Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1878-05-31

The Chesterfield (Va.,) Court House
property, including 700 acres of land, has
been sold by J. r. Hathaway, to two New
! Yorkers, for $29 600.
| L.C. Turner has purchased the farm Of
J. Warwick Woods, 2S1 acres, in Abe
marie county, Va, for s24 per acre.
Organ grinders are excluded from Lynn,
Mass, by stringent ordinance.
The Cincinnati musical festival made
$4,000 above the expenses, which were
$40, 900.
! The sixth wife of Elder Dunferd Of Salt
Lake has obtained divorce, in order to
become the tenth wife Of Bishop McAli-
! ter.
Col. VIM. Allen, Principal of the Nc
Donough Institute. near Baltimore, is to
deliver the annual address before the
Shenandoah Valley Academy, at Win
| chester.
I When the sheriff went to levy on the
Southern Tea Company's Store" at
Richmond last week. he found the tea
chests filled with sawdust and the coffee
bags full Of corn. The owners owing ST.
| d
] great tea sale in New York.
The Duchess of Argyle, Queen Victoria's
sister-in-law, died on Sunday last.
| VIM. Miller, postmaster at Winchester,
has resigned. An officer of the Depart
ment has been investigating the cause of
| the recent fire in the office by which
many stamps were destroyed.
Patton Thompson, of Russell county,
Virginia, died last week, from the effects
| of arsenic, absorbed in remedy for cancer
put On once day, given him by a tramp
| name Jno. Lloyd, hailing from Danville.
Lloyd was arrested, but was released. The
cure was % be made in twenty days, and
Thompson died On the fifth day.
The Virginia Special Conference of the
Tennessee Lutheran Synod sat in st.
Paul's Church. Page county, Va, last
week, Rev. S. Henkel, presiding. The
fall and rise of man was the subject it dis
cussed.
The wife and child of Mr.. Jno. e
Brown, of Wytheville, Va, were thrown
from buggy. last week, and badly hurt.
Lewis Mays, of Amherst, died Friday.
at the age of ninety-six years.
Thirteen ewes, the property Of Mr..
Charles L. McClung, of Meadow Bluff
District. in Greenbrier county. W. Va:
produced twenty eight lambs the present
season.
John A. Worsham, the well known
sporting man, of Richmond, whose mag
nificent suppers are well remembered by
all past legislators died on Tuesday.
Stewards Hotel for working women in |
New York has proven failure the num-
Der Of bOardeTs having diminished to Sc |
venteen and the expenses of running it |
being 5000 day. The true secret of the
failure was that the price of board was ex-
actly double what really poor working
woman gets.
Dr. Jno J. H. Straith, Of Charlestown,
W. Va. whose fall from horse has been
published died on Sunday last. He was
one of the most learned physicians in the
country.
The Secretary of the Treasury has over
ruled Solicitor Raynor's opinion, and the
suits against the Virginia officials who
were paid from State funds drawn from
the bank after the capture of Richmond
will, it is said, be prosecuted.
The Royal Land Company, of Harrison
burg. has sold it's Narrow Gauge R. R.,
running from fredericksburg to Orange
G.. H., to company which has elected &.
H. Richards, of Philadelphia, President.
John P. Ballard, tile builder of the Bal
lard House in Richmond, and one of the
best known hotel men in Virginia, died az
the Retreat for the Sick in that city, Tues
day. He was once very wealthy, but had
met financial EeYerses;