Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1882-01-13


from selling meat from their wagons in
tha city was matter of wonder at the
time, as public sentiment and interest
were against them; but it is all very clear
now, tbs fact having come out that some
OF the Aldermen had been presented with
shares in an abattoir company, and conse-
quently would profit by the exclusion of
the peddlers.
The Rev. DR.. Leonard Bacon, who died
in New Haven, Conn.,, last week, left an
article on the MOrmOns unfinished on the
night before be died. intending to COM
plete it next day. He took the ground
that the determination of polygamy had
become Imperative, and the last compile
ted paragraph was caustic arraignment
of the late James Fisk as a social offender
OF the same sort, but in far less degree
than a Mormon.
Ex-president Hayes, notwithstanding
the reports to the contrary has contribu-
ted $3.50 to the proposed Garfield monu-
ment at Cleveland. On Christmas day
Mrs. Garfield and her guests, the Rock
wells. visited the tomb where the dead
President lies and almost filed it with
fresh flowers.
Miss Clara Louise Kellogg has given a
shock or so to the Western people lately.
AT Milan, Tenn, On New Years day she
waved her colored maid to a seat by her
side at the table. The boniface told the
girl that there was a special table for ser
wants. Miss Kellogg then ''gave the pro-
prietor such terrific scolding as he new
or had heard befOre.''
DR.. Lawson, an American physician, and
son of the U. S. Consul at Florence, is in
prison in London, England, charged with
poisoning his brother-in-l law, a school boy
at Wimbledon. in order to get the proper
ty for his wife. The poison used was AGO.
mite, introduced in capsules. Lawson had
long since lost a good character through
dissipation.
A woman of so committed suicide at
Akron, Ohio. She had for many years
protested desire to die, her excuse for de-
laying the act being that she always had
on hand some pieces of unfinished work,
aud people lost faith in her intention; but
at length she got to the end of one job be-
fore commencing another, and at once
swallowed laudanum.
| Ben. Estill we'll known commercial
traveller. who was to have been married
| last Tuesday to lady in Lexington, Va,
died on the list inst, at the residence of
| Dr. J. NJ. Estill, his father, at Tazeweil
G. H.. Va. His afianced started for his
| bedside but the news of his death met her
| at distant railroad station. =.
Miss Ella Cummins, formerly teacher
in the State Normal School Of New York,
has been arrested at Fredonia, for robbing
an unoccupied residence. She pleads that
she was the agent of an irresistible pow
er" and cannot be convicted. Geo. Lock-
wood, All exemplary dry goods clerk has
been arrested as her accomplice.
During the past year ,532 persons died
in London of the smallpox. Of these;
| 325 had been vaccinated and 637 neglected
| that precaution, the remaining $40 being
doubtful Of the population of London,
| g. 620 600 are vaccinated and 100000 are
| not.
Samuel Buckley died at Flint, Michigan.
| Wednesday, aged 100 years. He was ma
| tive Of Barrett, MiddIeseX county, Eng
land, and was pressed into the British
navy when boy. He served seven years,
participating in many historical engage
ments, and came to this county in 1886.
A fire or New Years night on the farm
of Jackson showalter near Dayton, Rock
| ingham, destroyed his barn with 800
| bushels wheat, 900 bushels corn, p head
of cattle, horses and large quantity Of
farming implements-all worth Sc, 00J and
| uninsured.
Charles Harris, = white boy twelve years
of age, has just been sentenced in Lynch
| burg to two years in the penitentiary for
| burglary. He had previously been ARES
| ted by the police ten times on various
charges; once for robbing the mails.
Col Oliver Beirne, of Monroe county,
W. Va, who is spending the winter in
| New Orleans, was thrown from his ear
rage recently and considerably shaken up,
| though not seriously hurt.
| DR.. Hite Baldwin, of Winchester, for
merly surgeon in the U. s. Army and
| who served with the troops in the Florida
| war, died on the 4th inst. He had been
! in failing health for some time and was
! recently paralyzed.
| DR.. Barksdale, OF the Virginia Central
Lunatic Asylum, reports the case of ne
| gro lunaJic whose brain weighed seventy
ounces. This is believed to be the largest
| brain on record except that Of Oliver
| Cromwell.
| a few desks in the reading room of the
British Museum are set apart ''for ladies
| only" and one of the standing jokes of
| the room, perfectly supported by fact. is
that they are never occupied, the ladies
preferring to be with the gentlemen.
New YEARS day is no holiday in New
| England; but at the last one an effort was
made to introduce the custom of calling
into the fashionable Back Bay district Of
| Boston. No great success attended it.
| Gen Judson Fitzpatrick, U. S. Minister
| to Chilli who died recently at Santiago, Of
| Bright's disease, attempted to dictate
diplomatic dispatch home on the day OF
his death. He had married a niece of
| the Archbishop of Santiago.
The Empress Augusta. of Germany, is
tar from being a beautiful lady. She is
| tall painfully slender; . woman Of many
angles whose sharp features express stern
| hard aud naughty nature.
| The Philadelphia board OF revision OF
| taxes has decided that parsonages and
| church property not forming an integral
part of a church are subject to taxation
and should be assessed.
| Mrs. John J. Astor, of New York, gave
New Years supper to eighty-one boys
about to be started off for new homes by
| the Children's Aid Society. Fourteen of
| them were going to Culpeper county, Va.
| Craig county has so far produced the
heaviest Virginia porker. 1t weighed five
hundred and eighty one pounds and was
| raised by Clifford Wagner.
There are fewer poor people, and fewer
illiterate and ignorant people in Botetourt
county than in any county Of its popula
| ton in the State.-Ejncastle Herald
Capt. J. A l. Lee, of Craig, has been
elected to the judgeship for the counties
of Craig and Allegheny, succeeding Hon.
Paris V. Jones, resigned.