Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1882-11-24

Because of an insinuation that he had
not properly accounted for money furnish
ed by the Rev. DR.. Curry, agent of the
Peabody fund for holding normal insti-
Lutes. and other purposes. the Rev. j. W.
Denton, Arkansas State Superintendent
# Public Education, committed suicide
at Fayetteville. The charges against him
had been fully disproved, but iDjudicious
persons kept reiterating them, and thus
drove the unfortunate man to his doom.
Geo. Rivercomb, of Highland Co., Va,
has violin in his possession, coming down
to him through five generations. which
was made in the year 172l. A card found
within the drum heals the inscription
'StradiDarious cremontnfs taciebat Anto-
MUS
An ear OF corn with 1144 grains is shown
by the manager of DR.. A. M. Henkel's
Page county farm.
Elder John Clarke, of the Primitive
Baptist church, and one of the editors of
..Zion's Advocate" died at Front Royal,
Va, Nov. I'd.
Here is Gen. Grants opinion expressed
in speech at the Unitarian church of
Boston last week: "Probab bly, there is not
single occupant Of a Congregationalls
pulpit in this State who believes literally
The account of the first pair of our race in
the book Of Genesis
Morphiomania, says the Medical Press,
is becoming alarmingly prevalent in
France. and among the ladies, the small
silver hypodermlc syringe is an indspan.
sable article article of the toilet. Until
quite recently, the non-professional use of
opium in France is stated to have bean al
most unknown.
At Elmira. N. Y, whole train load Of
passengers WAS stopped Saturday and vac
cinated because, at station it had passed,
passenger suffering from the small pox
had been taken off.
The warm, dry weather has caused the
appearance of the fly in the wheat fields
between New Market and Harrisonburg.
The new proprietor of the White Sui
phur Springs is about to open a first-c class
railroad eating house at the railroad station
there, in style that will revolutioniZe
hotel matters along the G. Il 0. Railroad.
Col. Frank M. Fulkerson, brother of
Hon. Abe Fulkerson, has baen elected to
tdO AOaAC0oCO AOk uiC3
The first carload of iron ore from the
New River Valley, Va. was shipped last
week, consigned to the Pennsylvania Steel
Company, Harrisburg. Pa.
A suit brought by the county of Bote-
tourt to collect So 64S taxes for 1881 from
the Shenandoah Valley railroad has been
decdeded in favour of the county.
Lucian H. Cooke has been elected May
or of Roanoke.
On the night before the election, Old
Man Massey addressed an immense audi
ence at Charlottesville for two hours, in
his shirt sleeves.
Mrs. Stonewall Jackson and he. daugh-
ter Miss Julia, have received the be ques.
of 81 099 ID, under the will of the late
Wade II Bolton, of Memphis. The coun-
ty court of Memphis ordered the payment
on the 18th of last month.
Horseshoes made of three thicknesses of
green rawhide compressed in steel mould
are used to some extent in England They
weigh about quarter as much as au iron
shoe, and are said to wear longer.
Nothing builds up shattered constitu-
tions so quickly as Browns Iron Bitters
Nine girls of Wheeling took some pic
lures of actresses in stage costumes to a
and posed as nearly as p.'ssi
bic in the same attitudes and raIment,
The portraits somehow got into crcula-
ton IN society, and the earnest effor 9 Of |
the gitls' parents have failed to gather tbs |
cards in for destruction.
A reception to Mrs. John Brown, widow |
of John Brown of Harper's Ferry fame. |
was given IN the Senate Chamber At To- !
peka, Kansas. Gov. st. john delivered An |
address. Mrs. Brown is Com ng East |
again.