Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1878-08-16
AS the furniture at a t enement house IN

AS the furniture at a t enement house II
Fall River, Mass. was being transferred to
wagon, the wife carefully wrapped in
large comforter her little baby, and put i
on the bed in an upper chamber. A littl,
later some one down by the wagon callet
to a man who entered the chamber tt
throw down something to use for packin,
to protect some articles. The man seize(
the rolled-up comforter and flung it out O.
the window. 1t was caught bya woman
who, finding a lump in it, unfolded it to
find the child unframed.
M. Salmon, a French Judge at Auxerre.
was killed last month by the sting of a
wasp. inflammation at once set in. The
doctor succeeded in reducing the swelling,
but the enom poisoned the Judges blood
and he died within tweptv-four hours after
the sting.
Miss Helen Taylor, a remarkably gifted
woman, ~step-daughter of the late John
Stuart Mill, is to be run for Parliament by
the Radicals of Southwark, England. She
has been for some years regarded as author
lty on practical matters of political ecoIo-
my and craftsmanship.
Prof. Chas. IL. Barksdale, of Miss, an
| A. NJ. of the University of Virginia has
been elected Principal of the Abingdon,
Va, Academy. The retiring superinten-
dent, j. B. Baker, has been appointed SUI
perintendent of Public schools, at Hender-
son, Ky,
o. V. Smith, State Senator of Illinois,
aged thirty-eight years, heard that the
Grand jury of Lawrence county had
found all Indictment against him as a de-
faulter, in his office Of County Treasurer,
and committed suicide by taking laud-
anurn.
DR.. j. P. Grice, a dentist Of Qhssapeake
City, Md, took his little daughter Eva out
to walk one night last week and the bodies
of both were found In the canal lock next
morning. 1T is supposed, in the darkness
they fell over the wharf.
Seventy-one il ithe nHmbor Of little snakas
stated on t'upquestiopablo authority by
the Le4ingfon{ Va.l 'GaZette," to have
been found in the mother garter snake
killed in Rockbridge last week.
The New York "Tribune'' says the "po-
litical buzzards," who persist in placing
Grant before the country as a candidate,
are compelling the people to remember
much that they would most gladly forget"
Lewis Baker, who assassinated Bill
Poole, the famous New York KnoVnoshaH
ing politician, twenty years ago, ah'event
which stlFrad The Whole country at chat
time, died in Paris last week.
H. J. Montague, the English actor, so
remarkable for beauty of face and person,
had a hemorrhage, on the stage, in San
Francisco Friday night, and died on Sun
day. *"'S
Two lawyera Wh33la bathing at Santa
CrVs We other day. were chased out OF the
Water by g shark. Thisis the most fragrant
case of want Of professional courtesy ON
record. y
Rev, Jacob Wahfenb berg r, for thirteen
Years pastor Of the First German Presby-
terian church at Paterson, N. j., fee4.i dead
of disease Of the heart, FFgiidaN aNn h$s way
to a Elongs [
Capt. Geo. J.. Patterson, late. Assistant
Professor Of Mathematics ut the Virginia
Military Institute, has commenced I'll Q
practice of law at Los Ang LIS, Califor.
MIA.
Sim N Macke. a colered excursionist, |
was struck by a beam Of a bridge an the !
HichMond and FredafiqkNsbapg. railroad,
Friday, knocked from the platform and
killed.
Tie Dominion of Canada has a public
debt of Sl31, 0Oc 900; which she has no idea
repudiating or readl!usting.
Senator ingalls,, of Kansas, is spending
the season at the Healing Springs,
Virginia. -