Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1883-04-27

An awful, and, for Virginia, unprece-
dented, crime took place at Danville this
week. w. T.. DOdsOn. who up 10 the last
five months, during which time he has
been given up to liquor, was respectable
citizen and church member. murdered
James Reid, u c)iOred man of good char.
| acter. He entic-d Reid to his own home,
having previously seut his family to the
country, and there murdered him and set
ting fire to the building, left it. A po-
liceman discovered the tire, put it out, and
found the murdered man still bleediny.-
DudsOn, who had been sen that night at
| the house, was arrested short distance
F.! in the country. He cOrfessed. TO having
insured his own life, for S. 500 in the Mu-
tual Life OF New York; the New York Mu-
tual Life and the North western Mutual,
intending to dsa tpear and let the charred
body tOuhd III the house be mistaken for
his. and his family get the Insurance.. He
says Reid was brought there already dead
by some colored men whose names he did
not know, but who he had hired to furnish
q corpse.
T. NJ. and Hugh NJ. Nelson, of Clarke
county, Va, have bought two CIydesdale
stations for 81, 500. An example which
ought to be followed in Augusta.
z. Lorillard Il Co., have chartered a
train of twenty-one cars, for delivery
of plug tobacco To the West at the earliest
moment after the tobacco tax reduction,
which goes in force from May 1st. The
train will leave Jersey City Monday night,
May 1st, on express schedule. and is tx
pected to reach Chicago in thirty hours.
The membership of the Catholic Church
at Roanoke, Va, has increased within a
few mont BIS from so to IT'S. TIE cOngrega-
ton PROPOSE the Immediate erection of Il
church builG IF stone, with a seating capa-
city of four o. five hundred.
Hon. Charles B. Ball, for m any ye ars
county, Va, died Saturday at the re-
sidepce of his father-iu-law, Rev. DR.. G.
II. Read, in Ri, hmond.
Patrick Taaffe, for manv years employed
by the late Peter Cooper III his glue factory.
and from whom he had received many
kindnesses, went home on hearing of his
de.th, told his sister he wa. broken
heai ted, and died the next morning.
Pierre Lorillard. the tobacconist-mil-
lionaire of New York, arrived at Rich
mond, Va, Saturday, in his steam yacht.
Miss Anna Chambiu, daughter of Rich
ard G. ChambIin, of Bloomfield, Lnudoun
county, who was severely burned about a.
month ago, did from her injuries Monday
night last, after having endured int use,
suffering.
William w. Corcoran, the Washington
millionaire and founder of the Corcnran
picture gallery, is regarded by Mary Glen
mer AmeS as ''benignantly beautiful"
He is slightly above average height, of
full port, but without corpulence. HIS
features are regular, his gray hair ample
and bec"mingly cut, and his mous' ache
shows ''the care AID elegant shape which
younger men are wont to bestOw upon this
decoration"
r. c. u. Benz amin, a young colored
lawyer, graduate of Lii coin University
Washington, WAS ranted license to pra G.
tice law. by the county court of Albemai IL
county, Va, last term.
The income the Pope could have from
the Italian Cover nment. if he chose to
take the money, is $3.50, 900.
Tilman Shumate, cashier of the Shenan-
doah Valley National Bank of Wincheste I
died last week OF consumption.
Mr.. Harrison Pbebus was in Richmond
this week. making preparations for the
season at the White Sulphur Springs, of
which he is the lessee.
Black bass weighing FIVE and one-hali
pounds are being caught near Hinton, W .
Va.
| Squire Alexander Gilmor, one of the
| Oldest and best citizens of Highland, died
last week.
Soloman s. Gray. the man that first
manufactured paper collars, died at Nan
tick, Mass, Sunday.
| Nearly 10000 virginians by birth arr
living in Georgia and Of that number ], 50l
are located at Atlanta.
Frederick Douglass is soon to marry 9
young mulatto woman who is described al
nearly white. Douglass is sc years old.
The Riverside Cotton Factory. Dan
vile, spun its FIRST thread Thursday.