Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1878-10-18

were trampled to deaCn.
John Evans dropped into Tyrlngham'
Mass, two years ago, from nobody knows
where. He would never explain VINO OF
what he was; but he soon became popular,
and married the daughter OF a resident.
A few days ago he quit the table IN ehe
midst of dinner, went out Of Tyrlngham,
and has not been there since. why he
disappeared is as inuci mystery as WIeio
he came from. Even i,is wife only knows
that while he remained he Was kind nus
band.
Rev. John Miller, the oldest member OF
the Baltimore Conference OF the NJ. r.
Church, and formerly Stationed III Green,
Drier, Rockingham. and AlleghaIy, dleu
at Westminster, Md, last Week, aged OF
years. At his efal Was Rev. Geo.
Hlldt, formerly Of Stanton. Who Is the
next oldest member of The Northern Con-
ference.
Farmer Gilman fixed a gun i'll his melon
patch, in Summerest, iowa, i'll such Way
lat Cue person VIII. Stirred Certain large,
ripe melon would receis e d Charge of beans.
He meant to remove tie gun iii the morn
ing ii no thief wds caught III the night. but
before ayllght his MT, ner-ln-laW Went OUT
to get melon and got the beans. She
was S. rluusIV wouiitiet:, and fuses to be-
leVe that Gilman did not 5, the LIap for
her.
There was not much spirit of compro-
mise in the late Newman, Ga, compression
al convention. A del, gate being asked to
give up his man replied, IL know my bus
mess needs me. My fields are white with
cotton !; but I'll stay ere in this court
house and be tuted out 10y piecemeal by the
ants, through the key hole, before IN give
up
At st. Stephens Catholic church, Frank
Invite, Md. Sunday morning, John Shan
ahan shot and mOrtally wounded Joseph
Miller, for the seducJi "a of his fifteen year
old sister. Miller hah He'd after the affair
two years ago and only returned To the
| neighbornood last week.
AT the Wytheville, Va. fair. ten ladies,
| five of them married. rode for the prizes
for the most graceful LADY rider. The first
prize, riding habit, was won by Mrs. II.
| j. Holbrook, and the second, Il riding whip
was awarded to Miss Lizzie Broeske.
| A woman in Ohio lss just got $4,000
from "a man who went counting of her
fifteen years aud then lnade up his mind he
couldn t.. This being ut the rate of $685.
335 d year, strikes the bachelor mind as
rather d heavy payment for poor fun
w. W. Corcorau, of Washington City,
the steadfast friend of Virginia. has pre-
sented the State with his picture of the
storming of Il redoubt at Yorktown. 1t
has been placed in the capital at Rich
| mOnd.
Two hundred and fifty students have
matriculated at the University of Vir-
I glnia; one hundred a ii forty at the Vir-
.inia Military Instii nte, and ninety at
Washington u Lee University
| An English scEOoln.,ster named Heap
sued Il Miss Mervis fci breach of promise,
She compromised TIL matter and Laid
ST. 90 rather han have her letters made
public.
ITO persons about to be married: The
wedding trouseau Of Prince Francis Ben
| them s niece to be disposed of for Ell 600.
the same cost three times the money! is
an advertisement in German newspaper.
Inviting President MacMahon to retire
on the score that ''every one has had
enough OF him. has cost the Pays news
paper OF Paris $500. ard the Imprisonment
of two OF those connected with it.
DR.. VIM. II. Mackey, formerly of Rock
bridge, died in Hight nd co., Va, ON the
18th ult :, from an over dose of morphine.
He had been in i'll he It'll for some weeks.
He had large professional Practice.
| Austin H. Bright, rmerly of Stanton
now in the Lewisbure, w. Va, jail as a
lunatlc, attempted suicide last week by
hanging himself. A, other prisoner cut
the rope with piece of glass and saved
him.
| A candida e for Office in Southwestern
Virginia was telling he people, the other
day, that he was raised between the rows
of corn, when fellow in the crowd yelled
out, "A punkin. by Grorge!"
A: Stephenson's lot of So Highland cat
tie sold last week. ave aged 1907 pounds,
| and one weighed 2,22u s. G. LudiHgton
passed throu h Hinton, w Va. last week
with 1O2 head Of cattle to be shipped to
Europe.
Kansas and Calforn stand side by side
in grain crops the present year. From the
eighth place as a wheat State in 1876.
Kansas jumps to the first place. Her crop
OF wheat will be over 5000. 900, and of
corn 100, 600, 900 bushels.
Last Sunday Father Hasty, pastor of the
Z 'thnllc church at Lexington announced
that it would be the Last service for sever
al months, as he had permission from the
Bishop to visit other C. ties to raise money
to liquidate the deb hanging over his
church.
The Red Sulphur Springs in Monroe CO..
W. Va, were sold last week for $4,000 to
Col. Bennett H. Young, of Louisville. XIV.
VINO 1t is said will reconstruct that water
ing place.
Salie b. Leonard, aged 25, was found
dead in the road near Bristol, Va. on the
4th inst under circumstances that Warran-
ted the arrest of F. G.. Miles and several
more of her neighbors.
Miss Florence Night engale is now sixty
years old, and lives in London almost a
prisoner to her room, $, i'll is she. Once A
year she takes her widowed mother to Der
byShire
"D'nt kiss like that - she said as he
gave her hearty smack. ~ want sweet.
t'nder pressure when Ian kissed, I don't
want any firewOrks.''
DR.. Alfred Leyburn. of Lexington, was
stricken Suddenly i'll while ATTENDING Nv.
nod at Abingd>. His family were sum.
moned to his bedside.
j. Cleek, ESQ.,, has resigned the sheriff
atty of Bath. and Mr.. Charles Rivercomb
has been appointed sheriff pro tenn
The salary of the Rev. r. Dewitt Tai
mage. Brooklyn, has h>an increased from
81 900 to $4,000 per year. A sign Of i'm
proving times.
The VALLEY Spirit" says in Rocking
ham Their have been sold this year 1000
ons of fertilizer, from nineteen different