Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1880-01-09

the lady inquiring if she was still unmar-
ried. She had been married, but her huS-
band was dead. So the wandering lover
renewed his suit, and with success, He
came on to Richmond. Yesterday he
procured license to marry the lady
Rschmond Dispatch, Jan. 8.
Tenn HoEler, the tenor opera singer, "a
nice, fresh looking Enlgishman' the son of
a clergyman, is about to be marriei to the
Duchess OF Newcastle. the heiress of the
great banking house of Hope and of one
of the greatest land estates and Castles in
England. The duke only died about a
wear ago and the widow has sou fourteen
years old. The Duchess is described as
s'lovely, aristocratic, sweet and exquisltely
dressed The lucky tenor is despe ately
in love and told friend the other Gay
that it was ''such stroke of good luck for
him that he was afraid to cross the street
lest he should be run over before the hap
py day came
A day or two before her marriage the
Archduchess Christine surprised Alfonso
by visit to the royal palace at Madrid in
company with her mother. The two ladies
rode in cab, were very SIMPLY dressed,
and were escorted by a gentleman III d
riding coat. Alfonso's pleasure is said to
have equalled his amazement. His future
Queen wanted to see the inside of her
future home. He showed it to her.
At Plainield, N. j., a few days ago,
Rev. John Carey, (colored) of the Baptist
church of Jamaica, L.. L., celebrated his
sixty-seventh birth day by marrying MIS-.
E Harris of Virginia. He issued circa-
lar announcing that ''as the wedding is
styled IL silver wedding, useful donations
will be thankfully received
Henry G. De Alma, formerly an U. s..
agent at Alaska, improved his New Years
opportunity by abusing Secre tary Sherman
and then repairing to the Presidents house
and telling Mr.. Hayes in tragic tones that
he hoped his fami!v might be brought to
poverty as the U. $ government had
brought his, De Ahma's wife and chill
dren.
At the Sunday school festival ia the
Baptist church at charlottesville, Va, one
Sunday school class of young men was
thoughtfully presented with lot of Shaw
ing brushes, while in another each young
man got starch bag and bottle OF hair
oil.
Under the provisions of the will of the
late-Wfh. Niblo. proprietor of Niblo's
theatre, of New York, the sum of $3.50 900
has been handed over to Robert Hoe. Jr.,
to be expended for library for the Young
Mems Christian Association in that city.
Mr.. W. II. Vanderbilt, it is said, sent
about $4,000 to his family relatives on
Staten Island al Christmas reminder,
and 81 900 check to the clergyman Of the
Moravian Church, where his father is
buried.
Rev. DR.. Archibald Alexander Hodge,
of Princeton Theological Seminary, spent
CHI i,tmas at the University of Virginia,
and on the 10Th ult, preached at his old
church in Fredericksburg.
General Sheridan 8 ailment is an aft, c.
tion Of the lungs, which has been greatly
aggravated by the bitter winter eather
of Chicago, and, it is thought, will force
him to go to some southern station.
Major VIVA. H. Crank. of Texas, former
ly of Albemarle, has sugar plantation On
which he turns out annually 125 hogs
heads of sugar, $50 barrels of molaSSeS and
$50 barrels of syrup.
One Of the churches in Norwich, Conn
fills the position of ianitor Or sexton by an
auction at which the person ma ming the
smallest sum secures the situation. Forty
dollars was the annual sum recently bid.
Andrew Boyd, clerk in the u s. Rev
enue Department, at Lynchuurg, dIsap-
peared last Friday, under circumstances
leading to the apprehension that he has
hpan o0oidonf 11v
The Richmond "Whig' reports that
Rev. W. B. Derrick. colored, of that city,
has fled with considerable sum of money
drawn from the Freedmen's Trust Co.,
for the colOred people.
Burnett Wells who was shot by Ham
Shields, the bar tender at the Banner
House at Dublin Pulaski, month ago,
died on Sunday of lockjaw resulting from
the wound.
The scarlet fever is prevailing i'll some
portions of Loudon, Warren and Shenan-
doah. A grandchild of Hon. VIM. Mines
is reported among the children who have
died of it.
The big hog of Charles Welsh, at Wood
stock, was killed last Friday, and weighed
o70 pounds gross and 879 pounds net. It
was three years old and of the Poland
China breed.
DIR. Oscar Little died at the residence of
his father, in Clarke county, on Friday
last, of consumption. He was in his 35th
year.
Sam Ward, the great American lobby
list and after dinner joker, has been con-
slant companion of Gladstone in his great
political tour of Scotland.
Queen Victoria, who is constitutionally
Indifferent to cold, nevertheless got chilled,
with serious consequences, on the day that
she attended the funeral Of her late head
keeper at BalmOral,
The theatrical company playing with
Miss Mary Anderson presented her with
gold horseshoe set with diamonds at Emi-
"a, N. Y, on Christmas day.
At the funeral of Rev. Michael P. Scan
tan of the M. E. Church South at Balti
more Wednesday, five ministers officiated
The remains were sent to Romney w. Va.
Rev. Jno. X. Mason, of Mt. Jackson,
nreached his last sermon there, Sunday,
having accepted call to Charlotte, N. {.
Beverley Ballard, an old and respected
citizen of Monroe county, w. Va, was
crushed to death by a log a few days ago.
Rev Mr.. Winslow, the Boston forger,
ia edditing IA newspaper in Ruenos Ayres.
South A meriCa,