Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1880-07-09

uC pOOl HAL udu udu0 GlGll6l d ILL.,
preserver or a jacket of lead, and had
jumped from the deck of the steamer into
the water, expecting to float on the sur
face for hours or days Until he could be
rescued. a.
Queen Victoria is describ ed Ivy an Eng
lish writer as being painfully astOnished
and Unexpectedly disappointed" over the
Republican nomination. 1t is added that
she saw General Grant several times while
he was in England, and took "a great Ii
king to the taciturn ,bullet-headed soldier. y
She subscribe for several copies of the
work describing his tour around the world.
The books were specially bound for her,
and cost over $40 set of two volumes.
We are informed that the Baltimore an
Ohio Railroad have agents now passing
over the line OF the Wash ington and Gin
cinnati Narrow Guage Railroad with a
view of purchasing that road. Their
agents are now in PocahOntas, and we
hope their Investigations nay prove salts.
factory, and that this road may be built
Greeabrier W. Va.) Indep endent.
Judge McTeer of this city has been cali
ed by Judge Ward to Abingdon to try S.
A. Jackson for the murder of Mr.. =
Rife in May. 1t is said that Judge Nc
Teer and Jacksonville accused-were stu
dents at Emory and Henry College and
roomed together Wythuillc Enterprise,
The sudden death of Susan Remsen, 8
girl of twenty years, at Trinity Mission
No. 20, state street, New York, was in
vestigated Monday by the coroner, who
found reason to believe that the girl had
died from facing too: tightly on the pre-
vious day..
Mrs. Eccles Robinson of Bipghampton,
N. Y, has just obtained a divorce from
her husband, He went into court conf
dent of thwarting her, but she introduced
in evidence daily diary of his movements
which she had kept i'll Greek so that he
could not read it. When her attorney
commenced translating it, the unluck !
husband threw up the sponge and retired.
The conservation of Rev. Edward Will
son, D. D., as Bishop of the Reform. d
Episcopal Church for tile Synod of Canada.
took place Thursday evening in the Sc
cond Reformed Episcopal church, Phila-
delphia. Bishop W. II. Nicholson occu
pied the chair, and the sermon was preach.
ed by Bishop }. A. I4atane.
A new pos. -office is established al
Mauzy, Rockingham county, Va. on the
route between Lacy's Springs and Tenth
Legion, with Jacob B. Rhodes as ;,ostmas-
ter. A new post-cfflce is established at
Masters, Allegheny county, Va, on The
route from Mountain Grove to Covington,
with Henry A. Noel as postmaster.
Listen at the prophetic VennorI This
heated term will probably extend through
the first half OF July. There will be some
cool weather after the Goth. Severe frosts
in the neighborhood Of the oath, 18th and
26th, possibly with 1urries of snow in the
mountains.
the name of the first boy baby born in Nor
ristown. Pa, Hancock 8 native home, since
his nomination. 1t is the SIN of lawyer.
Of the Sheriffs of the fifty-four counties
Of West Virginia, not one is delinquent
for taxes for 1878 and 1879. 1t was not so
under Republican rule.
Major John W. Daniel was presen, ed
with handsome gold-headed cane while
at Cincinnati by two Of the North Carolina
delegation, who were originally Bayard
men, but we're converted by his speech.
1t is stated that VIM f. English. son
Of the Democratic candidate for Vice
President, was married recently to Miss
Annie E. Fox. y seri..-e ;mic vocalist, we'll
known in the Eastern cities.
Rev. Solemcn Funk, the Baptis, minis
ter who died in Rockingham, a teW DAYS
since, was baptised i,.tothe Baptist church
twenty-Sax years ago by Rev. John E.
Massey, now First Auditor.
Thomas Welcn was killed last week by
falling under a Chesapeake Il Ohio freight
train at Fort Spring station. He was
eighteen years old ard had jumped on for
a ride. ~
Many visitors are seen each year at the
Greenbrier White Sulphur Springs whose
and great grandparents used
to spend the SUNNI r there.
The masonry of thssss y. r. r. bridge
over the Potomac al. Sheph etslstown, w.
Va, was completed on Wednesday, and
the last span is now being put up.
Col. VIM. Shannon, Of Camden county,
). u, aged sixty ye ir5. was killed on Sun
day, in a duel, with Col. E. B. Cash, of |
Chesterfield county. in that State.
Richard Burke, of the Monroe "Ragls-
ter" was nominated last week at Grafton
IS Republican candidate for State Treas |
lrer of West Virginia.
Congressman De La Matyr has just been
married to lady in New York. She was I
! widow and a teacher in a normal school,
md the bridegroom has known her since
childhood.
1t is again announced that Ulysses S.
Grant, Jr... will be married to Miss Jennie
Flood, daughter of the San Francisco
Millionaire, about the middle of next No
ember.
Mayor William Lamb of Norfolk, has
ecided to organize two separ. te and dis
met chain-ganes-onef for white and the
Their for colored convicts.
Jas. P. Winston, q we'll known m erchant
{ Richmo ID, died III his bath tub of an
pileptic fit Saturday.
Gen. and Mrs. Grant left Galena. nj.
for Kansas and Colorado. The