Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1879-01-10


While Jedekiah's bass profound.
Goes down SO low 1t jars the ground
And wakes the echoes miles around
Like distant rolling thunder.
Talk not to us of PATHS fame,
OF NicOliniS tenor tame
OF Cary's ato-but name
Or hltneyS ponde GUS Dasso!
And Ann Maria, Obediah.
| Than cats sing like Tomaso!
ST am almost seventy -one,' said Mrs
Maria Clark Gaines to Washington. cor
respondent the other day, ''and [ expect
to live till 1 am hundred and fifty.
| come of long lived race. One of my
aunts lived to 49," and seeing the cores
pondent scrutinizing her hair. ut isn't
dyed" she said, land it is very abundant,
| falling below my waist
Charles Fitch Skinner announced him
self in Westford Connecticut. AZ church
debt raiser. He conducted a meeting af-
ter the manner Of Brother kimball, sub
scribed $50 himself, and please Il the trus-
tees so well that they employed him to
collect the subscriptions. Ii., collected
several hui dred dollars and disappeared.
It is Stated that Cardinal McCIoskey, of
New York. has forbidden any Vt the cler-
gymen of his diocese from receivii money
deposits at the request of Practitioners or
others. His opinions in regard to the re-
cept of deposits are said to he based on
views of policy, and not necessarily of
IN oralitY.
For the third time since 1871, the Chi
cago post office building has been destroy
ed by fire. 1t was, however, not govern
ment property that was ravaged on Satur-
day, but building leased from the Con
necticut Mutual Life Insurance Company.
| A United States Senator is credited with
saying: mo man and his family ever en-
| joyed the Presidency and the White House
| so much as Hayes and his family do. To
| them the whole thing is like the first read
| Ing of Robinson Crusoe' to a boy, or
| first jack-knife or first pair of boots.''
Hon. William P. Sheffield. lawyer and
ex Congressman, fell on the icy street in
Newport, R. l., Saturday. breaking the
| same leg which he broke IN New York
some ten years ago, and for which he re-
| covered heavy damages from that city.
At an entertainment on New Years
| night at the city hall, Barnesville. Ohio,
| called the ''Feast of Mondarnin, upward
| of 159 persons were taken violently i'll.
Some mlscreant had mixed eroton oil with
the food.
The Montgomery ''Messenger'' reports
| the receipts from the Moffett registers in
Chrlstiansburg and Allegheny townships
for 1878 at $2l67.37. and says the people
still grumbe at paying ten cents taxation
on the 81 ,OOJ worth Of property,
E. H. Haywood, sentenced to jail in
Boston for three years. for circulating an
obscene paper called 'sCupids Yokes"
| through the mail; and pardoned by Presi-
ident Hayes after six months in prison,
had a public reception in Boston Tuesday
night In honor of his s'vindicaton.'
| Mrs. Elizabeth Emmett LEROY, the
daughter of Thomas Adds Emmet the
first. has just died at New Rochelle. New
York. Her father was the brother of
Robert Emmett, thu Irish martyr, and was
| himself one of the leaders in the great
irish rebellion of 1898.
Since the starting of the fund for the
Presbyterian Church extension in Ireland
about forty years ago. and greatly owing
to it. the number of their churches has in.
creased from $50 to $50.
The Cincinnati 'sCommereial'' saws that
Santa Claus smiled when he saw Senator
David Davis stocking, and pinned note
to the base of it saying, "Nn four-horse
sleighs this year,
Rufus Clark, one of the South Carolina
oolored emgrants to Liberia writes back
that There is nothing going in Ii IBERIA for
a living but lying, cheating aud st ealing,
and wants assistance to come back home,
The remains Of VIM. G. Lynch, the stu
| dent who was drowned at Licking ton in
trying to rescue another, were recei we'd at
Alexandria by Col. Bolivar Christian and
ii. y. Claggett, and carried to Lee shurg.
We have been often told that there was
a bright future in store for US, but We have
never found the store where it was kept,
IL must be one of those establishments
that do not advertise.
The Lewisburg papers notice the death
of Mr.. J. II. Bledsoe, a we'll know mer.
chant OF Green Sulphur Springs, from
paralysis. He was native of Fluyanna
county, Va.
A twelve year old son of Floyd Davis, in
Wythe county Va, went dom a sheer
precipice of fifty feet with two oxen and
wagon on the 10th inst. Both boy and
oxen scrambled out of the creek below un-
hurt.
| A water moccasin snake, two feet in
length was the winter novelty sent t. the
| Office OF the Wythville tDspal ch7 on the
3Oth of December,
| The Pope has sent medal, with his
| blessing, to the Catholic Indians of Maine.
| who, on his accession to the Papal throne.
dispatched to him an Offering of .)aantifnl
ly embroidered moccasins.
Or course, as the head of the school sys.
| tenn Dr. REffner got bis salary.
1.-THE mind shall banquet, though the body pnes'
-ltaohnsoad Wing.
| Manganese, catsle and sheep. to the val
ue of about $4,000, were taken to Nor
| folk by the A, M & 0. Railroad last year
for export to foreign countries.
A firm in Philadelphia is doing thirty
ing business in renting party suits and
swalow-tail coats to gents and party
dresses and jewels to laqies.
The Boston "Advertiser'' includes Mr..
Beverley Fuel or among the dead Con-
gressmen OF 1878.
Philip Mccarthy, Philadelphia thief,
has been sentenced by every j., dye in the
Quaker City,
A daughter OF Gov. Hampton, is expec-
ington at an early day. She is said to be
very beautiful.
Rev. Charles M. Howard g revival labors |
in Hillsville, Carol county, are being re- |
warded with success.