Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1879-12-05

HAS SOlu lOU dClCos ttAu oPlCiiuiu DAACh
mansion, of his farm situated six miles
south of Lexington, to Hamilton Krebs,
ESQ. This is an excellent farm, and the
house is second to no farm mansion in the
county. Captain Hamilton resi-. we'd about
$50 acres, the Cunningham Tract" on
the west side of the farm living on the
road between this place and We7ley Chap
el.-LeIingt0n Gazette. ..fs IT,
In Charlottesville last week. Henry
Wood, colored. charged with shooting DR..
Jno. X. Wood, who was assaultlng him:
was given by Judge Cochran thu choice of
juries and he took cOlOred one. The
jury found him guilty of assau and Tx
ed his Imprisonment at sixty days In jail
He had already spent four months in
prison awaiting trial. s.
A disguised man entered the turnpike
dollhouse near Lynchburg, MOI day night,
when only Mrs. Byassee, wife OF the toll
keeper, was there, and threat ming her
with death, robbed the house OF con-
siderable sum of money.
Mrs. Mary Holiday, wife cfoDr. Jno.
McKim Holiday, and mother OF Governor
Holiday, died at Winchester, last Thurs
day, aged IS years.
Hon. Judah P. Benjamin, it is reported,
stands fair chance of being sAon raised
to the English bench. There is a vacancy
In the Exchequer Court.
There was shipped to the Eastern mar
ket one day last week, between Hinton
and Covington, Is, 900 pounds of chickens
and turkeys. Besides this enormous
quantity we understand there were many
hundred pounds left at Allegheny on the
same day which had to await transporta-
tion-A lderson ". Va, Enterprise.
Bishop Whipple recently remarked; Gas
the grave grows nearer, my theology is
growing strangely simple; but it begins
and ends with Christ as the only refuge
| for the lost"
Col Luclus B. Northrop, the commissa-
ry-general of the Confederate army from
| the commencement of the war until few
months before its close, is now living in
| retirement, near Charlottesville, Va.
Collins Denny, member of the Balti-
more bar and grad uate of Princeton and
the University Of Virginia, will apply for
admission as minister at the next Balti-
more M. E. Conference.
Two hundred and thirty7six fishermen
almost battalion have bsen lost from
Gloucester. Mass, by the gales Of the last
| twelve months.
A report of the humber of public schools
| in operation in Virginia during the years
1873 and 1879, with the pupils attending.
shows remarkable decrease The schools
decreased from 4, SIS to 2,491 and the pu-
pills from 202, 244 to 10S ,074. ts-|
/ Il postoffice has been established at Es-
tontevAle, Albemarle county, Va, with
Psyton s. Coles, as postmaster. s...y
| One good effect Of women voting for the
school committeeman in Boston at the
next election is that the Board of Alder
mon have passed a law in advance that
there shall be no smoking in and around
the voting places until afternoon
Prof. David E. Bartlett, teacher in the
American Asylum for the Deaf and Dumb
in Hartford. Conn, died Saturday night,
aged "a.
Miss Amelia Linkhauer. who drove up
to hotel in Lumberton, n. C., last sum.
mer and after informing j. E. Hartman,
that he had ruined her, shot him dead,
was acquitted last week. ~ :
President Drehr, of Roanoke College, is
in New York, and will spend the Winter
there, in the interest of that excellent
institution.
John P. Newman. who has victimized
many persons throughout Virginia by
representing himself as Catholic priest,
was arrested in Norfolk several weeks
ago, indicted for forgery and last week
was sentenced to four years in the peni-
Tertiary. d FFH
DIR. French Weems, who delivered tn e
complimentary address to Layfayette when
he left New York, and whose. father was
consulting physician at the last Illness
of George Washington, died in louisville
last week. He was born in Prince Will
liam CO., Va, in 1877. S&&
A son Of. Geo. Carter, of Rockbridge'
has killed and sent to the Lexington
t'Gazette" Office a pure white squirrel
Gen. G rant, one of his admirers reports,
declined wine. in California; laying ssI
have gone aroun the world WITHOUT taking
q drink of wine, and shall not begin now"
DR.. ]. NJ. Browne, whose sudden death
while hunting, near BellefoAtaiAe, Ohio,
last week, has been announced, still lies
lnburied, as his appearance is life-like,
aud il ia thought by his friends that he |
may only be in a trance,
Rev. John r, Massey occupies the farm
formerly the seat: of President Monroe.
Mr., Massey calls it sash Lawn It is
owned by his brother, Rev. Jos. T. Massey
of Massachusetts,.
A little girl of four years was recently
called as witness in police court, and
in answer to the question of what became
of little girls who told lea, innOceptlY re-
cl!ed that they were sent to bed.
Jacob persinger who died recently. in
county. Va, left $4,000 Of real
estate to his widow, during life, but after
ner death, to be given to Roanoke college.
The IriaA American citizens Of Balti
more are taking steps toward the forma-
lion of an association for che relief OF Ire
and in it's time Of famine. A comMltt9e
@ prepare plan for The aasoelaS4oA mas
been formed.
Jesaph Winner, Of Highland county, Va,
killed, in two days last week twelve deer.
Hon. James \. Ficklin of Buckingham,
L serioualy i'll. ~