Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1878-03-22

receivable for taxes, rather than exchange
them for new bonds bearing only 81 per
cent, interest, and coupons not receivable
in taxes, as the II W bill provides. A pro-
minent member of the Funding Associa-
ton expresses the belief that the debt of
Virginia will ultimately be paid on honest
terms. He declares, however, that tie
law just passed is partial reputation, and
Was enacted as compromise to tie read
justerS, whose real desire is to repudiate
the debt entirely.-NeW York Tribune.
Aaron Marshall, saw by the moonlight
Friday night, in Botetourt Va, county
Rad, large black dog and rocked him for
the fun of the thing. 1t turned out to be
a large bear and Aaron had to take to q
tree where he remained till morning,
with the bear at the bottom all
night. In the morning his cries attracted
a passer by and the bear fled. Aaron had
to be lifted out of the tree and carried
home, he was 50 badly frightened.
Mr. and Mrs. Barnes met in San Fran
cisco after separa ion of twelve years
He had been seeking a fortune, with very
moderate success, on the Pacific coast. She
mad been living in Pennsylvania. Did
they rapturously embrace at sight of each
other? No. She drew a revolver and
fired three times at him. and he Knocked
her down with cane. 1t seems that he
had deserted her, and she had found him
after a long search.
A hawker named Nancy was tried
few days ago in Paris for insults to Presi-
det,t MacMahon by selling printed hand
kerchiefs representing him welding a
{ol,n 1,a "A hn la
d fence was that the design was merely
reproduction from an American journal,
Puck. Sentence, three mouths imprison-
ment and 500 francs fine.
George Peabody was blackballed by the
Atheneum Club which recently extended
a like snub to Mr.. Walter, Of the London
''Times.'' Later on, the philanthropis
was waited upon by the club. who begged
him to become member. 'No," pliei
George, Il was not good enough for you
then-you are not good enough for me
noaU %
Rev. Brown Coble, a colorad preacher
was hung at Winchs ster, Tenn, on Thurs
day last befol about SIX tn lusand people
for the murder of Felix Gardner colored
man two wears ago. His behavior was
bi)u ISuU lO dSSCl UCu Ills lllllUCtUCt 10 Ullt
last. The colored people believed him
guilty and showed no sympathy for him.
1t is related by the London Chimes
that woman who recently died at Ash
colt. at the age of 104 years, had for the
last forty Of them been in. the habit of
drinking gin to excess, often spendig a
thousand dollars year fOr it. It isgrave-
ly suggested that but for this habit she
would not have thus been cut off.
''The girls of our day are very badly ed
ucated,n said one of the members Of a
committee on education to the Bishop of
Gloucester. "That cannot be denied,'' re-
torted his lordshsp. However, there is
one consolation, the boys will never find
it OUT"
A mother whose crying infant made the
sermon of her pastor almost inaudible was
going from the hall When the clergyman
spoke up, saying: "My good woman don't
go away. The baby doesn't disturb me -
at isn't for that l leave, sir" was there
ply, 6 its you disturbs the baby
VIM. Richardson, colored, and Bette
Henry, a white woman, eloped from
Warren CO., Va. on the 10th inst, to go to
another State and be married. They were
arrested, en- route, at Winchester but
were turned loose and permitted to con-
tinue their journey.
An Iowa newspaper, edited by man
named Ravens, recently printed and
praised an original poem in favor Of the
s.dt.llar of the fathers" and was chagrlned /
when a rival editor showed that it was an !
acrostic, the initial letters reading cha |
vens, the ass"
Mr.. William B. Aston has just bought |
for $4,000 General Phillips, a horse which |
aud which the Galveston News predicts |
will be at four years old the fastest horse |
Of his age in the country
Mot guilty, but ought 10 be hanged
Was fhta form in which bigamist, i'll
whose favor technical point had been |
successfully raised, was acquitted by a. jury |
IN Chester, Pa.
A Chicago firm hes purchased large |
lrove of steers winch are to be sent by
it amship to the pastures of North Ger
many for fatting and sale.
Mr.. Wallace, of Rawdon, Nova Scotia,
las lost nine children within sixteen days |
ON dip5heria.
London is alarmed because Surgeons
physical condition in such that he is not
expected ever to preach again. " g