Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1879-02-28

The Democrats of the Indiana Legisla.
ture have agreed on State apportion.
ment bill which, if the State casts even q
small Democratic majority, will give the
Democrats % members and the Republi-
cans % members in the Senate and the
Democrats IS members of the House OF
Representatives and the Republicans 4t
members. This is an offset to the wretch
eddy partisan apportionment which the
Republicans saddled upon the State sew
eral years ago.
just as the pedestrian mania begins to
show signs of decadence the game of chess.
with living pieces, seems to be coming into
popular favor. A game of this kind was
played in Plttsburg on Monday evening in
the presence of 5000 spectators. The
dressing of the 'pieces'' was of the most
costly and elegant character. The chess
board, which was placed on the stage, was
80 feet square, each square being 2 feet in
diameter.
Sir Percy Wyndham, who was killed in
India. recently. by fall from balloon,
was captured in 1862 about six miles from
Stanton while fighting with the Federal
troops and was sent to the Libby prison at
Richmond. His imprisonment was short.
but he was not prominent afterwards in
the war
The contract for rebuilding the hotel
destroyed by fire at the White Sulphur
Springs has been awarded to a Richmond
builder. 1t is to be rebuilt on the site of
the one destroyed, and to be of about the
same dimensions. 1t is expected that the
new structure will be completed in time to
accommodate visitors next season.
Bishop Keane addressed about six hun
dred colored people at the Cathedral. in
Richmond, Monday night. He compli-
mented them on their bearing. and an
nounced that as several of their number
were DESTROYS Of receiving instruction in
the doctrines and service Of the church in
detail, he would meet such at the Episco-
PAL residence on Thursday evenings.
Henry Clark wealthy Englishman, who
purchased 10000 acres of West Virginia
land at IS an acres from John D. Lewis
and made a payment of a8U, 600, is suing to
recover on the ground that the title is
thoroughly defective and different from
what was represented.
A Mlssissippian, who thought he under
stood the meshes of red tape, sent 81 tothe
proper authorities in Washington as an
inducement to give him control of two
postal routes in his section. His offer was
indignantly refused. Times are hard, but
post routes do not yet retail at a dollar
apiece.
Senator Withers Of Virginia, presented
in the Senate last week the protest adop-
ted by the Catholic Young mems National
Union against the discrimination made by
the government in the appointment of
chanlains and Indian agents.
Thos. A. Lewis, native of Monroe
county, w. Va, who, though 6fty-two
years Of age in 1861, enlisted with his two
sons and fought through the war, died in
Fayette county, w. Va, last week.
The Fincastle (Va.,) ''Herald' notices
the passage of large flock of wild geese
over that town on the 9Th inst, going
North-a sign that winter has broken,
The Charlottesville Wooden Mills Co.,
has reduced the wages of its employees ten
per cent. The employees cheerfully ac-
quiesced.
VIM. Monroe Lakeland, of Botetourt
co., former clerk of the county court, law
years and State Senator, died on the 9th
inst.
The Hupp store-room at Salem, Roanoke,
which eight years ago sold at $4,000 go
last week at $5.050. ~"