Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1881-02-25

rom our neighbOrs, seem to cOnnrm the
dea that he great trouble is clogging ia
the stomach, and in this as in many other
things IA ounce of prevention is worth a
pound of cure" The bran has tenden-
cy to prev mt this, and the grain strength
ems and en- ivens the sheep.
j. w. MILLER.
GTeenriU, Feb. 22d.
The irrepra sible.confllct crops up again
Washington, D. G. Two colored students
from Howard University attended lee
ture i'll Providence Hospital on Sunday.
together W tn white students from the
Georgetown c. llege and fIom Columbia
University. The white students thought
the negroes were patients on whom opera
lions were to be performed, but when they
found that they were students they arose
and lett The room. Some of the physicians
uphold the white students.
The Prince of Wales lately. invited the
dinner, but as ''Vets'' have not hitherto
,een regarded as holding socially the pos :
ion oil. gen lemen, the WET" in question
thought he ought to submit to H. r. III
IN intimatlpn as to his social status, lest
the Prince might have given the invitation
under misrepresentation. The Prince
'hereupon repeated his Invitation with en-
phasls, and is urging that military veteri-
nary surgeons should in future occupy a
different position.
DR.. J. F. Benton, of Cleveland, Ohio,
las undertaken curious surgical expert
nent. He induced two brothers to con-
sent to the amputatiOn of one of their
Hn,rora and than no oponI1 n rod u
.r of the one to the stump of the other.
so as to ascertain whether the ENGRAVING
could be made successfully. So far the
experiment. promises to succeed, the union
of the parts being shown by partial Cir
culation to the finger ends. The brothers
made $40 each by submitting to the exper-
iment. %
The Rev. K. B. Upper. who was for
year or more pastor of the Baptist church
at Cha lOttesville, afterwards became pas
{ of the Michigan Avenue Baptist
church at Chicago. The church was burn
ed down last month, and the sexton now
cImeS forward and charges the pastor
with having fired it. The Chicago papers
say Mr.. Topper is generally believed to be
nnocent, though unable to explain some
suspicious circumstances. No motive for
,he act is known.
Judge Rives is to have the decision of
another troublesome CASE A white girl who
mad been serving as muse Tor negro
WldoWer, in Cumberland county, was ex-
Jelled from public school and has brough
ult for damages. When the negro's nurse
Ell cred the school every other scholar de-
Iarted, whereup0n the School Board sli
.ected the teacher to exclude the obnox-
ious girl and revive the school.
A san Francisco woman partially lost
the power of speech through a stroke of
paralysis. Taking advantage of her in
coherent utterapce and grotesque yisage,
ler husband seat her to an asylum as a
unatlc, and <toJk possession of her prop
: 'rty She was kept in durance several
months before the truth was discovered
\ jury awarded her 81 600 damages.
A,phonse Montamat personated an old
plantation negro at a fashionable New
. Orleans masquerade party. He sang one
verse of the current melody, so, dem
golden slippers" the hostess playing the
piano accompaniment, and was about to
oegln the second, when he fell dead among
he merrymakers.
Frank Os' Orn, sinner of Orange, Ind,
not only held out obdurately during the
Rev. Mr.. Pot SIS revival meetings, but
disturbed the services by his bad conduct.
The minister preach d at him night after
night, but it did no good. AT length he
walked down the aisle to Osborn with
club, and pounded his head until he be-
come insens BILE. Potts was fined by a
Justice and the revival ended abruptly.
The Jesuits in England have just had a
handsome w1ndfall. Count Eyre, a mil
lionair- and almost miser, who died re-
Gently, left 950,000 to his son, Father Ey-
re, who is Jesuit. To another son, the
Catholic Archbishop Of Glasgow, he be-
queathed e10O 600. Count Eyre was made
Count by the Pope IN the days of the
temporal cover.
Lightfoot, the California desperate, who
recently assassinated young William A
Branch, Of Richmond, has been sentenced
to BIZ hanged. Mr.. Branch will be reco-
iected as one of the most prominent speak
ers at the 7. M. e. A. Convention in
Staunton, several years ago. The murder
took place at Modesto.
Henry II. Bradley, the well-known lead
or of the Masonic choir in Washington
city. was married on his death Hed last
week to Miss Laura A. Reed, teacher to
whom he was engaged. His funeral, the
following Saturday, was attended by the
whole Masonic fraternity.
Arthur Holmes. sixteen years old, of
Summit, N. J returned home the other
day from hunting with dog that had
hunted well all day. Holmes wanted to
put fresh straw in his kennel, dragged the
log ont and was bitts N. Six weeks after. |
Holmes died of hydrophobia.
VIM. Rich, a wealthy colored man of
Troy, New York, has been declared in
sane. He was prominent conductor of |
The underground railroad in slavery times. /
md established the first colored church in |
Troy.
The Georgia Historical Society have
rum which was used at the battle of |
J nuary 18th. 1871. It is in