Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1882-01-27

The pantomime at Coyent Garden, Lon
don. entitled Little Ro Peep and Little
Boy Blue, and the Little Old Woman Who
Lived in Shoe" contains very striking
shoe scene. The gigantic shos reaches
from the foot lights to the back, and at
signal it opens, and an unaccountable
number of children are sent swarming out
to the right and to the left. Little 30
Peep has a flock of real sheep, which wan
der away while Little Boy Blue is court
ing her.
The friends of Local Option are actively
at work in various localities in the State.
At a meeting in Liberty, Bedford, Judge
Davis presided over the 800 persons pres
emit, and Mayor q. A. Board, Judge Wing
field, and Rev. Messrs. Spencer and Tyree
were among the advocates personally Or by
letter. In Nelson, Botetourt, Highland,
Shenandoah, Roanoke and Craig, petitions
are being actively circulated for Local
Option law.
1t may interest the friends of Miss Addie
Staplins aged nine and Master Freddie
Spencer aged ten, both Of Montvil, Conn.
to know that thew were severely spanked
January 18th. Tbs cause of the discipline
was that the day before they had stolen a
neighbours buggy standing in the road and
started for Norwich ''to get married. -,
They were not overhauled until nearly
midnight.
John F. Oberist, the well known Ethio-
plan Minstrel, who had no rival in Ameri-
ca, in singing the Knocking Bird song
Or the Tyrolese warbling, was killed at a
theatre in New York last week by falling
from platform on the stage.
DR.. Edward M. Small, of Brooklyn, n.
Y, has recovered a verdict for SIS 900 DAM
ages against VIM. Bullenkamp for aliena-
ting the affections of his wife. Mrs.
Small, a very sensitive lady, testified that
her reason for leaving her husband and
going to live with Bullenkamp, was that
the former shocked her by the use of 1m-
proper language"
The ''Lethe" farm Of J W. Weaver.
1872 acres, in Rockingham county, has been
sold to Mrs. e. E. Walker, of Charleston,
W. Va, for $17 900. This is one of the
historic farms of Virginia, having been in
the Gov. Gilmer family Tor years.
AS M. o. Crabill, of Harrisonburg, was
about paying Henry Nelson (col.) $40 for a
horse a telegram was handed him saving
Nelson had stolen it from the Winds Sta
bles at New Market. Crabill told Nelson
to put the horse in a stall, and when he
returned policeman was waiting to take
him back to Shenandoah.
A DR.. Wallace, formerly Confederate
soldier, who recently died, bequeathed to
daughter Of Thomas H. Allen, of Lynch-
burg. Va, $40 900 for kindness and hospi-
tally extended to him when ill, by her fa-
Their and mother.
Miss Sallie A. Brock, of Richmond,
lady who has been quite successful as an
authoress, was married in that city We'd
nesday, to Rev. Richard F. Putnam. an
Episcopal minister, of New York city.
John T. Renkle, for many years before
and since the war, magistrate of Jeffer
son county, W. Va, died a few DAYS ago.
aged seventy-fve.
The triumph of the rope-walk is a white
MANILA rope twenty-one inches thick and
700 feet long, just made in Shadwell. Eng
land, to haul ships off when they get
aground.
Delano A. Goddard, editor of the ssBos-
ton Advertiser" who has Just died, was
valuable member of the Virginia Histori-
cal Society.
The farm of s. M. Boiling in Bedford,
has just been leased by company of Eng
lish gentlemen to engage in raising stock
Middleton Bell. of New York, has pag-
chased the s'Yatton" farm of the late
Lewis B. Williams in Orange county, Va,
for $40, 900 cash. 1t contains soc acres.
Hon. ClarKson N. Potter died Sunday Of
Bright's disease, at his home in New York.
city.