Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1880-12-31
Speaking of Rev. E. s. Gregory's book

OF poems, BOnn1Dell, the LyncnDurg VIZ
ginian" after noticing in very flatterlng
terms the work, and abiding to the fact
that Mr.. Gregory was for long time eol-
remarks: sit may not be generally known
that the .sVirginian" claims the credit OF
bringing Mr.. Gregory out; for while he
was q young country pedagogue. in our
neiehboring county of Bedford, he Wrote
some letters to the "Virginian," that so
Impressed us with the elegance of the
writer's diction and the scope OF his
thought, that both publicly and privately
we encouraged him to write for the press;
and 10! the result"
A singular and fatal accident happened
to Mrs. Charles H. Dyer. wife Of farmer
living ten miles from Bloomington. ILL.,,
Saturday. She was watering the stock,
when pet COW in turning her head
knocked her into we'll, where she re-
NAMED three hours. She kept her head
above water by clinging to the bricks, but
died from exposure to the icy water soon
after being taken out
Charles Smith, a young telegraph opera
tor in Batavia, N. Y, while passing last
Sunday at his parents home, began to
clean a revolver, when his mother told
him he ought not to do 1t on that day. She
had scarcely spoken when the weapon
was di charged and she was shot dead. The
son did not know that it was loaded.
Two men fired simultaneously at each
other in s Salt Lake bar.room, and the
bullets came in collision. There could be
no doubt of this. for one bullet dropped to
the floor midway between the antagonists,
who were ten feet apart, and the other
was turned upward to the ceiling, while
both were fattened.
DIR. Glenn has finished harvesting on his
great farm in Colusa county, California,
and finds total yield of 100000 sacks.
His crop has been shipped to market, ex-
cept $4,000 sacks reserved for seed. The
Doctor is also stock raiser, and has 49,
600 head ranging on his pasture lots.
Hon. W. H. English, late Democratic
| candidate for Vlce-P President, according
| tO the Cincinnati s'Gazette," pays taxes on
| larger amount Of property than any 9th
| or man in Indiana. His real estate in In
dianapolis alone Is trife less than $780,
900.
A Washington report has it that Capt.
John Roster, Sheriff of Kanawha county,
! and late delegate to the Chicago Conven-
ton, is to be appointed U. s.. Marshall OF
West Virginia in the place Of Geo. w.
Patton, the present incumbent.
| At Danville, Va, the authorities gave
the boys only from shutdown Christmas
eve to midnight Christmas to fire crackers.
| The stanton Soys from this may see how
| much better they were treated, by Council
man Cochran. than the Danville boys were.
There are from twenty to thirty cases of
diptheria in Brooklyn, n. Y, daily, and
| in the last six weeks there have been 1856
cases of which 1872 have been fatal. The
course of the epidemic is SO peculiar that
the physicians are greatly puzzled.
| The Bristol Coal & Iron marrow gauge)
railroad from Bristol, to Imboden City in
Scott county, Va, will be in operation by
| August lst. The terminus is named after
Gen. John D. Imboden.
w. L. ROYALS book. introduced as q
reply to the ''Fool's Errand," by Judge
Tourgee, late of North Carolina. will be
| published on the LIST of January, proximo.
it is said to be a work of unusual power
and vig0r.
Mrs. VIM. Hurd went to revival meet
ing in Guyandotte. W. Va, on the night
Of the l4th inst, and engaged heartily in
| the exercises. Near their close she step
ped outside of the door and fell dead OF
appoplexy.
ConkIing speaks Of his daughter Bessie's
husband as ssMrs. Conkling' g son-in-law. "
The snobblsh senator disapproved of his
daughters marriage to respectable young
| man.
DR.. J. T. Lind, visitor at the Arkansas
Hot Springs, from Ohio, was assassinated
on the night of the goth inst, while pass
ing from the hotel to the room he occupied.
There is no clue to the murderer,
4 Rev. VIM. E. Hatcher, D. H., of Rich
mond, has been called to the pastorate of
the Walnut street Baptist church, of Lou
isville, KY.
There are four young preachers at the
Vanderbilt University preparing for for
eign mission work, three OF them taking
tina medical course.
The Northern and Southern Presbyteri-
ans of Louisville Joined in Thanksgiving
services, for the first time since the war.
last month.
Rev. Edward S. Gregory, Of Lynchburg,
is about to deliver lecture there on 'sLord
Beaconsfield as novelist"
Mr.. Fiudlay Harris has sold the Abing-
don STANDARD" to Mr.. Samuel P. With
ers, and engaged in other business.
| Hon. J. Randolph Tucker is spending his
Christmas at home-the first time in six
wears.