Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1882-06-09

had been sent to England as present from
Eugene to Victoria. The other was the
carriage. all shattered and rlddled with
balls. which conveyed their imperial Ma
Jestles to the opera when Orsini 8 she'll ex-
ploded. The Emperor would not allow
this carriage to he either restored, or de-
stroyed, but loved to gaze upon it as a
proof OF the good luck which he declared
would never desert him.
A woman refused to pay a Boston pho
tographeE for a dozen pictures of herself
On the ground that they did not do justice
to her face. He sued. and in the trial the
woman and the photographs were SUBJ
mitt0d to the Jury. She was dressed care
fully. and her hair was arranged in the
most becoming manner: and she put on
her most pleasant expression yet the
verdict was that the portraits were accu-
rate.
Richard Retler, farmer of Moore coun-
ty, N. e.. went to the mill with load of
corn on Thursday. taking his two sons
with hiia. One boy fell asleep and was
smothered by the bags falling upon HIM.
While the father was extricating him, the
other boy, who had leaped out of the wag-
on in fright, was kicked by the horse and
instantly killed. The father, nearly GRAZ
ed with grief, returned home with the bod
les t his two sons on the wagon.
John Meade, of Alexandria, has sold the
Presley Rixey farm, in Culpeper county,
Va, 400 acres, for $4,000. The purchaser
is W. F. Morgan, Of Hartford county,
Maryland.
Mrs. G. T. O'Ferrall has purchased the
Spotswood Hotel building at Harrisonburg
for SIS, 100.
John Andrich, a young man of "a. not
long married, Living near Timberville,
Rockingham CO., became depressed over
business troubles last week, gave all his
| money to bis wife and going into the
woods blew his brains out.
| Mrs. Lamar, wife of United States SEN
ator Lamar, is said to be in dying con-
dition at his home in Oxford, Miss. She
is a daughter of Judge LoDgstreet, author
| of Georgia Scenes,' and her bad health
| has kept the Senator out of his seat most
| of this session.
| The Fredericksburg papers are promptly
and effectively yindicating that city from
the telegraphed report that coalitionist
! had been elected mayor. The new mayor,
/ j. W. Sener, publishes card saying be IS
Conservatlve-Democ and never was
anything else.
r. T. w. Duke, Jr., of Charlottesville,
has sailed for three months tour through
Europe.
DR.. Hunter Mcclure Of Virginia, las
been elected a member of the American
Surgical Association.
Major John W. Johnston, of Botetourt
county. Va, General Manager Of the Rich
mond and Danville Extension Company,
has been elected Vice-President Of the
Georgia Pacific Railroad, of which Gen.
John B. Gordon is President.
Strasburg elected her Democratic can
didate fer Mayor by four to one over the
''Citizens'" candidate for the same office,
and the Aldermen by nearly the same odds.
| The following officers were elected G.
A. Brown, Mayor; and J. A. Sonner, R.
! W. Sonner, Edward Zea. Obed Funk, DR..
I Charles Sydner and L. D. Funkhouser,
Alderman. all Democrats.
At the Right Worthy Grand Lodge of
Good Templars Of the United States at
Charleston, S. c., last week, j N. Stubs,
member of the Virginia House of Dele
gates from Gloucester, was chosen Right
Worthy Grand Councillor. He was a
prominent L ocal Optionist IN the Legisla-
ture.
A postof1ice called ''Mahone'' has been
established in Botetourt county.
A Boston widow married an English
clergyman, a few years ago, and gave him
outright half her fortune of $500 900. He
at once retired from the ministry, became
a drunken spendthrift and gamester, and
abused his wife so much that she has sued
| for a divorce.
Mr.. A. Il. Bradley, an English resident
Of Bedford county, Va, a son of the pres
| ent Dean of Westminster, has just gone
! to England to organize a company for de-
veloping some rich deposits Of gold lately
found in that county.
John K. Williams, Of RichlaEd county,
Ohio, has just bought the Madison Harris
farm Of S2l acres in Powhatan county,
! Va, for $4,000.
Gen. A. l.. Pridemore, of Lee county,
| (ex-member of Congress from the 9th Va.
district.) was recently married to Mrs. Sal
lie A. Neil. near Speer's Ferry. Scott Co.
| This is his third marriage, and he Is still
a young man.
Maj. John W. Daniel visited Fincastle
last week on business, and was serenaded
| by the hand and forced to make a speech
to the large concourse of people that as
| sembled in front of the hotel.
The suit of Harvey vs.. Steptoe which has
been for fifty gears pending in Bedford
| Circuit Court, has been removed to Bote-
| tourS Circuit Court. It commenced over
40 shares OF Virginia Bank stock All of
1 fln ioJt, c1- ,affinC oil + I,o
counsel Gncluding Chapman johnson and
Watkins Leigh in the Court Of Appeais)
are long since dead.
Real estate in and around Lexington,
| Va, is looking up. Prof. Nelson has just
sold three and quarter acres in the North
ern end Of the town to Me>srs McGrann
ard Stewart, of Lancaster, Penn, for
| ST. 600 cash. The Bank building has
been sold to J. g. Steele and G. M. Fig
| gait for S6. 1856.
| Capt. Robert E. Lee and Miss Mildred
| E. Lee arrived in Lexington last week.
! The will of John T. Johns was broken
| by Baltimore jury, and the verdict would
distribute the estate of 5000, 900 among
the natural heirs; but the lawyers are try
| ing to impeach it on the ground that one
VI tue jurors was unduly Influenced by a
Irritation in the courtroom with one of
the parties in interest. This person was
young lady, of course, and very pretty,
while the juror was susceptible bachelor.
Tie evidence is that th5 two exchanged
giances and smiles daring the trial; that
they bowed to each other en- ma ting in
the street; that he said to fellow juror,
"How Can we give verdic5 against such
pretty girl ?" and that he has since be-
come sui.er for her hand
The pink-eye appears to have been fatal
to many horses in Clarke county. Mr.. JIG.