Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1879-08-15

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linen duster, registered at the Parish ho-
tel in Charlottesville last week. Instead
of paying his bill he left a very dirty shirt
in his room. The whole description in the
Charlottesville ''Chronicle'' reads very
whipping in Augusta last year, for opera
ting on a similar line at the more quiet
watering-place
David Willis, colored, was arrested in
Highland last week on his way to Staun-
ton. He was laden with ribbons, ladies'
ties, gloves and fancy articles, which he
had gotten out of the store of John W.
Reed, on JacksOn's river, by breaking into
1t.
Norvell Langhorne, of Lynchburg, Va,
messenger of the Southern Express Com
pany, was killed in a recent accident on
the Virginia and Tennessee railroad. Be-
sides defraying all expenses of the funeral,
the company has donated $500 to the wild
owed children of the deceased.
Mrs. Caroline s. Brooks, who carved a
bust of IOlanthe in butter and exhibited it
at the Centennial, is working in Obscurity
in New York, modelling bustS in clay and
obtaining precarious livelihood by selling
photographs of her first effort.
Capt. Perle Primrose, of Winchester,
who lost his arm in the Confederate army
can with his left hand, with a revolver
split a ten cent piece, sixty feet distant.
one hundred times in possible one hun
dred.
Georgiana Nichols, living at Windham,
N. z, who was to be married in few
days, but did not have a proper wardrobe,
shot herself dead Saturday. Among the
reasons she left in note was. ''And then
[ have SO few clothes.''
John Nestor, while at work in his field
in Carroll county, was shot from ambush
and killed, last week. Jessie Lester, while
at work in his field in Tazewell county,
was also shot from ambush, but not killed.
This looks bad for Southwestern Virginia.
DR.. Ellzey, professor Of Agriculture of
the A. & NJ. College at Blacksburg, raised
80 bushels of potatoes from the twelfth of
an acre Of ground. Variety, Early Rose.
Treatment, compost and mulching.
A little son, eleven years of age, son Of
Hanson Menifee, of Warren county, Va,
was drowned Sunday, while bathing with
some companions in the Shenandoah
river.
Between Lewisburg and Williamsburg,
West Virginia, the distance is sixteen
miles, and Samuel b. Anderson has con-
tracted to carry the mail over that route
twice week for $119 year J!
DR.. John R. Woods, of Albemarle, who
was shot in the breast while trying to cane
a negro. named Wood, for insolence to
his wife, is recovering. The negro is in
jail.
A memorial window is to be. placed in
the First Baptist church, colored, of
LYnchburg, in memory of those who were
killed in the panic in that church last
year.
The following is a sign on barber shop:
sTonsorial Artist. Physiognomincal Hair
Dresser, Facial Operator, Uranium manip-
ulatOr and Capillary abridger. Shaves and
Hair Cut with ambidextrous facility"
VIM. H. Vanderbilt has just given
$4,000 more to the Vanderbilt Univer-
sity. at Nashville, to be spent in a gymna-
stun and scientific hall.
Maj. W.. W. Leland, of Saratoga hotel
fame, who was on Grants staff as a COM
missary early in the war, died at Saratoga
on Saturday.
Maj. John S, Braxton, U. S. Collector of
customs, at Norfolk. died on Saturday. He
was an officer in the Confederate army
during the war,
Maj. Wade, of Rockbridge, on March
10th planted seven pounds of potatoes and
on July 18th dug out Jwo hundred and
sixty-six pounds or 3S to 1.
Louisa county, Va, is very large
county, and there is not an Episcopal
church in it, except on the border of Albe-
marie county, IL miles from the court
house.
The farm of John A. McClung, 1853
acres. in Greenbrier county, Va, has been
sold to Henry skaggs for 1890.
Miss Grace Vestal, Of Washington Co..
Va, is lying dangerously ill from the
bite of copper-head snake.
Mr.. and Mrs. Fallon, keepers of bar
room at Liberty, Ind, died of delirium
tremens within an hour of each other.
Rev. P. P. Phillips, of Trenton, N. j..
has accepted a call to the rectorship Of
GRACE Episcopal Church, Rerryville. Va.
A. telephone between Anderson and
Union, W. Va, distance Of twelve
miles, is in contemplation.
The Presbyterian churches in Nebraska
have increased in twelve years from S to
100.