Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1879-09-05

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are elaborate commentaries, studies, and |
theological essays) Besides these. DIR.
Plumer has put forth ninety-0ne tracts
IN all one hundred and ten iSsueS.-Evan-
qelist,
George Thompson was on his deathbed
in hospital at Lexington, KY. He sent
for police-detective and confessed that
he was fugitive murderer from Tennes-
see saying that he did not wish to die
with the crime on his conscience. But he
soon rallied, and there being hope of his
recovery, declared that his confession must
have been freak of delirium, as he re-
membered nothing about it. and certainly
had never killed anybody. However. he
had time before he died to confess anew
what was found to be the truth.
Harrisonburg will be one hundred years
old in May, 1880. An old history of Vir-
ginia compiled about the year 1910, speaks
OF the town as a thriving village. sur
rounded by fertile and beautiful conn-
try. There were about 200 houses in the
town and l LOO inhabitants at that time.
Mt. Crawford had 80 houses and Port Re-
public had IS houses. ''Deaton" and
Edom Mills are the only other places spo-
ken Of. The population of the county was
about II 900.
The iron men of Richmond are jubilant
over the prospects of returning prosperity
to the iron interests. The Tredegar Com
pany has large orders for future operations.
Tanner u Co., are crowded with work.
and have not only largely increased their
force but are working on extra time. The
Talbots say their business was never bet
ter. and they have about all they can do
with full force.
In the performance of -sPinafore'' at
Cincinnati, Saturday night, on an imita-
tion ship in the lake of the Geological gar
den in that city, Miss Nellie Mortimer,
who was playing Little Buttercup, fell
overheard and narrowly escaped drown
ing. The water was eighteen feet deep.
She was 6shed out amid great excitement
on the part of the audience and the troupe.
Last Saturday at Warrenton, as Thos.
Armstrong, who killed a tramp in he
streets of that town year ago, was leav-
ing the court house for the jail after
sentence of seven years in the penltentia-
ry, he broke from the officers and ran. He
was captured in neighboring cornfeld by
a cOlored man.
The famous Whitehall gold mine, on the
narrow-gauge railroad, near Fredericks-
burg, formerly owned by Commodore
Stockton, has been purchased by Boston
capitalists and operations will be resumed
October 1. Some years ago this mine
yielded $4,000 in seven months.
The colored troops of Virginia are big
folks when they 90 abroad. The negro
Ino % Do.
ceived in Philadelphia by the old State
Fencibles, and at Cape May they had an
ovation and surf bath.
Gen. Albert Pike and Senator Withers
will make addresses at Harper's Ferry next
Thursday before basket pic MIC of Masons
of the jurisdictions OF Virginia, West Vir-
ginia, Maryland, Pennsylvania and Dis
trict Of Columbia.
Women members of the Church of Scot
land have equal voting power with the
men. They have majority over the men
in the organization of nearly 10000, 50
that the management OF the Church of
Scotland is, as far as suffrage goes, in the
hands of women.
Rev. Henry Osten Finch, pastor of the
First Congregational Church at Guilford,
Ct, went to the sea shore Wednesday
morning to gather moss, and during the
day his body was found half covered by
the advancing tide. It is supposed he fell
in fit and died there.
The Lynchburg ''News" thinks North
ern company could be formed, and for the
monopoly of the oyster beds belonging to
Virginia agree to pay off he entire debt.
ntod 1c
commended that Virginia is not bank
rupt state.
The Harrisonburg "Spirit'' says the
Geo. F. Funkhouser farm of 2OS acres,
near Mt. Crawford has been sold to B. F.
Arey, for $47. 80 per acre, and the Hevener
farm of 40 acres in Brooks Gap, to Geo.
W. Miller. for $77 per acre.
'Meadowville, - the fine property Of G.
W. F. Smith, of Fauquier county, con.
tanning 9S7 acres, was sold on last Monday
to Mr.. Oracle, of New York, for ST, so
per acre.
Mrs. Margaret OFT, of Harrisonburg,
left on Wednesday for Chicago to attend
the golden wedding Of DIR. Watson Carr
and Mrs. Maria Carr, who were married
in Harrisonburg fifty years ago.
A Texas boy was bitten by arattlesnake
and was in critical condition. A physi-
clan injected three drops of carbolic acid
under the skin with ahyperdermic syringe,
and gave insant relief.
The fact is noted that the funeral pro-
cesson last Sunday, of Miss lydia Wood,
daughter of John Wood, Jr., of Charlottes-
vile, was the largest ever seen in that
town.
Peter Herald, a respectable old man, by
trade shoemaker, who lived near Salem,
Fauquier county, died Thursday, the 21st
ult., aged 1O3 years. He used tobacco
and whenever he could, ardent spirits to
excess.
Chastine Cox, the negro who robbed and |
murdered Mrs. Hull, instead of being hung
in New York, Friday. according to his
sentence, has been granted new trial.
Miss Emily Gray. an accomplished
daughter of Charles D. Gray, of Harrison |
burg, died after protracted illness of con- |
sumption on Friday last.
An elder brother of the Pope, not Car
dinal Pecci, died Sunday Of appoplexy at |
Rome.
The annual fair of the Piedmont Agri-
cultural Society will be held at Culpeper,
Va, October 18th, 18th, 10Th and 18th.
Gen. Reese T. Bowen, ex-member of I
Congress from Virginia, who broke his leg |
in Tazewell county few nights ago, died |
on Friday last.
Rev. Jacob W. E. Ker, formerly of
Princess Anne county. Va. died reoentlv |