Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1878-01-25

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| flies to the courtyard, and at nightfall
hops up into the sitting room. The pc
lice pet it, and a little house filed with
cotton is poised near the club ack, where
the sparrow sleeps.
Fraud has been brought to light in the
Bald Headed Club of Nevada. The con-
| stitution of that organization declares
that the man with the baldeSt head shall
be President, and it has been proved that
a member had his badness enlarged by
shaving SOFAS to obtain the Presidency.
:. Reuben Ragland, late President of the
Petersburg Railroad, and for many years
one of the wealthiest and most enterpris-
ing citizens of Petersburg has been adjudi-
Gated a bankrupt on his own petition. Lii
abilities SAL 900.
Rey. William Mcclure; formerly of Vir-
ginia, but more recently rector of St.
Paul's P. E. Church at Digby, N. s., has
resigned that position and taken charge Of
st. Bartholomew Reformed Episcopal
Church, Montreal, Canada.
Two new infantry companies have just
been formed in West Virginia: the
"Greenbrier Light Infantry Grays," of
Lewisburg, and the &C. P. Huntington
Veterans" of Charleston, KanaWha-th
latter named after the Chesapeake & Ohio
President.
A little daughter of Mr.. A. G.. Loving,
of Green Spring, Louisa county, dressed
herself in one of her mothers old dresses,
day Or two ago, in order to play old wo-
man, but while playing around the fire the
dress Was ignited, and burned her so severe
ly that She died.
The last ill-natured story told about
Chicago is that twenty-five cents is exact
ed for the privilege of viewing what is
reckoned the choicest curiosity which the
great Lake City can show, viz, the only
unmortgaged piece Of ground.
The tallest man in the United States is
probably Henry Illusion, a native of Mis-
souri,, now residing in Titus County, Tex
as, and formerly Confederate soldier, who
stands seven feet and six inches in his
bare feet. Barnum offered him large
sum to join his exhibition. but he declined
A young lady of Williams, Iowa, wish
ing to return young gentleman his ring,
attached a tag to it with his name thereon
and dropped it in the Post Office. On the
back OF the tag was written, Il hate to,
but [ must"
Mr.. Hayes is reported t o have grown ex-
tremely plump in office. His full whiskers
can scarcely conceal the roundness of his
face, and his dress coat stretches and
wrinkles across his robust frame.
DR.. Blacknall, of the Yarbrough House.
Raleigh, N. c., had forty-two possums
cooped up for the enjoyment Of his guests.
A pig rooted off the lid of their pris-
on, and all the forty-two possums waltzed
off instanter.
Hughes, the French journalist, who
killed fellow journalist in a duel near
Marseilles says, s'when we have killed a
man in a duel we are sufficiently punished
by his death.''
A bill appropriating $4,000 to pay for
the use of the Episcopal Seminary and
High School near Alexandria,: during the
war has been favocably reported in Con-
gress.
The law choked Andrew Nelson eleven
minutes at Plymouth, N. c., Friday, be-
fore it could kill him, for havi, g killed
John Webb a clerk in store. Two thou
sand people, two sheriffs and minister
stood by.
Commodore Hollins. who, while in the
U. S. Navy, made the famous lombard
ment OF GreytoWn, Nicaragua, and while
in the Confederate navy commanded the
James River Squadron, died in Baltimore
last week, aged 70 years.
The postoffice at Ream's Station 1.-THE
famous scene of the last cavalry fighting),
Dinwiddie county. Va, is discontinued for
want Of a candidate.
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paper men seem to be the only persons who
Can stand the strain of unceasing combat
with the devil.
Socrates Brooks, Chairman of the Com
mittee on Streets of the Manchester, Va,
Council, has been expelled for misappro-
prlating So 406 of funds appropriated to
his committee.
Col. r. G.. III. Kean, well-known law
yer of Lynchburg, Va, sailed from New
DIRK for Liverpool on Thursday, on the
steamer Celtic.
The late Senator Morton's son, o. P.
Morton, is IN engineer by profession, and
is working under Capt. Eads on the Mis-
sissippi jetties.
Geo. W. Hoke, of Greenbrier, county
W. Va, last week captured in a hollow
tree bear weighing $50 pounds and a cub
six months old.
The Senate has confirmed among others
the nomination of lunsford l.. Lewis
United States attorney for the eastern dis
trict of Virginia.
we'll as poetical, as Allen Rose of Hunt
Va ,,A
he Drained his wife with banjo.
The West Virginia Council will meet
at Charlestown, Feb 9th to elect Bishop
in place of Rev. DIR. Eggleston declined.
Thomas J. Fitzsimons is appointed post
master at Strausburgh, Shenandoah coun-
to, Va, vice Luther Hurn, resigned.
j. R. Hodgson, prominent merchant of
Charleston, W. Va, is dead. He was
native of Winchester.
Every male citizen Of Atlanta, Ga, is
taxed SIS for the maintenance of the
streets.
Fish are peddled in portable tanks in
Japan, the law requiring them to be sold
alive.
A full-blown pond lily was discovered
under the clear Ice by a party of boys skat-
ing at North Sandwich, Mass.
The Marquis of Lorne lately gave an OF.
der in Paris for diamond, costing 100000.
as gift to his wife, the Princess Louise.
Dallas, Texas, says the HERALD has
enjoyed the luxury of a nine inch snow.
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