Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1885-12-04

through Denmark and Russia. He is i'll tine
health.
The highest weight Of any hog killed in the
Valley, SO far, is $40 pounds net, or Gil gross.
1t was killed by Jos. L. Murray of Page
county.
The new iron bridge over the Ohio river on
the line of the River division of the Ohio
Central railroad at Point Pleasant, w. Va,
was tested on Tuesday, Nov. oath, and opened
for traffic on the 25th. This bridge, with its
iron trestle approaches, is about 5000 feet
long. Col. I'll. D. Whitcomb was the engineer.
The officers of the Sd Va regiment at their
meeting at Charlottesville, last week, declined
to elect Colonel, preferring to dissolve the
regiment. They, by resolution, requested
the proper authorities to divide the Third regi-
ment into two battalions, leaving to the
choice of the different companies which bat
talon each should enter.
The Greenbrier 'Independent'' says that
Mr.. and Mrs. d. F. Gard of Staunton, have
taken up their residence at Lewisburg, W
Va, and rented the Knott place on the hill.
On Wednesday, Nov. 18th, Mr.. A. B.
Woodward, conductor on the Chesapeake &
Ohio railway was married to Miss Rosa Lee
Harris, at the residence of the BRIDES parents,
i'll Louisa county. Va. The happy couple left
on the afternoon train for Louisville, KY.
Jennie Lind will sing in public next sum-
mer for the first time in twenty two years.
Her appearance will be for charitable pur-
pose.
/ One fifth of all the coal produced in the
United States is found in four counties, of
which Pittsburgh is the business centre.
Nearly one-third of the product is converted
into coke. There are 100 coke makers, II coo
ovens, and $13 900, 600 invested. Six thou
sand men are employed.
III making genufection in New London
(Conn } church on Sunday last man ruptur-
ed the muscles attached to the knee-pan on
both legs. He rose tottered few steps, fell,
and was unable to rise. The physicians are of
opinion that he will be confined to his house
for at least three months. and fear that he
will never recover the full use OF his legs.
President Cleveland spent Thanksgiving
day very quietly, and took dinner with his
sister, Miss Cleveland. alone, Mrs. Hoyt hav-
ing returned to New York Wednesday, In the
morning the President attended worship at
the Central Presby terrain church.
Charles Morgan, the millionaire owner of
Morgan's line of steamships died in New York
six years ago, leaving five millions to his
| widow, Mary Jane Morgan, whom he had
married in 1847. The Rev. Nathaniel w.
Conkling, who preached his funeral sermon,
saw the venerable widow for the first time on
that occasion. He established an influence
over her so great that she has on different &C.
casions since given him $52, 900 to buy a
house, $41 900 to furnish it, and 100000 in
United States per cent. bonds to live on.
| Besides this, she made lavish presents to his
wife and children. A month ago she died and
| her relatives are going to law to make the
pious confidence man disgorge the 1908, 900
which he got out of her as her spiritual ad-
| wiser.
| After month of bad business the circus of
Charles L. Davis, at New Orleans, collapsed
| last week. Davis went to the Southern Hotel
where he and his wife were stopping, and
after shooting her dead, killed himself with
| the same pistol
| At New Brighton, Dec. 10th o supper is to
| be given by the Baltimore & Ohio r. r. Co.
| to celebrate the consummation of its arrange
ment with the Staten Island Rapid Transit
| Co., by which it gains an entrance to New
York city. There will be a good many suits
at law, injunctions, and the like, it is feared.
| before the passage Of the new line across New
Jersey soil will be an accomplished fact.
The women of England took very promi-
nent part in the recent elections for Parlia-
ment Baroness Burdett- Coutts elected her
young Philadelphia husband to seat and il
| Illuminated her residence III honor of it. T. P
! OConnor's New York wife and Lord Randolph
| Churchill's New York wife eleclioneered for
them on foot and they were successful. On
the other hand, Sir Charles Dixie was re-elect-
ed over an active opposition from a female
band known as the Primrose Danes" In his
speech celebrating his victory, he said that to
the other opposition he had overcome "was
added that of conservative ladies by the hun
dreds visiting all the houses and repeating
lies and tittle-tattle about my alleged private
life, much as wasps sting fruit"
The Central Presbyterian of last week
publishes figures proving that within twelve
months the Presbyterians have given more
money to benevolent purposes than any other
| denomination.
Morris Crbach, TALL handsome, and
naughty Hebrew of fifty, arrived in New York
/ two years ago from Berlin with large sum
of money which he lost specializing. On
Thanksgiving day he was found dead in his
room with a morphine bottle near him He
| left note to his friend, Mr.. Croner, who &C.
| cupied the house. say ing that while Mr..
Croner INDUCED in fat turkey he would con-
tent himself with morphia. He closed with a
rhyming couplet in German, which runs:
| Turkey is good to eat aud morphine bad to take,
| But as an eiider Of ifeS troubles morphine takes
| The cake.
| DIR. Quain, an eminent London physician,
remarked in the course of his recent 'Harve-
ian Grafton" that fifty years ago patient
| could command no anasthetic to induce in
sensibiity to pain, no antiseptic to promote
| the healing of wound, no chloral to procure
sleep, no antipyretic in general use to control
| fever He showed that in the past forty five
years the mean duration of male life in Eng
land and Wales has been increased by two
| years, and that of women by three and half,
| tie greater portion of such increase being
subsequent to childhood and prior to decrepi-
| tude. -
1.-Two of the toes of my buried leg overlap
each other and pain me dreadfully," i'd the
| wife of Lacnh Rnraan of Marlboro Mass. The