Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1879-01-24

James Mccormick, q millionaire bank
president in Harrisburg, Pa. teaches .
remarkable Bible class. Thee are 800
members, OF whom he says: There are
men in this classs who are by 10 means |
Christians, men who are net even re-
formed. One of the worst = .Inblers III
this city is a regular attendant He is a
bad man and confasses 1t, blu, there's a
spark of goodness in his .,5af. which,
some day, may be tanned into lame
MIS-. Benjamin Hunter colp 'iaifs that
the Sheriff at Camden treated '-e. husband
with hal barity She said e.. thur day:
II want pa.cpi3 to know thu benjami'
Hunter Was by no means the al2hn thar
he is painted, but was, III fact. VI his fan.-
lily relations, as husband, Tat ~ brother
and neighbor, pntilejy abov 'eproach.'
She Insists that her husbands ulind was
impaired and says insanity rams in the
Eunter family.
Peter Ho!!ar, of Rockingham county,
Va, was tn, own from slei It one Gay
last week, the end of d rail striAing him i'll
the side IF the face, breaking sc jaWbone
on one side of his cheek, and forcing its
way through the face. disioca 5ug the jaw
on the other side. The lowe jaw was
broken at the chin, and the bo,o- so crushed
that nearly all tie lower teet!i zane out.
At the Baptist Convention t Washing
ton, Friday, when the subject Of ladies
speaking in public was up. r. " DE-. Dick
inson, of Richmond said: II have always
been opposed to 1t. but sine [ shared a
Philadelphia platform with two sisters
who beat me SO bad that | was ashamed OF
myself, I am very earnest in my opposi-
ton to it.
Mr.. Reuben n Harrison, one of the del
egates from Rockingham cops3y, who is
about seventy years OF age, W lie romping
with some children at his Boarding house
| in Richmond, leaped so high nat he cut
his head against the gas chand Her in the
| parlor.
| Miss Rosa Solomon, of Uoy kinsville,
KY, while on visit to Nashville. Tenn,
| received a letter from her betro lined, q gen.
| tleman of wealth in Cincinnati stating
| that he had changed his mind ard declin-
| ed to marry her. She COMMITS led suicide
| by taking strycllnine.
Mr.. Leonard Grover, Jr, an actor, in
jumping from car at August :. Ga, last
| week, fell violently to the ground, striking
| turing it between the wrist and elbow.
Two great political truths have been I'M
earthed in this country within the past ten
years, viz: That ex-rebels w:.o vote the
Republican ticket eau get Office and honor
from the Federal Government aud negroes
WHO vote the Democratic tichst get plenty
| to eat.-Baltinaore Gazette.
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Hampton a visit Oh Friday last. Both
Smith and Hampton We're Wo.uded at the
first battle of Bull Run.
Colonel R. W. Jamison, q prominent
lawyer of Macon, Ga, committed, suicide
by shooting himself, while laboin under
temporary alteration Of mind, On Friday
last.
On Sunday night John F. Towner,
prominent merchant of Baltimore, afiiic-
ted with asthma, walked III t., door of
Westminster church after a rapid walk
and when a step or two in tie aisle fell
and died III a few minutes.
Dr.. John B. Biddle, Dean Of Jefferson
College. a well known physician and a
medical author Of some rrpute, died in
Philadelphia Sunday.
The estimates of expenditures Of the
city Of Danville for the year 1873 amount
to $6S, 600. The estimated / venues, at
the rate of per cent. tax on T. vi and per-
sonal property, is put at $53, 1871, which
shows deficiency for the ensusns year Of
1862.
Leon Lewis who has humbugged the |
country papers generally with IN adver-
tisement OF his paper, the Up nm Yam |
Mystery has eloped from Pet iann with |
a sixteen year old niece of his dead wife, |
and leaving $4,000 of debts behind him.
At the residence Of H. Stuart Repass,
near WJthyille last week, Nj 1873 Shelton
blew down the chimney OF d lanp to ex-
tlngaish it, and her head and arms were (
instantly aElaZe with burning ell. She
was badly burned.
Geo. W. Palmer, of SaltvilIe President
of the LynchbuIg Agricultural Society. is
cattle for shipment to Europe he frs OF I,
July next. His partner, Mr.. stuart, has
made several very satisfactory shipments.
Signor Borges, the Brazilian Minister at
Washington, sent to each Of / to Roman
Catholic institutions III that ci Y d ton of
ccal as Christmas present.
The new Greenback Treasure, of Maine
has the presidents of three national banks
amo ng his bondSmel.
1t is likely that constitu: ional con-
ventloa will los called in Louis ana, to as
semble in March Or April.
1
There will be l sos delegates 10 The Ken
lucky State Democratic Conve ten, which
assemblies on A!ay-tlay.
Mr.. Dez1nio {. Republican, h,s coneIu-
ded not to contest the Sc It of Air Goode.
Democrat, for the Second Gong .essiopai
district Ot Virginia.
Louis <. Psyre, of Virginia has been
appointed J. s. Attorney, for Wyoming $
Territory.
The press and fixtures Of the s'Miss ion
Try Record the last Republican paper Of
South Carolina was put up at S,eriff's sale
asst week.
Gel. David H. Stroller (Porte Crayon) /
t is stated, will be appointed consul gen
ral to Mexico by the President
The next biennial convention of the Y, J
4. 9. Associations Of tie UNI ed States
nd Capada is to be held in baltimore, ia
fay 2l-25. ~
Mr.. r. Ten Brock will hereafter live in q
Europe. All the racing cups that he won
l England hive been sold, with many
Their curioSities.
Gen. "Tige" Anderson, who commanded
Confederate division, has been chosen &