Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1879-10-10

IA UlaCk DaSS WAS ulSCOV0Ieu Ill tu0 Ceu-
tire of cake of ice at Rondout, on Mon
day. 1t had been locked up there for
eight months and was frozen stiff when
cut out. It was placed in sprinkling
pot containing cistern water and in half
cording to the Albany 'Knickerbocker," it
occupies place in globe on the counter
at a drug store and is as live as it ever
was.
In Harrisonburg, Tuesday night, at the
house of Garrett Vandergrift, while Ex-
Mayor Jos. P. Hyde was sitting there Mrs.
Kelly, wife of Ex-Chief of Police Joe
Kelly, stepped IN. Kelly himself soon fol-
lowed and dragged his wife from the
room, and a few minutes afterwards, on
the street. shot Hyde in the back and alb
domen. The wounds are said not to be
dangerous. Kelly fled and had not been
arrested at last accounts.
Sheriff William I. Overbey so i'd in this
county this week some three hundred
acres of land valued at two dollars per
acre, for six dollars per acre. Does this
look like land is decreasing in value?-
Pittsylua1aia I4ibane.
Miss Kitty Scotsman, an aged lady liv.
ing near New Market, wandered off into
the woods on the I'd inst, and was not
found by citizens, who organized for the
search, for two days. She was found
about four miles from HarriSOnburg.
The grand stand at the Adrian, Mich,
fair fell last week. killing six and wound
ing fifty OF those who were occupying it,
All structures of this kind should be In
spected by competent engineers before a
crowd is permitted to use them.
B. F. Grayson, ST., has compromised all
suits against the broken Page county
bank by taking the assets and guarantee
ing the creditors fifty cents on the dollar,
to be paid within twelve months. He
also pays all expenses incurred up to this
time, amounting to about $1,000.
Chief Justice Noah Davis, of the Su-
preme Court of New York, has been
poisoned by poison oak at his country
residence, on the Hudson. On Saturday
he gathered some bright autumn leaves.
which proved to be those OF poison oak.
Rev. James B. White, of Raleigh, N j..
ceived three hundred and twenty converts
into the Catholic Church, including DIR.
B. F. Cobb, of Hickory, his wife and four
teen children.
Olive Logan says: 81 saw George Eliot
walking in the Regent Park the other day
How sad and ill she does look, to be sure.
1 hear that her physicians Say she must
never produce another novel;"
President Hayes was at the Indianapolis
f.. co@
along managed in his sreech to get in
shot at the last congress.
Hundreds of cattle from Augusta and
Rockingham, passed eastward through
this place this week. They were graZed
in this county and Pocahontas- Highland
Recorder.
Rev. Cyrus Doggett, brother of the
Bishop, is at the age of seventy-1ve, hale
and hearty and riding a circuit III Craig
county.
The Herald" says there are 100000
stranger sin New York The hotels every
where are as full as during the Centennial.
Surely there could be no better evidence
of flush times
The leg OF r Green, of Boston. which
was cut off on the Old Colony railroad
was valued by a jury at S15, 1888, and that
one legged gentleman is now comfortably
off.
They have large chestnut crop in Bot
etourt, and the first oflit brought So a
bushel.
It is estimated that from 600 to 500 tons
of commercial fertilizers have been pur-
chased this season by Clarke farmers.
j. L. Watkins is appointed postmaster
at Greenbrier Bridge, Greenbrier county,
WA, vice ]. c. Bright. resigned.
iPhe Massachusetts, Democrats have
John Quincy Adams, and the
Louisiana Democrats, L. A; Wilt for
uoVernor' 1.~s.-.-- L >
Senator Wade Hampton has arrived
home, Columbia, s, K. !, from the Wig inia
springs.
John j Chancellor, a well known CATTLE
dealer of Baltimore, formerly of Loudon
co., Va, died at the Entaw House in
that city last Saturday. nA
It IS proposed to erect in Paris statue
If Fermentier, who int oduced the potato
INTO France. 40 T5rl I'll
A stonecutter in Charleston, s. c., ad-
7ertises sale of tombstones at auction,
ito make room for new styles"
I'D. Mitchell, foreman of this Chesa-
,eake and Ohio Railroad Company's black
NTH shop in Richmond, died on Monday.
Valley View Springs near New Market,
as been sold to Capt, VIM. Fl. Rice,