Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1881-06-17


roads are being built and its mineral in
dustries developed. says: ''If Virginians,
however, would reap the advantages of
this capital and enterprise they must,
above all things, preserve the credit of
their State. There must be no taIk of re-
pudiatiOn.
A cruel blunder was made in announc-
ing the verdict in st. Louis murder case.
The foreman of the jury handed the clerk
several slips Of paper, and the clerk read:
"We find the prisoner not guilty, on the
lighted up with delight, and he eXultingly
shook hands with his counsel. ''There's
said the foreman to the clerk;
you've read the wrong slip. The one
that's signed is our verdict-guilty in the
first degree"
A Petersburg correspondent in writing
about the wedding of William Malone Jr.,
which took place Wednesday week, says:
1.-THE affair was very quiet, and the Sena-
tor himself who is in Richmond, failed to
put in an appearance. 1t is said that Mrs.
Senator Malone will go to Europe soon
of giving her daughter the advantages of
a European education. The young lady
in question is now about Is years of age"
So greatly did Queen Victoria admire
the wedding dress of Lady Brooke 1.-THE
beautiful Miss Maynard, just married to
the Earl of Warwick's eldest SOM, that
she insisted on her dining in it at Wind
sor Castle. and, after dinner, told the bride
to walk about, that she might see it better
the result of these peripatetic move
ments being that her ladyship was "com-
manded' to be photographed therein.
Albert Garret had from childhood al
ways been curlously affected by thunder,
but the rumbling during storm at ST..
control. He quivered all over, cried out
in terror, and finally killed himself with
pistol shot.
The United States Court for the Wes-
tern Distric of Virginia will convene at
Danville en- the 21St inst. 1t is announced
that, in the event of Judge Rives being
too feeble to attend, Judge Il. W. Hughes
of the Eastern District will preside in his
stead.
Lord Denman, a friend of the domestic
quadruped, drives a horse about the streets
animal was found to be near-sighted, and
its owner has successfully tried the eXper-
iment of remedying the defect in the same
way as is done with human beings.
In the window of a Washington jeWelry
store there is large and deliberately carved
silver frOntlet, the royal gift of III. M.
Charles H., King of England, Scotland,
Ireland and Virginia, to the Queen of the
Pamunkles. 1t is the property Of Miss
Morson, of Virginia.
When the Duke of Sutherland was in
Richmond he expressed desire to eat ''a
real old Virginia dinner" and the propri-
etor of the hotel set one before him. He
declared it to be the best meal he had eaten
since he landed in this country.
At meeting of the congregation of the
Presbyterian church in Leesburg. held on
Rockbridge county, (son of Gen. Smith of
the V. NJ. l. was unanimously called to
the pastorate of that church.
The negotiations to bring Adelina Patti
for an American tour have been broken
off. Nicolini, her friend, insisted that
both he and she should be engaged at the
price of $40, 900.
An American lady now assists at the
lectures of the celebrated psychologist,
Prof. Virchow, and is the first student of
her sex ever entered at the University of
Berlin.
On the land of David Morrison, in Hills
Valley, Pocahontas county, W. Va, is a
cave in which there is about two wagon
loads of ice, which was frozen during the |
past winter.
Rev. J. D. Leachman. one of the most |
useful Baptist ministers in West Virginia. |
died a few days ago, leaving a wife and |
nine daughters. He was chaplain in the |
Confederate army.
A Fon du Lac banker absconded with |
1900 900, but his tender conscience COM
Oelled him to send back $3.50 belonging to |
! cemetery fund.
The death is announced at Epernay. of |
NJ. Moet, head of the wel-known cham
payne firm. He leaves fortuae of six
md quarter millions of dollars.
Judge James Garland, Of the Lynchburg
Hustipgs Court, celebrated his eighty
ninth birth day, on the 9th inst. He was
)orn at Mechunl's river.
The two tavorite peacocks of the late
Lord Beacons6eld have been forwarded
rom Hughenden Manor to Her Majesty
he Queen, at Windsor Castle, by her de-
lire.
Gen, G. S. Meem has concluded to hold
lis annual sale Of sheep and cattle at Ha-
;erstown on or about the 18th of August
leEt.
A woman school teacher at Waterbury,
poured ice water down the barred back Of h !
girl.