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


James Van Haise, of New Jersey, who
from hanging thirteen criminals, is ac-
counted the best executioner IN the coun-
try, has been applied to by the Washing
ton authorities to hang Guiteau this
month. He replies that he must have
more than the 5000 offered, and that
if engaged he must make his own galloWs.
He is carpenter by trade.
:. An Indiana farmer believes that fam
inc is near at hand. and for several years
has refused TO sell any of his large wheat
crops. The grain fills nearly all the build
ings on the farm, including the residence,
and much Of it has spoiled.
It is hard to believe, but Madame Anna
Bishop is still living and gave concert
in New York last Saturday night. and
sung such pieces as Robert tot que
'aime" and ''Let the bright Seraphim. y
The musical critics treated her very con-
She is seventy years Old and
was deservedly famous about the middle of
this century.
Mrs. Rachel Tompkins, only surviving
aunt of General GraDt-his fathers sis-
Cedar Grove, Kanawha county.
Prof. E. S. Joynes, formerly of Wash
ington and Lee University, has been cleo
ted Professor of Modern Languages in the
University Of South Carolina.
A number of the colored watchmen and
laborers in the different departments at
w Washington, are eX-memberS of the South
ern State legislatures, and they all cling
with great persistence to the title of ''hon-
or able" If any one presumes to address
them in writing with the omission Of the
prefix OF Hon." they are quite indignant.
Richard King, known all over Texas
and the West as 1.-THE Cattle King,' is a
swarthy [rishman. with a limping gait.
His lameness is due to the careless way in
which broken leg was set. His flocks of
sheep and goats, his herds of cattle and
his troop of horses and mules are estima-
ted at 500, 000 head in all His rancho, the
Santa Gertrudas, is seventy five miles in
length, and includes nearly the whole of
two counties in Southwestern Texas.
1 A Cincinnati husband said that his wife
should devote her afternoons to the care
OF her children instead Of going to matt
nees at the theatres. She disobeyed. He
walked down the centre aisle of theatre,
took her by the ear and lead her out "Out
of respect to the parties, "says the account,
who are well connected and generally
well thought Of, their names are withheld
from the public"
Charles L. Estep, Readjuster, has been
appointed postmaster at Wildwood, Clarke
county, vice, Mr.. ]. N. Laws, a good
Democrat.
A young man in Charlottesville attempt
ed fraud on Baltimore clergyman last
week by writing to him that he had pur-
chased a picture of his daughter, which
he sent him, and for which he (tle young
man) had paid the sum of $50 rather than
let it 60 into the hands Of stranger. He
represented that student of the Univer-
slty was trying to purchase it and ran him
up to that price before he could secure it.;
said the money he had spent had been sent
by his father to pay his board bill, and he
begged the reverend gentleman to return
an officer, confessed his fraud, and begged
for mercy.-Richmond Dispatch.
Does FEEDING CATTLE PAY ?-Mr.
Dallas FUR last Saturday sold to Messrs.
Middleton & Taylor 81 head of cattle for
u cents per pound, gross. weighed at
home-seventeen to go off the last day of
June--l7 the last day of July-and II the
last day of August. The cattle cost $51
per head and now bring $11O.-Leesbmq
Mirror.
Gniteau who is to be hung on Friday.
June 30th, said to one of the guards Sat
urday: "What is deathp | have to die
that IS this body of mine must die some
time-and it matters not with me when
my time comes. If l am to end my life
on the scaffold am ready to do it, and
when L 90 there, then will be my time"
The London Spectator says "It is a
strange answer to our chatter about race
and creed lin Irish affairs) that Mr.. Burke
was Catholic Milesian and Mr.. Farnell is
Protestant Anglo American.
An Illinois woman of 80 has brought suit
for divorce against her husband of Is. She
thinks he married her for money, and not
for love.
Nine years ago John W. Golden, of Lou
doun CO., Va, was married and the young
men of the neighborhood that night gave
him Il ''bell serenade.n He fired in the
crowd and killed one. Last week he saw
his wife for the first time since that night,
he having spent the interval in the peni-
tentiary. His sentence was IS years, but
Governor Cameron pardoned him on ac-
count of failing health.
fD@sing the storm on Saturday the cleo
trio light apparatus of the Luray Cave
and Hotel Co. was so damaged by light
ming that it could not be used for the ex-
,ursions this week. Indeed. sone parts of
The machinery aas SO much injured as to
render it worthless.
The Rev. Father Cuddihy forbade the
Strand Army post at Milford, Mass, to en-
,er the Roman Catholic cemetery on Dec
,ration Day. He wrote as follows: II
entirely disapprove and differ from your
node of honoring our Catholic dead by
putting penny's worth of cotton bunting
IN their grave. You get 800 a year from
he town. Why not. then, have solemn
mass and service according to Catholic
Usage for the Catholic soldier who has
fought his last fight, and has passed from
rour Jurisdiction to that of the church
hat prays for his soul?"
Rev. Mr.. Harold, rector of the Episco-
,al church of the Holy Cross, Washing
en-, D. G has just startled the recent |
Episcopal Convention there and brought |
imself to the attention of the Bishop by
avinp that he attired his altar in vest !
nents. used wafer bread at communion,
rayed for the repose of the souls of the |
cad, heard confessions and granted abso
uJiOn.
The first ten bushels of Southern wheat |
ten bushels from Georgia-sold in Balti- !
aore. Saturday at ST. so per bushel.