Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1885-02-27
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evening roller skating at the rink in Newark,
N j., Tuesday. AS she sat down to remove
her skates, her head fell forward and she be-
came unconscious. In a moment she died OF
paralysis of the heart, with which she had been
long threatened.
C. H. Hudson Supt. of Transportation on
the c. & O. road and Kentucky Central has
resigned, to accept the place of General Man
ager of the East Tenn, Va. g. Ga. system,
formerly held by Henry K. Fink. Maj. W. NJ
S. Dunn, General SUpt of the Va. Midland
has resigned to accept the SUPPLEMENTARY
of the Cape Fear & Yadkin's Valley r. r. in
North Carolina.
Miss Agnes Herndon who has relatives in
augusta county, is now playing with the
ll4ton Mobiles combination which had good
ouses i'll Lynchburg last week. Her mother,
.Irs Frazier died i'll Mary land, Tuesday
The Sta Convention of Y NJ. c. Associa-
tons of Vir5 GINA WIS in session at Roanoke
city last ws-k Chas. Willis of Richm ond,
presided, with j. W. Bias of Luray, Secretary,
and J. r. spencer of Lexington, Assistant
Secretary. The name of A. M. Howison, Esq,
as represen tative of the Staunton Association
appears in The proceedings.
| Mrs. Oh .rotte Garfield of Birmingham,
Conn, dow aged seventy nine and quite
wealthy, .st week married Henry Baldwin,
| clerk, ag d twenty-five. That night drum
| corps with tin horns and bells serenaded
them. MIR. Baldwin attributes the outrage to
| the deacons of the church to which his bride
belongs, all of the single deacons having
courted her and been rejected on account Of
their advanced age and unattractive personal
| appearance.
| Those who doubt the permanency of con-
versions at revivals, may learn something from
the fact that Miss Nancy Cass Wilmore, who
professed religion at one, at twenty years of
age, falling into a spiritual trance; died last
week at the age of one hundred and sixteen
years, after nearly century of exemplary
piety. On her death bed she said, 81 have
always prayed to die in the triumph of living
faith, but 1 never thought 1t would be so
glorious Her last words were: mot my will,
but Thine be DONE.
Ex-Governor Moses a native of South Caro-
lima, who under carpet-bag rule was Judge,
Speaker of the House of Delegates, and Gov
ernor of that State, was convicted at Cambridge
Mass. last week, and sentenced to six months
in the House of Correction, for obtaining S34
under false pretences. He is common vaga-
bond about Boston, and has been such long
time.
Gen. W. FL. F. Lee, in letter to the editor
of the Fairfax Herald emphatically denies
that Senator H. H. Riddleberger ever stated in
his presence that Gen. r. E. Lee had said at
his tablein Lexington some time after the war;
that he had intended to name Malone as his
successor.
The oldest civilization does not escape su-
perstition. M. de Grandseive, of Paris, proph-
esied that the Prince Imperial of France
would die violent death between the LIST and
9Th of June. 1t was realized in poor little
Louis death by the Zulus. The same pro
phet has now startled Europe with the prophe-
cy that Queen Victoria will die violent death
in September, 1889, and the Prince of Wales
will be killed in a revolution January 2Otb,
1891
An idea of how quickly gossip flies may be
gained from little incident that occurred in
Birmingham, Ala, recently, where rumor
''got out" that one of the female school
teachers was to be married, and in few hours
no less than fifty applications for her place
were made. We have known that nearly
equaled in Staunton.
The chill 1ren of Isreal Buckholder, of Ian
caster, Pa, warned the saloon keepers not to
sell him drink. The saloon keepers refused
him liquor, and in revenge he made will
disinheriting his children. He was killed {.
few days since, while drunk, by his horse run
ming away. A jury has set aside his will on
the ground that he was drunk at the time he
made it,
There is wax doll in the family of John
W. Bowes, of Rockingham county, which has
descended in Mrs. Bowers (nee Burkholder)
family for seven generations, and is nearly
three hundred years old.
At Hot Springs, Arkansas, there is local
option law which provides that at any State
election majority in the ballot box for or
against license shall rule. The law had been
long forgotten, and last election three temper
ance men put in three ballots against license.
AS none were in for license, the law was adopted
and now the saloons will be closed for two
years. The city council will have to raise the
taxes to make up for the 1892, 600 income from
licenses, lost.
A correspondent of the Roekbridge Neaos
writing from Buffalo, in that county, describes
a mine near there in which there is a vein of
silver ore feet thick and feet wide, samples
of which have given an astonishing yield. He
says the mine was known years ago, to man
named Hannah who "often paid his debts with
bright silver dollars warm from his moulds."
The story reads like romance which likeness
is not lessened by the statement that the pres
ent owner (name not given) has formed joint
stock company with $3.50, 900 capital and as
soon as the Valley Railroad is extended through
the valley of upper Buffalo, Or the branch of
the G. e. O. Railroad is built along the base of
the North Mountain from Swoope's Depot to
Clifton Forge, mining will begin, and many
cars will be needed to carry the rich ore to the
furnaces of the east.
A writer in the Richmond Dispatch who saw
Gen. Wolsley when he came into Gen. Lees
lines through Richmond county, describes
him as "a quiet unassuming gentleman in
gray tweeds, with classical, well poised head
and slightly grey hair brushed back from the
temple"
Robert E. Lee, Confederate commander, in
chief, was one of the surveyors of the Morris
Canal, in New Jersey.
Among the items for the supper at the In