Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1881-03-18

| LflaC he Will: Will NOT l0Slnuato blaG ne
will. have not inslnuated it. The gen.
tleman must be his own keeper; the gen.
tleman must solve his own questions; but
l repeat, repeat as friend, [ repeat as
friend whose friendship Will be apprecia-
ted some day; that the Senator is in dang
er of bringing upon, himself charge
which he will never have the power to ex-
|! plain.
Mr.. Mahone-I cannot allow you or any
other man to r3ake that charge without a
| proper answer.
Mr.. Hill-Oh well
| This ended the fight as far as Malone
was concerned personally, and he then
voted with the Republicans.
Recognizing as fact that life prisoners
ire nOtori usly the hardest to manage. for
! ne reason that however we'll conducted
anu industrious they may be, they have no
lpmency to expect, an attempt is being
ade to amend he penal code Of Californ-
Ia by having life sentence committed upon
the life insurance tables, and permitting
the discharge of prisoner after the term
| he was likely to live, when sentenced, has
| expired.
A hog was missed at the farm of J. Par
~ Mcclure. in Rockbridge, on or about
| December 28th. Several unsuccessful hunts
we're made for him as he was large one.
On the 25th of February q gruntlng was
heard under straw rick which had top
pied to one side, and the straw being re-
moved, out crawled the missing hog, some
what emaciated, but not as much as one
would have supposed.
| A singular fatality has exhibited itself
| in the family of Mrs. Dunn, of East Sew
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| her husband and seven children by heart
disease. On Wednesday morning she left
her only remaining one, little girl of
| eleven, at home while she went out for q
| few minutes, and on returning found her
a corpse.
Rear-Admiral Wyman, who with the
Alliance, Kearsage and Tennessee. has
been in the harbOr of New Orleans for
the Navy: ''Never during my service,
which has been in every portion of the
| globe, have met with so much kindness,
with such prOfuse and generous hOspitali-
ty.
It is fact not generally known that
| North Carolina is the only State in the
Union that fills every blank sent out by
the Agricultural Department at Washing
ton, This is accou nted for by the fact
| that North Carroll ma has the climates of
all portions of the country from Canada
to the Gulf of Mexico.
Some days ago Miss Mary Jane Wiley, a
step-daughter of Mr.. Daniel Agee, living
on Flat Top. in Mercer county, commit
ted suicide by drowning herself in pond
| Of water, near her home. Her bonnet,
hanging on the bushes at the ponds edge
caused the finding of the body.
A daughter of Hon. Jefferson Davis re-
Gently interested her friends, at Memphis,
In the s'Bonnie Bell'' book Of poems, by
Rev. E. g. Gregory. and the result was
the forwarding to the author of check
for handsome sum covering the sales
there
Paulus Powell Kinnear, of Lynchburg,
the young man who was FRUSTRATED during
| the 10, IA, Is excitement by the study of
hat puzzle and who has been subject since
to similar attacks of prostratlon, died
there last week. He Was only twenty-five
years OF age.
1 Hon. Thomas Montague Isbell, who
represented, Buckingham county. several
terms in the Virginia Senate, died at his
home in Jefferson county, W. Va, last
week. He had been an eloquent stump
speaker in nearly all the old political bat
ties in Virginia.
The other day Delegate Cannon, the
Mormon delegate from Utah, was asked IN
bantering way by member of Congress
how many wives he had. 81 have enOuoh
to keep me from interfering with the wives
Of other men," was Cannon's quick re-
joinder.
Four physicians-two allopathic, one
homeopathic and one eclectic-are serving
together on committee appointed by the
Connecticut legislature 30 draft a medical
practice act. So far, the doctors have
proceeded amicably in their work AZ if re-
solved not to disagree.
Mr.. Paul H. Hayne, the Southern poet,
lives in rough cot of pine boards on the
Georgia railroad, about twenty miles from
Augusta, where. completely isolated from
the social and artistic world, he devotes
his life to literary work.
Chas. A. Moseley, General Soliciting
Freight Agent of the Illinois Central Rail-
road. died at Bloomington, ILL.,, on the
18th inst. He was native of Amherst
county Va, and formerly a well known
business man of Lynchburg.
The Rev. Fred D. Power, who is pastor
of General Garfeld's church, is son of
DR.. Power, of York county, Va. He has
been Professor in Bethany College, W.
Va, though not yet thirty years old.
The diptheria is very bad in Moor6eld.
W. Va. One day last week, there were
four children out of one family, buried in
a single coffin. Three others of the same
family are not expected to live.
Whitelaw Reid's prospective wife is
worth 81, 500, 600 in her own name, and
will get seven Or eight times as much
when the old man dies. Whitelaw is
another of those Ohio men.
During tho month of April Miss Anna
Dickinson will astonish the public of Bos-
ton by acting in the characters OF Claude
MelnOtte aud Hamlet. Oh ANIMAL Anna!
The handsome residence of Geo. F.
Hupp, near Strasburg, valued at $4,000,
was burned on the 4th inst. The aged
and feeble owner was taken to Strasburg
in wagon.
Maj. John W. Daniel, lectured in Lynch
| burg this week on the "Iron Horse" 1t
| is one of series Of free lectures given by
prominent gentlemen in that city. ~
Lexington, Va, is the rival of Harrison
burg as horse market. Last court day,
about 65 horses changed hands, the aver
age price being from $50 to $50.