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

Abbie Howard was driven from home
in Fender county, N. c.. with her baby in
her arms. She wandered ten miles that
day. and at night was permitted by far
mer to sleep on the bare floor of an out
house, but he would give her nothing to
eat, and drove her away in the morning.
On the second evening she staggered into
house where religious meeting was being
held. and begged the worShipperS to pray
for her. She had killed her child, being
unable to feed it.
On Wednesday, Jan. 10Th, in the vicin-
ity of Bristol, Va, a shower of red sub
stance resembling blood fell, covering the
ground and solling the clothing Of those
who were exp ,sed to it. The shower las
ted for about a minute, and came down in
a fine driZZle from cloud over half acre
of ground. Save in this one place, the sky
was clear. The phenomenon caused much
excitement among the more ignorant peo-
pie, many affirming that it betokened the
end of the world.
Mr.. John A. kirkpatrick and his beau
tiful young bride were the recipients Of
warm congratulations upon the OCCASION
Hf their recent visit to our town. Enter
tainments given at DR.. Kirkpatrick and
Judge McLaughlin's in their honor were
largely attended and much enjoyed.
angto1a Gazette.
At Chicago, Saturday, Sarah Bernhard,
the great actress, in company with Mr..
AID Mrs. Silverman, the former wealthy
Jewish banker, attended services at the
synagogue, it being Mile. Bernhardt's first
public appearance at religious worship
since her arrival in America,
Father Edward Purcell, brother of Arch
bishop Purcell, and manager of the disas-
trous church banking business in Clncin-
natl, which involved the loss to depositols
of several millions of dollars, died of apo
plexy at the Ursuline Convent in Brown
county. Ohio, Friday.
We learn from the Salem ''Register''
that 'Dr." John Miller, so called, who
claims the power of curing diseases by the
laying ON of hands, has purchased a house
and nine acres of land of Mr.. G. L. Pres
ton, near Big Lick, IN Roanoke county,
paying for it $500 cash.
An elegant reception was given at the
Exchange HOTEL Richmond, on Wednes-
day evening to Miss Nora Burks. daught-
er of Judge Burks, of the Court of APP
pOdlO3 duO mloo w lIll6 w dlhCf3s uduSHlGI
Of Lieutenant-G Governor James A.s,Walk-
ar.
Mrs. Willard Fillmore, widow of the ex
President, is slowly gaining strength at
Buffalo, though for the most part she still
Keeps her couch. 1t is, however, cOnsid-
cred doubtful whether she will regain her
former physical and mental vigor.
The Lynchburg Iron, Steel and Mining
Company has contracted to build 100
freight cars for the Richmond and Allie
ghany Railroad Company. The cars will
oe built throughout at the company's
foundry in Lynchburg, Va.
Cats are at least being utilized. A man
sold two which he had dressed, to an I'M
restaurant keeper on Fulton
street, New York, Thursday, for rabbits
and received 25 cents each for them.
A sausage factory, located in cellar in |
New York, has been broken up, and six |
thousand pounds of the article-made |
from meat entirely unfit for. food-wele |
The sausage has been selling
Tor five cents pound.
John Allen, the chaplain of the Ma ne |
House of Repre- sentatives, prayed that J
God would make the new governor las
wise as serpent and as harmless as a
love." 1t is thought there was u sarcasm
hidden away in the prayer.
A physician of Lowell, Mass, loaned an
old book to a friend, who found in it a
dollar bond, which the doctor
mad placed there for safe keeping, but for
got It's place of deposit.
Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stove and her
family have gone to their winter home at
Mandarin, Florida.
The new assessment of Bath county
stands at 1914 925. while that of 1880 was
s1.O17 ,7s3-depreciation s212, $3.50.
Jefferson Davis forthcoming book is
laid to be aggressive IN its general tenor,