Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1880-03-19

Stuart, OF Virginia, Chlef justice WalIe,
and Secretary Evarts, as a committee ap-
pointed by the trustees OF the Peabody
Fund. has been sent to senators and MEM
bers of Congress. 1t is ii strong argument
in favor OF all appropriation to supplement
that portion of the Peabody Fund which
is devoted to the education Of coloied chill
1ren in the South.
A stranger, claiming to be from Wash
ington. committed suicide i'll Pittsylvania
county, Va. last week. He drank three
pints of whisky in one night, and the
next morning he sat on the bank OF a
shallow canal, pulled off his nat and shoes.
told several persons who were present good
bye, jumped into the water and was drown
cd.
Auditor Massey, in his speech at Char
intimated that changes in the
management Of the Miller School would
be made in due time. These changes, he
predicted, would be acceptable to the peo-
pie of Albemarle, and IN no manner prove
injurious to the interests of the orphan
children of Albemare.
General Grant," says the Paris ''Figa-
ro,'' made mistake in coming to Paris.
Before his arrival. many persons pictured
him to themselves as a kind of Bonaparte
at the time of the cOnSulate-brllllant
profound, audacious, master III short.
Unhappily he has Deen seen, and the ideal
is considerably battered down.
Old Peter Goelet didn't let his heirs,
Robert and Ogden Goelet, have much fun
while he lived, but now each has taken
costly villas at Newport fOr the coming
season. The two young men have $780,
900 900 to spend.
A large party of emigrants from South
west Virginia passed through Lynchburg
Saturday, via the Virginia Midland Rail
road, en- route fol- Oregon, where they will
engage in agricultural pursuits. 1t is
stated that another party will soon follow
for the same point.
On Friday night, Charles E. Hunter,
of Fredericksburg, attended the Masonic
lodge and when he came away forgot and
locked his favorite dog Dash up in the
lodge. He staid there six days, and was
nearly starved to death.
Clay Zirkle, of Shenandoah, started last
Monday for New Market. with s1,70O, to
make payment on mill. He lost his
pocket book containing it, hurried back
money, nor has be heard from it.
It is stated that of LOO graduates of
the Franklin Home for Inebriates at Phil
adelphia, 500 have been absolutely cured.
The "taperIng OFF, method is never en-
ployed in the Franklin Home.
"Noble," the old war horse of Col. r. T.
W. Duke, of Albemarle, died at his owners
farm last week. aged Jhirtyone years. He
carried Col. Duke as Commander of the
46th Va, regiment. through the war.
The ballots for the ladies who vote at
the next election, in Boston. will proba bly,
be cut on the bias, or scolloped. 1t will
not be at all strange ii We hear them ex-
claim: 'Eer ballot is old fashioned; it
doesn't look tit to be seen.'
A delegation from Dakota and Wyoming
Territories are now in Washington for
the purpose of trying to have a new Ter
ritOry formed out of parts of both of those
Territories. Among them is Judge J. V.
Offenbacker, formerly of Page county, Va.
While some prospectors were boring for
oil in Preston county, w. Va, on the line
of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, they
AOuuu paying AldLtfOlCo VI 0NtC1 O1C Qo-
saying S125 TO the ton.
Mr.. Burton N. Harrison, of New York,
who was formerly private secretary to Mr..
Jefferson Davis at Richmond in 1868, was
on the 10th inst. sworn in at the bar of the
United States Supreme Court as one of its
counSellorS.
Col. Alex. Humphreys, of Monroe coun-
ty, W. Va, was stricken with paralysis on
Friday last, while out on his farm sailing
his sheep. He was found III the field,
when he was taken to his residence in a
helpless condition.
1.-THE Pirates of Penzance' we're so dis
orderly in Cincinnati hotel that the land
lord turned them out, and at the theatre
they sang so badly that the audience hiss
ed them.
John Cox the old Pennsylvania Aboll-
zionist, whose golden wedding was cee-
brated in verse by Whittier and Bayard
Taylor, has just died at the age Of ninety
four years, at Longwood, Pa"
The postoffice of Newtown-Stevens.
burg. Va, which was changed TO Pantops
then altered to Newtown Fields, is now
finally changed to Stephens City, Freder-
lex county. Va.
Rev. NJ. Schuyler, D. D., the venerable
rector of Grace (Episcopal) Church, st.
Louis, has rendered ris resignation, owing
to inadeCuacy of support.
Miss Eliza Snodgrass of Bristol, Va, a
highly educated young lady, "a years old,
who had had spinal affection for two years
hing herself last Friday.
Capt. H. L. Peyton, for number of
years conductor on the Virginia Mid
of Bright's disease.
Six young women, armed with shot guns
recently accompanied as many young men
on a rabbit hunt in Georgia. No one was
hurt.
Rev. E. A. Penick, of st. Paul's church,
Salem, has received and accepted a call to
a church in Frankfort, KY, and will leave
next month.
The General Assembly of the Presby-
terian Church in the United States will
meet at Charleston, S. g., on the third
Thursday of May, 1880.
A colored miner got $50 in gold out of
the Brush Creek diggings, Montgomery
county, Va, in a few days digging.
VIM. Trimble, we'll known citizen of
Highland county, Va, died on the 9th
inst.
The eFifteen' has found its way to the
the University of Va, and the Professors
and the students are hard at it.
J. W. Aler, of Baltimore, has been ap-
pointed agent at the B. & O. Depot, at
Harrisonburg. vice Capt. q. Sprinkle.
The sPost:' says a Danville lady has a
clothes line she bought twenty-five years
ago.
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