Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1885-10-16

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Ed L. zirkle, 261; Samuel Hoover, Jr, 2e2, i
and John H. Hagey, 273-total 1,O39. In the |
same county of Shenand bah, live Cab Mad |
dux and George Zirkle, two Democrats who
aggregate $50 pounds
Rev. W. B. Derrick, a former colored pas
tor of Staunton, who was put off the Blaine
electoral ticket of New York last fall on &C
count of his bad character, has turned up
again as one of the Republican canvassers in
Ohio.
1t is the opinion of Prof Hodge of Prince
ton who has studied the subject carefully,
that Sir Moses Montefore has gone to the
Christian heaven, although he was devout
Jew. Prof. Hodge argues the orthodox belief
to be that God may "lead person outside
the church to essential truth independently of
human agency" and may ''s.ve him, although
his relation to Christ may be so obscured by
peculiar conditions as to elude our recogni-
ton"
U. S. Commissioner Finks of Waco Texas,
formerly of Waynesboro, Va. had a remark
able case before him last week. Joseph Ell.
plates to food Brazil with counterfeit money
of that country. and his brother, Lucius
White, was put on the stand and astonished
the court by a confession of all the details of
the greatest counterfeiting scheme ever origi-
mated in this country.
DR.. JOS S. Baldwin, a son Of G. G. Bald
win of Rockbridge, is one of the six Demo-
cratic candidates nominated in Baltimore
county, Nd, for the legislature.
"Malvern," the residence of the late Bishop
Johns, has been sold to Geo. S. White of
England, for S., 900.
ted at the dedication of Presbyterian church
in Concord, Campbell county, last week.
Miss Anna Drinker, Edith May" the
poetess, has just been released from the In
sane Asylum at Harrisburg, Pa, where she
has been confined for ten years. She once
poems.
Gen. Robert Toombs. of Georgia, has been
paralyzed, and his mind shows symptoms of
being much impaired
Jos. H. Dodson, the witness in the Cluverius
trial who testified to the fact that the note
addressed to T. J. Cluverious, telling him to
watt written by Lillian Madison, was sent
from her room, died last week. If the prison
err gets new trial the Commonwealth will
feel the loss of this witness.
Detective C. H. F. Deuring is suing Mrs
Jane Tunstall in the Richmond circuit court,
for $40, the balance due him of 5000 which
he charged her for professional service rem
dered in seeking to establish the innocence Of
her nephew, T. J. Cluverious,
At an actors benefit in Verona, Italy few
nights ago, Madame Rosalinda Carusa, once
an actress of note, and now one hundred years
old, having been born August 81, 1885, gave
reading. She is still robust, and read
without spectacles.
glass bedstead has been made at Biz
mingham, Eng, factory, for Calcutta mil
lionaire. 1t is of solid glass, the legs. rails,
&c, being richly cut. The King of Burmah
also has one.
| Mrs Campbell who lives on the Blue Ridge
in Rappahannock county, Va, has twelve
stands of bees, who, before Adkins distillery
was started in the neighborhood were very
valuable. Since it started they fly over there
| and get very drunk, and are now of very little
profit.
| A number of dogs were recently dosed with
morphine until they became insensible, the
| object being to determine what drug would
| act most rapidly as an antidote. 1t was found
| that hypodermic injections of theme neutral
lied the narcotic almost instantly, although
it was employed only after the heart had
| ceased to beat. Caffeine had considerable
anti narcotic power, but was not equal to
the principle derived from tea.
Rev. Samuel Lowry, colored clergyman
living near Huntville, Ala, is planning to
build silk worm cocoonery and teach young
oolored people how to weave silk. He raised
| 200 600 cocoons this year. Mr.. Lowry receiv-
ed gold medal at the New Orleans Exposi-
ton for the best display of cocoons, raw silk,
| silk worms and mulberry leaves.
The health of the clerks in the Treasury
Department at Washington has greatly i'm
proved since a Democratic administration
came in There are now only two clerks alb
sent on sick leave. Last year with 159 clerks
there were 1896 days.
The legatees under the will of the late Sir
Moses Montefore number nearly 200, ranging
from Earl Shaftesbury (who died last week. to
cowherd, and they receive sums varying from
$500 to 1875.
Friday night, at a colored church ten miles
east of Canton, Miss, Leon Cockrell, a negro
school teacher, shot Aaron War;, a colored
deacon while the latter was kneeling with the
congregation at prayer.
Mrs. Geo. Westinghouse, an eccentric lead
er of fashion in Pittsburg, Pa, recently lost
one OF two cream colored horses, great favo-
rites, for which she had paid $4,000 She
sent the hide to New York where she had it
stuffed, silver shoes put on it and it is now
back in her stable. The stuffed horse is
groomed, blanketed, and attended as careful
ly as if alive His bed is always made, and
his manger is always full of hay.
Mrs Agnes Jinks, who became famous in
the Presidential contested election as a
mask for John Sherman's share in the Louisi-
ana business has been deserted by her hus-
band and has published an account of her
marital wrongs
U, S. Consul r. E. Withers writes from
Hong Kong, that 'We have been house keep
ing week, and have house finely situated
on the mountain side, with beautiful grounds
around it, filed with trees, and shrubbery and
flowers. A large banyan tree is near the gate.
an indian rubber tree close by, magnolias,
palms, and large Frangipani in full flower
are near the portico. So far we are delighted
with our Chinese servants"
The fashion. of fixing the wedding day and