Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1882-02-10
The Tanauary property. two brick stores

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been sold to j. Med Adair for $3,125.
Geo. Payne, the man born without arms
who everybody has seen at circus side
shows, using his toes as fingers. died in
Brooklyn, n. Y, Friday. He could use
his feet as another person uses his hands.
being able even to shave himself and curl
his hair. He leaves wife and one child.
Several years since son of Gen. A. A.
Chapman, Of Monros county, W. Va, re-
mo, ed to Texas. In the Fall of 1881, some
one or more persons fired pistol shots into
his sleeping apartments with the view, it is
supposed OF killing Mr.. Chapman The first
shot did no harm-the second killed Mrs.
Chapman. She was native OF st. Louis,
Missouri. So we learn from the Border
Watchnaan.'7 !
Marie Taglioni the great danseuse Of
other days, whose praises were written by
Charles Lamb and Leigh Hunt, died last
week In London, where she has been living
in reduced circumstances of late teaching
a dancing school.
Gen. James G.. Field, late Attorney
General OF Virginia, was married in
Lynchburg, on Friday, to Miss Lizzie r.
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of the reigning bellies in Lynchburg the
past winter.
Rev. J. N. Stirewalt, Of Shenandoah,
has accepted call to tht Lutheran church
at Rochelle in Madison county.
Mr.. James F. Payne, highly esteemed
citizen of Lynchburg. died suddenly in the
opera house there Friday night, while at
tending concert for benevolent purposes.
He was a defendant of Gov. SpottsWood
of Virginia.
The postmaster at Leesburg, Mich, has
died of smallpox The department has
required his suretles to remove the office
to a safe place, burning all the supplies ex-
cept frst-class matter which must be fu-
migated.
| A Washington marriage ceremony was
interrupted by the BRIDES father, who
whipped her with rawhide, and kicked
the bridegroom out of the house. 1t is in
ferred that he disapproved of the match.
at the meeting of the Ex-Confederate
Association in Baltimore, last week. at
| teution was called to the fact that an eX-
| Confederate soldier, formerly OF Maj. Har-
ry Gilmor's command, G. W. Wood, ia
military known as Lucky Wood" was
| blind and destitute, living upon the chart
| ty Of an old friend in ockbridge county,
Va His address, Lexington. Va, was
given, so that any wishing to aid him can
| do SO.
| hIr. Homer, editor of the Parkersburg
''Sentinel," says that he would not be sur
prised if the prohibition amendment pass
ed both houses of the West Virginia Leg
isltture this session.
Peter knapp, blind man, sixty years
of age, living near Newmarket, in ''the
apple season"--two months, has pealed
,675 apples. He does pretty much all
the preparation of potatoes and other veg
eta ales done in his kitchen.
Several days ago an old peacock belong
ing 10 Branch Waddill, of Brooklyn. Hal
flax county, died at the advanced age of
| twenty two years. His companion died
about two years back aged twenty years.
The only colored Presbyterian church
building in Virginia WAS burned in Lynch
burg, on Sunday morning.
An imprisoned girl at Burr Oak. Mich.
cut every button from her clothing and
swallowed them, in an Intellectual attempt
at suicide.
An Indianapolis child became smoker
under two years of age, beginning with
| very mild cigarettes, which his mother
taught him to use in order to keep him
quiet, and soon taking to strong cigars
with great enjoyment. But at four he is
in a hospital, undergoing treatment for
spinal troubles brought on by the effect of
the tobacco on his nerves.
The Rev. James 7. Powers is serving
out term in Massachusetts prison for
| vagrancy. Ten years ago he was cOnsld-
cred remarkably eloquent preacher, and
had charge at Ludlow, Vt. He was a
clever writer. and his articles were gener-
ally saleabie to newspapers or magazines.
His downfall was not caused by drink or
immortality. His wife died in 1872, and
he at once lost heart, became wanderer,
and at last miserable, ragged tramp.
Warsaw have to close at P. M. Proprie-
tors neglecting this order receive twenty
| five lashes.
The Lynchburg Fish and Game Associa-
! ton paid 1926 in rewards for killing 372
hawks last year in the adjoining counties.
a little daughter of Mrs. Harriet E.
Roane, of Gloucester county, Va, acct
dentally got shoe hook fastened in the
corner of her eye and tore off the eye lid
in trying to get it out.
| DR.. Mary Walker has at last got an Of
| tice-clerk to the Senate Committee on
| Woman's suffrage.
A Providence, R. l., woman has gone
! far toward numbering an enemy, by get
| ting a false advertisement of her death into
| the papers, with the age set down at 39
years, and the ''Miss'' inserted to remind
| the reader that she was still unmarried.