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Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1883-02-23

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Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1883-02-23
Murder of a Great Farmer.
A NATIVE OF AUGUSTA KILLED IN

CALIFORNIA.
DIR. Hugh J. Glenn who was born near
Mt Sidney in this county, and who has
many relations in Augusta, was assassin
ated in Colusa county. California. on
Saturday last, by his book keeper H. Miller
who he had discharged from his employ
ment. The fatal shot was delivered with
a shot gun at distance of sixty feet. DR..
Glenn was the Democratic candidate for
was the largest wheat raiser in the state.
The assassin was only captured after be-
ing shot in the knee by r. M. Cochran,
DR.. Glenn's superintendent. DIR. Glenn
was the largest wheat raiser not only in
California but in the Union.
His ranch comprises about go, 900 acres
of land, and the number Of acres in wheat
each year ranges between 10000 and 5O.-
600. Reckoning an average of from 20 to
25 bushels to the acre, the aggregate crop
each year amounts to something more than
l 200, 600 bushels This enormous amount
of grain requires vast appliances for plant
ing and bringing it to market and the
capital invested in machinery alone sums
up considerable fortune. During the har-
vest time there are employed on the en-
tire ranch some 500 men. DR.. Glenn was
general-in-chief of his force. and his ranch
is divided, for convenience of operations,
into nine smaller raEcheS-each with
dwelling-hOu barns, blacksmith shop
and other necessary buildings. In charge
of these are seven foremen. under whom
are sixteen blacksmlths. fourteen carpen-
tiers, six engineers, six machinists, five
commissarles and numerous cooks and
servants. The common workmen are d.
vided into gangs, and detailed where they
are needed. There are needed 100 gang
ploWs, 60 herders, to which belong $50
wagons; 6 cleaners, 100 harrows> Is seed
ers, 6 threshers engines. Besid\s there
are many smaller instruments and We
hicles. which cannot be classified. Coop
Grating with their human brethren in the
great labor are 1000 work horses and
mules, with ixinship of brood mares and
younger stock which has not yet achieved
the dignity of labor. There are 80 dwell
ling houses, q barns, IA blacksmith shops.
and other structures sufficient to swell the
aggregate to 100 The machinery could
not be replaced for 1925, 900; the work.
horses and mules are worth s11O, 600; and
the brood mares and young stock $75 600,
and the buildings on the place 500 ,000.-
The ranch is about twenty miles above che
town of Colusa.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1883-02-23

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Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1883-02-23

A LESSON FOR THE YOUNG MEN OF
VIRGINIA.-WLen the war closed, one of
the Augusta county soldiers, like most
others, came out of the army With single
half dollar. He was already married. He
came home and rented little farm which
ne worked en- as long as daylight lasted
and often longer. His wife helped him as
an Industrious wife only can. Two or
three years after that, they moved to an
other rented farm and worked hard on
that. At the end of five years he had 81 900
clear money; that is, his labor and that Of
his wife had cleared 5000 year. He then
hought the Ramsey farm. The first pay
ment was to be 81. 100 and this he made up
with his ST 900 and by selling horse for
800 He still worked hard and met the
payments as they came, and then with his
arm safe under his feet he commenced
spreading and buying additional land.
To-day he raises 1000 bushels of wheat a
year besides other grain, and to-day he is
worth $50 900. He never once thought of
'goiug west'' or even of leaving his native
unity. He fought it out on the home
line. He is no imaginary man to stir up
others with, but Geo. W. Freed, known
rs one of the best farmers in South River
district. His history Is an instructive les
son to the young men of Virginia.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1883-02-23

arrangement all who came in time were
admitted. The Judge hoped that he would
have no more applications for admission,
whether by ringing his door bell, stopping
him on the street, or sent through the
court room windows as had been done.
THE CoMMONwEALTH's LAST AND FLEE
ING WITNESS.
The name of Alexander Wilson was
called as the next witness. 1t had been
already rumOred that this witness bad
fed. No answer came to the call. Itwas
stated in court that officer Simpson had
met Wilson in Berkeley, Allen & Co.'S
drug store, Saturday night, and summon
ed him verbally. but did not serve pro-
cess on him. as he had given the process
to another officer. Both the counsel for
the prosecution and the court said they
did not consider the officer blameable as
under the circumstances his being without
the process was unavoidable. A subpoena
Was then issued for Wilson. who it was re-
| ported to the court had that morning hired
a horse and started off on the Parkersburg
pike, promising to send the horse back.
THE ONLY WITNESS FOR THE
! DEFENSE
was then put on the stand. The witness
was Luther A. Saunders, of Mt. Crawford.
He testified that at Tom Burke g saloon
, in Staunton, on December court-day he
saw Burner. They took drink together.
Burner had some gold in his baud and wit
| ness said jokingly MAKE me present of
that" ~ can't, have gwen away too
much gold already.'' "What do you
mean 7" asked witness. 1--we given my
girl gold watch" said Burner. WHO is
she 7" Fannie Lewis'' was the answer. I
said he had better look out or Amiss would
give him some trouble, Burner, pulling a
pistol out Of his hip pocket, said; II
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1883-02-23

We give below the closing evidence and
scenes in the trial before Judge Smith of
Geo. w. Amiss, for the murder in Staun-
ton of John j. Burner, of Shenandoah:
Middletown transcript., 1883-12-28
A /" "Penguinnery.'.

In each nest sits one young, half
fedged bird, as the " Jack-ass" penguin
laws and matches but single egg.
Many of the nests have old birds stand
ing beside them, each occupied in feed
ing its solitary chick, duckling, gosling,
or whatever the penguin offspring
may be properly called. This being Of
itself a curious spectacle, the disap-
pionted egg-hunters stop awhile to
witness it for they are still outside the
bounds Of the penguinnery, and the
birds have as yet taken no notice of
them. By each nest is little mound,
on which the mother stands perched,
from time to time projecting her head
outward and upward, at the same time
giving forth queer chattering noise,
half-quack, half bray, with the air Of a
stump orator haranguing an open-air
audience. Meanwhile, the youngster
stands patiently waiting below, evidently
with a foreknowledge OF what IS TO
come. Then, after a few seconds OF
the quacking and braying, the mother
suddenly ducks her head, with the
mandibles Of her beak wide agape, be-
tween which the hedgeling thrusts its
head, almost out of sight, and so keeps
it for more than a minute. Finally
withdrawing it, up again goes the head
Of the mother, with neck craned cut
and oscillating from side to side in &
second spell of speech-making. These
curious actions are repeated severa
times, the entire performance lasting
for period of nearly quarter of al
hour. When it ends, possibly from
the food-supply having become ex
hausted, the mother-bird leaves tn
little glutton to itself and scuttles OF
seaward, to replenish her throat-larde
with fresh stock Of molluscs. -Fror
g The Land Of Fyre' Terra del Ftteg")
by Captain Mayne Reid, IN St. Nichc
las for January.
Middletown transcript., 1883-12-28
Origin OF the Potato.

The potato, originally a South
American plant, was introduced to
Virginia by Sir John Harvey in 1922,
though it was unknown in some coun-
ties of England a hundred and hfty
years later. In Pennsylvania, potatoes
are mentioned very soon after the adj
vent Of the Quakers they were not
among New York products in 1896, but
in 1775 we are told of eleven thousand
bushels grown on one sixteen-acfe
patch in this province. Potatoes were
served, perhaps as an exotic rarity, at
a Harvard installation dinner in l1O1
but the plant was only brought into cul-
ture in New Englandat the arrival ofthe
Presbyterian immigrants from Ireland
in 1718. Five bushels were accounted
a large crop Of potatoes for a Connecti-
cut farmer for it was held that, If a
man ate them every day, he could not
live beyond seven years.-Fron' " H'ts-
bandry in Colony Times IN he jan
.ary Century.
Middletown transcript., 1883-12-28

TEE best cure for diseases Of the nerves,
brain. and muscles, Is Browns Iron Bitters.
MARION, MAss.-Dr. N. S. Ruggles says:
s.I recommend Browns Iron Bitters as a
valued tonic for enriching the blood and
removing all dyspeptic symptoms. It does
NOT hurt the teeth"
HTSTsyTLLF, ALA.-Dr. ]. T. Ridley
savs. browns Iron Bitters is a good
appetizer and merits attention from suffer
ers."
Middletown transcript., 1883-12-28

CHIPS.

'Hacked to DEATH is suggested as
an inscription for the tombstones Of
visitors who die at Niagara.-Oa City
Blizzard.
Some men are born poor, some have
poverty thrust upon them, while others
are professional humorists. Yonkers
Statesman.
a fire in an uptown residence was
caused by parlor match. Thisisnoth-
ing new. Many blaze of fury has been
kindled by parlor match and resulted
in a divorce suit.-Ne1g York Morning
Journal.
General Howard proposes that the
soldier deserter be branded, when
caught, with the letter 3D." The
Generals will continue to be branded
on the nose-whether they desert or
not. Marathon Independent.
A Southern Dakota man recently
promised his dying wife that he would
meet her in Heaven. When the fact
became known that the man was an
editor, the joke was regarded as too
good to Bismarck Tribune.
A Washington lawyer of eighty, hav-
ing secured the acquittal Of a murder
ess on the ground that she was crazy,
has Just married probably in order
to convince the public that his theory
was correct. Rochester Post-Erpress
Disraeli said short time before his
death, /" You cannot convert fifteen
thousand tons into twenty thousand
tons.'' This will cause ice-dealers to
smile until the corners of their mouths
get all tangled up on the back of their
necks.- Bisnaarl. Tribune.
"The whole art Of music,'' says a
writer, " consists of taking up subject
and pursuing it, If that is the case,
six young men who took up the trail OF
a cornet-player and pursued him into
a cranberry swamp in the north part
of the town, had the correct idea OF the
matter. Burlington Free Press.
"Sonny, is your mother at home y
asked the minister, addressing the little
boy who was standing at the door
g Yes, she's at home," was the reply
"but 1 guess she doesn't want to SCI
you. heard her just tell pa that sh'
hated fools, and that she never saw
man vet who wasn't fool. "-Phitd
delphia Chronicle.
A letter was recently received by
Massachusetts newspaper addressed t
the Paregoric editor" 1t wa
thought to be intended for the pars
graphic editor, but one of the staff, VIII
had Just been made the happy father
a beautiful baby, said he guessed it Wf
for him, and it was handed over to hin
-SomerUille Journal.
/ know" said a little Chicag
girl to her elder sisters young man,
the supper-table, that you will join OIL
society for the protection of little bird
because mamma says you are very for
oflarks." The youth promptly handt
over five dollar note as an initiate
fee. and thinks in due time he will be
full-fedged ornothological humanit
Chicago Telegram.
Middletown transcript., 1883-12-28

The stat ling information that the
Empress Of Austria is affected with
sciatica. has been received at this Office.
We would advise delegation of con-
gressmen to call on the president and
see if the government can not be in
duced to take appropriate action in the
matter.-ArEdnsalU IrdueIer.
Middletown transcript., 1883-12-28
THE EpTToR AND HIS DAUGHTER.

Unto her pa, with face serene,
Said one OF Gothams farcst daughters:
wWhat does this old expression meath
This casting bread upon the Waters?'
Her father with a soft caress,
Replied with earnestness surprising.
- NV dear. 'tis nothing more nor less
Than most judicious Advertising
-NelC York Journal
Middletown transcript., 1883-12-28

a FIREMAN's FORTUNE.-The San
Francisco (Cdl.) Chronicle, in an article
on the Fire Departments of San Fran
cisco, gives the following from Asst.
Chief Engineer Matthew Brady: /
have been subject to an aggrayating
pain in my chest for over four years.
[ Iresorted to various modes of treatment
to obtain relief. I have had my chest
terribly blistered. No physician could
tell what was the matter with me.
Two weeks ago commenced using st
Jacobs Oil. 1t has cured me-"
Middletown transcript., 1883-12-28

He came into our sanctum last Tues
day morning with q beautiful Christ
mas poem. He was dressed in seedy
black, wore a plug hat, had a mole on
his chin and stammered in his speech.
If this description meets the eyes of any
Of his friends, we hope they will send
for his remains. RiUer AdUdnce.
Middletown transcript., 1883-12-28

NEW CASTLE ACCOMMODATION TRAINs.-Leave
Wilmington at ain. and pm. Leave New
Castle at 9.35 am. and 4.40 pm.
SMYRNA BRANCH TRAINs.-Leave Smyrna for
Clayton TIA, s.53, 1880, and 1888 a. m. 2.2S,
40, and 7.47 D. m. Leave Clayton for Smyrna
725, 905 10 A. II 10 a. M, 40 sos and S.00p.
CoNNECTIoN.-AtP Porter with Newark & Della
ware City railroad. At Townsend. with Queen
Anne's and Kent Rail Road. At Clayton, with
Delaware and Chesapeake Rail Road and Kent
County Rail Road. At Harrington, with Della,
Maryland & Virginia Railroad. At Seaford,
with Cambridge and Seaford Rail Road. At
Delmar with Eastern Shore Rail Road, Wico-
mico and PocomoRe Rail Road and Peninsu-
lar Rail Road.
CHAs. E. PUGH, General Manager.
J. R. WOOD, Gen. Pass. Agent.
may27-tf.
1888. 1888.
Middletown transcript., 1883-12-28

IT was wise one that said "Eyery
man is occasionally what he ought to
be perpetually." That must be when he
is honest enough to acknowledge the
merits of DR.. Bulls Cough Syrup,
the only sure cure for coughs and
colds,
Middletown transcript., 1883-12-28

CARL PRETzEL's SERMoN--Mine
dear friends, dhere vas tree tings got
me much wonder. Der first vas, dot
schmall childs should be SO foolishness
as to make shtones und shdicks gone
ub in der shweet abble trees to make
down der beech nuts for of dhey will
yoost let 'em alone, dhey will soon fall
themselves down. Der second Won
vas. dot mems will been so foolishness as
to gone to var und kill de odder of
dhey would let 'em alone pooty gwiek
dhey die by dheir ownself. Der last
ting vas, und der Won dot l got me
most wonder at, vas, dot young men
vas so unvise as to gone for der young
vimmens ofer dhey would only shtop
at home der gals would comepooty gvick
by dhem.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1883-09-14

SEVEN hundred supernumeraries win take
rart in Jules Verne's grand spectacular piece,
''Keruban le Tetu," at the Gate, Paris.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1883-09-14

Dakota, Mr.. Willard, president of the North
ern Pacific railroad, Baron Won Eisendecker,
the German minister to this country, the Hon.
CAR Schurz and Indian Chief Sitting Bull.
Mrs. SPERwELL, living near Daraville, Ga,
was grossly insulted by a colored man, who
had entered her house and with pistol drawn
demanded food and money, which were given
him. The lady screamed for assistance, and
the rufiian fled. Three farm hands, one of
them Mrs. Sprewel's son, pursued the fell wv,
and in a few minutes brought him to bay,
with his back against a rock. As young
Sprewell advanced to make him a prisoner
the black suddenly whipped out his knife and
stabbed Spfewell to the heart, killing him
instantly. Sprewell's enraged companions
thereupon drew their revolvers and fired ST
simultaneously, dropping the negro dead over
his victims body with two bullets in his brain.
Mrs PHOEBE HAYLAND, sixty-eight years
old, and her two grandsons, aged respectively
four years and nine months, were burned to
death by a fire which destroyed their residence
in Riverton. Ill.
YELLOW fever was reported to be increas.
ing at Pensacola, Fla.
A occupied by about 1000 women,
and children at a tournament of the Grand
Army of the Republic in Havre de Grace,
Md, fell with a great crash. Many were
badly hurt, and several had to be at once re-
moved to their homes for surgical treatment.
FRANK SHELTON (colored) was hanged at
Greensboro, Ala. for wife murder, and Henry
Dickinson also colored) at Plaquemine, La,
for the murder of Henry Steele in a drunken
row over a game of cards.
A FRI near Marshall, Texas, destroyed o
sawmill IND 100000 feet of lumber.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1883-09-14
PROMINENT PEOPLE.

BEEcHER.-Henry Ward Beecher has been
lecturing in California.
JARvIs.-Governor Jarvis and wife, of
North Carolina, ave been visiting in Boston,
the guests of Governor Butler.
BARNEs.-Mr Barnes, the "Mountain
Evangelist of Kentucky, now in London, is
promulgating a new notion, to wit, that the
English-speaking people are descended from
the lost tribe of Israel.
CAMERoN.-United States Senator j. D. Cam
eron is in Scotland, under the medical care
of Sir Henry Thompson. His health has
slightly improved, and, if it continues to do
so, he will remain in Europe until a complete
restoration is effected.
MAXEY.-United States Senator Maxey, Of
Texas, carries in his travels through the North
a g~old-heGded cane of blis dare wood. 1t has
a reddish-brown tinge, and according to Mr..
Maxey is the most valuable wood found in
Texas. He thinks that there is nothing to
surpass it in durability in the country.
C~oLLYER.-The Rev. Robert Collyer, Of
New York, is one of the American preachers
who have occupied London pulpits the past
summer. Mr.. Collyer, who is an American
by adoption and was a blacksmith in his ma
tive England, preached also in Ilkley parish
this summer, in a church the gates of which
are proudly pointed out as the work of his own
hands when he was employed in the forge.
CAR ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS III. is the
despair of opera managers in st. Petersburg.
once the car was a boon to them, for the
announcement that he would "honor the per-
Torrance" was sure to crowd the house. But
now the mere suspicion that he may attend
scares the public away, for they see visions of
bombs, dynamite and sudden death. Yet
the emperor cannot be asked to stay away.
NuTT.-James Mutt, who shot Dukes, the
slayer of his father, at Uniontown, Penn,
is rather gloomy over the delay in his trial.
The Jail where he is confined is a miserable
old concern, and he is obliged to mingle with
the dozen other prisoners confined there. The
rigor of prison life is, however, relaxed, so
that he gets fair treatment and good food,
His mother and sister visit him every day,
and he is as comfortable as his surrounding
will admit. II
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1883-09-14
FOREST FIRES.
Thousands Of Acres Burned Over in
New EngIand---LOss More Than
S~1.2JO,OOO.

A Boston dispatch says: This city is sur
rounded by n Gordon of flames. From the
south shore, stretching around to the west
and reaching eastward until met by Massa-
chusetts bay, there is not a town within
fifty miles of Boston that has not one or
more fires. Further away, among the
pine trees of Maine, the granite hills
of New Hampshire, the green mountains Of
Vermont, ard the nutmeg groves of Con-
n~ecticut, the trees, ~shrubbery, meadows and
peat boys are, many of them, in flames.
These fires are, most of them, the result of
carelessness. The locomotive and the small
boy are the most active agents, and careless
smokers and hunters second them In
Massachusetts, 5000 acres of meadows
in Cantor and Norwood have been burned
over, with a loss of 100000. A fire
started two weeks ago in the woods, near
West Roxbury, has been only partially
checked, and the burnt district covers 1000
acres. The fire burned most fiercely on the
brush-covered lodges of the Blue Hills. The
whole territory for several miles presents a
blackened, desolate appearance, and Panka-
poag woods in Milton, and Moosehead woods
in Sharon, Mansfield and Foxboro nave all
severely suffered. The Foxboro firemen
worked over thirty hours, and in Walpole the
mills closed and all of the male help fought
fire.
The Maiden fire department has been called
out nearly every day for a week to subdue
the great fires in the marshes at Edgeworth
and Oak Grove. The brush and grass fires
called out the firemen of Saugus and Wake
field three times in one day. Many instances
of narrow escape are cited.
In Maine there are large forest fires in the
northern woods, and in the woods near Ban-
gor. In New Hampshire the White Noun
tains are suffering from fires. The woods
bordering Lake Winnepescogee are ablaze,
and the hills in the vicinity of Keene are red
with flames. In Connecticut the forests along
the banks of the Thames and the Connecticut
rivers and in the western hills are covered
vito blackened patches; every mile the flames
and smoke shoot up to great height. Tn
total loss is estimated at something over
81 90 600
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1883-09-14
THE NATIONAL GAME.

The Boston league nine won every one of
the series of fourteen games from the Phila-
delphias.
UMPIRE FURLoNG, of the league staff, has
resigned. Of the original appointees only
one is left.
As a rule professional players are careless
and imprOvident, vet some ave saved their
earnings and are comfortably "fixed."
NEARLY every town in Ohio has the base
ball craze, and everywhere stock companies
are being formed and inclosed grounds Sc
cured.
CINCINNATI people ascribe the il-success Of
the powerful Cincinnati club to q multi
plicity of managers and inefficient field cap
tanning.
The Anderson club has been expelled from
the Massachusetts, Baseball association. The
championship of the State has been awarded
to the Holyoke club.
DURING a game at Philadelphia between the
New York aud Philadelphia nine, Ferguson,
captain AMI second baseman for the la tier
club, put out fifteen players of the twenty
seven.
WARD and HUMPHREYS. of the New York
league nine, are to enter Harvard and study
law. Ward will enter after the present sea-
son, and HUMPHREYS, who is one of the reserve
men, will enter a year from now.
Brown, the right fielder of the Columbus
club, beat the best single game batting record
du DdlulllOTe, HlhhllS uWO SluSt anu WV
double hits, and two home runs. In the six
hits he made fourteen bases.
A RECENT game between the Chicago and
Detroit clubs was altogether phenomenal. In
the seventh inning the Chicagos struck a rare
streak of batting. making eighteen runs, of
which thirteen were earned, with a total of
thirty-four hits off two pitchers. This is be-
lieved to be without parallel in the history of
professional baseball.
PROBABLY the most perfect game of ball
which has ever been played took place a In
dianapolis recently between the Indianapolis
club and the Springfield Ql.) team of the
Northwestern league. Eleven innings were
played. not a run was made on either side,
and there were only three errors. The SPRING
field men lost the game by refusing to play
any longer, and the umpire declared the game
against them by 9 to 0.
LEAGUE CLUB
The official record of the league champion
ship games played up to the 1st is as follows: