Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1880-01-16
ALLEGHANY ITEMS fle Covington
of Friday gives the following

ne never missing any tfalilS AS oil cA-
ample Of this, q telegram for metallic
burial Case from Low-Moor, sent by Dr.
Rogers, came to band while we were pres
ent, and altho' it was then about ten
O'Clock at night, the case was at the depot
ready for the express inside of 20 minutes.
We commend MI. Wilkes to our readers
as a prompt, square dealing and reliable
business man.
Not FORGOTTEN. Mr.. Thomas Woodward
of the CovingtOn Hotel, was not by any
meaDs neglected Christmas. He was the
recipient of veIy beautiful cameo ring
presented by Messrs. Charles Robinson
and Simon Ailstock of the g. Y U road
The Deer Lau-But six days yet remain
in which deer may be lawfully killed-the
lime expiring on the 18th instant.
Personal.-A great many parties were
given at Wiliiamson's Christmas, and the
ones given by Jack Woodward and Mr..
Harris were particularly pleasant.
sure THAT he would be postmaster of that
city that he gave handsome dinner to his
friends in honor of the coming gnOd luck.
but Mrs. Hayes heard that the Colonel
went shooting OH Sundays, and that cook
ed his goose. Mr.. Anger, of Michigan,'
formerly of her husbands military staff,
got the place.
A celebrated beauty in the time of Ma
pOleon Bonaparte, Nine. Louise Lucorne,
has Just reached her hundredth year She
was the friend, and rival in beauty of Nine
Recamer.
Nine large cases of botanical specimens
have Just been received at the University
of Virginia, the gift of the late Lewis
Brooks, having been selected in Europe by
an agent sent there by the heirs of the
donor.
Maj Gen. Chamberlain, who commands
the Maine militia. is the officer who was
designated by Gen Grant to accept Gen:
Lees surrender. He is an admlrer OF
President Hayes, indorses his policy, and
is what is known in Maine as an anti
Blaine republican.
Among the men who saw wood for fifty
cents day at the town farm in Hartford,
Conn.,, is returned missionary, who takes
the work for his health. He says that his
mind has been affected by overwork, and
he looks to physical labor to restore it..
Jacob Campbell, as deaf mute with
scroll saw, was doing good business in
Christiansburg, Va, among the 81 mpathlz-
ing citizens until the boys got him drunk,
when he SwOre like a sailor. The 'MeS-
senger'' says he is about nineteen years
old with light hair and blue eyes.
The Abingdon 'sStandard' now says
that DIR. John l.. Buchanan, recently cleo
ted President of Blacksburg A. & NJ. Col
lege, has accepted the position and will at
oy1oo rocinp his nOcitiOn at Em0rV
Mrs. Hettie Martin, the widow of Cen
eral Pegram, and whose maiden name was
Carey, has returned from her marriage
tour, and held reception at home, in Bal
timore Her husband, Professor Martin,
of Johns Hopkins University, relinquiShed
a foreign fellowship of $500 year to mar
ry her.
that the daughter of wealthy farmer of
Rappahannock county, II years of age, alb
seconded last week with an IinprepOseSsing
black man, much older than herself The
man abandoned his wife and children for
the beastly girl, who carried with her
81 900 in money.
Mrs Anna Oldham Cook, whose hus-
band sacrificed his life last year in seek
ing to save the fever-stricken people OF
Hickman, KY, has been elected State IL
brarian by the Kentucky Legislature. The
widow of deceased Confederate soldier is
State librarian in Tennessee.
Jesse R. Grant. the Generals son, and
II. II. Ronore. Jr., whose sister is married
to Col. Fred Grant, we're on Thursday ad-
mitted to membership in the New York
Produce EXCHANGE.
A letter from Mt. Jackson. Shenandoah,
in the Culpeper IT. mes says, 1.-THE scarlet
fever seems to be raging over great por-
ton of this county. A good many of the
schools have been compelled to close on
account of it,
Joe Kelley, late Chief of Police, who in
November shot ex-Mayor Joe Hyde, and
then gave ''leg ball." has turned up in
Texas He is said to have been very i'll,
in the Lone Star State. ''-Hdrrisonbemg
SPIRIT.
Rev. E. S. Gregory. of Petersburg, has
been called to the Episcopal church at
Mt. Jackson and the charges at New Mar
ket and Woodstock.
The Charlottesville "Chronicle," after
inquiry thinks the reported duel between
a son of Col John S. Mosby of Va, and
John Lee, University Of Va. student
from Louisiana, was piece of fun gotten
up by the college boys.
Gold to the amount of $4,000 900 was
received in Chicago on Thursday last to
pay for wheat bought during the last
few months by James r. Keene, Of New
York.
Wilkie Collins, the great producer of
detective literature the literature o
countless plots and cOunterplots-say
thai. he has made $4,000 in honest to
with the pen. He spends much of his tim
now in studying chemistry and medicine
Senator Zachariah Chandler's will,
found among some old papers last week
does not name his son=in-law, Eugene
Hale, among the executors. Mr.. Hale,
who has been settling the estate, now steps
out entirely, The property is beqneathed
to Mrs Chandler and daughter.
The partridge law does not prevail all
over Virginia In thir y-six counties of
the State partridges or quail may oe shot,
bought Or sold until the first day Of Feb
ru airy, 1880.
Mr., T. N. Conr:.d, recently elected to IA
nrofessorship in the Blacksburg College,
has sold his paper. the Montgomery ''Mes-
sengeh to Mr.. &, H. Carper.
Mrs, Eliza Gfeifeidt, is suing pork
hacking firm In Brooklyn, n. Y, for $780, /
100 for selling her bu band trichipae pork
which caused his death.
A lady voter of Boston found too late
That she had voted her curl papers.
Jeffersop Dayis was seventy-two years
old on Saturday :