Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1878-02-08

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don't expect to have fine, clear tenor at
$50 month, do you ?"
Rev Barnas Sears, agent of the Peabody
Education Fund, has written to Missis-
sippian that men whose character and.posI-
Jion entitle them to the. highest respect,
have given it 'as their opinion that the
time has not yet come to give largely to
Mississippi.
Henry g. Tyree, a much respected far
mer Of Franklin county, Va, had quar-
rel with his mother and sister, Sunday,
and putting bottle of strychnine in his
pocket walked over to nelghbors house.
swallowing the poison as he entered the
gate. He died in few hours.
Francis Murphy, the temperance revi-
valist, is widower, and, it would seem, a
heart breaker. The Troy Times" says
that he was wildly loved in that city by
several women. ard that widow was so
infatuated that she followed him to SPRING
field.
Dr.. Mary Walker, who wears panta-
looms, opposes interference with polygam-
lists on the ground that the Utah system
of marriage from a physiological stand
point is an improvement on mOnOgamy
and a more enlightened phase of the social
evil.
Jimmie Richards, son of VIM. Rich
ards, of Abingdon, Va, two months ago
Injured his leg by leaping from window.
A few weeks ago he injured the same leg
by a fall. A week ago he again Injured it
while CARRYING box of tobacco, and died
on Monday morning.
Resolutions have been introduced in the
U. S. House of Representatives charging
,Ino. w. Polk, the doorkeeper, with being
interested in claims and bills now before
Congress. and with corruption and NAL
feasance IN office.
God helps the man that helps himself,
but God help the man caught helping HIM
self here,'' is a notice posted behind the
counter of silversmith in Boston. A
double-barrelled gun hangs near the
notice.
Robt. Appleby, while trading for cattle
with Lindsey Poindexter in Louisa, CO.,
Va, last week, said You may shoot me If
I DON'T" The next day he failed to de-
liver the cattle and Polndexter shot him
with horse pistol loa1ed with slugs.
Rev. Timothy Gardner Freeman, a Bap-
fist clergyman and formerly pastor in
New Orleans, Natchez, Miss, and Cam
den, Ark, fell dead at his boarding house
in New York Saturday. He was IS years
of age.
Maj. W. A. Anderson, of Lexington,
Va, appointed pay ($5,O00) commissioner
from Virelnia to the Paris exposition, is a
son Of Judge Anderson, of the Court of
Appeals, and an ex-State Senator.
The families interested in st. Louis
wedding were of mixed and pertinacious
religious Beliefs AS a comp Omise, the
ceremony was performed three times, enc
each by a Baptist, a Catholic, and an Epis-
copal clergyman.
children, has just married a youth under
10, in st. Adams, VT, much to the dis
gust of her sons. One of them knocked
the bridegroom down.
One of the latest things in prize compe-
tition was pie-eating match in Toronto.
The competitors lad their hands tied be-
hind them, and devoured raspberry tarts
| from the top of stool.
In the Central Criminal Court, on Jan.
IS, says the London ''Times,'' Frederick
Randolph, United States lawyer, was
indicted for forging and using Chicago
| Northwestern Railway 81 1000 bonds.
Among the discharged convicts of the
| Maryland penltentiary forwarded to their
| homes in January, one each was sent to
| Harrisonburg, Clarksburg, Norfolk and
| Richmond, Va.
Mr.. Lord is outdone by Mr.. Stapleton of
Flatland, Ohio, who at 81 has married
widow of thirty; but in this case the wi
dow has d fortune, and the bridegroom's
relatives do not complain.
Mrs. Isabella Beecher Hooker is trying
to organize party of women in Washing
ton to visit the capitals of the Southern
States and address the Legislatures on the
woman suffrage question.
For two years it has been unlawful to
kill partridge in Ohio, and the birds have
proved such an aid to the farmers that
they are petitioning the legislature for a
permanent law protecting them.
Gen. Robt. A. Banks, the largest land
owner in Madison county, Va, and for
many years prominent in Virginia politics.
died last week at an advanced age.
The Supervisors of Amherst county,
Va. have reduced the expenses of that
county 900 this year. A good example
for every county in the State,
The Eastern Virginian'' tells of 20 cod
fish being caught'on the 10Th ult.. off the
coast OF Accommodate first of the kind
ever known in Virginia waters
The Fred ericksburg VA "Star'' says:
THE return Of the Rev. W. W. Walker to
his home in Westmoreland county may
~
canoe"
There was thunderstorm near Abing-
don Va, on the 18th of January. A tree
On the farm Of Mr.. James B. Preston, was
struck by lightning and a horse, tied to it..
killed.
John Berry was sentenced 10 Norfolk.
Va. last week to tkirty-ive years in the
penitentiary, for attempting to poison his
wife and children.
Mr.. Jefferson Davis has been invited to
deliver an address during commencement
week, next June, at the Texas State Uni
YerSlty.
Horace Greeley's estate realizes very lit
tie. TIE N. Y "Tribune'' shares which
when he died were worth $4,000 each
have now only 5000 offered for them.
Mrs. Barbour, the venerable mother of
Hon. James Barbour, Col John S. Bar
oour aud DR.. Edwin Barbour, was para
lyZed last week.
The California legislature is consider
ing bill to stop all official fees and pay
3Xery state OF county employee a stated
salary.
Josie Fowler of New Haven snufss can
lies and ceres apples with revolver. The
'oung men are exceedingly respe ctful in
their attentions to her.