Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1881-04-22

too quick, and she will never leave 1t open
again when there are Indians in town.
She says her hair-on the bureau-fairly
turned gray from fright.
Mr.. Jasper Douglass. of Indiana, and
Miss Upper, Of Bolivar county, Mississip-
pl, were married at Memphis, Tenn, on
the I'd inst, though they had never met
till twenty-four hours before. The court
ship had been conducted by correspon-
dence and an exchange of photographs,
ending in an appointment to meet, the Ia
dy being accompanied by her parents.
Both were embarrassed on being introduce
ed; but this feeling soon wore off, and the
marriage followed, after one of the short
est courtships on record.
The circus business has radically chang
ed in character within few years. AS
many as thirty tent shows formerly travel
led, and they were usually small affairs.
This season, three enormous enterprises
Barnum's, Coup's and Forepaugh's-are
sweeping all before them, and only six of
the small concerns survive.
The suit instituted by Mrs. Moore, wild
ow of Conductor Valley Moore, late of
Manchester, against the Richmond and
Danville Railroad Company, which was
begun in the Circuit Court of Powhatan
county last Thursday, was decided in IA
vor of the plaintiff. and Judgment for
$4,000 was rendered in her favor.
The doctors quarrel even over the nobil-
ity. In the critical illness of Lord Bea-
consfield Sir VIM. Jemer, 1.-THE Queens
physician) positively refused to attend him
as long as DR.. Kidd, an eclectic (Homoe-
Allopathic) doctor attended him. DR..
Kidd also refused on the same ground.
Frederick T. Kemper, Esq, Virginian
and brother of ex-Gov. Jas. T.. Kemper,
of Madiso n. died recently in Boonville,
Mo. He was a useful influential citizen,
and Christian gentleman of many vir-
tues. AS a tribute to his worth all busl-
ness was suspended in the town of Boon
vile on the day of his burial.
When DR.. Curry, the new agent of the
Peabody Fund, visited the Tennessee
State Normal College at Nashville. he
found the portraits of the late DIR. Sears
and Mr.. Peabody draped and the names of
those gentlemen with that of DR.. Curry
had been put in evergreen over the chapel
desk.
Sergeant Bates, who achieved notoriety
by marching through the Southern States
and through portion of Europe bearing
the American flag, is reported to be dying
in AFFECT poverty in Saybrook, Ill. He has
a wife and six children.
"When you play that sonata" said
Prof. I. to Miss Blanche M, "you must
show off your lingering as much as posi-
ble." ''Don It you fear about that" she
''I7ll have a f1,-ger-ri7ag on
each finger Wesleyan Institute Alma
Mater.
Rev. DR.. Leonidas Rosser, of the Vir-
ginia Methodist Conference, has devoted
more than fifty years of his life to the
and persons profess to have been CONVEX
ted under his ministry.
The Mccormick telescope which has
been secured by the University of Virginia
has an object glass reported to be 26 and
quarter inches in clear diameter, and SO
feet IN focal length The object glass
alone is valued at $35, 200.
Margaret Pryor, a colored servant has
been indicted by the Grand Jury, of Rock
ingham, for attempting to poison the fam
lily Of DR.. G. NJ. Williamson, III which she
lived, by putting strychnine, stolen out of
his laboratory, into the milk.
The Rockingham esprit of the Valley'
says "Several most excellent farmers of
this county have recently purchased farms
over the Blue RIDGE and these write over
to others that they are we'll pleased"
The Easter offering of the Lutheran
church at Winchester, of which Rev. D.
M. Gilbert is pastor, was 81, 1872, of which
the infant class of the Sunday school con-
tributed $76.
VIM. q. Price, a leading citizen of Ran
iolph county, w. Va, and brother of Gov.
Samuel Price, dropped dead in the road
On the 10th inst, not far from his home in
Huttonsville.
Rev. ]. H. G. Dosh, of the M. E. church, |
! native of Strasburg, Va, and brother of |
Prof. Thos. W. Dosh, of Roanoke College, |
lied in Baltimore county, Nd. Saturday. |
Owing to his many other business en-
.agements, Hon. James G. Blaine has ten
Tered his resignation as Director IN
he Richmond and Allegheny Railroad
Company.
Sixty-three inches of snow fell in Rock
ngham between November Sd and April
til, according to record kept by Isaac N.
Bowman.
During thunder storm last Wednes-
ay, Dallas Alexander, a young farmer
wing near Hot Springs, Ark, was in
family killed by lightning.
Track laying on the Richmond & ALE
hany R. r. is going on at mile and a
alf day and it Is thought Lynchburg
ill be reached by July.
Sheppard Ballard, of Botetourt county.
a., was killed few days since by his
Lewis Boyle, in Leadville,
dorado.
Joe Briggs, convicted in Chesterfield
ounty, Va. of illegal voting and sentenced
, the penitentiary for one year, has been
ranted new trial.
The clerks in the Auditors office have
ade Rev. John E. Massey, Auditor. a
rth day present of silver pitcher, waiter
I'd goblets.
Rev J. T, Kemper has resigned the pas
rate of the Harrlsonbprg Baptist church,
take effect June 1st.
Mrs. Milligap of Kingston, Wis, COM
tilted suicide because her husband would
It let her whip their child.