Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1885-11-13

nfgue the case for the Commonwealth. Mr..
Meredith or Col. Aylett, or both, may assist
Mr.. Ayers.
The ladies of Richmond have formed a
LADIES' Auxiliary Branch of Workers, for
securing the means to erect the Y. Nj. G. A.
Hall there. The President of it is Mrs. w. t.
Richardson, formerly of Staunton, and of
whom the ''State'' says: 'lirs. Richardson,
the President, is the esteemed and accom-
piished wife of the editor of the "Central
Presbyterian" and is lady already known
for her active work in all Christian charities.
Withso efficient chief and such capable as
sistants the work of this branch cannot fail to
be fruitful in good results.
The Richmo nd State says that many mem
bers elect of the legislature have written to
secure their seats. Senator Koiner, of Angus
ia, will have his same old seat. In the House.
Messrs Lightner and Echols, of Augusta, will
sit at the same desk
The badges cf Honorary Membership of the
Association of the Army of Northern Virginia,
for Mrs. J. E. B. Stuart, and Miss Virginia
Stuart, Mrs. T. J. jackson and her daughter,
duu MISSES Nlllur0u tl1(l Nldry LEE, are now
being made in New York They are of fine
gold, and are identical with the badge worn
by the members of the Association, which is
the Confederate tle-fag, the difference be-
ing in the metal used in their manufacture.
John H. Ketcham of N. Y. and W. D. KEEL
ley of Pa. are the only members of the pres
ent House of Representatives who voted for
the impeachment of Andrew johnson, and
Samuel j. Randall of Pa. and W. S. Holman
of Ind. are the only members of it who voted
| against it. Morrill, and Edmunds of vt. and
John Sherman of Ohio, are the only present
Senators who voted for it, and Vice President
Hendricks now presiding over the Senate, is the
only one present who then voted against it.
In Mr. Walter Ryel's History of Norfolk; -
just published in England, it is stated that the
Bulwer family gets its name from pr ogenitor
| who was a herdsman or 'bull ward" In like
manner the illustrious Towards came from a
| swineherd, or ''hog- ward" and the Towns
bends from one 'John ate Townsend" a
| small tenant farmer.
| Mrs Cath crime Trump, postmistress at the
'A1A"oO VI OoAAiAASt o., Aioo cSOAA "AAS''NNNi
| charged with opening letters out of curiosity
and reading them for the purpose of keeping
herself posted in regard to the business secrets
of her neighbors and the love affairs of the
young people of the community. She admit
| ted her guilt, and said she did not know that
she was committing an offence for which she
could be punishsd.
| Prof Paris w. Steele, who recently taught
writing school at Covington, Allegheny, was
| decoyed from the Union Depot into ''dive
at Pittsburg, Pa, few days since while
passing through that city en- route to Virginia,
and robbed of $500 in cash and all his jewelry.
The little courthouse on Royal street, New
| Orleans, where Gen. jackson was arraigned
| for contempt of the United States Court in
1916, and paid fine of 5 900, is still stand
ing. 1t is an unpretentious one-story brick
| building, the roof of which is covered with
| Spanish tiles. 1t is now occupied as a second.
hand furniture store, and is filled with old
fashioned bureaus, tables and armoires OF
| other days.
Ex-senator Sharon of Nevada, is supposed
to be dying at San Francisco. He made his
will this week leaving his estate, valued at
$6,000,000, to his children including Lady
Hesketh. After making his will he made the
solemn declaration, in the presence OF
death, that he had never at any time proposed
marriage to Miss Hill OF signed any marriage
| contract, and that the contract produced in
court was forgery.
Misses sallie and Mollie Woods of Georgia,
are twins, SO much alike that it is impossible
| to tell one from the other. The more singular
fact is that when ones mind dwells upon a
subject the others thoughts are exactly the
same. This has been tested time and again
by friends calling one at time aside and ask
| ing her thoughts, and they are found to be
| Identical
Judge Robert Johnston, County Judge OF
Rockingham, died at Harrisonburg last Fri
day, aged sixty-seyen years. He was gra-
duate of Washington College, Lexington, had
been member of the legislature before the
division of the State, was afterwards First Au.
ditor of Virginia, and during the war was a
member of the Confederate Congress. He was
elected County Judge in 1880.
It doubtful if Legislative body in any
country ever passed law that was so COM
pletely and universally ignored as the anti
treating act of the last Legislature of Nevada.
Everybody claims the right to treat friend,
officers do not dispute it.
| 1t required three men with a large wagon to
move in lively fashion during the whole of a
day lately to gather up and return to Hillsdale
that had been distributed among the barns
and fields in the neigboring country on the
preceding night by the students.
| There are 1000 Chinese cigarmakers in San
| Francisco who command the same wages as
| Whites while from 5000 to 5000 Chinese are
! in the boot and shoe trade. A dozen Chinese
| firms have engaged in TYPOGRAPHY, and in
cheap work, as in label and card printing, are
proving formidable competitors to the whites.
Queen Victoria has not PASSED night in
London for fifteen months, and in the exceed
| ingly depressed state of trade in the metro
| pohs her absence excites unusually indignant
| comment. Tory paper, the City Press,
lately urged that the Trade Depression Com
mission should make special representation
on the subject to the Queen, but they did
not dare to do SO.
The United States Fish Commission is about
to stock the waters of Puget Sound and of the
Willamette valley of Oregon with Eastern
shad.
| Rev. DR.. W. U. Murkland Of Baltimore,
read the funeral service at Gen. McClellan's
funeral. Murkland was captured with the