Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1881-04-15
Colorea men are represented as having

COlOred men are represented as having
handsome farms and valuable herds of cat
tie. in Texas. Senator Burton of Fort
Bend county is cOlOred. and is. estimated
to be worth $50, 000 He is also an educa-
ted man. While slave in Virginia he
was taught reading and writing by his
mistress. She was made very poor by the
war, and he then showed his appreciation
of her instruction in former days by sup
porting her in her adversely until her
death. On her daughters wedding day
he sent a present of a thousand dollar
check. The whole of his property has been
acquired in Texas.
Lady Blanche Murphy, who formerly
lived in Winchester. Va, died in a New
Hampshire village last week. She was a
daughter of the Earl of Gainesborough,
but ran off with Thomas 2. Murphy, the
organist in her fathers chapel. The
young couple came to America and were
in straitened circumstances, but Lady
Blanche'S father never recognized her in
any way. except to send for photograph
Of her after learning of her DEATH
The Virginia papers of the past week
have announced the deaths of D. F. Bra
shear, formerly we'll known merchant of
Alexandria; W. ii. Campbell, of Highland,
the father OF the Superintendent of Schools
of that county; Maj. James 2. Edmund
son, of Montgomery, brother of Col.
Henry A. Edmundson, and DR. J. MEG.
Kent, of Roanoke-all well kneWn gentle
men.
Gov. Jackson, of West Virginia, has
issued an unconditional pardon to Elisha
Gregg, twice tried and sentenced to be
hanged for burning Preston county court
house in 1869. He escaped the day before
he was to be hanged, but was recaptured
two years afterwards. Gov. Matthews
com uted the sentence to life imprison-
ment, but Gregg refused to accept it.
Mr.. Puffenberger Of Sugar Grove, High
land county, Va, recently lost fox trap
and offered a reward for it. A few DAYS
ago Mrs. Phoebe Byrd. living on farm In
the same county, twenty miles away, saw
an eagle flying about the farm with a fox
trap on one of his legs. He was weak and
she pursued and killed him with a pole.
1t was the Puffenberger trap.
DR.. Isaac Hay, a well known writer on
the treatment OF insane patients and for
mer Superintendent of the Maine Asylum,
died in Philadelphia last week In his sew
enty-fOurth year. Last year he was made
an honorary member of the Medico-Psy-
Geological Association of London.
Two men at Waynesville, ILL.,, through
whose farm a railroad had been built,
soaped the rails, and thus delayed the
trains. Every morning they went out with
brooms and pals OF soft soap to coat the
track for distance of half mile. Their
mischief was finally stopped by arrest.
Mrs. DR.. Brown, of Lexington, KY,
died several days ago, and property
to 100000, according to the
Will OF her deceased husband, will now go
to Bishop kaine, OF Richmond, Va, for
the benefit of the Catholic churches of
that city.
The Legislature of Nebraska, by
three-ffths vote, submitted a woman's
suffrage amendment to the constitution of
that State to the popular vote.
Mr.. James A. Cowardin, of the Rich
mond IVA Dispatch" who has been ill
at the Hot Springs, Ark, was improving
at LATEST accounts,
Robert Neville, Of Loudoun county,
Va, has purchased 1900 acres of land OPP
posite Jamestown Island. eighty miles be-
low Richmond, for $4,000,
An Arkansas girl refused to marry her
over unless he performed some heroic
Iced. He eloped with her mother.
A New Hampshire woman has preserved |
part Of her wedding cake for forty-nine |
years.
A Maine woman has made a contract |
With Boston firm to supply $4,000 pairs |
If mittens.