Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1884-06-27

Last week, Maggie, the little six year
old daughter of Robert Slower, miller in
Fauquier county, Va. fell into her fathers
mill race and was drowned. Only year
ago her little brother had been drowned
at the same place.
Three lawyers who commenced the
practice of law at the Wytheville bar over
fifty years ago, are still living there-Isaac
J. Leftwich. President of the farmers
Bank, aged IS; Ex-Judge Andrew S. Full
ton, "a, and Col. Thomas j. Boyd, 81.
All three walk the streets with activity.
On Saturday, Second Auditor Ruf1n
giving $341 ,40S of the new Virginia 3's for
them. The old bonds were funded by
Robt. Garrett & sons of Baltimore:
Bishop Henry W. Warren of the M. E.
church, and one of the finest looking men
in America, recently married Mrs. Tiff,
the millionaire widow of Colorado. The
widow, as token of gratitude, has just
given 100000 to establish a department
of divinity in the Colorado University.
Bishop Simpson, who died last week,
was the oldest bishop of the M. E. Church,
NOl IoCts C IL lOlQulCh, VI w GSHlUS-
ton City, has been appointed by the Wash
ington Annual Conference of colored
preachers, to attend the bishops funeral,
on their behalf.
Maj. John F. Lee, native of Surry
county, Va, who in 1862 was Judge-Ad-
yocate General of the U. S. Army, died
the other day in st. Louis, aged II years.
Everybody will be glad to hear that the
plucky and generous James R. Keene is
making such arrangements with his credi-
tors as will set him going again.
1t is thought the I'd regiment, U. S. Ar
tilery, now stationed at Washington, will
go into summer camp at the Fauquier
White Sulphur.
Mrs. Sallie Patterson, aged ninety
years, died in Wytheville last week of
measles. Previous to having this disease,
she was in perfect health, and could do
the usual labor of woman of fifty.
Ex-Justice Swayne of the U. S. Supreme
Court, who died in New York, was a ma
tive of Culpeper county, Va, and studied
law at Warrenton with John Scott and
l.. 7. Brooke. He early went to Ohio
from which State President Lincoln ap-
pointed him.
In the contested election cases in the
House of Representatives, the Elections
Committee has agreed to give Massey and
Wise So, 500 each for expenses.
At Mr.. Moody's services in the Temple
Gardens, London, June 18th, Lord VOLS
ley, the Earl of Aberdeen, the Duke of
Abercorn, the Rothschild family of Lon
don, and any number of members Of Par
lament were present. The basket realized
81 800.
Rev. Geo. Anderson. a minister of Win
chester, Va, has perfectly recovered his
lost hearing by using eel-oil. The eel
must be split. washed, dried, and held up
before fire until the oil drips from it. A
teaspoonful warmed is to be poured into
the ear and the ear stopped with cotton, is
the way to use it.
Last Thursday night at Minneapolis,
Mimi, Wood Benson, veteran actor,
seventy years old, appeared on the stage
IN comic character, and died next day at
II O'Clock, of dropsy.
The Charlottesville Wooden Mills have
made contract with the U. S. govern
ment for $4,000 yards of army cloth.
In Fairfax county, Va, last week, one
stroke of lightning killed thirty-six out of
forty-fve sheep under tree. They were
owned by VIM. A. Moore.
Bishop Peterkin, Episcopal Bishop of
West Virginia, was married a few days
since to Miss Marion M. Stewart, daugh-
ter OF John Stewart, one of the wealthiest
men in Virginia, residing near Richmond.
The State Bank of West Virginia, 10
Gated at Charleston, Kanawha, heavy
lender to the coal mining interest, has sus-
pended.
Mary E. Hughes, Of Lincoln, Va, took
the degree of Bachelor of Arts at Swath-
more College, near Philadelphia, last
week.
John Luster, welI-known Virginia
hotel keeper of other days, and once owner
of the Natural Bridge, died at Flncastle
last week, aged ninety.
For fun, crowd of Bridgeport, Ct.
boys persuaded an eighI-year old compan-
ion to take hold of the ends of an electric
wire. He did SO, and was shocked dead.
Emperor William has sent to Charles
Gibson, member of the st. Louis bar,
who was Solicitor General under President
Lincoln, the decoration of the second
class Crown Order, in recognition of his
German sympathies and his efforts for the
relief of the victims of the Rhine floods,