Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1880-12-10


These fish were obtained from Fish Com
missioner Hughlett, just about one year
from the day the breakfast was given
They we're then only about two inches
long. and have made their great growth
since that Centreville (Md.) ObseT-
GER.
A squaw has just died in the Indian
Territory who was supposed to be ia
years old. The cause of her death is at
tributed to the immOderate use of tobac-
co for one hundred years and a cold she
contracted in 1880.
Abraham Lincoln's old home. at Spring
field, is reported by the SangamOn (Illi-
noisj Monitor, to be "a calabOose for va
grants The building Was vacated by
keeper recently, and since
then tramps have found lodging therein.
The President and Mrs. Hayes will not,
upon their retirement from the White
House, go to Europe, but to their FIRE.
mont home, which has lately been altered
and renovated.
Gen. Schenck who for two years has
been great sufferer from Bright's disease
of the kidneys, claims to have been re-
stored to health by a course of treatment
recommended by an old time doctor OF
Vermont. He adopted a diet of pure
skinned milk, with little else as nourlsh-
ment.
Mrs. Bella B. Lockwood has argued a
case in the Supreme Court of the United
States, This is the first case on record
where woman has appeared as counsel
hofnra that auUnat tribunal.
Congressman Alexander H. Stephens is
suffering from dyspepsia even more than is
usual for him. The very lightest food is
hard for him to digest.
The Virginia Court Of Appeals has af-
firmed the decision of the court sending
Joseph E. Mitchell, OF Campbell county, to
the peniteotiary for five years, for ext0rt-
ing money by threats of injury to che char
acter of Miss Lizzie May Robinson.
James Williams (col.l of Alexandria, is
suing the Board of Directors Of the Vir-
ginia penitentiary for OBTAINING him there
year over his sentence. This is the Sec
ond case of the kind that has occurred, the
other being white convict.
1t is said of Jay Gould that he never
drinks, smokes, CANDLES in cards nor
swears, and it is very rare even to hear
him speak badly of anybody. Three years
ago he was thrown into an areaway
by broker named Selover. Since then
his almost constant companion down town
is his secretary, Mr.. Morosini, an athletic
Italian gentleman, who stands six feet in
his boots.
General F. Fl. Smith, superintendent of
the Virginia Military Institute, has bought
the farm of g. M. Figgat, part of the old
Cameron tract, for ST. 600. 1t is under
stood that the General contemplates fixing
it up for his son, who is in failing health.
1t is desirable place, and is only a short
distance from Lexington.
Proposals for carrying the U. S. mail in
Virginia from July L, 1881, to June 80,
1885. will be received at the postoffice in
Lynchburg until the s1st of January, 1881.
A pamphlet containing routes, distances,
&C., can be seen upon application.
Mr.. .. q. Crosby, the inventor of the
'sknife- pleating'' machine, who died last
week, made $50, 00U from his invention
Mr. Crosby was an uncle of Clara Louise
Kellogg.
Mrs. Caroline Bridgland, wife of Col
John A. Bridgland, (of Rockbridge coun-
ty, Va.,) U. S. Consul at Havre, France,
died few days ago at Richmond, Indi.
ana. q.
Martin Jack, of Highland county, Va,
sold last week for the eastern market, one
yoke of cattle weighing 400 pounds, and
another yoke weighing $50 pounds, real
izing $3.50 for the four cattle.
In 1868 man named johnson was ap-
pointed by the military, sheriff Of Essex
taxes and fled. His sureties are now be-
ing sued in the Richmond courts by the
county.
Mr.. P. T. Barnum, the 'only greatest
Snowman" has been obliged to give up all
active attention to business on account of
i'll health; this, by the peremptory advice
of his physician.
The editor of the New Orleans 'Pica.
yune' having been out unsuccessfully with
a dog and double barrelled shot gun,
longs for the good old days when man
could kill two birds with one stone.
Jas. 5. Greensfelder, the basso of the
Siegel opera troupe when it was in Staun-
ton, has been engaged for the opera in
Boston.
Greenbrier county, West Va, has just
disposed of its $4,000 of stock subscribed
to the Virginia Central railroad before the
war for $4,000.
William Taplin, while removing the bod
les of his family from one cemetery to an
other in Troy, N. Y, lately, found that
the coffin in which his wife had been bur-
led was empty. It ia supposed the body
was stolen soon after burial,
The "Farmville Journal" advocates the
election of Col. Del. Kemper to the Presi-
dency of Blacksburg College.
Rockbridge has lost two we'll known cit
liens in the deaths of VIM. L. Alphin of
Collierst0wn and James Johnston of Buff
falo.
A fine gold watch stolen from Mrs. J. ].
Pace, of Medium g River, two years ago.
was returned anonymously by mail one
day last week,
Col' UoHpfn y. HARRISON, late member
of the Virginia legislature from Rocking
ham, has gone to Florida for the winter.
Mr.. Woolford, a Berkeley county farm
er, had Sc fine sheep killed one night last
week by dogs.
Mr.. Peter Barley, one Of the best farm
ers Of Frederick county, Va, died last
Sunday.
The call of the Second Street Baptist
church in Baltimore, to Rev. H, M. Whar-