Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1881-01-14

DR.. John A. Tanner, a distinguished
Lynchburger, and surgeon in the United
States Navy, has been detached for scien.
tific researches at the University of Vir.
ginia, under the auspices of the National
| Board of Health, of which Prof. Cabell is
| President.
Mr.. Riley Kittridge, of Belfast, Me-,
has postal card upon one side of which
he has written clearly four thousand and
eight words, comprising the entire books
of Jonah and Malachi and the fifth, sixth
and a part of the seventh Psalm.
A few days since two gentlemen of
Hanover killed seventy coons on the farm
of Mr.. W. h. Timberlake, about two miles
from Atlee's Station, All Of them were
found in the hollow of a large tree, where
they were tracked by footprints in the
| apow.
In the U. S. District Court at Baltimore
on last Monday, Judge Bond refused to
grant the Injunction asked by the Pullman
Palace Car Company against the Balti-
more u Ohio Railroad Company for in.
Engagement of compliments patents.
Mrs. Harriet A. Cooper, aolared, died in
q suburb of st. +ous, last Saturday, at The
alleged aEe of lis years. She was the
mother of Is children, the youngest, it is
said, being 81 years old. Her husband
survives her, at the reputed age of 1O1,
j. w. King, of Ringgold county, ILL
aois. has commenced suit against Miss
Belle Tharp for breach of promise of mar
rage, asking Judgment of So, O31-$2, 900
to repair his damaged affections and S3I
for money advanced to buy her trousseau.
A. J. Allan, colored, member Of the
Danville City Council. died Tuesday. The
Council, which comprised some of the
leading citizens, passed resolutions of re-
speot and agreed to attend his funeral in a
body.
Hon. 7. F. Bayard was unanimously
nominated in caucus by the Democratic
members of the Delaware legislature for
United States Senator. The legislature
being over two=thirds Democratic, there
is no doubt of bis election.
James Callahan, employed in paper |
mill at PittsGeld, Mass. was last Wednes-
day caught in the machinery and whirled |
round and round until he was nearly torn
TO pieces and his brains scattered all over
the room,
Perhaps the cold weather has brought
qualification to no ore so much as to the
youth who has just enough moustache to |
gather and retain limited quantity Of +
ccngealed moisture. Charlottesville Cnron.
acle. w
A negro man with norm growing out
OF each side u hi, head is reported to be
aAtonishlhg the people of Alexandria. The
aorns are said to resemble those of a goat |
and to be about FIVE inches long at present
and still growing
The New Orleans & Texas Pacific Rail:
road has recently purchased a site for a
depot In New Orleans for $3.50 600, and, it
IS stated, expect to spend $4,000 900 in the
next twelve months for depots, shops,
tracks. etc.
Niagara is now in it's glozy. The Horse
shoe Fall is frozen solo two hundred feet
rom either shore, and the ice mountains
n front Of the falls have reached height
II upward OF 120 feet.
The recent extreme cola weather in New
Jersey has killed off all the quail left by
he destructive forest fires last summer. |
Same of all kinds. old and young, have
'erished in large numbers, rs