Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1884-01-11

A breastpin containing an Edison glow
| light, fed by a small waistcoat-pocket
battery, is sold for SO at n uremb arg, Ge r.
many.
"A London scientific paper says that a
shoulder of mutton contains one-third
more bone than leg, and considerably
more fat and connective tissue and that.
consequently, a shoulder at 20 cents a
pound is dearer than leg at rs cents.
Gov. CrittendeD, of Missouri. has Just
pardoned Omaha Charlie, under life SEN
tence for murder, because he had promised
| his 1.-THE Governor's) little dying daughter
| so to do. The convict had carved some
pretty trinkets for the child.
Judge n ellison Poe died in Baltimore last
| week. He was cousin of Edgar A. Poe
and the first that found Poe and carried
him to room, in his fiual illness.
A Carson City photographer treats each
| customer. who will take it, to drink of
liquor, in order to get the proper 'pleased
expression" on the face.
John l.. Sullivan, the Boston pugilist,
| and Arthur Slade, the Maori" who have
been giving exhibitions through the Wes-
tern country, struck Denver, Colorado.
There Sullivan struck barkeeper with
out prOvocation. when gang OF Denver's
roughs beat him and Slade brutally.
The Pope's Secretary, Monsignor Boo
cali, last Friday opened letter from
America IN which the life of His Holiness
is threatened by Fenians if he should con-
tinue TO support England against the
national cause of Ireland,
Ex-Gov. William Smith, celebrated his
eighty seventh birth day at his Fauquier
four year old apple toddy and egg-nogg
on the occasion, though the venerable
host himself is an abstainer.
1t has now become the regular res ource
of the impecunious English noble to Ego
in for" the directOrships of companies.
Thus the name of Lord Churston, who
was ruined by gambling few years ago
appears as director Of one company and
trustee of anOther-a New Brunswick
railroad.
An inquirer asked what he should do
with horse that was troubled with peri
od1cal dizziness, and the editor answered
in these words: "Our advice, based on a
perusal Of the valuable book. Every Man
his Own Horse Doctor would be to take
the horse some day when he is nos dizzy,
and sell him to stranger"
Charles B. Hardesty, Clarke county,
Va, cattle dealer, has received from
Chicago during the last sixty days l 500
head of cattle, of which over 1000 head
were sold to Clarke county farmers.
Margaret Showalter, a white maid at
the European House in Winchester, has
been arrested at her home in Rockingham
county, for stealing a gold watch and about
$500 worth of other valuables from the
proprietor. The sum of s85 in money and
$50 worth Of goods were recovered from
her.
Governor Cameron has pardoned David
Crawford, who was sentenced BY the Cor.
poration Court of Lynchburg in 1869 to
eighteen years in the penitent1ary for at
tempting to outrage a colored woman.
Crawford was at first sentenced to be |
hanged, but was granted new trial. Bad |
health was one of the grounds Of pardon. |
The Alexandria Gozette's Washington
correspondent gives publicity to the
charge that Brownlow Of Tennessee, door
keeper of the last House, carried his
whole family. wife, son and brother-in-
law, upon the rolls of his cfflce at good
salaries; that he paid his sister-in-law $50
for washing SO towels, the regular price
being so cents dozen, and that while a
negro employee was on his rolls at sala-
ry of 81 200. the negro says all he ever re-
ceived was $50 month.
W. A. Grover, of Boston, who had before
given $1,000, has just sent his N ew Years
check for $4,000 to Roanoke College, Va.
The political and personal friends in
Tazewell county Of Mr.. W. C. Elan, edl-
tor of the Richmond Wing, have sent to
his wife as Christmas present splendid
pair Of gray horses.