Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1883-07-20

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Rev. DIR. A. M. Randolph, rector of EN-
manuel T. E. Church, and Assistant 3 lsb-
op elect of this State, has gone with his
| family, to Eastern View, III Fauquier, for
| the summer.
JOHN W. Carroll. Lone jack has just
been elected President of the Lynchburg
| City Council for the eighteenth time. He
is a cousin of John Nj. Carroll the City
Treasurer of Staunton.
The Rev. A. FL. Miller, of Rock River,
says there is living in his charge Scarf
Reynolds, 81 years old, who has always
been a reader of the Bible; but about
fourteen years ago. after severe sickness
he began to give more time to il, having
since then read 1t 200 times. an average of
once every twenty-five days.
A letter from Lexington, Va, says that
Chas. Pettigrew, sou of Mr.. Matt Petit
grew, a prominent merchant there, COM
mitted suicide there last week by taking
morphine.
Right Rev. John J. Keane, bishop of
Richmond, with Father Mackin. of Balti-
more had an audience with the Pope, j une
%. The Bishop presented the Pope with
7 600 francs as the Peters pence cuntribu-
I ton from tide diocese OF Richmond.
In Rockingham county John Michael
Flory with self binder did the cutting,
binding and shocking of ninety -four acres
of heavy wheat in five days, with three
shockers. Tue heaviest harvesting was
20 acres in one day.
The Office of W. T. Conquest & Sons, ar
Fredericksburg, Va, was entered on Fri
day night and the safe blown open and
robbed OF 500. The burglary was precisely
similar to the Waynesboro bur glary, even
to breaking open neighboring shop and
getting a brace. A stranger registering at
the hotel as Thomas Jones, from the
South,'' was arrested but discharged.
II. W. Higham, the English bicyclist,
defeated John s. Prince, the American
champion, in a twenty mile bicycle race
al Rochester, N. Y. Saturday. Time, l
hour, 9 minutes and 574 seconds.
A post-mortem examination of the body
of Jonathan Chesley, of Northwood Cen
tire. N. H., a blacksmith. who died sud-
denly last week, showed that his stomach
had been eaten through by the common
hott, grub worm which attacks horses
1t is supposed that he swallowed the eggs
of the bott fly which had been deposited
on the legs Of the horses that he shod. and
that they Matched in his stomach.
There has been Of late some silly talk
among a few northern newspapers about
the removal of Mr.. D. Sheffey Lewis from
his position as United States attorney for
the Western district of Virginia, because
Df O fhnt ko ~ in
alleged duel. Surely no such tlimsey pre-
text should be used for tuning out of
office IN honorable gentleman and an
efficient and talented lawyer.-Richnlond
State.
During Mr.. VIM. FL. Mosby' s recent WIS.,
it to Stanton, the new internal Revenue
Collector, Craig, told him that he would
only remove officials where it was abso-
lutely ecessary.-Bedford Sentinel
When Seneca Haines of Sandakin, n.
Y. became the father of twenty children
by one wife, a fellow t0Wnsman offered to
deed 500 acres of land to him if he w IS
if,Slessed with another heir. Subsequently
She prolific Mrs. Haines presented her hus-
band with twins. and the 500 acres were
| added to the Haiues real estate.
/ The famous mud-hole at Hot Springs,
Ark, will hereafter, by order Of the gov
eminent authorities, be free at all hours
to pauper bathsrs, and the prop ssd cree
( tion of hotel over the spot is prohibited.
Heretofore paupers have been excluded at
certain hours.
Father Ryan, the poet-priest, who was
iii WythevilIe, Va. lately on visit. wrote
a poe.ical tribute to the town, for the
| Wytheville 'Dispatch."
The Scottsville Agricultural Fair, in
| Albemarle takes place October 18th, 18th,
and 10Th.
out that John Brown, the Queen's late at
! tendant leaves only $34 600. He had sold i,
I too, NEST of the jewelry and plate present.
| ed to HIM.
| The iucome of the University of Oxford
last year was $3.50 900. This is apart from
| the individual co ltges. one Or two of
which have in good times. nearly $50, 600
Another dock. TO cost 50 $780, 900 with
water area of thirty-fVe acres, is begun by
| Lord Butte at Cardiff. The Butte family
| has sunk at LEASE SIS 100000 in such
works.
At Lovingstcn, in thunder storm, the
office of the Nelson Examiner was
struck by lightning and yearly twenty
persons in the office. or its vicinity, were
severely shocked
There was wine drunk at the wedding of
Mr.. SeInple and Miss Gunter in Alabama,
! that was bottled in 1872 and was the prop
erty of the wife of Gen. r.. 4. Lee. The
bottles it was put III were old ones belong