Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1882-06-30

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her banners, and the progressive and pop
ular Association has established an agen-
| cy with wide awake agent in charge who
| will see that the pile drivers, steam en-
| gineS and deep water shall not, without
| ample compensation, take the lives of Vir-
ginia citizsus.
Town lots are selling we'll here, a gentle
man FROM Rhode Island recently bought
two eliqible oues for $4,000 Cash, and DR.
White OF Norfolk. ano6her for $1,000, and
is building business house on it. A
banking firm of Norfolk has rented large
basement room in the hotel. Lots sell at
from 500 to $3.50 ace riding To location.
Theodore LivrZey, EGG, Is the General
manager Of the company. and a most eff
cient one, and will give courteous attpn-
ton to all inquiries. L. q. M.
By reason of the Jewish exodus from
Russia, house property IN Kief has gone
down ten per cent. in value. In south and
west Russia all building operations are at
standStll.
Mr.. W. A. Stuart, of Russell county, re-
Gently disposed OF 600 head of cattle at G.
| cents per pound gross, bring in some $780,
| 600; and Mr.. Joseph Cloyd. of Pulaski
$50 head at cents per pound gross, real
! iZing $50 zoe.
Miss Margaret Ferguson's marriage to
| Thomas H. Waller, of Paris, KY, the 9TH
er day, was red-letter occurrence in that
town. The mention of one item in the
| decoration may give good idea of the
wedding. The church door was removed,
| and two swinging gates. composed entire
| ly of sweet vlolets, were substituted.
Oscar Wilde ran across a lynching at
! Bonfouca, La. A negro assailant of
| white woman had been taken out Of Jail
| by mob, and Oscar saw the hanging
from a car window. The negro was a
preacher. and his wild, eloquent appeals
! for mercy moved the aesthetic traveller
greatly, but did not affect the lynchers,
who quickly suspended him from rail
road bridge.
The former residence of Col Robert In
! gersoll, the largest and finest in Peoria,
ILL.,, is to be turned into club house.
A woman entered a railroad car at
Bloomington, ILL.,, carrying big basket
The conductor told her that it must go
among the baggage. She replied that if
| he took 1t away she would hold him strict
| ly accountable for the contents. When
| he found that it held triplet babies only a
month old he ceased objection.
A Second Advent camp meeting is be-
ing held at Denton. Texas, by the people
who believe that the second coming of
Christ is at hand, and might be FASTENED
by proper demonstration of readiness to
receive Him. They have gone so far as to
prepare tent for the oaviours occupancy,
| yxitt1 II bo md hn6 nd NfI f,,r, if,,rN
MI. Clifton R. Breckenridge, the pomi-
nee of the Arkansas Democrats for Con-
| gresham at large. is Il son of the late
Hon. j. g. Breckenridge, and is said to
have inherited largely of his DISTINGUISHED
fathers rare oratorical gifts.
Alexander Hunter, of Alexandria, 1.-THE
well known :'Chasseur'' of the press and
former member of the legislature from
that city, was married at the residence Of
Col. Il. D. Whitcomb, in Richmond, last
week, to Miss Alice Swain, the charming
| vocalist.
At Gen. Lees residence in Lexington,
one night last week there were present a
daughter of Gen. r. E. Lee. daughter of
Stonewall Jackson, and daughter of Gov
ernor Letcher.
Gen. Malone donated, through Mr..
Wood, Sergeant of Danville. 500 for the
relief of the Patrick county sufferers.
The sixteenth annual con veHtion of the
Baltimore Conference Sunday School So.
c1ety OF the M. E. Church South is to be
held at Harrrisonburg. Va, July lila
Bishop A. W. Wilson is expected to bt
| inf md fol 10 r. in hn
Rev. DR.. Bennett, who for five years
has filled the Presidents chair of Ran
dolph Macon College, and faithfully dis
charged its duties, has resigned, and his
resignation was so decisive that the BoarC
OF Trustees could do nothing else than &C
cept it.
Two little boys of Mr.. J. P. Dunlap, Of
Frederick county, were poisoned recently
by eating poke root. One died the SAINT
day. The other was very sick but recov
cred.
Queen Victoria is the sole survivor o.
her first Privy Council.
WIN. Laughlin, a we'll known merchant
of Lexington, Va. was married in Wash.
inY:on last week to Miss Fannie Butts O.
Charleston, Kanawha.
Miss Mary Mumford, whose father wa.
hung by Gen. Butler at New Orleans fol
tearing down the U. 5. flag from the Gus
tom house, died in Washington city last
Friday.
1t is matter of surprise that ex Cover
Franklin j. Moses. of South Carolina, in
stead CT allowing himself to be aent to the
peniteDtary in New York for swindling
Is not at Washington contsstAg the seat
Of some South Carolina Democrat in the
House.-Patterson IN. ~ Democrat.
Rev. Alfred Jones WAS installed pasto,
of Timber Ridge church on June 18th
Rev. James Murray OF Bethel, presiding
Rev. J. l.. Carroll, pastor OF ths Baptist
church at Lexington, has resigned.
Robt. Mace of Botetourt sheared foul
lambs, enc year old, which yielded feeces
that weighed respectively 10a. III, 12s anC
134 pounds.
Richard T. Goldsborough, commercial
traveller for Armstrong, Gator & Co, OF
Baltimore, was instantly killed by an &C
cident co train near Clarksburs, Wes
Va, last week. j. D. Carey of Phlladel
phla, engaged III laDd DuYlng IN Virginia
was killed in the same accident.
Murderers in France are frequentl,
compelled, in addition to death or the gal
leys, to pay a heavy compensation in mon
ey, when they have it, to their victim &
family.
Thomas Heltzel, who went into a dis
usei mine at Columbia Furnace, Snenan-
doah, for a shovel; and was Frustrated by
the foul air. and Cornelius Frey. who no.