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

Hon. Geo. Davis, ex-attorney general for
the Confederate States, delivered lecture
at Wilmington, N. g., Tuesday night to
crowded house. The receipts, which ag-
gregate several hundred dollars, will be
applied to the benefit Of Lieutenant Ben
ner's family.
The most elaborate recent wedding in
Nashville was that of a negro couple, j.
g. Napier and Nettie Langston. The
bride wore an imported dress of cream-col-
ored silk and fine lace, and many of the
guests were attired with equal cost and
generally in good taste.
Thursday night the citizens of Oakland,
Ind, having discovered plot of Noah
Williams and s'Mudoc' Gaiuey to rob
store, laid in wait for them and fred thir-
ty shots at them. The burglars tools were
found on the dead bodies.
Recently at the Baptist Church near
Linside, Monroe county. W. Va. at
meetings conducted by Rev. J. Swinney
there we're 179 professions, of whom Sc
joined the Baptist faith.
Dale Carter, a prominent citizen of Rus
sell county, Va, is dead. He was men,
Der of the Legislature previous to the war,
and of the first Assembly after the war,
and of the constitutional convention in
1852.
.Ex-Secretary Robson, of New Jersey,
who defended Benjamin Hunter, the con-
| demned murderer, so ably, was surprised
ON calling to tell the prisoner goodbye to
be told by him their separation would be-
| brief as they would meet in he'll.
Kearney's obituary on the King of the
Mollie Maguires, who was hung Friday:
''Jack Kehoe was man like myself, who
tried to better the condition of the work.
ing class of Pennsylvania. He was mis-
represented by the Associated Press"
The Second Baptist church at st. Louis,
the Rankin House at Columbus, Ca;
Qempster's Hall, at Eyanstown, H., and
the First Presbyterian church at Quincy,
ILL.,, were all destroyed by fire on the night
| of the ENC inst.
Track-laying on the Shenandoah Valley
railroad reached Shepherdstown, w. Va,
on Wednesday last, and Large crowds wit
messed the entrance of the construction
train into town.
at the emancipation proclamation eele-
bration in Lynchburg, the cololed people
invited Maj. Jno. W. Daniel, Capt. Thus.
| Whitehead, Charles W. Button and other
prominent whites to address them.
Both President Hayes and President
Tilden were at the Bryant Memorial cele-
bration in New York, the former on the
stage and the latter in private box.
We regret to hear that J. Y. Menefee,
ESQ.,, of Rappahannock, well known and
prominent lawyer, has spinal affection,
| from which serious consequences are ap-
| rehended.-Fr0nt RoyaL Sentinel.
Mr.. S, G. Neale and Mr.. Linden Kent,
Of Alexandria, have gone to st. Crolx, W.
ricans whose property was destroyed dur
| ing the late insurrectiOn at st. CrOix.
Ali the election outrage cases in the
Montgomery (Alabama) District have been
| continued until next May. and this is a
virtual dismiasal of all the charges.
The Warren CO. Va, "Sentinel'' already
contains three cards of candidates. for
Commissioner of the Revenue and one for
Sheriff. The election is held in May.
Rev. S: G. Ferguson has purchased 10
acres Of the Charles Davis farm, near
Charlestowh, W. Va, pay ing So 200 for the
land and growing crops.
Randall Absher has been arrested in
| Franklin county, Va, for the unprovoked
| killing, during the Christmas holidays, OF
Beauregard Mars, an inoffensive colored
men.
Rey. Geo. Hollar, the well known Ad-
yentist. is to LECTURE at Harrisonburg
shortly on the Creation Of man."
John q. Good, of Rockingham, has
raised hog weighing 300 pounds, the
largest in Rockingham.
Tailors are the only people from whom
you can obtain reliable list of our
''promising" young men.
The United States government has
made 1915 900 in the last three weeks clear
profit on coming silver dollars.
Mr.. Walter McGee, who was recently
married in Carroll county, Virginia, had
at the time 104 grandchildren.
Eighteen hundred girls under twenty
years of age married in New York last
year.
The second ANNUAL exhibition of the Vir-
einia Poultry Association will take place
at Richmond, Va, on the 18th Of January.
The total bonded debt of Richmond city
at this time is s4.469 345, the interest on
which annually is 1922, 454.
4 LINCOLN, Neb., physician claims that
the excessive use of the potato is proyoca-
tive Of diphtherla,
A party in London has an order in
Southside Virginia. in the hands of Yir-
Qinia agent, for $4,000 acres of land.