Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1881-01-07
An ex-army officer commenting upor

| An ex-army officer commenti1s unon
the non-retirement Of Gen. McDoweu
| though older than Gen. Ord, because The
| former came from the Paoidc coast to vote
| for Garfield, informs tho "Star'' that CHAT
vote cost the Government about 81 200.
Mcdowell got an order from the War De.
| partment for himself and aide-de-camn tn
come east, and under that order both of
them drew their regular mileage and al
Dwances, amounting to about 81 200.
| The records will show the fact"
The venerable Senator Hamlin astonish-
ed the people of Washington hotel on
Thursday last by appearing attired in a
thin dress suit and entirely destitute of an
overcoat. why, the Thermometer ia
down to zero, SENATOR" remarked an &C
qnaintance. II have worked in the field,
IN my shlft-sleeves many time with the.
mercury twenty degrees below" cheerily
answered the venerable statesman. The.
crowd laughed.
An elderly woman named Tiffier, of Fon,
Du Lac Wis, died Saturday under yerv-
peculiar circumstances. She was Sufferer
from pneumonia for some years, and =.
warm hatiron was ordered to be put ou
her chest. Her husband, an habituay
drunkard, applied a heavy iron, and so hc :
that it burned through the cavity of b .or r
c'ieS5' ana she died in the greatest agr nv.
Last Friday Mrs. Sophie Frecb an =
Jersey City, N. j., who had lived unhan.
ply with her husband, received a J oaaI NJ
tlce that he had applied for div roc She
Went at once to the bath rsoHA and hing
herself to the gas jet. '-A i-''- 3
Mr.. Obediah Dawsese, an N dion forn,or
aled at Laporte, last week. having lived
n ~, oisnI Jays on Wan ,r alone, being
unable TO swallow any soasf food. owing to
cancer Of the stomach. o"ins w
hecelVef sharp, OF tho Long Island rail-
road, Saturday formally resigned his trnst
ana Austin Corbin> who recentlv nurchas.
cd controlling laseIe st in fine road w"s
appointed it's receiver. WIZ Ao"o' wac
The Philadelphia "North American, ,,
thinks that West Virginia must be s.rail-
ROAD crazy as charters for seven new
railroads have been issued at Wheeling
within few weeks past.
Probably the longest pastorate in New
hampshire Was that of the late Rev. La
u o"n A'nsWorth, OF Jefrey-seventy- five
Years and six months. He died March
i1eh, 1858, at the age of 100 years.
Judge Tourgee is dramatizing his s.Fool's
ErTand," and has given warning that he,
WIFI prosecute any person bringing out,
a or! representations founded upon
Right Rev. Bishop Latane lectured on
tuesday of last week in Mozart Hall.
wheeling, on the ''Origin, progress and
present prospects of the Reformed EMS
copal Church,
James johnson, an aged colored man.
was found frozen to death near Atlee,s
station, Va, last Wednesday. A faith
ful dog was found near his BODY and had
be removed by force.
Francois Ravel, one Of the famous Rave r
brothers, died few days ago at Toulouse.
France, where the gifted family of four
seGtled after retiring from the stage, rich..
John L. Hurt, OF Bedford county, rail-
road contractor, fell through the railroad
at Lynchburg into the canal below last;
week and was drowned.
All OF the track of the Richmond anfi
Alieghany railroad between Buchan an a,,d
Williamson 's-thirty-ive miles-h az ~,
laid except about two miles. on