Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1880-04-02
Chief Justice Ryan, of the Wisconsin

Chief Justice Ryan, or the Wisconsin |
Court of Appeals. is in perfect physical
health, but he imagines that he is hopeless
lv ill. and all efforts to persuade him out
Of his delusion have failed. He was to
write decision in test case involving
the validity of option contracts, and AS it
will affect the entire system of the grain
trade in the state. it is awaited with great
anxiety; but the hypochondriac refuses to
work, and his brother judges of the Court
of Appeals are reluctant to take the mat
ter out of his hands.
An excitement has been created in the
village of Montclair, New Jersey, by the
reception of postal card addressed ITO
the prettiest GIRL In order to enable the
postmaster to solve the puzzle a vote is
being taken, each voter paying five cents
for the privilege of expressing his prefer
ence, and the amount raised is to be paid
into the Irish relief fund.
Mrs. Harriet NJ Collier, lady aged SO,
a resident of Bellefontaine, Ohio, whose
hair has long been silvered with age. IS
growing new suit, beautiful dark brown.
soft and glossy, with all the freshness of
her girlhood days. She has hopes of re-
covering her eyesight, which has been fall
ing for several years.
Col. Thos. Fl. Carter. the Virginia Rail
road Commissioner. has resigned to take
position as one of the arbitrators OF the
Southern Railroad Association. Gov.
Holiday has appointed ex-Secretary OF the
Commonwealth, James Mcdonald to the
vacancy.
Two ladies of this place have been out
to see 'sDr." Miller. in scott. We learn that
one of them considers herself greatly i'm
proved. She says that dozens of crutches
are laying around the old ''healer's'' house,
which were used by the lame and halt in
getting there and not needed to get away.
&Wythevslle (Va.) Enterprise.
A telegram from Lasalle, ILL.,, says eight
hundred negroes arrived there Saturday
bound for the coal district of Rock Island
county. Fearing to leave the Central de-
pot, switch engine was run up on the
switch to haul the colored men to the 9th
or road.
At ball in Mason county, West Va,
Wednesday night. Jesse Arthur and VIM.
Ray quarrelled about girl. Ray barred his
breast and defied Arthur to shoot. Arthur
did so, without effect. Ray then fred twice
shooting Arthur through the heart and
head. Ray escaped.
The United States Senate has confirmed
the appointments of Francis Richardson
for supervisor Of the census in the First
district OF Virginia, and Robert Boiling
for the Second district Of this State.
A petit ton, signed by over 1900 women
Of Cincinnati. praying the Ohio Legisla-
ture to enact some law which VIII take }
the control of the public schools out of
the hands of ward politicians, has been
presented to that body.
At the national competitive drill in
Nashville, Tenn. the best drilled infantry
is to get 81 900, section of artillery $500
and cavalry $500. There are also little in
ferior prizes for the second best.
The Albany "Journal'' celebrated it's
fiftieth anniversary Monday, and Thurlow
Weed, its original editor, resumed his old
chair long enough to prepare the leading
editorial article.
The Alexandria Va, Game Protective
Assoc alton has offered reward of one
dollar and fifty cents per hundred for the
heads of English sparrOws, with the view
of thinning out the breed.
A Philadelphia firm has paid the U. S.
Government SIS, 900 to be let off from II
contract Of 4O. 900 reams of paper The
rise in price would have caused them a
loss of SAC, 900.
Capt. J. Mason Jamison, nephew of
the late James M. Mason, Confederate
states Minister to England, and a gra u
ate of the Virginia Military Institute,
died in Baltimore last week.
.Judge Edmund Pendleton. who was a
member of the Virginia legislature thirty
YEARS ago and member of the Secession
i;onvention. died at Winchester last week.
A carriage making firm in Winchester,
". has two orders for vehicles to be de-
livered in London. England.
Col. Fl. M. Dickinson. venerable and
nrominent citizen of Fayette county, W.
Va, is dead.
James r. Dooley has purchased the late
ros;donco If Gen. Bradley T. Johnson, in
Richmond. Fl ON r. R. Swepson.
Russell Hancock, General Hancock's on
" child. is planter in Mississippi.
R. ". BETTY has been appointed Post
master a at Shenandoah Iron WerFs'