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


bullocks were roasted on the ice on the
completely frozen over Thames. London
ran short of Goals, and the Solway was
frozen over.
Gen. Horace Porter entertained General
Grant on Saturday evening at the New
York Union League. Jesse Grant, Gen.
Arthur, Cornelius Vanderbilt, George z.
Pullman and many others were among the
invited guests The bill of fare was a
volume of four pages, in heavy boards
faced with satin. On the front was a por-
trait of Gen. Grant printed in gold, and
on the back floral design painted by
hand. no two being alike. They are said
TO have cost SIS each.
Edward Hartirg, favorite actor in the
German theatre at Cleveland, Ohio, re-
ceiyed the news of the death of his son
just as he was about to 60 on the stage
The house was full and a postponement
was impossible, so, although bowed down
with grief, Mr.. Harting was forced to play
his role in a comedy of the most farcical
nature. The strain was too great for him,
and at the end Of the second act he faint
ed dead away.
The Buchanan Democrat" has been in
formed by Major Hotchkiss that the Shen
andoah Valley Railroad will certainly run
through that town. The road will be
built down South river to a Junction with
the Richmond and Allegheny road, thence
on the latter's track to Buchanan, and
from there up Back creek to Big Lick or
Bonsacks.
DIR. VIM. J. Kurtz, prominent physi-
a, r
Saturday, aged foIty-dve. lie Was a ma
tive OF Winchester, Va, and many of his
relatives reside in the Valley. DR.. J. f.
Kurtz, of Maryland, the brother of the
deceased, was in attendance.
E. w. Buddington recently sued B. Pol
ley, d grocer, at Rosendale, in New York
for the recovery of one cent which. he
claimed, was due him on the purchase of
stick Of candy. There was a decision
against him with So costs, aud he threat
ened to appeal to a higher court.
The Alumni of Washington and Lee
University residing in New York, num-
boring about twenty, will meet at the New
York Hotel, February I'D, to organize for
the specific purpose Of aiding The Centen-
NAL Endowment Association in the work
of securing sufficient endowment for the
University.
Hiram Sibley, of Rochester, N. Y, is
reported as owning more farms than any
other man in the world. He has more
than four hundred farms in New York,
Illinois and Michigan, Though more than
seventy years OF age, he is still absorbed
in business.
The general manager of the Northern
Pacific road reports that there has been
very little snow along the line of that road
this winter, and that the trains have been
able to move from one end to the other
without trouble or obstruction.
The $4,000 on the body of the Rev.
John E. Giles, the tramp colporteur found
dead at Niskayuna, N. Y, recently, has
been paid over to Mrs. Jane E. Giles, of
Michigan, who has established her identi-
ty as his wife.
Capt. Henry B. Kelly, editor Of the Lii
ma (Ohiol Democrat" who was in Wash
ington Saturday on an excursion with the
Editorial Association of that State, was
strlcken~by appoplexy and died in a few
hours.
Under the formal approval of the Grand
Lodge of Virginia, Lodge No. 4 of Fred
erlcksburg, where Washington was made
Mason in 1752, has determined TO erect
a Washington Memorial Masonic Temple
at that place.
Of the 1907 miles of new railway track
put down last year. 2.156 miles were laid
by eight companies, principally west of
tho M cycSjnpj and all nf tho niuht
still pushing on into new fields.
Samuel Smith and his two sons, Of Rock
ingham county, a few days ago killed
bear weighing about three hundred pounds.
They followed him two miles and fired
seven shots into him before killing him.
Right in the teeth of the ancient proverb
which recommends sold men for counsel"
the people OF Nebraska have filled up their
legisIatu, with young fellows under 35
years of age.
Gen. Clingman said, in an interview with
a New York reporter the other day, that
living is so cheap in North Carolina that
it is more economical to feed q man than
to bury him.
A stock-raiser of Rockingham county
MIR. j. H. Swank-sold last week sixty
two head OF sheep for $40 Their aver
age weight was 1877 pounds, and the price
81 10 each.
Isaiah Spielman, of Timber Ridge, Nor
gan county, W. Va. passed through Berkely
Springs last week with a sled load of sew
Gu hundred rabbits, which he shipped to
Baltimore.
Capt. Frank 7. Lee has disposed of his
line Spring Wood" farm in Campbell
county near Lynchburg, to Jno d Lang
horne, the price paid being SIG 500 cash.
Gen. Garfield is to travel to Washington
with his family in fine palace car, which
is the property of Mr.. W. d. Washburp.
and which cost $17 600. !
Mrs. V. M. Matthews, of New York
city, has purchased the Catawba furnace
in Botetourt county, Va, for
$50, 900.
The Democratic members of the New
Jersey legislature have nominated Hon |
rheo. Randolph for Senator of the United |
states.
A Richmond real estate agency has re-
eived more than two thousand inquiries
or farms in Virginia during the past sixty
lays
The fine barn Of Ferdinand Borer, of
roanoke county, Va, was destroyed by
n lncenGiary fire Tuesday night, together
With 8 900 bushels of corn.
Gen: Roger A: Pryor, of New York,
las been retained as counsel for Ex-Goy.
prague in the Forthcoming divorce suit.
Among the citizens of Winchester very