Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1879-08-22
Mrs, Vliet. who lately died at New A

Mrs. Vliet, who lately died at New Al.
bany, Ind, divided the mature part of hel
| life into three distinct and contrasting
woman, working hard for bare subsis.
tence. Then she went into business as a
| fortune-teller, and for ten years was SO
| successful that at the end of that time she
was possessed of 100000. Finally she be-
came pious, and during her last ten years
| devoted her time and money to deeds of
charity.
The new Catholic church of Lynchburg
| cost $35, 900 and will seat one thousand
| persons. The. altar is composed of six
| kinds of marble from as many different
parts of the globe. 1t is to be dedicated
Sept. Nth, and Archbishop Gibbons will
be present.
Caleb Garten, of Fayette CO., W. Va,
an old man, was sitting in his chair Sun
dap evening reading his bible and was
taken ill. He exclaimed, "well and hearty
to-day and in eternity Tomorrow" and
died without a struggle.
Jeremiah Kelley, a soldier in the Black
Hawk war, who served in the same regi-
ment with Captain afterwards President)
Abraham Lincoln, died last week near
Sherman, Texas, aged seventY-tWO years.
The Charlottesville "Chronicle" says it
was DR.. John R. Woods, of Whitehall, and
not DR.. John r. Woods. of "Holkham"
who was wounded by colored man some
two weeks ago.
sLafferty looking like "a maiden of the
Valley of Virginia The idea What is
the clergy coming to, anyhow I'-Sta,.,a-
ton Vardicat0r. Upon reflection and re-
pentance, we did lay it on the ''cheek" too
thick.-Richnond Christian Advocate.
M. W. Camper, of the Fincastle
Herald" and Benjamin Haden, of the
Botetourt News" were on Wednesday
bound over to keep the peace III the penal
tY OF 81 600 each, in anticipation of a hos
tile meeting between them.
Washington Ellyson, a colored man, is
a respected citizen of Coleraine, N. c., and
he ought TO be. He kept six thousand
dollars III gold and silver for his master
during three years of the war, and when
hostilities closed returned him every dol
lar of it.
Elias Grove, of Maryland, had one of his
steam threshing- machines burnt last week,
and has received an anonymous note
threatening that if he continues to use the
other it also will be burned. The note is
signed "Workingmen."
Six hundred and twenty-seven crates of
fruit, peaches and grapes, were shipped
from Charlottesville to Northern markets
through the Adams Express office last
week.
Miss Mary Corbin, of Towsontown, Md,
was struck by lightning last week, and
rendered deaf and dumb The fluid left
mark on her neck, resembling burn.
Several railroads have adopted veloci-
pede for their supervisors. 1t runs with
one wheel on one rail and two wheels on
the other, and the rider can make eighteen
miles an hour.
Secretary of the Navy Thompson began
life as school teacher and clerk in a dry
goods store at Bedford, Ind. For two
years he slept on counter with COM
panlOn.
VIM. TONNES, of Mecklenburg, who ten
years ago. at seventy-nine years of age
represented that county in the Virginia
legislature, died on the 18th inst.
Rev. Thos. B. Sargent, one of the most
venerable ministers of the Baltimore M.
E. Conference South, died in Baltimore
last week
Mary and Mildred Lee, daughters of the
late General Lee, are spending the sum-
mer in Norway.
Corn has literally jumped since the re-
cent rains. and now gives evidence of an
average CROP Wythevslle Enterprise.
There is man selling papers at Atlantic
City who last year spent $37, 900.