Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1885-12-11
for his body. He was very badly bruised
about the back and hips when picked up, but


got on the train and went as far as Weyer's
Cave station. There, he was SO sick that he
had to be taken off and carried home 1t will
be some time before he is out
G. B. Rodcn of Waynesboro, has been given
a permanent position at Clifton Forge as
day operator in the G. & O. Railroad Office
there. He went there last Thursday
Many years ago the firm of Mcdonald &
Lyon of Richmond, made pretty much all the
| regalias used in Virginia. After the members
of the firm died, Miss Rebecca Lyon, sister of
one of them, continued the business and ac-
cumulated comfortable property. When she
retired from business, she bought house on
the edge of the city, at Camp Winder, and be-
came an eccentric recluse. She had three
rooms, one of which was filled with chickens.
She had trunks of fine clothing, and much
| jewelry One morning, last week, the old lady
was found with her throat cut, having COM
mitted suicide. Her property was taken pos
session Of by the Stlte.
Rev. W. W. Walker, formerly we'll known
Democratic political orator in Virginia. and
now for many years prominent minister in
Westmoreland, spoke at the Hendricks mem
orial meeting in Baltimore, last week The
american" says: ''With long flowing white
locks, long black cape and broadcloth suit,
| few meet him on the street without turning to
get second glance at one whom everybody
would recognize as distinguished man Mr.
| Walker is possibly sixty years old and is well
preserved"
A New York toy-store has a show window
fully forty feet long, and has had constructed
in it a miniature skating pond, on which tiny
creatures with skates are seen, and long hill
down which dolls on miniature seds are
coasting, one after the other, while other dolls
in snow shoes and fur wraps and mittens are
| slowly toiling up the hill. The whole thing
is apparently worked UP by machinery. A
large crowd surrounds the window all the
| time.
William Blaisdell, aged sxty-seven, and
Miss Eldridge, his cousin, aged eighteen, who
were married three years ago in Philadelphia,
are now joint-applicants for a divorce in
Maine, on the natural ground that he was in
sane when he married her. He is a man of
wealth and high social connections. The de-
cision of the court has been reserved, the
puzzling question seeming to be as to whether,
at the exact moment of contracting the mar
riage, he was competent to contract the same,
he insisting that he knew precisely what he
was doing at that time.
A novel method for raising funds is to be
resorted to 1T a church entertainment shortly
to be held in Dayton, Ga. Each lady attend
ing, will be wrapped in gossamer waterproof
and yelled and carry a lunch basket filed.
They will be sold at auction to the highest
bidder, and the purchaser will secure the
Iady's company as partner for the rest of the
evening and share of the contents of her
| lunch basket.
The engagement of James Bayard, eldest
son of the Secretary of State, to Miss Deakins,
a West Virginia farmers daughter, is announc-
ed by Washington paper. 1t is understood
that the Secretary of State still refuses to re-
cognize his son or the lady
At Windsor Castle, Friday, Queen Victoria
personally invested Lady Randolph Churchill
with the insignia of the Imperial Order of the
Crown of India. She is the New York girl
who SO successfully eleetioneered for her
Tory husband for Parliament last month
Judge Ward, SO seriously wounded by Dr.
William Y White shortly before the election,
in Abingdon, is reported to be slowly recover
ing. AS soon as the Judge is we'll enough to
be moved, he will be taken to Winchester,
where his father resides
AS all illustration of tie fact that school at.
tendance during epidemics largely contributes
to the spread of infectious diseases, it is stated
that during the late serious outbreaks of
diphtheria in the ironstone villages of England,
the closing of a school proved in every in
stance an effective means of bringing each
local epidemic to an end.
A Sunday school teacher in Baltimore, who
taught a class of Chinese, informed one of
them in advance that she was to be married.
On the day before the wedding, there arrived
at the brides residence from leading jewelry
firm package containing handsome present
OF silver, attached to which card bear
ing the Chinaman's name, and, in addition,
| n
money.
The other day in Newark, N. J., six poor
school children were bitten by mad dog;
also number of dogs. A leading physician
of that city, DR.. O'Gorman, believer in Pas
tours process, at once interested himself in
the children, and started subscription to
send them to Paris for treatment. The sum
of 81, 600 was subscribed and the children
sailed this week, with a middle-aged nurse, on
the French line of steamers.
niece of President Garfield is the profes-
sional attraction at the Youngstown (Ohio)
skating rink. She is advertised this way
go, Tuesday night to the Great Western Rol-
Ter Rink and see Lulu Garfield niece of the
late President Garfield, in her fancy and ar
tistic skating. She is a lovely skater All are
invited to come and see her. Grand see-saw
music Admission as usual"
A citizen of Loudoun county mas tried the
following and recommends it to be very eff
fective receipt for hog cholera Table salt
6 lbs; sulphur, lbs ; copperas, lbs; black
anthony, ID; saltpetre, h.; wood ashes,
fresh, one peck. Pulverize, mix thoroughly,
and place where the hogs can have free access
| to it.
Muslzrats in Connecticut are building heavy
walled and spacious houses and lining them
warmly this fall. Connecticut weather pro
phets say that tough winter is sure to fol
low" Horses and cattle are putting on IN
usually thick coats.
dozen neutrality-suspicious. of richmond
Va, including DIR. Hunter Mcclure, inter
viewed the subject by reporter of the