Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1879-05-16

Dandage5 were yesterday removed, and Mr..
Tucker sight III the operated eve is clear
and good. 1t is further learned that Mr..
Tucker has suffered no pain whatever dur
ing the treatment, and expresses quite as
much surprise and qualification as do his
friends who have visited him at the almost
magic transformation which few days has
brought Observation-Disclosures american We'd
nesday.
Queen Victoria in her journal thus
speaks of the Marquis Of Lorne, her pres
ent son-in law, as she saw him at the
five years ago: "Outside stood the Marquis
of Lorne, just two years old-a dear, white,
fat, fair little fellow, with reddish hair but
very delicate features, like both his father
and mother. He is such merry, indie
pendent little Child; he had black velvet
dress and jacket, sparrow scarf and High
land bonnet"
After printing a Geographic despatch
that "Sister Marie Bernard died piously
last night" the Paris "Univers''' says
that the dead woman was none other than
,.Bernadette Soubirous, the little girl of
Lourdes, who, in 1858, was honored by the
Holy Virgin with numerous apparitions,
which became the origin of the celebrated
sanctuary known to-day throughout the
whole Of Chrstendom.
DIR. Rose and Mr. Garfield drank two
glasses of whlskey in drug store at
Alliance, Ohio, and found it so good that
they called for more. AS they raised the
glasses again the physician said: Here's
your good health.' .'Oh, don't say that"
said Garfield. consider your business, and
wish this stuff may make me sick'' They
drank, and within an hour both were
dead, the druggist having given them
poison by mistake.
The Freemans, husband and wife, were
found guilty of homicide at Barnstable.
Mass, Monday, for killing their little
daughter, Edith. The man pretends that
he will have an astonishing revelation Nav
q, and still maintains that he was Just j.
fed of God" His wife is greatly crushed
| by the growing conviction that she has
been guilty of crime.
| DR.. e. 7. Carver, of Angelica, N. Y,
ownes small road stallion SO peculiarly
marked that when he buckles surcingIe
around it there is not hair back of it
| that is not snow whiCe, or a square inch
in front of 1t that is not beautiful iron
gray.
The locomotives on one of the principal
French railways are provided with small
clocks pla ced in front at the bottom Of the
smoke-stack. They are not affected by
the vibration, and they tell the station
masters the exact time of the arrival of
trains.
Representative Alexander II. Stephens
was so poor when he began the practice of
law that he had tn live on five dollars a
month. This is said to be the secret of his
assistance to poor young men, more than
fifty of whom be has aided in securing a
liberal education. fFG
A steamer from Constantinople, bound
for New Haven for consignment of arms
and ammunition, has aboard two magnifi
cent Arabian horses, the property of Gen.
Grant, who received them as a gift from
the Sultan of Turkey.
The difference between the professors of
the Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical
College which existed for year or more,
and at one time threatened the life of the
institution, ''have been happily. readjust-
ed"
Shinn, the ex- president of the city coun-
Gil of Alexandria, who was lodged in the
penitentiary at Richmond, Va, Thursday,
for three years, for embezzlement, has been
assigned to work in the shoe shop at that
institution.
Miss Virginia French, young lady of
New Orleans, wrote such a pretty poem
for the 'tPicayune" some time ago that
her, went to New Orleans and before long
made her his wife -
Paul Morphy, is said to be harmlessly
insane. He denies that he knows anything
about chess, imagines that he is a great
lawyer, and that he was defrauded in the
settlement Of his fathers estate. He is
living quietly at New Orleans.
Confederate Memo rial day was observed
as usual at Columbia, S. c., SATURDAY.. by
salute from the Columbia Flying Artll-
lery and a grand display of flor al offer
ings.
The first wife of Ex-Governor Fayette
McMullen, died at the residence of J. H.
Wood, her brother, in Scott county, Va,
on the 4th inst. So says the Estilville ''Cit- !
izen.''
Isaac Butt, the lawyer who defended
Smith O'Brien and other Irish patriots in
'48 aud who has been for many years a |
member of parliament, died on Friday.
The coachmen at the North will not be
permitted to do all the clipping. DR..
Pierce Of Factoryyille, Pa, has just gone
off with the wife of his coachman.
A pale, worn, gray-haired woman, in
white mob-cap and white cashmere shawl
10 ind off 10
scribed.
They are waking up in Southwestern
Virginia to the value of sheep raising.
Rufus II. Peck has by purchase enlarged
his flock to five hundred
The preliminary survey of the Richmond
& Allegheny r. r., has gotten as far as
Buchanan, Botetourt.
Thoa. Taylor, the last of John Browns
Harper's Ferry raiders, died near Rocbes-
ter. N. Y, last week, aged sixty-five years.
The creditors of Archbishop Purcell are
commencing suits against him. The La
fayette Bank of Cincinnati heads the list
= ~; 81; g snit for $22 600,
The Roaring Run furnace tract, $500
aeres. In Western Virginia, has been sold
to = IF, BramWell. p,oprietor of the GUM
nemopt furnace, for $4,000.
John Augustus Rogers, a Kentucky
+oonerance lecturer. has committed sui
e e after six weeks of uninterrupted liz
toxication.
Edwin Smith, of Fairfield, Mich, has
beard seyen feet six inches long:
In brooklyn there is spring chicken