Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1885-08-21
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Sidney Smith, an infant son of Gen. Fitz
Lee, died on Wednesday last.
Colonel George E. Deneale, living about
three and half miles south of Harrisonburg,
sowed six acres of white Russian oats, which
he threshed out the other day, and it meas
ured 425 bushels-or over seventy bushels to
the acre. One wagon load of these oats yield
ed seventy five and one half bushels, which
was over two bushels to the dozen.
detective is suing Mrs. Jane Tunstall for
$40 for services rendered in behalf of her
nephew, Cluverius. She claims to have al
ready paid him $500. 1t is stated that the
poor old lady's little fortune is fast being ex-
hausted by the expenses attending her neph-
ew's case.
One of the most touching incidents con-
nected with Gen. Grants death occurred when
his son Fred, the night before his fathers body
was finally enclosed in the coffin, touched it
with his hands and lips for the last time, and
placed in the coat pocket a letter from Mrs.
Grant addressed to her husband. It contained
the simple words:
With it was also enclosed lock of her hair.
The letter is intended as a response to that
which was found in the Generals pocket after
his death addressed to Mrs. Grant, and which
is known to be SO precious to her.
On the 4th of August the ''Widows Home''
at Alexandria, was opened for lawn party, the
receipts from which were to be used for re-
pairing the building. It was erected by the
late VIM. H. Fowle, father of Capt. VIM. H.
Fowle, of Stauntom, in memory of his daugh-
ter Miss Ella Fowle, and was presented by
Mr.. Fowle to the city of Alexandria. The
city, however, never put it to the use the
donor intended, and it has been used as an
infrmary.
81 would rather marry a yellow dog than
you, . wrote a Stockton CALI girl to her lover,
in one of their tiffs aud he has filed the letter
as an exhibit in the suit for breach of promise,
in which she is plaintiff and he defendant.
Stanley Huntley, the newspaper writer, and
author of the ''Spoopendyke Papers" died on
Thursday night at his home in New York. H
was about forty years old. 70
The State Records of Connecticut show that
in May, 1869, "Jacobeth Murtine and Sarah
futile were prosecuted for sitting down on
chestle together, his arms around her Waste,
and her arme upon his shoulder about his
neck, and continuing in that sinful position
about halle an hour, in which time he kissed
her and she kyssed him, or they kyssed one
another, as We witness testified" Kissing was
a serious matter in those days. d.
An ARRAY occurred recently at Wapakonata,
Ohio, in which Ed Kindle, noted trough.
was shot and instantly killed by Dr. A. D.
Brubaker, who went there recently from Page
county, Va.
large crowd of people from Apo mattox
Courthouse assembled on the 9th inst, and
draped in mourning the house in which Gen
erals Grant and Lee signed the terms of the
surrender.
John D. Pennybaeker, an ex-State Senator
from Rockingham county, Virginia, has been
appointed special agent of the land office.
The question of who shall be postmaster at
Monterey, Highland, it is stated by the ere
corder," is to be settled by vote of the Dem
ocratic club of that town, the membership to
be the same only that constituted the club last
year; it being understood that the names of
neither Mr. Bishop nor Mr.. Sullenberger, the
contestants between whose friends much feel
ing has been aroused, shall be voted for. The
election was to take place this week.
State Superintendent of Education, R. R.
Farr, met with an accident on his farm in
Fairfax last week, by which his foot was SO
badly crushed that he will be laid up for some
time.
Hon. G. L. O'Ferrall has appointed H. Writ
Stricken, q son of Rev. H. M. Strickler of
Page, to West Point cadetship.
In returning thanks to the officers of b
staff acting at the Grant funeral Maj Gel
". S. Hancock says, '"rhe presence of &c
Gordon, Of Georgia, and of Gen. Lee, of v
ginia, among the aides de-camp was espeoi
ly gratifying"
Twenty seven years ago DR.. VIM. ORA
Brinckle, of Philadelphia, placed his daug1~
Adrianna, in the State (Pa.) Lunatic Asylum
as lunatic. she having mania for purchasing
everything she saw, having it charged to him
and then selling if fQr pocket money. Her
father died and left her where she was and
she was forgotten. She was Q belle in society
when put in, and last week when released was
a gray haired woman of sixty.
John Harris, white, unmarried and thirty,
years old, who until three days ago was night