Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1882-07-28

| At Lynchburg, Va, j. P. Bell has lit.
tie alligator in fountain A cat has been
prowling around the fountain to catch it.
He came ashore Saturday for summing
| and the cat at one bound lighted on him
She found her mistake too late one snal
Of his jaws killed her.
Oscar Wilde pronounced Miss Alsati.
Allen. of Montgomery, Ala, the mos
beautiful young lady he had seen in thu
United States.
Searches for arms in Ireland are general
ly fruitless. The weapons. we'll creased
are wrapped in what may be called water
proof paper and buried In titled field, The
owner alone knowing thu precise spot. al
a crop is grown upon it.
Two years ago DIR. Keys of Ray Co., Mo.
shot and killed DR.. Roberts. He was trieG
twice, the second trial resulting in acquit
al on the plea of insanity. Last week he
was discharged from the insane asylum as
cured The son of DR.. Roberts hunted hin
up in twenty-four hours and shot him
through the heart.
Jno. A. Hambleton Il Co., OF Baltimore
have purchased an immense tract, 81, 242
acres of West Virginia land, the ''Louf
Greek estate,' lying along the Chesapeake
& Ohio railway
Mrs. Rosa G. Smith, wife of Rev. W. R
L. Smith, of Lynchburg, died in that city
of Professor Charles L. Cooke, of Hollins
Institute.
There have been cattle sales recently neal
Salem, Fauquier county, that have netted
the owners from $50 to $50 per head, and
sale took place last week OF 800, to be de.
lfvered during the months of August, Sep
TENDER and October, at Sc, 81 per hundred
pounds. The Fauquier people claim that
cattle and not cotton is now king.
A Boston clothing firm provide free cabs
from any part of the city to their store.
The splendid James river farm known as
midway" has been sold to Eli Tutwiler,
ESQ.,, of Lexington for 200.
A mad woman at the Saltpetrisre Hos
pital, Paris, was placed in bath tub hav-
ing Touchdown lid with an orifce
through which her neck and head passed.
When the hot water was on, the servant
with the key went to fetch linen and re-
NAMED to gossip. The screams Of the lu-
natic, she being reputed violent, we're un-
needed. and she was boiled to death before
the negligence was discovered.
Gov. Stone. of Mississippi, has pardoned
one Thomas II. Cook, who was under d
a ten years sentence for manslaughter,
upon his written promise to abstain from
the use OF Intoxicating liquors and from
the carrying of concealed deadly weapons
for the term of ten years from the 2Sth day
of January, 1880. The pardon is to be void
if Cook shall, within the time specified,
use AS a beverage intoxicating drinks or
carry upon his person concealed deadly
weapons.
The store in Richmond owned by the
Allen estate, and known as the famous
Levy Brothers. store, was sold last week
to James B. Pace. the tobacconist, for
$50, 500.
Miss Fanny Parnell, sister of the Irish
agitator, died suddenly at Bordentown, N.
j., Friday. of paralysis of the heart. She
was native OF Ireland, about % years of
age.
Capt. John s. Wise was born in Rio de
Janeiro. Christmas day, 1916.
Ex-Governor Holiday. of Virginia, is
in the city visiting his cousin. w. J. Hol-
llday. Esq. He WAS called upon yesterday
by Gov. Baker, Judge Turpin, Hon. w. H.
English aud other prominent citizens.
Indianapolis Sentinel. 18th.
Dyspepsia, the bug-bear of epicureans
glli be relieved by Browns Iron Bitters.