Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1885-08-28

minded and honest and had no more animosi-
ty toward the South than toward the North
Being West Point graduate it was profess
sion with him. JEFF Davis was the wrong man
for the Confederate Presidency"
Romance does not confne itself to color. |
Augustus Henry Green, a good looking mulat-
to boy, committed to Jail in Richmond a
month ago, for theft, proved last Saturday to be
Mrs. VIM. Xix of Boston, who had heard that her
husband was in jail there for larceny, and COM
mitted her crime SO as to be near him. She
adopted male apparel SO as not to be put in
the female apartment away from her husband.
She is West Indies negro and he is Virginia
negro.
In New Orleans last week. Harry Malten,
the tenor of the St. Quenten Opera Company,
a travelling combination, feeling aggrieved at
some slight by the soprano, took the oppor-
tunity in one of the scenes of the s'Chimes of
Normandy" to strike that artist several blows
with q cowhide. He chased the running wo-
man behind the scenes and only desisted when
uG WAS CduSuC NY bcNCldl VI tu0 Sl1ol liz
only excuse offered for the outrage was that
Malten was under the influence of liquor
Miss Quenten, the soprano who is the wife of
the manager, sang her part out, but amid
tears and Mysteries.
The -Confederates of Harrisonburg are
preparing to give a cordial welcome to ''Sher-
| idan's Veterans" from the Northern States, on
| Sept. 18th.
| In Pulaski county, Va, the Commonwealth
| Attorney has created sensation by announc-
ing in court on the acquittal of a prisoner,
| that he would never argue another case before
negro jury. The negro prisoner had just
| been acquitted though fully convicted on
| negro testimony, and every negro jury that
has tried negro there, has rendered the same
verdict no matter what the evidence has BEEN
W. H. Martin, depot agent at Riverville,
on the Richmond & Allegheny R. R., shot
Miss Bette Turner. his sister n-law, there on
Saturday night, Aug. 10Th, through, as he says.
installing her for burglar. He gathered up
his money and left the next night, which ap-
| pears to be the only circumstance pointing
away from accident He is in good husi-
| ness circumstances.
| 1t is announced that Miss Cleveland's book
is already in its twelfth edition, and that fifty
thousand copies have been sold, with the de
mand still as large as ever. The Emperor of
Russia, it is said, has written to Miss Cleve-
land, asking that the book be translated into
the Russian language. Already translations
into French, German and Italian are under
way
The best men will sometimes find their
match in the lovely sex. John G. Collins of
Washington city, ''The Cast Iron Man," a
teacher of the ''manly art, u has applied for a
divorce from his wife, and in his bill charges
her with cruel treatment. He alleges that his
life is in danger, owing to her frequent assaults
upon him with articles of household furniture,
pitchers plates, tumblers, bricks and othe,
implements.
Mrs. John S. Cuttings of Baltimore, recent
ly laid the corner stone at Claremont Va, TO,
memorial chapel to be built in memory Of
her father, Editor Thomas Richie, the foun
der of the Richmond Enquirer" Among
the articles deposited in the corner stone wal
copy of the first issue of the Richmond ''En
quirer,"
Capt. Henry Fairfax, President of the Poca
hontas Southwestern Va.,) Coal Co., hal
purchased dairy farm in Loudoun county
for 1868, 900 cash. 1t has on it SO mich cowi
giving an aggregate of 70 pounds of butter PEI
day.
Lord Chief Justice Coleridge, of England,
has just excited comment by privately marry
ing Mrs. Amy Augusta Jackson Lawford, al
American, whom he had met on an Atlantic
steamer only few month ago.
It looks like Rockbridge will be ahead Of
Augusta in a creamery after all. A meeting
of farmers was held at Lexington on the 18th
inst, which was addressed by Mr.. J. X. Smith
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Home" and a committee was appointed tt
investigate the creamery enterprise and report
next co7rt day.
Rev. James Jefferson, colored minister
soliciting funds for the building of church
at Charlottesville, was arrested at Winchester
last week for stealing silver cup from Hon
Marshall Mccormick, of Clarke, on the cars
1t was found in his satchel.
In the Pension Office at Chicago, of which
Miss Ada Sweet is in charge, several hundred
enrolled names have been found not to repre-
sent genuine pensioners
Henry Mckay, a colored man. has been ar.
rested at Honeyville, Page county, forrunnine
off with sixteen year old daughter of ]. H.
Cubbage, white, and marrying her in Mary.
land. At the time of the elopement, the girl
was living away from home with her grand.
| mother.
The Washington correspondent of the AL.
exandria "Gazette'' SAYS that Hon. ]. r.
Tucker recently appeared there wearing a
black silk hat, an article he had been fighting
against all his previous life. but which, after
avoiding its use during long existence, he
was forced to buy and wear when he went to
| the Grant funeral.
Cluverius convicted of the murder of Miss
Madison, at Richmond, positively refuses to
see any one except his relatives. He is con-
fident of getting new trial His aunt, Mrs,
Tunstall, now resides in Richmond most of
| the time and is constant in her visits to him