Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1883-01-26

When so called silk burns we'll there's
cotton in it. Real silk shoulders into an
ash.
Johann Strauss, the writer of the beau
tiful wa''z -, who as divo1ctd from his
Secund wife n few months ago, IS about t.
marry again. His bride is widow OF
tw+nty-srven years. d JewtsS, who will
have tn change her religion but not her
name, which is Adele Strauss.
Vennor predicts that around New York
AMI Boston and il ihe adjoining ST.. ties there
VIII b. Iear u We titr - DAY and tu-mor-
ow, } nuaIy 26th aud 9th.
Eole, the famous Ali'emarle horse. last
a.on wen the sum -! $l7,230 His own
= Fred Ut h!aldt, Is MIS-. Langtrys
n clal admller.
girl employed as spinner in a Lowell
NH has taken the fist prize ffered by the
Boston Musical Society fer the best crili-
Ism of vocal and instruu,ental music
physician, s wife elbowed-a naisis.s,r!ss.T,
VIZ ~. - ~ Sidewalk into The mud at
- - 1877, Ii d., ard was fined Sl1.
"Chancellorsvile' was the subject of an
Interesting lecture delivered before the
Reisterstnw,, Md, Literary Society, Tn S.
d,y night. Ivy Col. Am. Allan, principal !
of the McDonogh School.
Seven or eight farms have recently been
sold to farmers from the Valley of Virgin. |
ia in and around Midland and Benlton
81 a,inns, The Valley farmers are selling |
ont to l'ennsvlvaHians at large figures. and |
buying FauQuler lands at low prices which |
thew are improving rapidly .-AleTandria
Gazette.
The persimmon crop OF Virginia is un-
pr-crdentedIy laIge-a sure sign OF hard
and long winter.
A woman riding on Pennsylvania rail-
road on a fri e pass WAS badly il jured by
collision, and the company resist d tier
Claim for damage, on the ground that by
one Of the conditions IN Tie ticket he
user assumed AL risks. The jury gave her
IA verdict fni So 600. and the case being APP
pealed, he Snprt M Court affirmed the
decision in favor uf the plaintiff.
Happily for the Chinese, says DR.. Young,
lately of Hong Kong, nearly all their M Ii
Clues are inert, sucn as pearls. tiger s
other articles having no medicinal value.
A livery man was sued for damages at
Nebraska City because the horse when he
had hired out TO IA young couple for adrivt
ran away and threw thu N out of the Sleigh
but he rev, d 10y the plaintiffs own testi-
mrny that struggle for kiss was the
cause of the accident, and The jury acquit-
ed the horse OF all blame.
VIM. Beaner coored boy. aged sixteen
years, has ben sentenced to b. hulg IN
London County. Va, for outragin- the
person of Il ten year old daughter Of Mr..
| Geo A. Hunt.
W. D. Chesterman. of the Richmond
DispA' Gil, has been ELECTED secretary OF the
| Virginia Agricultural Society.
Gen. Odin e. Clay who died in Lynch
burg last week. was member of the Var
gina Convention of 80 80. A member
Of the Vugina Board vi Public Works and
oflen "a legislator.
Major Il. II. Glass stumbled and fell
down a fight of stairs at his home in
| L}uchbuig, Friday afternoon, and sustain
d painful dislucatim of the right arm
at the shoulder, besides severe Injuries
about the head.
1t IS rather singular fact that the range
of the Thermometer in Eastern Virginia
| has been much iWar this winter .h an in
the mountains of the ) ~ n west. l 800 Tor
more) feet above that altitude.
| General G. A. Evans, of Atlanta, uses
a W 4lking stick 10 ade Of a limb from thu
oak tree under which Wesley preached his
| first sermon in America in 1885.
Miss g. M. Tho mas, of Baltimore, las
won at Zurich University the degree of
doctor Of philosophy Sur1anad cum tnade-
the highest hnnors. She studird in li-
more first and then gradu tied at Cornell.
Bishop Whittlo will consPcrate the
Chapel of the Epiphany at Lynchburg. on
March Is h next, and Rev. Henderson
Suffer, If Christ Church. Alexandria, has
been selected to preach the sermon.
The "Rorer Iron COMPANY" with a cal.
ital If $500 600 has been formed at Roanoke
City. of WHICH Samuel Colt, of Hartford
/ CT, is Vice President.
John Uansei, of Hillsboro, W. Va. has
sid his farm to Mr.. Geo. s. Mcneil for
81 CO.,. and will rem We in a short time to
Highland county, W.
Women physicians have been refused
permission to practice in Austria.
A dem people in Hartford. Coun., have
formed an characterization society.
On the day OF the Immaculate Concep
ton the Pope made his viii While in
good alth lie wished to he ready for all
ev-htualities The t-stam- ant has beer
CO signed tn the Deacon of the College OF
ApostoIic Proto-No;aries. and it is said
n It the z pc has left great part Of his
property III ultherauce of education.
The Texas Legislature has adopted a
bill Withdrawing the fifty cent land from
sale.
Col. Thos. Wilson. of Bangs, Montgom-
cry county. Va. recently killed 10 hogs hal
avera9 d 20J lbs. aud has II more TO kilt
hat will average 800 lbs
1t is announced that the Chesapeake &
Obi, Railroad will in 2 short time move Il
rge portion Il its coal frei ght to tep
wafer over the Rchm md and Alleghan\
ad, sat sfactofy arrangements for this
having been made.
| The Conference Of School Superinten
| dents of Va, at Richmond, February q h.
| will liz held in the Capitol. land last four
days. Gov. Cameron and u. S. Commits
sloner of Educ alton, Eaton. will addres,
| it.
Douglas II Gordon, the Virginia million
aiFp, for nerly of FFedrrickshnrg, died in
Baltimore, Saturday, of Hiight's disease.
| H. WIS for some years member of tie
| Virginia legislator His last wife, VIII"
sui wives him. is ii daughter Of the late
| Johu Haup den Peasants.
David Bratton aged Twenty-Five, OF
Allegheny county, Va has just married