Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1880-12-17
FARMER.

Oliver F. Winchester, the head of the
Winchester Repeating Arms Company,
died at New Haven, CT, yesterday, aged
ton of causes, resulting indirectly from a
stroke of paralysis. He was lieutenant
governor of the State IN 1866. the founder
of the Winchester Conservatory at Yale,
and made many gifts to that Institution
Rev. DR.. w. W. Bennett, President of
Randolph Macon College, announces his
purpose to begin the publication on the
LIST day of January, 1881, of monthly
newspaper Of sixteen pages, to be called
1.-The Southern Crusader" It's special OBJ
ject will be to fight the great evil of in
temperance.
Bayard lives in $4,000 house in Wash
ington. It stands next to the house of
Edmunds, $4,000 building. Senator
Morrill's house is worth $4,000; Blaipe's
with furniture, $4,000. Don Cameron s
new house will cost $4,000. Melud Conk-
ling hangs up his benjamin at a restau-
rant.
The English baby stare, which is the
correct thing for well-bred young ladies in
England, is done by opening the eyes as
wide as possible, without raising the brows,
and slightly turning the corners of the
mouth up saying "Mouse'' five or six times
gives the right position to the lips.
The Rev. James Hartnett preached a
sermon at Danville, Ark, on the duty of
paying debts promptly. $50 much for
sentiment he said, finally, 'and the hard
fact is that this church owes me $500, and
| shall never occupy this pulpit again un-
til it is paid.''
The engineers of the Shenandoah Valley
railroad were in Salem last week, with the
view of surveying several different routes
for the proposed extension of their road
from Buchanan to some point on the AL
exandria. Manassas and Orange road.
''Sister Jennie, y a member of the Epis-
copal sisterhood. died in the orphanage at
Springfield, ILL.,, last week. She was half
sister of Col. VIM. R. Denny, of Wlnches-
ter. Va, and devoted herself to works of
mercy and charity.
Rev. DIR. Stephen H. Tying. well known
Episcopal minister of New York, has
preached a sermon taking the ground that
the miraculous cures wrought at Lourdes,
France. have been done by God through
the power of prayer.
M. de Lesseps has eight babies, and he
is about to baptlse the ninth, with the
Queen of Spain for god-mother. He is
in the habit of taking seven of these ba-
bies out in pony carriage every day.
The Virginia board of public works has
decided not to lease the penitentiary. Mr..
O'COnner the lessee OF the Tennessee pen
itentiary, proposed to take the institution,
assume all the expenses, and pay the State
a small bonus.
a dispatch to the "Tlmes' from Rome,
says that the Pope has conferred on D. J.
Murphy, a wealthy merchant of San Fran
cisco, the hereditary title of marquis, in
recognition of his great services to religion
in America and Europe.
Locomotives are used in France for
towing canal boats. They weigh less than
more rapid speed than the. pace of a horse
Empty boats are drawn at the rate of six
miles an hour.
Vennor, ''the weather prophet" who
seems to have made some very true guesses
during the last month or so, is a graduate
Of the department Of applied science in
McGill College, Montreal.
Nine-tenths of the business portion Of
Pensacola, Florida, was destroyed by fire
last Saturday evening. One hundred build
lngS were swept away and the loss is eSti-
mated at from $500, 900 to $750, 200.
There are six Morrison brothers in Rap
pahannock county, Va, whose average
weight is 1854 pounds each. They had a
reunion reeently at which apple brandy
and honey were plentiful.