Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1880-11-26

1t is rumo1ed that Gen. W. W. Grant,
member of Congress elect from the third
Vermont district, is ineligible, he having
been born in Canada, and never natural
lied. Grant, however. says his parents
were natives of Vermont. and about six
weeks prior to his birth moved into Cana
da, where he was born, and where he lived
ten years. They then Came back. his ia
ther never having exercised any of the
rights of citizenship in Canada.
The official announcement that General
Malone is a Democrat, and will conse-
Quebtly vote with Democrats when he
takes his seat in the Senate is the occasion
of much satisfaction here. not only to the
officers and employees Of the Sena' Q, but to
many others who want to see united de-
mOcracy in the only branch OF the govern :
ment, of which the Democrats now have
CONTROL Wash. cor. Alexandria Gazette.
Antonio Biggs, who was sent to the
Virginia penitentiary for two years from
Norfolk, and who, through some error in
the records of that institution was kept
there six months after the expiration Of
his term, on Friday instituted a suit in the
Richmond Circuit Court against Superin-
tendent Williams and the Board of Direc
tors of the State Prison. The plaintiff
places his damages at s., 900.
Senator Conkling, it is said, has decided
to make Hon. Levi F. Morton his colleague
in the United States Senate, in place of
Hon. Francis Herman, the present incum-
bent. Mr.. Morton is the politician who is
ashamed of having been a tailor and who
is reported as offering large price to get
possession of his old sign used in that bus
mess. so as to destroy it.
George Eliot (now Mrs. Cross) appears
to he in excellent health. She and her
husband have been visiting English coun-
try houses, including her own in Surry.
She will now take up her residence at
Chelsea, London. Prince Leopold called
on George Eliot recently, and said he had
read "Middlemarch" nine times.
An Italian not long since rode native
mare, six years old, from Turin to Casale,
fifty miles, in i've hours, under burning
sun, at temperature of SO degrees, and
amid suffocatlng dust. The return jour
ney was made IN a rain storm in six hours,
and the mare, is is said, was none the
worse for the tremendous effort.
Gen. Garfield observed his 10th birthday,
as has been his custom for years, by pay
ing visit with his wife to his uncle Thos.
Garfield. at Warrensville, Ohio, aged
70, whose birthday falls on the same
date. The reunion was purely an infor-
NAL family party, about seventy relatives
and immediate friends being present.
Mr.. James A. Frazier has abandoned all
idea, so it is currently reported. of con.
testing Mr.. fuckers seat. He Is said to
be an applicant for position in one of
the departments at Washington.-Rock-
bridge Letter IN Lyaschburg Virginian.
A Nevada widower moved to Salt Lake
and became Mormon, SO as to marry his
four sisters-in-law. The eldest is thirty
and the youngest sixteen, and they all pro-
fess to love their husband and one another
During the present week the fires will
be lighted in new iron furnace in Lynch
burg, Va, built by Pennsylvania capital
The same company will also mine their
own ores few miles down the river, aud
will work about 400 hands in all.
Hon. John Goode is IN Lexington, the
guest of Hon. J.. R. Tucker, Mr.. G. has
son at W ashingtOn and Lee University,
of paternal duty. 'H
Mrs. Arnold, the sole surviving sister of
Stonewall Jackson, now resides at Buch-
AMMAN, w. Va. She is said to have ad-
hered strongly to the Union side during !
the civil war.
BENJAMIN Hart, the Democratic con-
gresham elect from Nevada, is native |
of Spottsylvania county, Va. where his |
father, John Hart. now resides.
R. A, Osmer, who for four years has
been Supreme Treasurer Of the Knights of
Honor, died at Atlanta, Ga, on the 10th
instant,
The official canvass of the vote in Con-
necticut shows Garields plurality to be
Q $3.50 and his majority over all, 1882.
plurality for Governor is 2,772;
1,277.
The Richmond and Allegheny railroad
has been completed to Columbia, Flu
wanna county, Virginia, fifty-seyen miles
from Richmond. BE- 80 %t''@ !