Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1885-04-10
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The Administration has struck dangerous |
foe. Pension Commissioner Black telegraph |
ed Miss Ada Swift, Pension Agent at Chicago, |
for her resignation, stating however, that he
had no fault to find with her official or per-
sonal conduct. The lady at once telegraphed
President Cleveland of the fact saying that
she had faithfully attended to her business
and wanted to know why she should be dis
charged. This Is indeed ''war" and its pro-
gress will be watched with intense interest.
The hard times have affected the theatrical
business as well as others. II is estimated
that an ordinary travelling company spends
5000 week in billing towns and the 900
companies on the road this winter spent
80, 100000. But good deal of it has been
on credit because of the hard times. One
Cincinnati printing house has 1926, 900 on its
books. A circus just starting out gave its
first $40, 900 order without the money, Many
large printing houses have had to assist with
themselves
The 1884, 900 observatory and telescope Civ
en- by Leander ]. Mccormick of Chicago to
the University of Virginia, will be Inaugural
| ted April 18th. VIM. Fl. Vanderbilt gave in adj
| dition $35, 900 and the Alumni $50, 000 Prof
| Ormond Stone, who is an astronomer of emil
nence will have charge of it, having been
elected to the dictatorship in 1882.
On last Friday Gen. Grant signed an appli-
| cation to the President of the United States,
asking him to appoint the eldest son of Col.
Fred. D. Grant to cadetship at West Point.
The boy is now only three years old.
Francis Abt, the famous German composer
and musician, died on Tuesday of this week.
His harmonies have made his name famous all
over the world. He was seventy years old,
and one of his earliest songs was "When the
swallows homeward fly"
The practice of persons kissing the Bible
when being sworn in as jurors and witnesses,
has been abolished by Judge Samuel Lump
kin of the Northern Circuit in Georgia
In the case of Sarah A. Neff ct oil. VS.. the
Theological Seminary of the Diocese of Ohio,
in which an injunction was asked for to stop
the defendant from ringing the college chimes
in the Church of the Holy Spirit, at Gambler,
Judge McElroy on March. 9Th rendered a de-
cision stopping the chimes between the hours
of 10 P. M. and 6 A. M.
Bishop McQuaid of Rochester has ordered
that hereafter in his diocese none but Roman
Catholics and actual communicates shall sing
in the choirs. He says: elbow revolving it is
for the congregation to hear the voice of one
who does not believe in what he or she is sing
ing: 1t is mockery instead of worship"
The Executive Mansion commonly known as
| the White House, has cost, up to the present,
nearly $2,0O0,0OO. 1t was modelled after an
Irish country seat near Dublin, and the archi-
tect got $500 for drawing the plans. When
first erected only $500, 600 was expended on
it, and in that form it was nearly destroyed by
the British in 1914. All the Presidents since
Washington have lived there, and each one
has made some alterations and additions. In
John Adams time, it was but half furnished
and his wife Abigail dried clothes in the East
Room. His son, John Quincy, is reported
to have bought its first billiard table.
The supply of fine furs is growing steadily
smaller. Stables are on this account rapidly
| increasing in prices and may ere long be I'M
| obtainable. Some of the fur mantles now worn
are well-nigh historic. The costliest one
known is said to belong to the Duchess of
| Edinburgh; it's value being $4,000. Adelina
Patti has suit of sables that cost $4,000.
Mrs. J. W. Mackay owns mantle of the
choicest bits of 10000 black-fox skins, for
which 800, 900 was paid. How many women
will, on learning this, sigh for a suit of furs
that will represent 100000.
P. T. Barnum thinks that Joyce Heth, the
spurious nurse of Washington, was the founda-
ton of his fortune. He was extremely poor,
hardly able to earn his bread when, having
bought her for 81 900, borrowed money, he
cleared $100, 1000 from exhibiting her through
the country.
Omaha is now receiving 100000 year
from retail liquor dealers, and will hereafter
receive, under a decision Of the Supreme
Court from wholesale dealers, 81 900 for each
license. This will produce in all $4,000,
WHICH, Sooo W tuo bCLOOI 1uuu. Lev ul2N
license may be high enough to become praoti-
cally prohibitive. The Nebraska town which
placed the fee at $1OOeOO has no licensed
saloon and no application SO far.
Blaine's house in Washington city cost
$4,000, and it rents for 10 per cent. on $780,
000 Don Cameron IS big house on Scott Cir
Gle is worth $50, 900, and is one of the finest
finished houses in Washington. WINDOWS
house, just across the way, which cost him
his place in the Senate, is worth 100000,
and ought to rent for good interest on that
amount. Pendleton's house, just above Cam
eron's, cost $4,000 to build, and is now worth
$50, 900, and the big brick of Secretary Robe
son, which adjoins it, is valued at twice this
sum. Bell. the telephone man, also lives on
Scott Circle. He paid $115, 900 for his house
aud STABLE and it is one of the most valuable
properties in Washington.
The Louisiana Division of the Confederate
Army of the Tennessee has adopted resolu-
ton, offered by VIM. Preston Johnston, of
sympathy with Gen. Grant, of whom it says:
''Twenty- three years to-day our soldiers met
him on the field of battle and found him then,
as ever, soldier, without fear and without
malignity. In his own suffering and the sorrow
of his family we tender him and them our
heartfelt sympathy, and ask for them the COM
fort and peace which come from Him who is
not only Lord of Hosts, but Father of us ALL"