Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1881-07-01
President Waite of the First Nations


Bank of Brattleboro, has gone to prison
for six years. His crime was that of using
the banks money in outside speculation,
and, while concealing the actual condition
Of affairs from the directors and deposit
orr, letting the concern 60 to ruin He
did not, however, technally steal dollar,
and therefore was greatly surprised when
his counsel advised him. in order to escape
the extreme penalty of ten years, that his
best course was to plead guilty. He is an
old man, and not likely to live long.
Sarah c. Sauerbrier, of Philadelphia, de-
vised an estate worth $75O,OC0 to four
nephews and two nieces, entirely cutting
off a fifth nephew, Charles Christman :,
who had formerly been her favorite. He
obtained citations for the six heirs, and
went to their residence to serve the papers.
A few minutes afterward he was flung in
to the street, having been beaten, scratch
ed, and bitten. He infers that he will
meet some opposition in his suit.
Mrs. Nellie Ingram, aged thirty-six, of
Battle Greek, Michigan, enjoyed excellent
fall. She suffered severely from the shock
and since that time has continued in such
state of excitement that she sleeps but
two hours daily and suffers from nausea
and retching. She has taken no food, Ii
quid or solid, and her stomach refuses even
water. Life has been sustained by injec
tiOns and absorption.
Mrs. Matilda Semmes, a famous Lousi-
ana beauty in her day, was killed at War
renton, Va, a few days since by being
thrown from buggy. She was eighty
one years of age, and during Jackson ad
o.v,fc rrotiN nnnf in, "oo oh
ton social circles. She was the aunt of
that famous monarch of the seas,' Ra-
phael Semmes. She was buried at Wash
ington and her son, Father Alexander
Semmes, of Macon, Ca, conducted the
services at the Catholic church.
At a Board of Visitors meeting at
Hampden Sidney College, President Shear
er, of Clarkesville, Tenn, addressed it on
The importancesof the study of tue English
Bible in colleges. When he closed II. S.
Reynolds, Of Norfolk, subscribed SIS, 600 to
endow chair for that study, and Prof.
Blair and DR.. Pitzer supplemented it with
enough to give the professor in that chair
salary of 81 200.
At the request of the President of the
Shenandoah Valley Railroad the people of
big Lick" Roanoke, have resolved to
change that ugly name to the pretty one
of Roanoke" The railroad company is
about erecting large hotel there, and be-
sides this reservoir which when compile
ted the town can use.
The White Sulphur Springs Company,
of West Virginia, has purchased two hun
bred and sixty acres of the Beauregard
farm, including the old mansion, the
spring and swimming bath, and lovely
spot which is to be converted into race
course.
Four colOred farmers raised the best to-
bacco crops that have been sent to Rich
mond from Louisa CO., Va, this season.
Some of it brought $50 hundred. These
colored men are famous for making the
best sun cured tobacco in Virginia.
Ellis H. Elias, the originator of the
dollar store" system in America. and the
proprietor of the original one, died in New
York, Wednesday leaving fortune of half
a million of dollars.
Sidney Mabe, from North Carolina, has
Just been sentenced in Carroll county, Va.
to fifteen years in the penitentiary for an |
outrage on Letta Duncan, little girl of |
thirteen.
One Of the cruelties charged upon Oscar |
Merritt. of Detroit, In his w;fes COM
plant for divorce was that he would not |
let her put her cold feet on him to warm
them,
The last new rostofice established in
Allegheny county, Va, is named 'Ress.'' /