Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1882-04-28

Leo Wheat, the noted pianist, is to play
in Harrisonburg tonight at concert Civ
en- for tie bene1t of the Ladies' Rectory
fund.
The Highland Recorder speaking OF the |
frost and bad weather, says: Wheat fields !
that fourished = week ago in all the YER
dancy that spring can give them are brown
and bare as IN autumn, while The grass Is
everywhere scared by the frost.
Ex-Gov. Smith, of Virginia, IN a tenn
pcrance speech in Baltimore, Friday, said
he had not taken a drink Of liquor for six
ty years.
Maj F. L. Smith, of Alexandria,, has
been elected Lit. Colonel of the Sd Virgin
ia regiment, in place Of 1t. Col. Kirk
Otey, resigned.
Thomas Harrison, the "boy preacher
has just finished thirteen weeks Of revival
work at Cincinnati. Crowds have bsen
turned away nearly every night from the
Methodist Church in which he held ssrvi-
extra meetings in other churches swelisd
the list to about 5000.
At Monte Carrie, the administration Of
the gambling Casino sent . magnificent
boques 10 Queen Victoria, who is visiting
near By, as Asntons. 1t was returned at
encs with the brief answer, "Declinsd."
a bill has bssn introduced in Congress
for the relief OF Rob't Ridgeway's heirs.
Mr.. Ridgsway was elected to Congress
from Virginia during reconstruction days
and was refused admittancs.
W. A. Campbell, well known citizen
of Highland county has removed his resi-
dence to Pendlston Co., W. Va.
The Grsenbrier Independent advises the
farmers in view of the wheat being so bad
ly injured by the freeze IN that vicinity, to
make sure by planting large corn crop.
Mira. Ann Gwinn, an aged lady of Phil
adelphia, being taken suddenly sick, sent
out for physician and got DIR. I. H. Crit
fin. He gave her six grains OF morphia
which caused her death before morning.
When the officers went to arrest Griffin it
was found that ne had been sent to the
Pennsylvania Hospital for the insane. He
tion.
Hon. john W. Arbuckle has been re-
elected Mayor of Lewisburg, W. Va.
The value of pure shorthorn cattle Is
still far beyond that Of any other breed
AT recent sale in Chicago, the fourth
Duchess of Airdrie brought $7.10O the
second Marchioness of Kirklivington, 3d.,
525; the ninth Duchess of Hilhurst, S.
500; the tenth Duchess of Hilhurst, ST.
100; the eleventh Duchess of HlIhurst, 81
700; the eighth Duke Of Hilhurst, 3d.
| OPS.
The reward for James Rhodes, the Al
bemarle murderer, is still growing. A
gentleman called in tho Charlottesville
| Chronicle Office and pledged himself for
5000 in addition to the large amount al
ready offered.
| Clare, the youngest daughter Of Cover
nor Hamilton of Maryland, aged eighteen,
paid visit of some length to Baltimore
last year and on returning resumed her
place at school. Last week her father dis
covered Oh tae legal records of the court
the fact that his daughter had ysar ago
| married poor but honest" dry goods
/ clerk of Baltimore, whose attention to h or
| the father had disconntenanced.
Revitalizlng the blood is absolutely ne
cessary for the cure Of general debility,
weakness, iassiJude. &c. The best enrich
or of the blood is Browns Iron Bitters.
A splinter stuck in the leg above the
| knee of a five year old son of DIR. S. W.
Dickinson. of Smythe Co., Va, few days
| ago, and lock-jaw set in, and notwith-
standing the attention Of his father and
| nbw hn fm11
died.
| When Brown Fierce, farmec near
! Richardson, Texas, came in to his dinner
! from the field, one day last week, he found
all three Of his children strangled to death,
lying on the floor, and their insane mother
who had done the deed, hanging cold in
! death to the door knob.
On the direction of the House OF Rep
resentatives, Sergsant-at arms, Thompson,
last year, imprisoned for several weeks,
witness, Hallett Kilberne, who refused to
produce the books containing evidence
| bearing on some fraudulent transactions
| from which it was supposed Kllborne prof
| ted Kilberne has sued Thompson in the
District OF Columbia court aud gotten a
verdict for $l00,0 damages.
| At the Methodist Carnival of Nations
IN Farmville, Rsv. DR.. Leonidas Rosser
was voted a gold headed caue as the most
| popular preacher.
| Mclean, the lunatic who Fl red a pistoi
at Queen Victoria, has been acquitted On
| the ground of insanity.
| Leo XIII has sent the palm which he
| carried on Palm Sunday, to Cardinal Nc
| Cabe, the Archbishop Of Dublin. This
| gift is al ways considered a very special
! mark Of the Pantiff' s favor. The palm is
ons of unusual beauty. and has as it's GEN.
trail ornament portrait Of Leo the Great.
The Bertha Zinc Company in Pulaski
county Va, has received an order for six
| ty tons month from firm in Springfield,
Massachusetts.
Us. Fisher, q young theological student,
has just been received at the Reading PA J
lunatic asylum, having lost his mind in an
attempt to commit the whole of the Bibls
to memory.
DIR. Wilson Gray REGISTER, late State
vaccine agent of MARYLAND. died in Balti-
| more, Saturday, of consumption. He was
only thirty-seven years of age and was
native of Bath county, Va. He was a
son of the late Rev. DR.. Samuel REGISTER
of the M. E. Church, South.
Rev. Leroy M. Lee, one Of the most dis
! tinguishsd ministers of the M. Z. Church,
South. died near Randolph College
last week.
The wife of Lieut.. Governor Tabor, the
wealthiest man in Colorado, is suing for
separate maintenance. She figures his
property at $4,000 900, and asks for an al
lowancs of $50,000 year. He is said to
have offered her 81 900, 900 outright if she
| will agree to divorce, which she refuses
| to do.