Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1879-02-14


has suffered. il the fearful ordeal through
which he has passed were known, 1T would
be esteemed by many of our readers q real
pleasure in some way to aid him and his
family. They deserve well Of the whole
community Herald Baptist.
a sudden wedding in high life took place
in Niles, Mich, January 80, the high con-
tracing parties being Ex-Governor Miller
of Minnesota, a widower of 60 winters, and
Miss Bessie Magoffin, iece of Ex-Governor
Beriah Magoffin, Of Kentucky, lady of
20 summers. Miss Magoffin was accom-
panyiug Governor Miller from New York
to Minnesota to be governesS in his fam
ly. and the match was made on the cars.
The case of the American Middlings
Purifier Company against several large
mllers at st. Louis for Infringement of the
patent of VIM. f. Cochran Was COM
menced there Monday. in the United
States Circuit Court, Judges Nelson, OF
Minnesota, Dillon, Of Iowa, and Treat, of
Missouri, presiding. The case involv es
suits against parties in Minnesota. and in
directly large number of millers throu gll-
out the country.
At Port Chester, N. Y, the sheriff, at
tempted to arrest negro, when the either
negroes armed for resistance and took
possession of a street. AS usual (wh ether
in New York or LOuisiana) the W hites
turned out, dispersed tie negroes by shoot
ing three of them, and then capture d the
remainder, who had taken to the wo DDS.
In Highland county Va. last week a
couple were married on Sunday m orn1ng
by Rev. Mr.. Hildebrand and afterwards
repaired with their attendants to church
where the same minister preached a ser
mon from the text, ut is appointed unto
men once to die, but after death the judg-
ment.'' OF thisinstru ctlve weddi ng sermon
the Highland Recorder" speaks very
highly.
Miss Martha Collins of Jacks on county,
Mo-, is very excitable. Her brother-in-
law Jonathan Drake, in whose family she
lived, having objected to the character of
her beau, she drew a revolver and shot him
through the heart.
Pianos similar to those sold ten years
ago for 500 can now be bought for $3.50.
And yet there is just as much distress and
suffering in the land-and will continue to
be as long as the young LADY who is prac-
ticing on the piano tries to play five tunes
at once, and thus causes a tumble in rents
hood. -Norristowre Herald.
Senator McCreery is one of the few
Southern members of Congress, who takes
care of his money. A brother Senator and
personal fie' of his says that he will
carry back to Kentucky IN the 4th of
March $26,hOO of the $50 900 saarywhich
he has received during his six years. term
of service.
L. E. James, Democrat in the Kansas
legislature having voted for ingalls, (Rep)
for u. S. Senator, resolutions denouncing
him were adopted and on a vacant lot in
town was err cted marble tombstone in
scribed ''Our Judas Iscariot-L. E.
James,
A lock of President Washington's hair
has just been presented to Lodge No. 4, A.
F. and A. N. of Rich mond-the lodge in
which the great Virginian S initiated.
passed, and raised. Only one other loo
of his Lair is known to exlst-this, IL is
said, is owned and Kept in a golden urn
by the Grand Ledge of Massachusetts,
At Grace church on Sunday Rev. Mel
vile jackson, pastor, announced that in
compliance 18th the wishes Of he Bishop
he had caused the altar cloths to be remov-
ed, and would hereafter permit no flora
decorations.-R5 Richmond Dispatch.
Whitelaw Reid, editor Of the New York
Tribune" before the war used to take
droyes of horses from the West to Rich
mond and other parts of East Virginia to
sell
The contract for the Franklin & Pitts VI
yania narrow gauge railroad Ia LynchbUrg
- I1Oo, Tod To
Adams & Co., the road to be built and
equipped by December next.
The West Virginia legislature has before
it bill making it a misdemeanor for rail-
road companies to grant free passes, or
passes at a discount to any officer or citi-
zen of the State.
The papers announce the sudden deaths
of two promising young physicians, Dr.
Mark R Caldwell of I.ewisburg, W. Va,
and DR.. James McA. Bilisoly of Ports
mouth, Va.
Capt. J. P. Dukehart, for many years in
the service of the Baltimore & Ohio rail
road. succeeds Mr.. L. S. Brown as agent
at Lynchburg, Va.
Rev. Isaac Cochran, of Prince Edward
a PRESBYTERIAN minister 81 years of age and
who had been pastor of Buffalo church fol
a half century, died on the Both ult
A cat and dog recently attended a funer
al at Windam. n H.. together, marching
before the procession t. the grave anc
then leading the way back to the house.
Mr.. l.. A. Caricoff, postmaster at Do'
Hill. Highland. has exchanged his proper
ty in that town for one half OF Mr. 5. y
Eagles farm near Mcdowell, ana VIII
shortly remove there.
A Plymouth Mass. dispatch says that
the burial of Ashburton Webster, a
Mar, shield last week, the lid of the coffil
cCnta ming the body of his grandfather,
Daniei Webster, was raised. The face OF
the dead statesman was perfectly recognlz
able the body having been embalmed
1t is stated by the friends of Gen. Brad
lev #. johnson, of Richmond, that he has
made all his arrangements to remove from
that city to Baltimore by the 1st OF April
Mr. Richard Kropf, Of R anoke county,
Va. has commenced the new year badly
NV clipping with Miss danger held ana
geavin his wife and several children.
Mr.. ". B. Aston is erecting fine iron
block on tie principal business avenue O
Jacksonville, Fla.
s.Between Grant and Bayard, always for
eavard.', SAYS Senator Schurzs paper, the
WestIiche Post" OF st. Louis.
The members of the West Virginia leg
;s,ature on Saturday last visited the Stat
penitentiary at Moundsvllie,e WEI, WEI e. a
present contains 2aO inmates VI "nion ~
are women.
20 Lord. - Kentucky minister prayed