSements, and race courses, theatres.
and other resorts open. Sunday evening
sermons are callel lectures there.
In Russell, Ala, a few days ago, just as
colored marriage ceremony concluded, a
rejected sulJor marched forward and
stabbed the tlride eight or nine times. from
which she died instantly. The murderer
threw away the knife and cried, chang me
only bury me by Liza S SIDE"
A lot Of land up town in New York
purchased in 1871 for S1.70O,OOo and fol
which shortly after the sale, 81, 800 900 was
refused. was sold there last Thursday I'M
der foreclosure Of mortgage for only $500,
600. There is stagnation and shrinkagt
for you!
The Winchester Chimes" says: Wheat
is looking well in Jefferson, Warren and
/, Clarke. In Frederick we are told the
stand was never better at this season. In
Clarke the growth is so luxuriant that the
farmers are grazing their stock upon it.
In Rockbridge co., last week the cries
of his children attracted S. M. Holden to
his chamber, where he found his wife lying
| PROSTATE in an epileptic fit with ore arm
in the burning Goals of the fire place.
President Hayes continues "amiably OBJ
stinate'' He has just made two nomina-
tions for Maine without consulting Blaine
or Hamlin, and what is more got them
through the Senate.
A sham duel at the University of Viz
ginia between Messrs. Thompson and
Cockrill last week was arranged so that
the police, the faculty and the newspapers.
s'Have you Chaucer ?' asked young
lady, looking in at a book stoce. The po-
lite young clerk replied no, he never used
it, buv there was a tobacconist's just two
doors above.
At the funeral of the late Larz Ander-
son, of Cincinnati, there was seen thing
both touching and beautiful. Eight of his
nine sons tenderly bore their old father to
his last resting-place.
Col. Barksdale, of the democratic Jack
son (Miss.) Clarion" gave banquet to
the members of the Legislature recently
and the half dozen negroes were scattered
among the whites without any attempt at
| discrimination.
Two hundred perch averaging an inch
and a quarter in length, were taken from
| the stomach of d loon sent to G. A. WHY'S
OF Rockville, Conn, to be mounted. There
were at least two hundred more broken in
pieces in the stomach and gullet.
Frank Dunlap, of Kanawha CO., W! Va. :,
I drew $500 from the bank at Charleston
aud the next night four men with black
ened faces and revolvers entered his house
and forced him to give up $500 of it,.
For the pork packing season which end
ed March 1st, 108,726 more hogs were
packed at Cincinnati than for the same
season last year.
The Giles :'Virginian" says the Johns
Mountain property in Giles county, Va,
has been sold to j. Wilcox Brown, OF Bal
! tlmore, for $4,000.
The Valley Coal Co., of West Virginia
! has gotten the contract for furnishing the
Richmond gas works with coal at s9A cents
per ton delivered ON the cars at Cannelton.