Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1883-05-18
Tha trial Of CHARLES E. Monroe In Camp.

The trial Of Charles e. Monroe In Camp
bell county, Va, for causing the death of
his mother and brother by putting arsenic
in their coffee. has resulted in his honora-
BILE acquittal. At the first news OF the
deaths and before any evidence was taken
he narrowly escaped fynchiDg. At his &C.
quittal the same people congratulated NM
Queen Victoria has ordered a large brass
bearing eulngistic inscription, In memo
~ Of John Brown. which is to be placed
on the walls of the Prince Consort's Maui
solemn at FrOemOre. A bust and statue
are also in preparation. and at Crathie an
elaborate monument is to be placed over
the grave, and ''cairn' on one Of the adj
Jacent hills.
An old church in Lancaster, Mass, has
had but eight pastors in $50 years.
John W. Lohr of Shenandoah has q
horse twenty eight years old. which can
travel per day, with ease, as many miles
as he is years OF age.
Rev, J. E. Widmeyer, minister of the
United Brethren church died last week at
Newtown in Frederick county. Va.
Mr.. Andrew Carnegie, late of Plttsburg,
where he amassed a large fortune in iron
manufactures, never became a citizen of
the United States, and, having returned
to Scotland, is about to stand for parlia-
ment
The youngest female telegraph operator
IN tie world probably is little girl ten
wears old, Halle Hutchinson by name, " 10
lives in Texas, and has chargr Ut the
TELEGRAPH office at the railway station at
which she resides.
Otto J. Thrasher, an apprentice in the
Lynchburg Neacs office, has just closed a
six days work, on each day Of which he
set Is. $50 ems. The feat of young Thrash
er was accomplished with ease. ''straight
| from the hook, " as the boys would say. in
BREWER and minion type, and stpmrs him
AS one Of the swiftest compositOrs in Vir-
gina.
Up to this time between $1,000 900 and
| ST 900, COO of old bonds have heen funded
into about $1,000, 900 of Riddleberger
bonds.
The University of Texas, to which Prof.
Mallett goes, is the richest educational
Institution in America; besides an annual
income of $35, 900. 1t has an endowment of
Z.U dCT6S VI ihIu. WHlCu ~ 40 CoeA-
mated will bring $40 100000.
J. Preston Wef1ey well known druggist
of Luray died few days since.
James Longstreet. Jr., son Of the ex-
Confederate general. has been appointed
| by Mr.. Arthur to he cadet-at-large at the
Annapolis Academy.
tab kho 1s,f loot
sional beauty in England, who, Langtry-
| like. has just gone on the stage. is the
| widow of the late proprietor of the London
Court Journal.
The famous Marshal MacMahon, Of
France, who is still living. stands erect
| and sOldierly as ever. but soon drops off to
sleep when he sits down. He is rs years
of age.
W. 81. H. Murray, having been severely
| criticised by the newspapers, is getting
| even by airing his opinions on the press.
| He defines journalism as 1.-The nationalist
| tion of the sewing circle"
Andrew Bowman. of Hamburg, Shsnan-
doah, has in two weeks lost two daug hters
| by scarlet fever and has third i'll Of the
| same disease.
An excursion party of chickens, filling
two cars, passed over the S. V. r. r.. last
week. enrOute from Tennessee 10 Pbiladel-
phia. They will not return. -Luray
| Courier.
The Augusta, Ca, church, after strong
petitioning from the Richmond, Va,
First Baptist church, has released Rev.
DIR. Hawthorne of Richmond, from his
acceptance of Its call.
! A little chicken dropping out of a tree
brought On q strict search of the tree by a
| farmers daughter IN Shenandoah county
which discovered seven little chickens In
the fork of the tree. ten feet from the
ground, site selected by the mother hen
| for her nest.
Mrs. Martha S. Rhodes, who died at Mt.
Olive. Shenandoah, on the 4th inst, be
Queathed $3.50 to the Beneficiary Fund oil
the Evangelical Lutheran Tenness ee
Synod.