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

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branch of practice; and, we have been in
formed tn at owing to the stlingency of
the times. their charges will be- considera-
bly, reduced. Abingdon Va.) Standard.
In Charlottesville, Mamie Crockford,
the little daughter of the rair 'ad ticket
I agent there, was promised by i.tr father a
ride on the road to Shadwell /; iday even
| ing and put her clothes out for the trip.
Her mother last heard the little voice
singing Safe in the arms OF Jesus" and
afterwards going to wake her for the trip
| found her dead of heart diseas. She Was
buried in the clothes she had put out for
the excursion.
Mrs. Langtry is a reigning heauty iii
London, and her photograph o;tsells that
OF Branscombe. The Prince of w ales'
carriage IS often seen in front VI her door,
but the lady has the reputation of being as
| vlrtuOuS as beautiful. Her iIc.nt is only
$4,000 year; SO, of course she could not
! figure in society. This starry beauty has
a husband, but he is entirely overshad-
owed.
| A lady aged twenty -seven cane into Bris-
toll, Va, last week, having sold pig worth
the dollar and a half, for fifty cents, in Der
excitement to get money TO buy d license
| to marry boy OF fifteen years. Some OF
| the people cruelty sold her bogus license
and took her money. She anu iser youth
| full lover started on a tramp to tiId more
honest town.
Mrs. Caroline Brooks, the, Maker of the
Centennial s'butter woman has Cow
modelled life-sized figure Of lolanthe in
butter. packed it In ice, and STAT it to the
Paris Exhibition. The face and head are
exactly that of the one seen at the Cen
tennial. She is farmers wifi, trying to
get means to study sculpture liz Italy.
Bars of pure gold, weighing twenty
ounces each, have been plouglled up at Or
near Lexington. N. c., to tie value of
some $40 900. 1t is supposed to be the pro-
ceeds of a stage robbery comn,,tted some
| forty years ago, when the thieves hid the
metal.
Mrs. Weathers, Of New Albany, In
| diana, whipped her daughter Alma, aged
| thirteen, Who thereupon tried to commit
suicide by eating up all the matches in the
house and then throwing herself into the
| river. Her mother fshed htf out and
whipped her again.
In Munich beer is absolutely the only
| beverage, water being used only for euli-
NARY and bathing purposes F,,r two and
half cents one can purchase aa much of
| the sparkling, cool and delicious larger as
will last a steady drinker half a day.
The Rev. Mr.. Dewitt, of Sturais, Miehi-
gan. said recently that it Wa; perfectly
right for a person to drink Intoxicating
| liquors if he wanted to. He has lost his
| pulpit, but the liquor dealers have present.
| ed him with an easy chair.
| The greatest fraud of the season IS the
| telegram describing "Geo. w. l;urleigh's''
blowing his brains out before Il $ audience
| after delivering an intidel lecture. Moth
| ing of the sort occurred at C;.;.on, ILL.,, or
anywhere else.
General Harry Heth, just appointed
| AGENT Of the Treasury Department, met
Colonel Rutherford i. Hayes a Giles G. H.
| Va, 1862. They commanded t Z opposing
forces, and had lively time for an hoar
| or so.
''What fine dark hair you have got, Miss
M Ny wife, who is much younger
than YOU, has her hair quite gray" I'm
deed,'' reioined Miss NJ, s'if had been
i your wife my hair, no doubt, had been
gray too"
In fifteen years from now, according to
Wendell Phillips. woman viii hold the
spear and shield in her own hands, To
many men the spear will he 10 more for
midable weapon than the present poker or
tongs.
VIM. A. Browning driving along the
New River cliffs, W. Va, wi.M a wagon
full of sewing machines went, horse, wag-
on and all over u tive .tl foot cliff. He
has been confined to his room Since.
With all his glory Lord Bsaconsfeld is
a lonely man, His only SISTER died years
ago, as did his wife, who was the Viscoun-
tess OF Beac0nSiield, and his only living
connection is q nephew.
A familiar figure at Newport is that Of
Mr.. Bancroft, the historian, as he oantegs
along the beach on his jet black sssaa, his
long, white locks flowing icosslX in the
wind.
FenH ansaseinents already on the tapis
At old Point Comfortl "Pretty. fresh.
youthful girls says the gossip, land
brave, young officers are the vic' ms"
The widow Oliver, who sued Senator
Cameron for breach of promise, has been |
dismissed from her clerkship at Washing |
ton.
In Tazewell co... Va. AZ the Baptist !
church Sunday, sschn Hardy WHO loved the |
same .ltI, 4hut Richard Dawson in the I
hip and left ion West Virginia.
The Rev. Howard Crosby says that any,
thing that would bring about the drinking |
of beer III place Of spirituous liq .ur is de-. =
srabe. I
Russia wants to 552rfqw mon.y in the
United e.tates. She pays her interest
promptly AID the Americans ale talking
favorably about it.
Six Spanish journals are being sued by
the government for insinuating that the
late Queen Mercedes was poisoned.
The Princess of Wales, her bi 9; nor, the
Crown Prince af Denmark, and The heir
to uha Shrqne of Belgium, are all deaf.
One of the fashionable London bellies,
Lady Gladys Herbert, can easily overlook
ali her rivals, for she is six feet high,
Mayne Reid is surprising England with
q breed of black sheep with white faces
and bpshy white tails,
4 The Rembrandt hat, of white plush with
large white plumes, is intended for blondes
for dress occasions,