Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1879-06-27
THE WESTERN CONNECTIONS OF THE

THE WESTERN CONNECTIONS OF THE
CHESAPEAKE AND OHIO RA1LwAY.-A
dispatch from Lexington, KY, dated June
18th says: At meeting of the City Coun-
Gil tonight a proposition from Mr.. G. P.
Huntington to complete the Big Sandy
railroad to Huntington, W. Va, if the city
would withdraw pending suit for it's
ownership and surrender control to him,
was accepted. on condition that if it is not
completed in three years the road is to be
turned over to the holders of paid-up stock,
The strongest assurances that the road
will be built were given by Major M. q.
johnson and Colonel Breckenridge. Cen
eral EchOls was present at the meeting OF
the council, as also the Kentucky Board of
Directors of the road, who also acceded to
the proposition. 1t requires the concur
renee of the County Courts Of FaYette,
Clark, and Montgomery before the matter
is determined. If favorable to Hunting
ton he will begin work at once. A later
dispatch says that Fayette and Clark coun-
ties, have voted to give Mr.. G. P. Hunt
ington all their claims to the road bed
leading from Huntington to Lexington Ky.
1t is thought Montgomery, Bath and other
road bed is now ready for tho track, and
should Mr.. Huntington be given the right
of way by all Kentucky counties interest
ed, it is asserted, he will at once complete
the Chesapeake and Ohio railroad to Lex
| ington, Ky.
| A singular premenition was that of Ma
thaniel Root. of Coventry, Conn.,, an old
man OF "a, who said on Saturday last 81
am expecting to die to-day" He attended
| to his work as usual in the morning and
after eating dinner rose from the table
| showing no signs of illness. remarking,
| 'I'll 60 and lie down and die now!" No
one supposed he was serious, but on going
| to his room half an hour later he was
| found to be stone dead.
Rev. DR.. VIM. Brown, late of the Seen
trail Presbyterian" left Richmond on Fri
day night for the Rockbridge Baths,
where he expects to spend the remainder
a letter was handed him by Rev. DR.. Hoge
| containing $500, presented by gentlemen
| connected with the Second Presbyterian
church as token Of their regard and af-
| lection.
AS the excursion of the Ohio editors was
nearing st. Louis the train was boarded
by twenty reporters of the "GlObe-Demo-
craft" who interviewed them on politics.
a check bearing the words: pumped
Keep this check on your hat to avoid fur
Their Disturbance The great majority Of
the Republicans were for Sherman, and
OF the Democrats for Thurman. Tilden
and Grant had each but very few advo-
Gates.
The mob who hanged the white man
Moore at Spartanburg, S. c., the other
night for the outrage and murder of a
young girl named Frances Woodward, in
formed his wife of their intention to kill
him either by hanging or burning and con-
siderately allowed her to select the mode
of death, which she did by naming the
rope.
Some months ago Patrick O'Brien, an
Irishman in poverty and consumption, at
Raleigh, N. c., was discovered by some
New York lawyers to be the brother Of
VIM. O'Brien, the California millionaire
deceased. They carried him to San Fran.
cisco to contest the will, and last Thurs
day the legatees compromised by givinQ
! him 100000, for which he renowned al
claim to the estate.
Over five hundred citizens of Winona
Miss, headed by band of music, greeted
Senator Lamar as he passed down tt
Brookhaven last Monday night. The trair
made short delay, during which Senator
Lamar addressed the assemblage. A trans
parency was erected on the platform, or
Defender Against Northern SANDER"
A Petersburg correspondent of the Rich
mond ''Whig'' says the liquor dealers Their
are agitated over the announcement tina
, at the ensuing term of the Corporation
court Judge Mann will require sixty Of
them to show cause why their licenses
should not be revoked.
Professor Marshall Macdonald, Stat,
Geologist and Fish Commissioner, is abou
to accompany Senators Blaine and Ran
dolph, of the Richmond & Allegheny Rail
road Company, in their examination O.
the mineral resources of the James Rive
Valley.
Ex-Judge Bishop of the Orphans Cour
of Baltimore, with his accomplish NJ w
Helm, mas just been convicted of forger,
by which an orphan, whose property wa
, in the judges court. was robbed of SIS, 400
his whole estate.
In Warren CO., Va, Saturday, a mar
named Palmer ordered a handsome coffir
from an undertaken in Front Royal. pur
chased several things which he presented
to people along the road and then lay down
in front of railroad train which mangle(
J him to death.
Col. Chastain White, of Hanover CO..
Va, the Virginia delegate to whom wa
ascribed the credit of nominating in the
National Democratic Convention Hon
Franklin Pierce for President, died last
Friday.
In Floyd county, Va, last Monday, DR.
J. G. Bishop was called to attend youne
man named Akers who had accidentally
shot himself, and as soon as he had dressed
the wound, fell from stroke of paralysis
and died on Tuesday. Young Akers is in
: precarious condition.
The Lynchburg ''News" says that Franz
Rives, Son of Judge Alexander Rives, hal
; been appointed Clerk CT the United States
District and Circuit Courts in that city
to succeed Mr.. s. Patterson, resigned.
It may be interesting to ladies to know
: that in the last month raw silk has gone
from $3.50 up to $40 per pound, in con
sequence of the crop failure in Europe
The manufactured article is also rising.
A tornado, its track four hundred yard,
wide, and it's strength sufficient to pros
trate heavy log building twenty fee
square owned by r. J. Leckie, passed ovel
the Glendower neighborhood in Albemarlt
last week going from east to west.
The Huntington W. Va, "Commercial'
notices the arrival there of Geo. N. Town
send, attorney-at-law of New York city
and says he lis interested with number
of eastern capitalists in the purchase of
large tracts Of coal and iron land.''
Daniel Geary, an old citizen of Mobile
walked no Thursday night and fred at q