Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1880-12-31

" 10 1uuoIcu Cndt COl. cameron OF re-
tersburg and not Auditor Massey Is Gen.
Mahone's candidate for Governor, and
that Mr.. Riddleberger is his favorite for
the U. s. Senate.
Last week Mr.. Edward Buckley, a chair
manufacturer of New Haven, Conn, and
his wife, the former seventy mine years old,
and the latter seventy five years old, were
attacked, the husband by bronchitis and
the wife by rheumatism. Both died in
the same bed within an hour OF each 9th
er, last Wednesday; A short time before
Mrs. Bulkley's death they lay side by side.
he holding her hand tightly clasped in his.
A month ago their son, DIR. Edward Bulk
ley, died. Friends attribute the death of
both directly to the grief caused by the
death of their son.
A tlial of interest to persons who drink
German wine has just ended at Fretburp.
in Baden. The firm of Durlacher Broth
ers, In Kippenheim, were charged with
adulterating or fabricating wine on a large
scale. In five months the firm. it was
proved, bought sufficient spirits of wine
for the manufacture of 653 600 gallons of
their wine, AID enough tartaric acid for
the fabrication of $4,000 gallons. The
court sentenced each of the prisoners to
five months Imprisonment and to paw q
fine of $3.50.
The Hartford Comm Library has Just
received from William Lloyd Garrison, ir.
a bill OF sale OF slave, found among hi
fathers old papers. It is written in
handsome and leeible hand dated at Hal =
ford, July %. 1851. and signed hy Cal al
hn md r. oil - ~
Payne and his heirs for the sum of e. Z "
i've pounds, "a certain negro woman am
ed Pegg,' of the age of about sever 70 on
years. She is warranted sssound in w;nd
and limb, and free from all bodily oaiads
whatever n"'""'
The Rev. DIR. Howard Crosby i r. o;ve
IN the Boston Monday lecture oo,reo
lecture on IA Calm View of Ter .,, " :
The Providence (R. l.. "Jour o ,, " rofor
ring to this says that the temp ranoo oo,..
needs calmness rather than ;ronotu osT9.
mot passionate or emotiGr ,a1 nnrtrona
of the horrors of drunke onass b,'t :
searching. scientific invest ;oation of The
causes of the vice." with reo"nn;t;"n ' ~
the fact that progress ms .reform lie thi
must be slow. liz ''Ao Ol''
The San Francisco "Alta,, has beer
MAKING computation of what kearneyisn
mas cost California. = there has been a de-
crease OF W., 900, 900 in banking capital
me lmpro' tements Of property have beer
cneokeo the numEe of depositors in the
savip> gs banks hasf allen off. the loans oil
IueE oanks have baf N less this year than the
- payment by bor' overs, there is no new
railroad building in the state, and thu
home capitalists are transferring their bus
| mess to New Y ORR.
Showmen fri I'M all sections of the coun
try were gatht red in New York THURSDAY
| at sale of re fuse materials disposed of by
| the combined Barnum and London shows
l There were SO articles disposed of, though
| no live anis1 ais were included in the sale
The sale rea lized about $4,000. Twenty
| two of Barr tum's steel cars, which brought
$12,t 300, we're sold at private sale. Three
slepl lants, Two lions, two camels and der
of te N mixed animals we're sold at private
sale for about $4,000.
A Mr.. Headrick, on Stony Fork, killet
a la rye black bear last week which becam,
fast ened in trap. Bruin dragged thu
tral a distance of ten miles and was trail
ed through the woods by the signs on thu
bus Eaes and ground made by large pillow
POI mt which was attached to the chain O
tn . TRAP Wytheville Enterprise.
The death of Mr.. Albert Speyers, pres
i'd ent of the Albemarle Fertilizing Compa
y, at Leonardsville. N. j., is announced
T lie will be remembered as acting a yer,
emarkable part in the wild gold specula
ion of Black Friday, many years ago
, While acting as broker for Fisk and Gould
fE. that wreck. like many others. he lost
'arg 3 fortune.
Th residence of Michael Buracker, nea
Kites vile, Page county, was burned OF
tn e nj ght of the 18th inst, the family bare
ly csc aping with their lives, the cloth
in of heir six year old boy taking fire be
fol re he got out of the building. The neigh
DO rs i'm nediately provided another hOus
70 them and literally contributed to thei
wants.
A tele graphic dispatch from New Yorl
states tt lat Mr.. Keene, not discouraged a
the grea t loss sustained by the death OF hi
splendid stallion Blue Gown, which wa
thrown overheard from steamer in I
storm It sea, has offered $50 600 for Isono
my, thf king of English race horses. Tn
| offer W as refused.
| Gen. Casper Tochman, who was exilet
from F o land for participation in the revo
luton of 1880, and who held brigadier
generals commission IN the Confederate
service, died in his 85th year, Tuesday. a
his home in Spottsylvania county, Va.
where BIZ had been living some years in re
tirementi.
The 81 ow which fell to the depth of fou
in ches here Sunday night last has under
| gone no perceptible thaw. At Salem th
depth Of the fall was 16 inches, and alonI
the Blue Ridge its depth in some place
was abou two feet and reported to be tn
heaviest now fall for Is years in those sec
tions.-N 'ytheville Enterprise.
Hay is now selling in San Juan county
Col, for $500per ton. That is pretty vel
up, but is still far behind what was seer
on the Con lstock in early days. All old
timers will remember when hay sold at Q
cents per pound. Green grass was theI
retailed at 10 cents per pound.
The principal obstacle to P. T. Bar
NUNS more rapid recovery lies in his ina
| bility to take nOuriShment. He has moi
taken a pound of nourishing food alto
gether in the past four weeks, and during
that time has lost over fifty pounds o.
flesh.
MIS-. OuSdu dChSoH, tuo "1uoW VI jain
son, who shot Col. Ellsworth at the Mar.
shall House, Alexandria, Va, at the be.
ginning of the war, died several days since
! at her residence at Langley, Fairfax coun-
ty,Va.
-ssWhat have you been drinking or eat.
| ing?" exclaimed his wife as he returned
late at night ''Liquor-ish!' he responded
| and then he winked at himself in the dark
| and breathed thin until she got asleep.
I Capt. T. A. Adams, one Of the leading
merchants of Blacksburg, made an assign
| ment of his property to his creditors last
week. 1t is understood that they will lose