Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1881-02-25

old Mr.. PenrOse, of Westminster, Pa, was
sitting at his window and saw SOmethink
black peeping out of the snON. 1t proved
to be the coat Of his son i'm who had
| been missing Since Christ,n Is night. L
young man had been sleighl,g aud was
kicked by the horse, and returning HON.
had fallen insensibe near the house amt
died as the falling snow was burying him
under the drift.
The merchants of Richmond, Ind. hav-
ing issued publication called the dead
Beat Directory containing nearly three
| thousand names Of persons W o did not
pay their bills, public N citing was
held. presided over by the m Ayor, and res
nlutions adopted censuring the merchants
| in uumeasured terms. Sixteen hundred
| people were at the meeting.
| A number of colored people in Ohio
claiming TO be the heirs of Samuel Gist,
of Virginia, who emancipated them and
| sent them to Ohio in 1903, are about to
sue for large quantities Of land in Goocl-
land, Hanover, Henrico and other counties
which they claim we're bequeathed to theil
ancestors by Gist.
There is an old man named named Low
in Summers county, w. Va, in his 87t
| year, who has raised Is children, ard ha.
| 105 grandchildren, and 100 great grand
children. Mr.. Low is hale and hearty
aud Can mount and ride horse fifteen or
twenty miles as nimbly as boy. He has
| been farmer all bis life.
Col. Robert Beverley, of Fauquier.
| found on his farm Saturday SOW that
| had been under the snow for AZ days with
| out anything to eat. Benjamin Leslie OF
Loudon county, found hen of his alive
under snow drift last week, which had
| been itLout food the same length of
time, to day.
We hear of another robin roost in this
county: 1t is on Sandy Creek, two miles
| from Spring Garden. Thousands have
heen killed there. One gentleman told u
| that he killed them until he had not che
| heart to kill any more. Until this year
| such thing was unknown in this cOun-
| ty.-Ddnuile Va Times.
81 threw this off in ten minutes soft
| ly said the poet, placing a manuscript O,
| the editorial table. The editor said when
it came to speed no long-haired poet should
| distance hlm-and he threw it off in less
than ten seconds-off the table into the
| waste basket.
Mr.. Wilson Flagg, the New England
naturalist, complains that people of cul-
| ture'' in New England, while constant,
reading, are ignorant of everything con.
| corning nature that depends on observa-
| tlOn.
ga jury composed exclusively of white
men, says the Charleston News, - lis as
rare thing in South Carolina in thes,
days as jury composed exclusively of
black men would be IN New York"
The Washington City ASSOCIATION of the
alumni of Yale College, held its reunion
on Feb. 14th, Chief Justice Waite, Sena-
toI Gibson. of La. Senator Dawes, OF
Mass President Hayes and son ALDER,
Sidney Johnston were among those pres
ent.
Mobile has the Oldest congressman in
John A. Cuthbert. He Was born at Sa-
| vannah ninety-three years ago. graduated
at Princeton, served Ill the war OF 1872.
and was in Congress over sixty years ago.
Drunkenness is steadily decreasing in
Richmond, Va, and has been since 1874,
when the times we're hard. That year IT,.
arrrs.s for intoxication we're 1925 and i
1880 only 67S.
The grave of Brigham YeuGg is very
plain, only huge slab Of granite with on,
inscription marking the spot. The grave
yard is much neglected. A hundred wild
owS are not SO GOOD as one, after all.
Among the effects of Carlyle are several
thousand letters, including his own to
members OF his family and letters to him
from Goethe. John Stuart Mill. Lord Jel-
frey, Stel ling, Emerson, Leigh Hunt.
Dickens, Tnackeray and Varnhagen Won
Fuse. s
: A beef weighing l $40 pounds, the heavi-
est ever shipped from Woodstock, was
slipped from there by Mr.. V. French, a
few days ago.
II. B. Ledyard, General Manager of the
Michigan Central, received from Mr.. Van
trbllt. it is said, New Years present in
tue shape of all increase of his salary to
$14; 900 per annum.
James Gordon Bennett, according to
Gath can draw check for $4,000 on
the New York Herald" every week and
stlll nave surplus at the end Of the year
Col. Chas. F. Suttle, who formerly rep
resented Stafford county in the Virginia
legislature and was lately depot agent of
the Virginia Midland railroad company at
Rocky Mount, franklin, is dead.
The following curious announcement
appears in the Journal of the House of
Lords for Monday, Jan. II: prayers
Read by the Lord Chancellor, no Bishop
being present.
''Do you dawnce the lawncers?" 'sNo,
but my sister Frawnces dawnces the lawn !
GERS and several ether faWncy daWnces.''
Gen. John G.. Meem has resigned the |
Presidency of the Bank of Newmarket on |
account of an intended prolonged absence |
in Lynchburg.
Both branches of the Baltimore city
council have passed the ordinance exempt
ing plant used for manufacturing purpo-
ses from taxation.
Archbishop Purcell is at st. Martin g
Ursuline Convent, in Brown county, Ohio.
He is paralyzed as to his left side. but is
in full possession of his mental faculties.
The President has appointed Beverly
Tucker. of Virginia to he commissioner
of the world s fair, III New York.
The widow Of Gen. Suffer, the famous
dlscoverer of gold in California, died at
her home, in Ltiz, Pa, on Wednesday
evening.
A Girl with diptheria was sent from one
relative to another, at Green Lake, Wis,
zach refusing to take her in until she died
In the wagon.
The Masonic fraternity, according to
The latest figures, numbers 44,5OO members
Ia Germany,