Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1880-01-23

U s. revenue Stats les sho W hat single
dis,illry FIR IL p vs. in taxes alone in round
numbers be IN five and six million dol
lars annually, an that the seven leading
distilere. pay i'll the aggre gate about
twenty-6v million dollars, or tenth of
the entire revenue of the government from
all s. urceS.
In the Circuit Court at Little Rock
Ark, Monday, resolutions of respect to
the memory OF Tobbs Gross, a colored law
yer were adopted and the court adjourned.
Gross formerly lived in Cincinnati, ara &C
quirt Eotoriety during the Greeley cam
p aign. He at one time published and edi-
ted the Patriot at Little Rock,
General II. Webb, was hung in Car
roll county, Va, last Friday, for the as
sassination of Joshua Nestor. his father
in-law, an old man eighty years Of age
While drunk in Jail, Christmas day, he adj
mitted the crime but on the ScaffOld denl-
ed it. His conviction was made on Cir
cumstantial evidence.
Cephas Davis, the colored Senator from
Mecklenburg, Va, went into restaurant
at Richmond on Saturday, and called for
a supper for himself and two friends, one
of whom was white. but was refused by
the pl oprietor, who said he kept an eating
house for white persons only. The party
had to leave without their supper.
The resignation of Col. M. Mcdonald as
professor at the Virginia Military 1nsti-
tute has been handed the Board OF Vlsi-
tors of that Institution. Col. Mcdonald
contemplates accepting a position in the
United States Fish Commission.
When the committee was investigating
the accounts of Cashier Andrew Rhoher
of the Louisville Kentucky Savings Bank,
he took up his pen and wrote, Deficit
$67 ,0O0," and left the bank He was
caught on his way to the jail, where he
proposed going to give himself up.
Rev. ]. D. Lane, clergyman of Kensi-
co, N. Y, is on trial for kissing various
female members Of his flock. A venerable
member said: "That committee can never
convict our dominic, and am betting, on
it. At the worst, all he has done is to kiss
and hug few wimMin folks, and that
amt much for minister to do nova
days."
Near Clarksburg, W. Va. few days
ago the "Red Men, party of regulators,
finding thata man and his wife were living
apart, took the man out at night and
whipped him we'll with hickory switches,
sent for his wife put them in bed together
and left, saying, they would thrash both if
they heard of another separation.
Charley o Burnley, son of O'Burley, Of
Ha1per's Ferry, who was killed in the
Brown raid by one of John Browns negro
insurgents, shot himself accidentally on
the 10Th ult., in Montana. He was SOL
der in the Regular Army,
Horace D. Higgins, a last session Bach
elor of Law, of the University of Virginia
and the law par tner of the 1t. Governor,
of Texas, died 10 that state suddenly,
few days ago. o-
Rye straw is as valuable as the grain in
Pennsylvania. in the manufacture of pa
Der. With the increased acreage of the
season Just closed-3, 100000 bushels-the
Weld is lot EQUAL to the demand.
Rev. w. Jordan Thompson, a colored
minister of Suffolk. Va, preached funer-
al sermon Friday evening and died that
night.
Sullivan, the author of ''Pinafore." was
a class-mate of Leo Wheat at the Leipsic |
Conservatory of Music, and last week /
went from BALTIMORE up to Mr.. Wheat's |
farm in Clarke county, Va. to visit him.
II. N. Gallaher, the veteran senior edi-
tor of the Cha lestown ssFree Press, oele-
brated his f2nd birthday Friday night by
supping With hia Masonic brethren.
Jacob Price. we'll known citizen resid-
ing near New Market. died on the 18th
inst.
A Baptist preacher in Raleigh, N. G.,
has been presented with box Of cigars
and a 81 900 greenhack.