Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1879-08-08

next to nominate a candidate for the |
legislature. Now, we sound this note of |
warning to all of our Keadjusters, "Don't |
have anything to do with these conven- |
tions!"- fayetteville Dispatch.
Mrs. Christene Clemson, of Chicago, is a
helpmeet, indeed, to her husband. She is
thorough cabinet-maker, and every
wooden article of furniture in her house
was made by her own hands. She was
taught her trade by her father in the old
country and puts it to the good use of fur
nishlng her own house in u style that
would be envled by the majority Of people
in much better circumstances i'll life.
Three car loads of chickens. ducks and
turkeys, from East Tennessee, passed
through Lynchburg, Saturday. consigned
to parties in New York. Augusta county
is three hundred miles nearer New York
and her farmers could make money at this
business Those three car loads brought
the cash back to the neighborhood from
which they we're sent.
The body of Joseph Standing, Mormon
elder, lately killed by mob in Georgia,
arrived at Salt Lake City Friday and was
received by large cOncOurse of people at
Ogden and Salt Lake City. The body was
taken charge of by the sexton for embalm-
ing. The funeral will take place on Sum
day and is expected to be grand affair.
writes to the Charlestown esprit of Jeffer-
SOM that the sign-board over the gate
reads, s'John Browns home-the Martyr
Chicken, trout, and other refreshments
whenever desired.'
The most prominent Baptist pastor in
Ohio writes to us that he is perplexed be-
yend measure in regard to the cOlOred
Baptists of that State. He says they
seem to have no faith in their white
brethren. Glad to say it is not SO here.
Religious Herald.
A singular fatality seems to exist in the
family of DR.. R. r. Robinson, of Dan
vile. Four of his clerks, himself, his
mother and his father-in-law have all died
within the past six months.
Katie Freeman, aged ten years, died
last Sunday suddenly from suffocation, at
Fincastle, Botetourt county. A portion
of an apple which she was eating lodged
in her Windpipe.
Virginia creepers are being planted by
the Pennsylvania railroad company on the
hillsides along their tracks. L. is is done
to prevent land slides and will add greatly
to the beauty of the scenery.
Miss Sallie Ann Baer who died in Fred
erick, Md, recently left about $4,000 to
DR.. Chas. j. Baer and his three sons. of
Salem, Roanoke county, Va.
A holiday is breathless and awkward
halt for five minutes, leaving your bust
ness to get so far ahead of you that you
can't catch up with it until it is time for
the next one.
Mrs. John Bateman, Of Wytheville, Va,
has presented Mr.. Bateman with boy
weighing nineteen and half pounds 1t
is chronicled as the largest baby every born
in that town.
The creditors of che Page county bank
have OBJ tanned a restraining order from
Judge Bird prohibiting Grayson, Bros. q
Co., and John s. Grayson from dlspOsing of
their stock of goods or collecting any debts
due them.
Mr.. Abraham Brown and Mrs NJ. Laup-
heimer were buried in Alexand. ia, Friday
evening, being the first adult Hebrews
who have died in that city for nearly
twenty years.
The celebrated London preacher, Rev.
Newman Hall and his wife have COM
menced divorce suits against each other.
The counter charges are of criminal and
even revolving character. Z. -.
A party of nine young ladies from the
Virginia Female Institute. at Staunton,
arrived in Lexington on Wednesday last,
and on the following day visited the Nat
ural Brldge.-LeGangton Enterprise.
Samuel A. Hatcher, formerly of Peters
burg, Va, died in Memphis of yellow fever
last week. He had twice before had the
fever.
On the 2sth of this month a company of
Irish gentlemen, making a cricketer team
of eleven, will reach New York. They
will play several match games.
Col. Thomas Dodamead, the veteran
railroad man, has resigned the Superinten-
dency of the Greenville & Columbia Is.
G Railroad.
The mines in Spottsylvania have shipped
twenty good sized bags of gold dust to the
Philadelphia Mint.
Eleven inches around the centre of its
body was what a rattlesnake, killed by j.
T.. Cannon, of Greenbrier county, W. Va.
measured. 1t had thirteen rattles.
A believer IN fortune-telling has dug a
trench 200 feet long and Is deep at Salt
Creek, ILL.,, and expects to find the treasure
soon.
The silver vase presented to Henry
Clay by Wings is offered for sale in Bos- |
ton bV his grandson.
Ten more car loads of fat cattle were
started for Europe from Saltville, Va.
Friday, by Alex Stuart. They will bring |
from Is to % cents pound in England.
The property left to Mr.. Jefferson Davis
by the late Mrs. Sarah A. dorsey is only
valued at $25,OO0.
lRev. Jno. E. Massey preached in the
Methodist church at Monterey, Highland,
on the night of July 2Sth.
In Amherst county, Va. the hog cholera
is quite preyalent,-R. M. Brown, Jr., has
lost 2S hogs and neighbor Is.
]. Esten Cooke, it is stated, has made
$40, 900 with his pen since the war.
Prof. J. A. Harrison, of Lexington, Va,
is at Newport. ]