Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1880-12-03

Miss Jennie Payne, of Fernan dina, Fla,
was found dead in her bed at the residence
of her brotheT-in-law, in Savannah, on
Friday morning. Being sufferer from
neuralgia, while inhaling chloroform she
became insensible, and the contents of
the bottle being spilled over her, caused
her death. She was about nineteen years
old and was to have been married next
month to young gentleman of Fernan-
dina.
Mile Sara Bernhardt contributed to the
enlivenment of the thanksgiving festival
in New York by performance of "The
Sphynx." The variety of the death scenes
in this, remarks the ''Tribune," is the
horrible. 1t was the sixth of the Bern.
hardt series, and in each Mile. Bernhardt
has concluded her labors by a portraiture
of death. Adrienne, Donna Sol, Phedre
and the Sphynx woman die by poison;
Frou-Frou OF grief, and Camille of con.
sumption.
J. Taylor Gordon, clerk at the Chesa
peake u Ohio depot, at Richmond, and 9
steady, promising young man, committed
suicide on Saturday morning, by blowing
morning and saying to his room mate
Good by Selden,'' put the pistol to his
head and fired. He had been laboring un-
der mental depression for some days.
G. II. Noyes, lawyer, Of Warren, Pa
made an agreement with his wife that
whoever died first the other should burn
the body. Mrs. N. died on the 2lst ult.
in her 2Sth year, and on Friday last be had
her BODY cremated at the LIE Moyne furn-
ace, near Pittsburg, Pa.
Col. M. D. Brown, we'll known either
of Pembroke. KY, and member of the
last legislature of Kentucky, was shot anC
instantly killed last Friday night by Cass
| Wilkins, clerk in a livery stable. The
| shooting was the result of quarrel about
| Wilkins care Of Browns horse.
| Two or three of our pupils have tried
the efficacy of the laying on of hands since
CDR" Miller has been in the city, but
without receiving any benefit. They have
lost faith in him now.-Goodso1 Gazette.
| Mrs. Hastings, the Presidents niece
| and the young lady who was married at
| the White House two years ago, has ma
med her little daughter Lucy Hays Hast.
ings.
Two disguised highwaymen made H
Stuart Repass dismount from his horse, in
Wythe county, Va, the night of the 18th
ult., and robbed HIM Of 1904 in currency.
They were believed to be white men.
r. ]. Burdette, the Burlington 'Hawk-
eye'' humorlst, who has been lecturing in
Richmond, delivered Sunday School ad-
dress in the First Presbyterian church
there last Sunday
The earnings of the Chesapeake & Ohio
railway for the month of October were
$211 ,S1995, being an increase over the
same month IN 1879 of more than $24 900.
Maj. John W. Daniel, of Lynchburg,
Va, has received an invitation to deliver
an address at the commencement of the
law department. of the University of Mi
chigan.
The Treasurer of the Union Theological
Seminary, near Farmville, Va, has Just
received check from Mr.. Cyrus HI. Nc
Cormick, of Chicago, for $3O,75O.
Four colored nuns, OF the Order of Sist-
ers of Providence, have gone to St. Louis,
Mo-, to teach in st. Elizabeth s School in
that city.
Rev. A. c. Bledsoe, pastor of the Court
Street Church, Lynchburg, sustained pain
full injuries Saturday, from fall on the
ice.
Rev. W. F. Cosner, of the Presbyterian
church, died in Grant county, W. Va,
last week.