Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1879-11-14


pocket for the costs. The obvious moral
of this fable is that knowledge got by
peeping costs.
The Rev. Mr.. Morrill,, the Epis copal
clergyman at Beliot, Kansas, has been
presented with the head and antlers of the
elk that recently killed General IL. g. Bull
and two other men. Mr.. Morrill, will pre-
serve the relic until Kansas shall have
started a State museum.
Col. Boyce, vice-president Of the S. V.
R. R., Informed us that no positive con-
illusions have been reached as to the objec-
tive point for northern connection. This
connection, he said. will depend upon the
inducements to be hereafter offered as the
s. V. R. R. lengthens it's line towards the
south.-Clarke Courier.
The Providence, r. l., Machine Com
pany are successfully competing with Eng
lish wOrsted machinery builders, and have
turned out over thirty worsted spinning
frames and twisters in the past eighteen
months, besides a variety of other Worsted
machinery that has hitherto been supplied
by English makers.
Among the attractions of the recent
Dairy Show in London was an American
milking pail, which, supplies seat for the
mixer, and spout and strainer for the
milk. and which cannot be kicked over,
because the mixer sits Cd the cover.
Mr.. Moody remarked in Cleveland, Ohio
last Sunday evening: IF the Queen of
dent Hayes should die, supposeit would
make quite commotion in the nation.
don't know that 1t would be noticed in
heaven"
The Irish agitator and member of Par.
lament, Mr.. Parnell told mass-meeting
of his cOuntrymen ON the 18th of October
that the time would soon come when Eng
land would get to the end of her capital if
she did not adopt proper land system.
"You have got chance" he added,
''such as you never had before to strike
| for the land of Ireland
A large tomb In cemetery at East
Providence. R. l., was recently left OPEN
A family of emigrants came along just al
night and took shelter there, and were so
well pleased with their quarters that they
occupied them whole week, until the
workmen drove them out. They used the
coffin shelves to put their dishes on.
A dentist in Bristol, w., recently re-
ceived by mail an order for a set of teeth,
which read as follows: "Mv mouth is
three inches across. five-eighths inches
| through the jaw. Sum hummocky on the
edge. Shaped like horseshoe, toe for
rard. If you want me to be more partik-
lar shall have to come thar
There died a few days ago in Kansas,
Nicholas Wykert, who used to be clergy
man in Berks county. Pa. He made it a
rule to carry 81 200 in cash around with
him in an old carpet-satchel, keeping up
the habit until his death. He had read
the Bible through from beginning to end
| just one hundred times, and knew much
| of it by heart.
| One of the best lady school teachers at
Newberryport Mass has gone crazy on
account of the revival meetings, at that
place. She has been constant attendant
at the meetings, and now goes about sing
ing emotional hymns in demented man
| ner and is entirely incapacitated for work
The other day, at a Cincinnati wedding,
| the Organist occupied the time before the
| coming of the bride and groom by playing
various vOluntaries, and just before they
| arrived at the church door he thoughtless-
| ly struck up "Trust her not, she's fooling
thee"
On Saturday last. Miss Selma Coles,
daughter of Peyton S. Coles, of Albemarle,
was removing pistol from the mantle
| piece, when it exploded inflicting wound
| of which she died in few moments.
Next monday, the Masonic Grand Lodge
of Virginia meets at Richmond. The
demonstrations in that city in connection
with the meeting of the Grand Comman-
Diary of Knights Templar, will be the most
splendid ever seen in this state.
Senator Chambers coffin was made in
Rochester, and the undertaker's firm
which supplied it print in local neWspa-
per. as an advertisement, description of
it, dilating on this last tribute to Roches-
ter ''hOme talent"
James M. Young, who shot and killed
George Hinton, brother of S enator VIM.
E. Hinton, in Petersburg, night or two
before the election, has been remanded to
Jail to await trial in January.
At the reception by the Lot os club in
New York, Saturday night, of Gilbert and
Sullivan, the authors Of Pinafore, the for
mer in his speech said that they had real
lied 81 500 each, out Of the sales of the
book and piano score.
The law passed by the Ohio Legi 81 allure
last winter to punish the bribery of voters
seems to be taking effect in some parts of
the State, and the enjoyment of few of
the victors has been cruelty inter- upted by
indictments for violation OF the law.
The widow of Rev. DIR. William E.
Munsey, the eminent Methodist divine and
pulpit orator, with her son, is living in
Abingdon.
Rev. Dallas Tucker, present pastor of
Philadelphia church, has accepted call
to the rectorship OF st. James Church, IN
w ooster. Ohio.
Rev. J. B. Hawthorn, of Montgomery,
Ala, who lectured in Stanton last sum-
mer, has been called to the First Baptist
Church at Richmond. He has had charge
of churches IN Mobile, Louisville and New
York
A friend of the late Senator Chandler
says that he spent out of his own pocket
$37 900 during the last presidential CAM
palgn.
DR.. Parkinson a prominent citizen OF
Wellsburg. W. Va, has been arrested on
the charge of being accessory to the burn
ing of Bethany College.
Rev. DR.. Lovick Pierce, the venerable
pioneer of Methodism in Georgia. and
father of Bishop Pierce, died at Sparta,
Ca, Monday.
A London journalist estimates that the
Irish in America have sent home to their
friends in Ireland since 1847 not less than
cnszc