Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1883-07-20
Probably the only deaf and dumb lawyer

ITOUdUly Guo only utGi duu u uuID ioWyol
ever admitted to practice IN the supreme
Court Of the United States, is j. K. Park
inson. of Cincinnati, who has been sue
cessful patent lawyer.
The erection OF the gas works at Roam
ole City. Va, has been let to M. Ma
honey, Of Philadelphia, at $51 800. Capa-
city, 100. 900 feet day.
Miss Leila Smith, daughter of Prof. w.
H. Smith, of the University of Virginia,
has gone TO Berlin, Prussia, to perfect
| herself in the art Of antlng.
| In the recent epidemic Of smallpox in
Mercer county, W. Va, every fourth pa
| tient died.
Speculation as to who will be the success
sor of Bishop Pinkney, of Maryland, has
already begun. To elect successor it
will require twO-third vote of both cleri-
cal and lay orders There is no annual
| convention until next May, but the i'm
preston seems TO be that there will be a
special convention called by the standing
committee OF the diocese for September.
Miss Ella Ramsey, of Columbus, Ohio,
arrived, for the summer, at the Blue
Ridge Springs, in Bedford, Va. She went
upstails !e first night of her arrival and
wrote stVti3l DOstalS to her friends at
home sag Z how much she was pleased.
and Il 'lext morning was found dead in
bed cart disease.
Tam Mast. the caricaturist, has been
retired by the Harper Bros on ID pension
of $4,000.
| William Mortimer, a one-handed COM
pn',!,er ia The Office of the Carbon Advo-
Cate" (Pa.) fastens his stick diagonalIy
across he TT box, and sets, corrects and
distributes eight Thousand ems Of solid
minion each day.
In making gift of 5000, 900 to New Or
deans for educational purposes, Mr.. Tulane
stipulated that the property should not be
taxed. TIE city agreed to the proviso,
! but the Supreme Court has decided thai
the exemption is illegal.
All You is the prettiest Chinese girl
ever brought TO America. She was one
of the wonders of San Fra cisco's Chinese
| quarter, and as such Was pointed out to
all tourists. One of these, an Englisman,
has fallen in love with and married her.
Prof. Remsen, of the John Hopkins
Laboratory. deems the study of chemistry
as h,acing for the morals as for the mind.
81 believe" he says, ''that frequent prac-
tice in qualitative and Quantitatiye an
alyss has q tendency to develop honesty"
There are now in operation in the south
ern States one hundred and ninety-one
cotton factories.
Benz. Glen, of Quicksburg, Shenandoah
Va, aged seventy years. Graded his
whole crop Of Whaat this harvest. Henry
Albert, of the same county, aged eighty
three, bound wheat all the harvest.
James G. Orange, white man has just
been sent from Richmond city Jail to the
Williamsburg Lunatic Asylum. He is
charged with the murder of his wife, and
| the inmate OF the cell above him let down
by a rope an effigy of man hanging
which swayed to ard fro before the muir
derer's window. Ge yelled and tore mis-
hair like EFild beast and is now a Maniac.
In professional dispute as to how a
patient should b. treated, a few DAYS ago.
Dr. Edgar Simms, Of Green county, Va,
shot DR.. Edgar e. Cassidy. It is thought
the wounded man will lose an eye. Hon.
| r. L. W. Duke, of Charlottesville, is en-
| gagged to aid the prosecution in the case.
Last week Dr.. Howell, of Wise county !,
Va, shot and mortaly wounded VIM. Fl.
Addington. At last accounts A S. brother
and posse OF thirty men were hunting
DR.. H., to lynch him.
The Virginia Supreme Court Of Appeals,
which is in session at Wytheville. has
elected q. E. Iron, of Marion, Crier, and
| Jas. A. Blckle and Jas. A Turks, of
WyJheville, Librarians to tue court.
Mrs. Senator Mahoue and daughter went
in special Car to Luray cave last week.
| Mr.. a. S. Abel, proprietor Of the Balti-
more San, is estimated to be worth $15,-
600 600.
| Fifty-one acres of land mile and
half from Norfolk, have just been sold for
$21,715.
A watermelon vine grown by the Reams
Brothers, Of Harris county, Ca, is 700
| feet long. and it has produced 400 pounds
| Of melons.
A man gave as an excuse for not serving
on a jury at Mount Sterling, Ky, that
something was going to happen at his
| house. and he Dug Int IT, be there" He was
| told to stand aside
A San Francisco preacher, whose voice
/ has oft reverberated amid divers empty
pews, gave out recently that he would dis
cuss family scandal on the following sam
day. The church was consequently crowd
| ed. ard the preachers subject was Adam
and Eve.
AT GAINESVILLE, Mecklenburg county
| Va, W. FL. Russell, of the finn of G. Fl
Russell u Son, was engaged in fistcuff
with Constable G ". r. Averett, when
Averett s son shot hin in She back. Rus
+ sell then drew pistol and shot the elder
Averett in the stomach, killing him. Rus
sell is in a critical condition.
John W. Catlett, who once represented
Gloucester in the Virainia Senate, died on
the 18th inst. aged eighty years.
! Capt. W. S Lurty and wife have gone
on a summer tour to Nova Scotia.
Mrs, Mary Willoughby Slaughter, wife
OF DR.. Cbas Slaughter, a prominent younu
phsslcian of Lynehburg, and daughter OF
| Hon. Il. t. w Duke, of Charlottesville.
| died on Friday morning.
Mr.. A. D. Smith, of Fauquier, claims
to have the boss" apple tree in Virginia.
1t has produced seventy-fve bushels Of
apples in one season, and one season s
bearing has made q forty gallon barrel of
brandy.
The only policeman in a New Hamp-
shire town was SO excited over the arrival
| OF the circus that he got drunk and had
to be carried home.
Tom Thumb IS dead. He died at Mid
dleboro Massachusetts,. his home. on Sun
day, aged IS. Of apoplexy He leaves little
MRS. Thumb to mourn his demise. Char
les Haywood Stratton was the real name
/ of the deceased