Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1882-02-24
While John Jasper was delivering his

famous sermon on the Sun do Move
Northern brother arose and said: ''Mr.
Speaker, | would like to ask you ques-
ton" ASK an,' replied John. well,
sir, you say the sun rises and sets; tell US
where it goes to.'' Quick as thought. Bro.
Jasper answered: ''Turn to Ecclesiastes,
first chapter, fifth verse. and there you
will read: 1.-THE sun ariseth and the sun
goeth down and hasteth to the place where
he arose.s' The audience laughed. and
that Northern brother has never asked
John Jasper a question since.-Religious
Herald.
VIM. P. Ridgeway, of San Francisco,
fell in love with the widow Forbes, and
engaged to marry her. He was about 20
wears old, and had valvuar affection OF
the heart, besides being sufferer from
paralysis His PHYSICIANS assured him
that marriage would be speedily followed
by death Unwilling to take that risk, he
broke his promise These facts were pre-
sented in his defense to suit for DANA
ges, but the Jury did not deem them. ma
terial. and gave the widow verdict OF
SIS 900.
On the death of Chief Justice Marshall,
nearly fifty years ago. the lawyers of Phil
| adelphia moved for q monument. The
project failed at the time, as is often the
| case, ;snf only $4,000 was contributed -
| The matter was soon forgotten by almost
| everybody. The last surviving trustee of
| IT, rund died few days ago. and among
Liz papers was found careful account of
l.sr money, showing that by investment it
had grown to $780, 900. The monument will
| now be erected.
Loudoun county, Va, is a bad locality
for criminals, white or black. John Nor
ris. (col.) convicted Of 0utraging a colored
| girl was sentenced to ten years. and on
the same day to ten more for burglary.
Chas. Greene, (white) tried before the
same court was convicted of horse stealing
and sentenced to fifteen years, and in a
few minutes sentenced to five more, it be-
| ing his second conviction.
| A North Carolina papa writes that
| his two DAUGHTERS have been spoiled by
newspaper putting IN the Virginia town
where they V, ent to school. They We
come home" he says, with three or four
/ notices of the charming Misses - in
their scrap books, and they haint been
worth a fo'penny bit since.-Richmond
| Whiq.
Two young ladies named Meriwether,
bellies of Huntsville, Ala. daughters of
the former chief engineer OF the Memphis
and Charleston Railroad, and nieces Of the
late noted authoress. Miss l.. Virginia
French, left their fathers house Friday
night, with two young lawyers, ostensibly
to attend concert, but boarded train
for Nashville and we're married.
Beaumer was 80, his wife ~, and his
wife's daughter 49, They lived in ST.
| 7 tor h riay
that Beaumer became sorry that he had
not married the daughter instead of the
mother. No way of rectifying the mis-
take occurred to him, and in his despoD-
dency be committed suicide. .
The Fincastle ''Herald'' says after a
caucus of leading Botetourt Readjusters
and Republicans had recommended James
B. Wilson for County School Superinten-
dent and refused to recommend M. D.
ObenShain, disagreeable surprise was
given by Governor CameroD's nomination
of Obenshain for that post.
The fact that Rev. Or. James b. Dunn.
of Philadelphia, in kissing the younger
girls Of his congregation, selected the pref
tiest with a persstency so marked as to
convince palmer girls that it was done ON
purpose, has raised such buzz about his
ears that he has had to resign.
M. T. Hughes, of Greensboro, N. c.,
arrived in Danville Va, the other day
with 800 cartridges he wanted to ship to
New Jersey. UHder the laws of Virginia,
lit being after February 1st) he was fined
$50 and his 800 birds taken outside of
town and turned loose.
A large dry goods firm of Boston pro-
poses to its employers that each shall con-
tribute $40, in weekly assessments of so
cents, toward treating one out of every
twenty-five of their number to trip to
Europe next summer, luck to decide who
shall GO.
Indeed. there is no accounting for
tastes. A colored man in Christiansburg,
Va. IS habitual coal oil drinker. He
says in cold weather he often drinks a
pint or more at one time, and that the
sensation produced is similar to that of
whiskey.
Mrs. Susan D. Withers, the venerable
mother of ex-senator r. E. Withers, died
Saturday morning. at the residence of her
son-in-laW, George D. Saunderson, in
Buckingham county, aged eighty-four
years.
/ Patrick Murphy, a brakeman, has recov-
the N. Y. u Albany railroad. for an iniu-
ry to his right arm, resulting from an i'm
perfect ladder which plaintiff stepped on
iE bis duties as brakeman.
Five hundred and twelve thousand
pounds of cabbage have been shipped from
Mt. Airy depot, Wythe county. Va, du-
ring the past six months, bringing in re-
turn upwards of $4,000 to the shippers
thereof.
Six children of John Vonderau were on
F4iday, buried in one grave at Riverside
Cemetery, Cleveland, Ohio. Diptheria WAS
the cause, and all had been carried off
within the past four days.
The Zurich doctors took advantage of
Lavater's remains having lately to be
moved to examine his skull, which they
found small but well proportloned.
Parkham Adams, student at the Uni
versity of Tennessee, at Knoxville on
| wager smoked forty cigaretts and inhaled
the smoke. He was thought to be dying
| Monday and cannot recover.
"Walnut." the former residence of ex-
Attorney General Field in Culpeper, was
destroyed by fire ON the 18th inst, with
its contents. His brother, Capt. Henry
s. Field, occupied it.
There is a young woman shoemaker in
Atlanta. She has small shop of her own,
in which she hammers and stitches as
| deftly as any man in the trade.
| Another death is reported in London of
lady who had taken an excess of ':anti-
fat'' medicine. The nostrum IS supposed
to act as a slow blood poison.
| Henry Tucker, the author of the song
"When this cruel war is over" so we'll
known during the civil war. died in Brook