Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1881-07-15

Adam Wilkes is not ugly, yet he has a
mania for hiding his face. He engaged a
potter to enclose his head in an earthen-
ware globe, which its rather snugly
around his neck, and has apertures cor
responding with his eyes. nose and mouth.
Wearing this protection against the gaze
of the people, he has for month wander
ed through Indiana.
The Gar, AIfonzo, the Prince OF Wales
and ex-Queen Isabella are cigarette smok-
ers; the Pope and King Humbert smoke
Cavour cigars; Emperors William and
Francis Joseph smoke big porcelain pipes;
Grevy, Gambetta, and Queen Victoria
dom smoke at all; Bismarck and the Sui
tan indulge IN pipe occasionally, and
both prefer Turkish tobacco.
Sam u Crawford of Roanoke county, Va,
a soldier of 1872 and of the Mexican war.
who, after using tobacco all his previous
life, had will power enough at eighty to
stop it, died last week aged eighty nine.
He had never drank coffee OF spirits. At
his funeral was Faris Armstrong, aged
Lightweight.
At dance recently given by Lady Julia
WombwelI, the Prince and Princess of
Wales remained till A. M. The Prin-
cess received from Sir George Wombwell
a magnificent bouquet of eXotics, in the
centre of which, half hidden with the
flowers, was mechanical bird, which
warbled several charming airs.
"a good many of our citizens," says a
San Francisco newspapers sedate account
of an inebriate asylum, ''men Of note and
good standing, have passed week or so
at this place, in order to recover. under
judciOuS treatment, the command of their
senses and use of their shattered nerves -
1t was astonishing enough to be told by
an authoress in the London Times" that
one could ''dress like = lady on '$75 a
year." But another literary and economi-
Cal member of the fair sex Informs us
through the same journal that $50 per an
nun is quite sufficient.
Hon. William Mines, Jr., has contract
ed for the brick to build large furnace
near the Forge. When completed it will
give employment to about 800 hands, in
addition to the number now employed at
that place. The capacity of the furnace
will be about seventy-fve tons per day.
A Brooklyn deacon writes to a Rich
mond editor begging him to supply" his
church for two Sundays in August, and
adds: 1--WE pay our supplies $50 a Sun
day." The invitation has been accepted.
--Relsq,ous Herald.
John Momfort married widow at
Buena Vista, Ca, and on the day after
the wedding undertook to whip his step
son. The bride seized her husband and
held him fast, while the boy killed him
with q knife.
George Bryan, grandson of the late DIR.
VIM. S. Plumer, has been appointed Or
ganist of his grand fathers old church,
the First Presbyterian in Richmond.
Tanners extraordinary fasting feast has
been beaten by Griscom in Chicago, who
has abstained from food for forty-five
days.
Senator David Davis's wealth is estima-
ted at between four and five millions, chief
ly made by investing in the suburbs of
growing Western towns His taxes
amount to $3S 600.
Hon. John w, Stephenson, of Kentucky;
Judge VIM, ]. Robertson. of Virginia, and
Judge G. S. Bradley, of Rhode Island, are
at the Greenbrier White Sulphur Springs.
" Gen. Wade Hampton is at the Daggers'
Springs, Botetourt, and the most skillful !
trout catcher there.
The hot weather has extended all over |
Europe In Paris the thermometer stood |
at 93o.
Five Japanese have established factc-
ry at Newtown, Conn, where they will |
make Japanese articles.
Two Boston women, aged 81 and SO, had
a desperate fight in the street, and one was
killed by being knocked into cellar
During the year just closed, 224 sheep
at $500 were killed in Freder-
ick county. =