Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1881-01-07

Judge r. W. Hughes, in appointing A..
L. Boulware, of Richmond, Receiver of
the Piedmont and Arlington Insurance
company, SAID: II think that the mere
fact of the failure of life insurance COM
pany is prinaa facic proof that its onera-
lions have been conducted in fraudulent
manner; and if the failure is not explain
ed py some great casualty such as wide
spread pestllence or sudden financial con-
y!ulslon, physical calamity, 1 think that
it is per Sc proof of fraud"
1.-The ''Merrymakers'' came to grief here
on Friday night. They were a comnanv
OF minstrels who came down the Valley
Failing to get an audience they disbandad
and got out of town as best they could.
leaving their landlord out of pocket for
several days board. - Wgnchester Times.
Inls Is the troupe that was here some
Time ago, and which called on the ssboys
TO help them out. "-Ffeaericksburq Ne,1s.
Burnham Wardwell, who was warden Of
the Virginia penitentiary during the re-
construction period, writes to the New
; L oIk sun" VI mingled freely with the
lnsCltutltn OF slavery for twenty two
years m Virginia. At no time did I see
anything so depraved, wicked, and brutal
az az mas been praeticed at the Massachusetts
'seaee prison, Tewksburry baby slaughter
pen and Westboro' Reform School, 80
called" o'' ."
Mrs Eliza Y. Martin, of Milwaukee.
WIS.,, worth ST. 900. 600 and aged sixtv-eioht
years, was married on Thursday to Mr.. r
". Ilobette. OF Philadelphia. aged seventy
and an worth S5O0,000. They were engaged
nlty years ago and it was broken off hy
gossip: Both had been married in the
meantlme and had not met again until last
simmer. 'F'N'4' 0'- VA i'''o
Miss Mary Abbott died suddenly In Am
herat county, Va, on Christmas day. She
nag oeen aHllcted for time with consump-
lion; put only few moments before her
aeath expressed herself as feeling unusual.
~ Wel.a ana was examining her Christmas
presents, when she fell over on the he'd
and expired. you
JOSIAH Deloaoh, the man who is said to
have saved General Grant from cantnra
ny the enemy near Memphis in 1850 has
Just died in that city. He warned tha
General OF the approach Of Nan Dorm "a
cavalry, and this service was not foroot.
zen, Tor Grant, when President, appointed
MIN postm aster at Memphis
The splendid jewels worn by Nine. Ro,
bellard, the wife of a tobacco mannfactnr-
er, at ball at the Tuileries in 1910 first
gave Napoleon the idea of making the to-
lacco trade state monopoly. It now
ylelds the French government an ANNA.
Income of fifty millions of dollars.
A correspondent of the x.vnchbury
Virgin ian" writing from the New Piv.
Or Depot, Va, in noticing the yield of corn
IN Rock bridge and Bedford conntles saws.
1T is not a Very uncommon thing to- sea
one hundred bushels to the acre raissd on
= hefd on New River,'' N
James D.'Gilmour, q. well known hotel
proprietor of Baltimore, and former pro,
prletor OF the Eataw House and the st.
Clair and, later proprietor of the Grand
Gensrah at Cincinnati, died at Savannah,
Ga, last week. ' ~ ''''''
capt. Alfred CLASS. formerly an officer
OF Moshg's command and later a member
OF the Virginia legislature from Fauouier
county, died at Washington city. pew
days ago. nv"
London butchers pay cooks a commits
sion-about Is cents to the $5.