Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1881-01-28

has promised us never to do so again. We
repeat our very best wishes, old friend
Harrisonburg Commonwealth.
At Atlanta, Ca, last Thursday, Benz
81. Sehnell, giant six feet four inches
high, with a brutal face was going the
tie child, named Gertrude Posey, only
eight years of age but well grown for her
years, seeking to get married to her. He
was arrested and put in prison. The child
cried bitterly when he was taken from her.
1t appeared that he had been at Columbus,
Ga, the day before trying the same thing
but had been refused by the clergymen.
Mr.. Robt. Cahoon, of this place had a
hen. that on the goth of December flew un-
der a bench for protection against the
snow storm, then prevailing. Having &C.
casion to use the bench fifteen days after
wards, he found the hen that had been
imprisoned by tie deep snow, still alive,
but very weak. She was at once given
food, and is now. we are glad to say. in the
enjoyment of her usual health Woodstock
Herald.
John W. Bear, well-known in Pennsyl-
Blacksmith who made his appearance as
political speaker in the Henry Clay cam
palgn and has spoken in every Presiden-
tial canvass since, was found dead in a
chair at his house in Philadelphia, on the
10Th inst. He had held several positions
under Grant. He was the first man to in
troduce the daguerrean art at Winches-
ter. Va.
Carrie Tole, young girl, recently dis
appeared from Detroit, leaving a letter de-
claring her suicidal intentions, and as she
left her cloak and bonnet near hole in
the ice, she was supposed to be no longer
in the land of the living. She has since
turned up at Cleveland, under another
name, and the frit nds who were lamenting
her early death are now indignant at her
deception.
A petition is in circulation, and has
newspaper publishers and editors in Vir-
ginia and further South, addressed to the
Board of Trustees of the Peabody educa-
tjonal fund, asking the appointment of
Rev. j. William Jones, of Richmond, Va,
as agent of the fund, in place of Rev. DR..
Sears, deceased.
A convention of crows near Bruigsburg,
Pa, was recently witnessed by man liv-
ing neaEvtheir roOSt.- There were several
thousand of them. and the assemblage kept
together six days. After that they sud-
denly flew away to the north ward, in flocks
of about three hundred, at intervals of
about five minutes, and each flock had a
leader.
All tho oopn ion bct x,oop ba y,on
Pile East and West of the Shenandoah riv-
er, in Page county, except at Massanut-
ten has been suspended. This is owing to
a recent thaw of the ice on that stream,
which made the ice too brash to bear trans
portation, and not sufficient to make a
general break up.-NeW M0rket VALLEY.
Chas. Kimble, an old citizen of Nj. Jack
son, fell in the street, on the 10th inst,
breaking his leg SO badly that it had to be
Though his leg was broken
in three places he managed to walk with
out assistance to his home some distance
off.
A contract has been closed between
Messrs NorvelI, Leake & Co, and the
Richmond and Allegheny il. r. Co., by
which that firm are TO furnish the railroad
with all the ties required to COM
plete the road-about 400, O0Q-includlng
the North River branch to Lexington.
The President has approved of the SEN
tence of the general court martial in the
case of Paymaster J. II. Nelson, of the
army, which is that he shall be dismissed
from the service, confined two years at
hard labor In a penitentiary and fined S.
500.
Isaac Sherman, a prominent citizen of
New ork, died Saturday, He was an in
Innate friend of ex-President Lincoln, and
bis friends say was offered the portfolio of
the State Department by Mr.. Lincoln,
Diptherla continues to be frightfully
in Berks, Montgomery and
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