Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1882-03-10


Senator Sawyer is one Of the wealthiest
men in Congress. The Louisville "Couri-
er-Journal" relates that he called his two
daughters to him and said: ''My children,
you know that | am rich man now, but
you also know that riches are apt to take
wings 60 themselves and fly away, so I
would feel much happier about your fu-
ture if felt certain that you could take
care of yourselves if I should lose my
money and be unable to provide for you
Now, to please me, won't you lsarn to
make your own clothes and to cook good
dinner?" Not long afterward they invi-
ted their parents and few friends to an
elaborate dinner which they had cooked.
unalded, and on that occasion they wore
dresses of their own making. The delight
ed father gave each girl check for $685.
600.
A. w. Campbell, of Highland, has sold
his farm on the head of jackson Is river to
S. A. Porter. for So 800. The Valley View
Springs near Newmarket, has been sold
to A. s. Rosen berger, Of that place. Two
farms, lying in FauquierA county, Va,
were sold on Monday; one Of 500 acres,
the estate of the late Lloyd g. Marshall,
to James g. Yates. OF Rappahannock
county, at $50, 10 per acre. The, other
tract of 1856 acres. in the gold belt, to w.
81. Brown, of Baltimore, at 81 ,25 per acre.
A good deal of excitement has been
rcated among the female teachers Of New
y ofk city by a proposal introduced in the
Board of Education to dismiss all such as
may marry. A protest has been, made in
which it is stated that zone motherly wo-
man is worth more than two or three green
girls to take charge of primary class"
Mr.. George Cutlip, who lives on Spring
Greek, in this county, is so years old, and
goes to mill about ten miles from home,
raises his meat and bread himself, and
never saw train of cars or the railroad.
He is grandfather to 102 children and
great-grandfather to over 30.-Greeabraer
Independent. s. s5 asae Hn tsa e3
The Queens monument to the late
Lord Beaconsfield has just been erected in
Hughenden Church. 1t bears the follow
ing inscription: tge 8.ui'
ssThis memorial is placed here by CRATE
full and affectionate Sovereign and
friend. 4s,t.-- la.- 4
Victoria r. I. sislf3 ~ -
Kings love him that speaketh right"
The will of Charles Albert Read, of
Newton, Mass, gives $4,000 to the Treas
ury of the United States, to be applied to
the reduction of the war debt. To the at
tending physician of the testator, $500 is
given on condition ''that my head is sew
cred from my body, as [ haYe a great hor-
ror of being buried alive"
banquet in a steam boiler was recent
ly given by German Manufacturer in the
duchy of Baden, to celebrate the compile
ton of one of the largest steam boilers in
the world. Inside the boiler table was
arranged for thirty guests, while racks for
the cookery and wines were placed along
the sides. G
Mrs. Hannah Miller Baxter, of Rock
ingham county, Va, who for four years
has had her tombstone with this inscrlp-
ton on it, Therefore be We also ready, for
in such an hour as you think not the Son
of Man cometh," died on the 10th ult.,
aged seventy three.
Mrs. J. M. McTeer, a venerable lady of
Wytheville, died last week. Her first hus-
band was Col Piper. who made himself
famous when q student at Washington
College by cutting his name fifty feet
above that of George Washington at the
Natural Bridge. tfe,5
A Minnesota mob did not lynch the man
whom they had intended so to punish
He argued with them while. and then
gave them SIS to buy beer. They were con-
WINGED that he was not so bad as they had
supposed him to be.
The Lutheran Church of Winchester,
Va, Rev. D. M. Gilbert, D. D., pastor.
has met all it's financial obligations for the
past year, and paid in addition 81 200 on
its debt, leaving only $500, which it is pro-
posed to wipe out at the Easter service.
The delusion of an otherwise sane Chi
cago man Va as to believe that his cane
was possessed of spirit. He talked to
it. never let it be out of his sight in wax
ing, and kept it by him when asleep.
Jacob B. Dovel and Andrew J. Dovel,
who left Page county, Va, fifty years ago
to settle in Fairfield county, Ohio. are
now worth respectively 5000 900 and $780,
600 each; made by farming and stock rails
ing. -s. . t
J. Robert spiller, for several years busi7
ness manager for Mary Anderson. the
tragedienna, died 10 New York, Friday.
He was from Wytheville, Va, and was a
graduate Of the Virginia Military Insti-
tute. .. =.... -,,
Prof. Joseph Salyards Of Newmarket, a
poet of much merit. has been elected a
member of the American Institute OF
Christian Phi!OSODhV at New York