Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1880-01-30

ferson City, Mo-, trying to get Governor
Phelps to pardon the Rev. Joseph Kee-
burg, preacher politician, once postmas-
| ter of Glasgow, No., who is under SELL
| tence for seventeen years for forgery. At
| ter his crime he fled to Chicago, and there
happened to hear Mr.. Moody preach. Mr..
Moody induced him to return aud confess
his crimes, and he told the court that he
would rather be punished by the law than
| by his conscience.
| Geo. W. Henderlite, prominent Green
hacker of Marion, Smythe county, Va,
| and an unsuccessful candidate for con-
gress IN the last election, was in Washing
| ton last week in attendance on the Ma
tional- q reenback Convention. When he
! went up to his room in the Metropolitan
Hotel, Thursday night. he looked wild
ard haggard and next morning leaped
from the third story window. He died .
few moments after being sent to Provi-
dence Hospital.
Senator Conkling, it is said. will be one
Of the Senators who will deliver eulogies
on Senator Chandler next Thursday.
About i've years ago Messrs Conkling and
| Chandler had an alteration about the
| Steamboat bill and though peace was at
terward made between them they were
not afterward on speaking terms.
In Jackson county, w. Va, a party of
the ''Red Men" rode up to the Office of DR..
Jacob Lallance, Monday night, and taking
him short distance trussed him up to q
tree aud threshed him, leaving him with
the warning to ''sober up aud stop abusing
his family" The Buckhannan Banner
says the party have served notes Of warn
| t1rAatnoinD
In Frankling county, Va. last week,
the house IN which Nancy Williams. q
white woman of bad character, and Rich
| ard Wood, a cOlOred man of bad character
who had deserted his wife and children,
were living together, Was broken into by
eight men at night, the uan shot dead and
the woman whipped and ordered to leave
| the county with her children or be hung.
Mr.. J, q. Flood has just bestowed a
| pleasant little amount of pin money upon
| his daughter, Miss Jennie Flood; ne has
registered ~ $4,000 in United States
bonds in her naiue. This gift provides for
| said Miss Flood wall shortly wed Mr.. Ulys-
ses s. Grant. Jr.
The body OF Frank Leslie, the well
known publisher. Was buried Tuesday
from Rev. Dr. Cnapln's church, Fifth ave-
nue. anu Forty-tif. II street, New York.
Among the pail oearcrS were ex-t1Ov. Rice,
of Mass; Senator Anthony; Gen. era
iiam; Isaac W. England, and Mhitelaw
Reid
Mr.. Turner of Southampton county,
Va, became so tired of going to church
J.Nt l..u .,fk .,r
cortinY her thele he returned home, got his
three little children aud eloped. He is
now III the county jail but chiefly from the
fact that a young lady Mas his companion
in flight, which IL not allowable.
The ladies Of Burkeyille, Va, have got
ten up a fair. festival and concert for the
benefit of Mr.. AlpheuS Boiling, the editor
OF the Southside "oentlnol," which il pub
llsned there, as IL testimonial IT their ad-
imitation and apprt clatlou VI him"
Lodge pa B'nal Birth, of Charltttes-
vile, Va, has been awarded The banner
by the Grand Lodge Al sessiun at Savan
nah, Ga, that lOuge having made the
greatest contribution W the orphan fund.
Preston D. Mood, editor of the Claren-
don, s. Z. "Press'' and 4 son of Rev.
Henry M. Mood, the dis, inguisned Metho-
dist minister Ot that STATE, blew out his
brains on the 23d lnSJ., i'll consequence of
the refusal Of young Jewess TO marry
hmm.
When J. B. McCabe, the newly elected
county judge OF LoudOn. was serenaded
the other night, ht made IA strrtg little
speech, Ill winch he miimaled that 1.-The
work of REIMBURSEMENT had just begun"
Mr.. U. Dudley Powers, of Richmond,
Va, nephew of Rev. Thomas U. Dudley,
was ordained deacon by Bishop Dudley at
Louisville, KY, last we X
The affectienate father OF Searles, the
colored murderer who was hanged at Os-
uego. N. Y. few days ago, sold his sons
body to the doctors for SIS.
A petition to the Governor of Texas is
being circulated in RotetOurt county, Va,
for the pardon Of Luran Nnfsinger. once
a clerk in a store at Buchanan. He is SEN |
fenced to be hanged for murder.
Mr.. l.. G. Bristow, the newly elected |
county Judge Of Mathews and Middlesex.
is also the U. s. Census Supervisor of that |
district. |
Miss Mary and Miss Francis Thornton,
the daughters of the British Minister at |
Washington, were the most simply dressed |
ladies at the White House reception On
New Years Day.
Miss Mildred Lee, the daughter of the
late Confederate general. Is visit'n in
Washington vt the house of Mr. w. w.
Corcoran.
The family of Hon. John Randolph
Tucker are at the Hamilton House in
Washington. His popular daughters are
An acquisition to society WASHINGTON
Gazette.
James Russell Lowell Of Massachusetts,.
Minister to Great Britain, and John w
Foster If Ind ana. Minister to Russia.
have he-n confirmed nv h.. U s. Senate. |.
Elk FIRST Auditor VIM. F. TAYLOR and
ax-Secretary Of sta e James Mcdonald ara
about organizing bank In Richmond.
The lower hous. Of the Kp, lucky A.
,embly has passed a bill reviving the whip-
ping LOst lax. ~ /,
Col. Berkeley, the farmer at the Blacks
burg College, has had to turn 2sO sheep in.
to browse down his growing wheat.