Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1878-08-23

| A lew days ago, IN hOm6, CneTo appear
| ed fixed to the gates of Saint Peters the
| Index Ex%purgatorius prescribing, among
| other books, civilian Stroud un the Phys
ical Causes of Christ's DEATH" Quite
| lately DR.. Alessio Murine, a Roman physi-
| clam and fervent Catholic, withdrew from
circulation a treatise OF the same subject,
alleging as a reason that the Church eX-
cluded the CruciixiOn from the field of i'll
ductive research.
Gen. Grants brother Orvil in an inter
| view at Boston says the General had writ
! ten his friends that he would on NJ &C
| count accept a presidential nomination
but he. (Orvil) thinks that he probabl,
| could be educated up to it as he was once
before. If he could be made to believe
| that he was the only man able to save the
country or the party he would allow his
name to be used ever at the risk of de
feat.
Mile. Dodu, a young telegraph operator,
| who distinguished herself during the
| Franco-German war by an act of courage
and devotion. has been decorated with the
| Cross of the Legion of Honor. Shut up in
| a chamber through which the telegraph
wires conveying dispatches to the German
army passed. she destroyed the competition
| at the risk of her life.
Society at Newport, r. l., is agitated by
the elopement of Miss Sanford, of New
| Haven, niece of Judge Sanford, of New
York, a beautiful and accomplished girl,
with Seth Bateman Dodge, an adopted
son of the keeper of a fashionable board
| ing house at Bateman's Point. The
| couple left clandestinely Thursday night
| and returned married.
One day this week Mr.. James A. Flesh
or got awake at his usual hour, and after
rubbing his eyes awhile concludedit would
be a good day to NOW. He ate his break
fast, mounted a horse, and rode seven
miles to the meadow of L. III. Stephenson,
ESQ. close to town, hitched his team to
a Wood mower and cut twelve acres OF
grass before shutdown. Beat it, somebody.
-Highlamd (Va.) Recorder.
AS an illustrations Of the Exhibition"
prices at present current in Paris, it is as
serted that a French barber has charged
an English tourist 49 francs $12 for cut
ting his hair. A police magistrate made
him reduce his price to So. The barber
testified that he mistook his customer for
"a person of consequence"
Benjamin Fisher of Vergennes, VT,
while shaving before a mirror, discovered
a large spider on his shoulder. Misled by
the reflection in the glass, in trying to
brush it off he cut an artery, AMI bled to
death.
In Halifax county, Va, on seventy-fve
acres H. J. Ingram has made and sold
$4,000 worth Of tobacco. He says his
...-o4 <,oo k0 NUT ~ No Vonrn rovN fh0n hn
could handle.
John Ten Eyck, colored, was hung in
Pittsfeld, Mass, last Friday, and his
fa%ther-in-law and another cOlOred man. IN
their way home with the body exhibited it
in a railroad depot at ten cents admission,
realizing SIS.
AS an express train was leaving Marshv
field, VT, recently, a large crane lighted
on the top of the engine and remained
there until suffocated by the smoke.
There is a married woman named Ryer-
son in West Hoboken, N. j., who has
accouchments, namely, eight times twins,
twice tripl-ts. and once four at a birth.
Some sour wretch says: ut takes as
much wit not to dlsplease a woman, as it
takes little to please her," Wa
W. W. Corcoran. of Washington, has
lust given $50, 900 to endow a new chair OF
Natural History at the University of Vir-
ginia, in connection with the Brooks
Museum.
Rutherford B. Hayes inherited from his
uncla Rurchard prODertv i'm Fremont and
Toledo that even now is estimated to be
worth s2O0,0 900,
The farm belonging to the estate Of the
late DIR. Green, in Culpeper county, Va. |
467 acres, has been sold to c. I. Fowler OF |
Pennsylvania for $4,000.
We saws pair Of pants a few days since
which the owner informed us he had worn
for fifty years. There was not a hole Or
break in them.- Chatham lVa.ll Tribune. l