Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1885-07-10
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The farmers of Highland county are put
ting in a very large crop of buckwheat to
make up for the very poor crop of wheat ex-
pected.
At Decatur, ILL.,, a passing train put off
Prof Charles Castleman, of Clarke county,
Va, formerly of the Leesburg, Loudoun,
Academy, who with his wife and three chill
dren were on their way to Upton, Mo. He had
shown symptoms of insanity on the train.
| They took apartments to which the Y. M. g. AS
ISOLATION sent member to sst up with him.
About dawn he made an attempt with a revol-
yer to kill bis wife and children but was pre-
vented. He is a man of marked ability, and
it is said intense study has deranged his mind.
Virginia relatives have gone on for him.
If Prof Joseph Klein the Kentucky As
trone mer is right, the citizens of Staunton the
latter part of this month"; OF in August, will
| see just above the western horizon, in the
| early evening bouri new comet. the luminous
tail of which the Professor thinks he has
clearly identified.
The will of French physician, dated in
March, 1882, has just been admitted to pro-
bate in st. Maude, France. He leaves for
tune of 1920, 600 to his absent wife on these
unusual grounds 81 am under great obliga-
| tons to my dear wife, Celestine Melanie of
| whose whereabouts I have not the slightest
| idea. She once did me great kindness. She
left me one beautiful morning. and I have
| never heard of her since. With the most
heartfelt thankfulness I appoint her my heir
in-law, but subject to the following condi-
ton that she marry again Immediately; SO
that at least there may be one man who will
deeply deplore my DEATH
Blind Tom, the pianist, was before the
county court of Fauquier county, Va, last
week on habeas corpus There are two
claimants to him; his mother, Charity Wig
gins, of Georgia. and Mrs. Eliza Bethune, of
Baltimore, the widow of the gentleman who
contracted for his services for series of
years. The court remanded Tom to the custody
of the executor of the decease6ontractor
The case will go to otRee :. Supreme Court,
finally. d
Is farmers are offered seven cents per
pound fer their butter on a guarantee of its
,enuineness. In the East it would be worth i
more than that us axle grease. c
The first new wheat of the season, received
t Richmond, very good Fultz, sold at 81 .07
,er bushel.
Julian Taylor, a former teacher Of Ian s
uages at the University of Virginia. has been
ppointed clerk in the State Department by
secretary Bayard
An excursion train returning from Luray
AVE on Wednesday, over the Baltimore &
ohio road, ran from. Washington junction to
,amden Station, S24 miles, in ST. minutes.
10 easily was it done that the passengers did t
lot know they were going unusually fast
The new book of essays of Miss Rose Eliza
eth Cleveland, entitled George Eliot's poems, t
nd other studies,'' is out. Miss Cleveland
erself was going through the White House
N the day of it's issue, with towel !
led around her head directing the servants
n O general house cleaning. She is a thor
ugh American woman, and remarkable one t
n many respects.
July LIST, 1885, In Virginia, saw snow fall in
Tazewell county, and a skim of ice formed in
Nythe county
France is comical State and some of it's
IDEAS of to-day are shaken out of the shroud
# Charemagne. M. Waddington, French p
to London, has written letter to !,
queen Victoria declining to wear mourning at
he Court ball because of the death of Prince
Frederick Charles of Germany.
Here is sample of Chinese advertising the a
fort of an ink manufacturer in Canton cat
he shop Tae shing prosperous in tha ex- v
renee, very good ink; fine fine! Ancient
hop, great grandfather, grandfather, father, {
md self, made this ink fine and hard, very
lard; picked with care, selected with atten, :
ion, This ink is heavy; SO is gold. The eye
If the dragon glitters and dazzles; SO does
his ink No one makes like it."
In the recent struggle of her husband, Lord o
Randolph Churchill, for seat in Parliament
lady Churchill, Miss Jennie Jerome of New
York; managed the campaign by herself, and p
now the toast of the London political clubs
Mrs Susan Lionberger, who lives in Shen-
ndoah county, Va, picked quart of bugs
rom her potatoes one morning last week and tt
ed them to q brood of young turkeys. A few B
lours later, out Of q brood of ifty-nine,
wenty died, exhibiting every symptom Of
iolent poison. :,