Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1883-01-12

Owing to the heavy pressure OF business,
another telegraph wire, is b ing put up
along the Shenandoah Valley Railroad be-
tween Luray and Roanoke.
Mr.. A. Gordon Jones. of Virginia, has
been appointed Assistant Superintendent
Of the Tampico branch OF the Mexican
Central Railroad.
At dance in Bedford county, Va, Miss
Reed complained that the figures were
c6Hed wrong, and was fatty contradcted
10y Scott Clayton. who wa: calling them.
W.1y5or " IS instantly killed With knife
by Ara stead Barksdale, who the next day
committed suicide
S, f5ell, England, last month a prop
erty of 255 acres, with residence, brought
no higher bid than $4,000. 1t had ba-n
b ug'lt FIR $65 900, All! the reserved price
was $40 600, 50 ii WIS not Id.
Gen. " ckham the 1aw President of the
Virginia Stale Agricultural Society
promptly paid the ST $50 interest, IN. /
On the Rlchuond loan to the Society.
|. john G. Mclaughlin, who in old times,
was the Presiding Magistrate of Bath CO..
nut later, has held many public trusts in
Pnea1oatas. w. Va. died on the % d
ult.
Rev. DR. G. P. Krauih, Vice President
# the University # Pennsylvania. WAC
iiei in Philadelphia Tu-sda2, was mar
rjed twice Susau R-yo Ids OF Balfim re.
v4s bis first wife. aud bis sec"nd was Vir-
linla Baker, Of Winchester, Va.
Capt. Don. r. Halsey, who married a
sister of NJ John W. Daniel, If Lynch
burg, died in Nielsen County, last week.
Mr.. John B Cough, when asked recent
ly what he thought of The political profit
bitten movement. said Il am not IN favor
Of putting this element into politics. 1t
does not belong there. am moralsua-
sion-idea man.
Ben Perley Poor says that he has found
proof, in the Congressional Library. that
j effel sCn was not inaugurated with DEM
&c ratic simplicity as has been supposed,
but with cAnnops firing aud whatever dis
play was possible.
Major John Sc oft. of Warrenton, Va,
me Of the aUlest climiual lawyers in Vir-
einis. is the author Of y book emitted The
Lost Principles in which he shnW how
,ectional equilibrium Of the States was
created, destroyed, and might have been
restored
Booker Robertson, tried in Lynchburg
for killing Capt. E. d. Craddock, yard
maste there for the Richmond u Allegha~
ny Railroad, has ueen acquitted.
Rev. Henry D. Ia ,e, rector of st. Ste
phen's church at Culpeper, was married
in Clark county last week to Miss Sarah
n. Gregg.
WI. Young has been elected Prnci-
p,l of the North Carolina d. ID. Il B. In
stilution, vice II. A. Gudger, resigned.
E. S. T9inkle, we'll known citizen
of Wythevile. died last week. He was
insured for So 900 in tne Stanton Valley
Mutual.
The Nawhall hotel at Milwaukee, Wis.
was burned Wednesday morning, and six
5y-two PERSONS were burned to death.
Marshall T. Polk. the State Treasurer
If Tenn. is a defaultar for over $40O 00o.
He was arrested i'll flight and is on his Way
oack to Nashville.
The snow which com menced Tuesday,
afterwards reached depth of six inches
Aere, and eight inches further west. w hen
reached Williamsburg in the Eastern
,art of tina State |, W " two feet deep.
Mr.. John E. Wright, Superintendent Of
I've Leesburg, Loud0n county Cemetery,
lied last week. HI life WAS ins ured IN
he Stanton Valley Mutual for So 900.
While President Arthur's New Year
eception was going on, Elisha H. Allen
minister from the Hawaiian Island, fell
lead, of heart disease in thu east ROOM
Tue reception Was stopped at once,
-Dr Bartol, in a ote concerning the late
Mr.. Henry james, SAYS: ITO one wn
arcastlcaly crl' icised paper If his at tht
Radical Club defending the superna ura
n the gospel stoIy, he wi h Il sharpness OF
marvellous humi ity repl ed, Yes. mus;
confess | am an abiect Christian, ~