Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1880-02-20

The citizens OF Port Republic and vicin-
ity by resolution at a meeting recently held
favor the Fishersville route, aud the cross
ing of South Blver at Port Republic. by
the Shenar doah Valley Railroad, and
promise that if the machine and work
shops be established there, that the land
necessary for them will be donated to the
company.
The libel suit against the Boston "Her-
aid" for 100000, by Rev. J. W. Cole, of
Charlemonf, Mass. whom the Herald
accused OF horsewhipping his wife, has
been settled by the plaintiff accepting a
verdict of ST. without costs.
Ex-Mayor A. NJ. Kelley, of Richmond.
and one of the first orators in the State, is
a success at anything he undertakes. Last
week he was the 'sMrs. Jarley'' of an ex-
hibitiOn and brought down the house.
Five crates of live cartridges passed
through the city yesterday from Selma,
| Ala. for New York. There were four
hundred to the crate, and as nice as we
ever saw.-LysachJasrg Neaos.
Mrs. Sallie Kincannon Fulton, wife of
Hon. A. S. Fulton, lately Judge of the
Wythe county Va. Circuit Court and
mother of Hon. John II. Fulton, the pres
ent Judge Of that Circuit, died on the Sth
| inst.
1t is conceded that the census to be
taken this year will show that West Vir
ginia is entitled TO four representatives in
| Congress.
Joseph Sewers has discovered a cave
near McGaheysville, Rockingham, claimed
| to equal or SurpaSS the Luray cavernS He
found it bv falling into it at night while
driving some dogs off his sheep.
| Adolph Rorie, who was Secretary of the
| Navy under Grant, has just died and left
Gen. Grant $4,000 and Gen. ''Sylph''
Babcock $1,000.
Capt. Baldwin Wake, a ex-officer of the
British navy, and for several years resi-
dent of Frederick county, Va. was drown
ed in British Columbia, on the 9Th ult.
The Bell Telephone Company has appli-
ed to the Massachusetts legislature for a
charter, with capital of fifteen million
dollars.
Richmond has recently lost two of it's
best citizens by the deaths of Cornelius B.
LlpScomb, member of the Board of AL
dermen, and Samuel Ellis, Clerk OF the
Market.
Judge Thomas Sarget, of the Supreme
Court of Pennsylvania, once said that ''if
1t were not for the women this would be a
hard world for painters, paper-hangers and
clergymen."
Mrs. Fanny Hamilton, a member of the
African Methodist Episcopal Church. in
Sunday, to commemorate her centennial
birthday.
Baroness Burdett- Coutts, the final dispo-
sition or whose colossal fortune is matter
for speculation among ali the gossips OF
England, has sent an agent to Ireland to
distribute $25 600 among the starving.
The grand master of the Masonic frater-
or finger joint disqualiieS a candidate
for initiation into that order.
A recent party of '.exodusters' that
passed through Lockhart, Texas, had a
banner bearing the inscription. ''GWine
to Kansas to vote TO Mars Grant"
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CAL, who died recently, left 100000 to a
poor young man to whom she was en-
gagged.
Some vandal has stolen the brass in.
scription plate from the tomb of President
Monroe at Hollywood Cemetery, Rich
mond, Va.
Ex-U. S. Senator, Geo. W. Jones. of
Iowa, who was lately defeated for Sheriff,
of his county, is now a candidate for AL
derman, of Dubuque.
At Englishville, N. j.. James Speedwell, ;
aged fifty four quarreled with his step
mother. He afterwards asked her forgive
ness, and on her refusal hanged himself.
Among the visitors at Richmond last
week was the veteran railroad contractor,
Capt. g. r. Mason.
The new marble capitol Of New York,
erected at Albany at cost of $12,OO0,O0O,
and recently completed is found to be
settling so rapidly as to crack the walls.
Lewis M. Huff, prominent citizen of
Nicholas county, West Va, and native
of Botetourt, is dead.
President Grevy, of France, pays $1,000
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