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

! boarding school, quite indecorus in the
display OF her Democratic zeal Her ap-
! plication was originally addressed to Mr.
Illden, but, not discouraged by his defeat
she besought General Grant for the place.
and brought sufficient influence on him to
displace worthy incumbent liz Was said
| this was done because of General Grants
| friendship for her father, Gen. Sumner, OF
the old army. Again, it is said that this
summer she paid special visit to, and
dined with General Hancock with the
special purpose of procuring her reappoint-
| ment."
| Desperate must be the fortunes, and
! bitter the partzanship. that could induce
| the Judge of a U. s. District Court, to
| thus make war against a female applicant
for little postoffice appointment.
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The Irish constabuary comprise di-
vision of $4,000 infantry that could in for
! ty-eignt hours be brought together in four
| brigades-one for each provlnce-or con-
| centrated at any point in Ireland When
| so concentrated the force would be ready
| to take the field at once, being drilled to
| act in bal talions, and having three hun
! dred officers who have gone through the
same training. The officers are an inspec-
/ tor general, deputy Inspector general, as
| sistant inspector general, county Inspec-
4 tors, first, second and third class. The
| pay ranges from e225, the lowest, to e700
1 a year, the highest.
Representative Geddes, of Ohio, who
was married to Mrs. Amelia B. Gass. at
Mansfield. in that State, last week, on
Tuesday, was married there in 194S to his
first wife on the same evening of the year
and at the same place that his present bride
I was married to her former husband. The
| two survivors of the double wedding after
an interval of thirty-tWo years were mar
RED by the clergyman who officiated at
| their former ceremonies.
Mr.. J. W. Carroll, manufacturer of the
'Lone Jack" brand of smoking tobacco,
heard yesterday from Philadelphia that
! the y. S. Circuit Court in session in
that city had decided in bis favor the long
| contested SUIT over the use of that brand
| and trade mark. The Court ordered the
| goods OF Ertheiler, the defendant, 10 be
destroyed, and gave MT. Carroll damages
in $4,000. judges McKennon and Butler
presided. Lyachburg letter IN Richnacnd
Dispatch.
sHarry Stephens, we'll known in Wash
lngton as the colored servant Of Alexan-
| der FL. Stephens, died at Liberty Hall, in
! Charlottesville, Ca, on Thursday. Mr..
Stephens bought him in 1851 and for thir-
ty years he has filled the post of Major
Domo at the home of his master. Until
| five years past he ', as the body servant Of
MIR. Stephens, who mad warm affection
| for him. The deceased was worth 500 900
| in bis own right, made since the war, by
renting Mr.. Stephens plantation.
The Abyssinian lioness in a menagerie
at Budweis, in Bohemia, recently became
the mother of three cubs, two males and
one female. The keeper in his pride, the
next day went through the mock ceremo-
ny OF baptism, naming the male cubs
Empress and Gown Prince. This was
looked upon as offensive, and the keeper
and the reporter Of the ceremony have
| been indicted.
An Ohio paper proposes to number the
| hours Of the day and night consecutively
from l to "A, or from midnight to mid
night, thus doing away with the A. M
and +. M. in railway time tables and else
where. The advocate of the proposed
new method says THERE'S no more reason
for having two u o'clocks in one day than
there is for two twelve mile posts on a
| twenty four mile railroad
A st. Louis physician warns the people
that the quails have been forced to subsist
on poisonous berries, in consequence of
the heavy SHOWS this winter, and that
eating the birds should be avoided. He
thinks that the poisoning of guests at a
| Washing hotel, at the time of President
Buchanan's inauguration, Was caused by
eating quail, and the weather at that time
| was similar to the present winter.
That immense steamship the "Great
| Eastern" which has cost, first and last,
| $25 600, 900 and whose expenses have eX-
| ceeded her receipts every trip she made.
has gained such bad name by her con-
| tinuous i'll luck that it is hard to get the
superstitious sailors to enlist for trip on
her,
Mr.. Grady of st. Louis, on his way to
business early one intensely cold morning,
encountered a naked crazy negro, who
biandished q Ratchet. Grady cody said,
"Y GU must be cold;" and hastily pulling
off his overcoat, Offered it to the shiverlng
darky. The gift was accepted, and in the
meantime, Grady had secured the Ratchet.
yer, Colorado, last week, when prisoner
in Libby Prison, tunnelled under the wall
and wide yard, and after forty-nine nights
and forty-nine comrades at a safe distance
from the prison and reached the Federal
lines.
Parties digging trench on the West |
Philadelphia Almshouse property unearth- /!
ed mass of nearly sixty cotfins piled to-
gether in long trench. Some excitement |
ensued, but Investigation showed that the !
remains contained in them we're of per- |
sons who died at the almshouse of cholera |
in 1913.
When General Garfield was contending
for honest money in the House of Repre-
sentativeS, he received a great many let
ters Of cOngratulatlon from all parts of
the world. These letters, handsomely
bound, he preserve among the most valued
Of his personal treasures.
Mr.. S. q. Whittle, Of Henry county;
Mr.. Fl. W. Flournoy. of Halifax county,
and Col. George E. Dennis, Of Franklin
county, have been spoken OF as successors
to Judge Green, of the Circuit Court of
the DanyIlle district.
R. G. Pullin, of Highland county, raised
during the past year. one Thousand bush
els OF corn Or an average of forty bushels
per acre. He also killed one beef which
weighed niue hundred lbs. nett to say
nothing about .tallow.
The coming bride of Governor elect
Plaisted, of Maine, is Miss Mabel Hill, of
Exeter, in that st tie. She is twenty years
old While MI. Plaistrd is iilty-tWo years
old.
A: J. Allen, colored, member OF the
Danvile, Va, city council. which compr-
ses some of the leading citiZens, passed
resolutions of respect and agreed to at