Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1883-05-04

base Jail with the Harrisonburg Club and
thought l would call your attention to the
fact You made it appear tina. we had
been beaten, white, IN fact. we we're vie
tors by score of of 81 to 5. We played a
game with the Stanton Club on last
S,.tnr lay evening, April 2Sth, and were
again victorious, the score standing 20
to 10.
Col Chas. I. O'Ferrall will address the
Jeffprsonian Literary Society Of our
Academy at its annual celebration on the
15th inst. w. A. W.
Augusta Male Academy, May 1.
Rev. John S. Grasty, for many years the
Pre- shy terian pastor at Fincastle. Va,
died lately IN Kansas City Mo. His thir
teen year OH iughter, LIZZIE, died three
weeks before her father.
The new compulsory education law of
Rhode Island requires that every child be-
tween the ages of seven and fifteen years
shall have sixteen weeks of schooling each
year. No child under twelve is to be AL
lowed to work in any mandatory. and no
Ode under fourteen who cannot write his
name. age. and place of residence. or read
some part of the State Constitution.
Scarlet fever prevails in malignant
form ia Roanoke. BY the advice of DR..
A. z. K DINER. President of the B yard OF
Health, the public schools are closed for
the season. Several children died on
Thursday.
A capitalist offered to erect at st. Paul
500 900 hotel provided the citizens would
subscribe 5000 900. TO he paid on the COM
pletion of he building. The offer was ac-
cepted. K .nsas City is now looking for
similar offer.
Lady Wilde tells us that "it is not i'm
possible that new alt ct, which may
be called Americanese, will be rapidly
formed"
Mr. Peahody's beqnest to London was
about So 0O0,O 900. The property of the
trust is now valued at over 81 600 600. 1t
has been honestly and Efficient, admins
tered. The tenants number Is 600, in 81
500 separate buildings of 5000 rooms, ex
elusive of laundries, &c.
Superintendent Warner, of the Allie
eheny, Pa. workhouse. says; "Prison
labor is not worth over 40 cents a day.
When a skilled workman can be had for
So day lshculd prefer he latter. Men
W no 60 10 prison are usually those who
have cultivated all their life a natural dis
Taste for work"
Rev. J. R Harrison, of GLADE Spring."
Washington county, Va, has been called
to the pastorate of the Baptist Church at
Martinsburg, West Va.
J. D. Bncher, Alfred Jones. and John
o. Armstrong, have leased, for term of
years, the Hoiliugswcrth Survey in High
land and Augusta counties, which includes
some of the finest grazing lands ia the
State.
Col. Mapleson has secured Patti as pri-
ma donna for his next New YOIk opera
season at the enormous salary Of $4,000
per night.
The oldest living graduate of West
Point Military Academy, Col. Andrew
Talcott. died recently in Richmond. He
WAS the first general manager OF the Rich
moud Il Danville Railroad, and later has
been at the head of several Mexican rail-
ways.
Several Presbyteries Of the Southern
Presbyterian church, two in Virginia,
have taken action favorable TO removing
from the Confession of Faith the prnhibl-
ton against the marriage of a deceased
WlfeS sister.
Beware of unworthy evaneeists, tenn
perance lecturers, ref 'rmed men of all
sorts. who want to tell 1.-The story of their
lives, and give you half of the proceeds
Such is the advice of the Christian At1uo-
cate 10 Methodist pastors.
Queen Victoria has second personal
servant in Lohlein, who came to England
with the Prince COnsOrt as Ualet de cham;
bre, and remained in his service till his
death Lutllein was the only person in
the royal household with whom Brown
never attempted to interfere. Lohlein' s
duties, however. have long been merely
pomlnai, and he resides for the greater
part of the year at his house IN Windsor
Castle.
A man banned Fox. on Bald Greek,
Yancey county, N. c., seeing an account
of Il nan IN The North who ate at Dne
time three dozen eggs, thought he could
see this and go several better. He went
into an eating house one day last week
ard offered fifteen cents for what eggs he
could eat. His prof. ostion Was taken up
and he ale at first eleven boiled aud then
ate thirty TIN ee raw, making forty four in
all, and did not seem tired when he
stopped.
The Rev. George Howe, D. D.,
LII. D., for half century either
President of or Professor in thu Southern
Pfesby Ierian TIE OlogicAi Seminary in Co
lumbus, 5. C., died Sunday from the re-
suit of Injuries received d few days ago,
whtn lie was thrown from his carriape.
II was the fath.r-in-law of Rev. DR.. Pal
mer of New Orleans.
Prof See of the Hotel Dieu says that
the, new extract of lily of the valley IS one
of the most important remedies i'll heart
disease known. 1t Is "a powerful poison.
The negro ministers of New Orleans
have induced their parishioners to be vac
cinated after the Board of health had en-
ployed every means except force in vain.
Among other strange condolences is the
part played by the number Is in the life of
the late Richard Wagner. In the first
place, Is IS the number of letters comprs-
ing lis name; in the year 1918 he was
born; on the 18th Of March, 1861 his great
work, "Taunhauser, failed to arouse any
appreciation in Paris; it was on the 18th
Of February that he breathed his last, and
he died after IS years of married life.
A woman In Akron, O., bothered the
central telephone office for an hour and
half trying to get her husbands ear to tell
him all important piece of news when
she was put in communication with him
all she had to say was: 'Baby's got a
tooth through"
The bark right on &c 0 acres of mountain
land in Page county, Va, belonging to the
estate of the late Peter b. Borst, has been
pul chased 10y Luray tannery for SIG 900.
Capt. VIM. Hall, Of Tye River, Nelson
county, Va. in former years the Superin-
tendent of the Virginia Midland Railway,
is dead, at tue age of eighty-5wo.