Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1885-11-27

has demanded an investigation, claiming
that she did not put enough pepper in the
boys mouth to cause DEATH and that he died
from d iphtleria.
John Kelley and Miss Annie Duffield, aged
about twenty three, and measuring not over
forty two inches in height, were married at
Greenfield, Ohio, last week in the Methodist
church by Rev. Geo. W. Kelley. One feature
of the marriage service was the six brides
maids, all not over eight years of age, and yet
each and every one greater in stature than the
bride.
The decision of the Circuit Court of Shen-
andoah county III the cause Of Mckenzie
against the Baltimore & Ohio r. r. Co., for
damages for an arm cut off in a wreck on the
railroad between Maurertown and Toms
Brook, few years ago was affirmed, Judge
Lewis delivering the opinion. in the Court of
Appeals at Richmond last week. By this de-
cision Mckenzie RECEIVERS sc, 500.
John P. Misselman, who died last week in
| the Indiana Insane Asylum, was at one time
worth 100000. On a business matter he an
| tagonized many of the citizens of Logansport,
Ind He bought newspaper in order to as
sail his supposed enemies through it's columns.
and built the Logansport Opera House solely
! to produce a play called the ''Logansport
Reviewers which he had written ridiculing
| his opponents 1t ran six nights. He has
been twenty years in the Asylum. He is the
| father-in-law of the U. S. Minister to Swe-
| den
! Miss Angelina M. Brown, got verdict for
| $500 in her suit against Drs. A. E. M. Purdy
and A. S. Purdy in New York city, for having
| mistakenly reported that she had smallpox,
thereby causing her to be taken to the small
pox hospital.
The st. Johnsbury, Vt, Postmaster com
plains that of nineteen special delivery let
tiers passing through his office in October, one
half were love letters. The lovers will doubt
less have him removed for offensive parti-
sanship' in giving information that he had
no business having.
''Old Si' Samuel Small), the humorist and
now preacher, was a student at Emory q
Henry College, Va, fourteen years ago, and
during that time was on the editorial staff of
the Wytheville Dispatch. In those days he
was regarded as zone of the boys"
J. W. c. Bryant, the we'll known Chesapeake
&. Ohio Railway ticket agent at Clifton Forge,
! was married OIL the 18th inst, to Miss Helen Nj
Vowles, niece of the Misses McCurdy of the
| hotel there. They left on trip to the Ne W
| Orleans Worlds Exposition, which is in full
blast again.
| The watch of the British spy, Maj Andre,
who was captured during the revolution,
was sold at auction in Philadelphia, last Fri
day, and brought $50. The watch has the
inscription: John Andre, 1774." Col. W.
S. Smith bought it for thirty guineas when it
was first sold for the benefit of Andres cap
| tors, and gave it to the British Gen. Robert
son to be sent to Andres family. But it
seems that the watch has never been out OF
America since the day of the spy's capture.
Mrs. Marion G. Silver of Greene county,
Wis, arrived in Lynchburg with lawyer and
suddenly fell upon her husband who was liv-
ing there with counterfeit Mrs. S. She
agreed not to prosecute if he would give ur
all the furniture. He said he would give her
all he had in the world rather than live with
her again. He helped in person to take up the
carpets and pack the furniture while she
looked on. The Lynchburg papers represent
! her as much the handsomer of the two Mrs
Silver.
The Misses Withers, daughters of ex Sena
tor R. E. Withers; are in Danville where they
will spend few days, after which they will
| go to Richmond, Now Orleans aud San Fran
cisco. About the first of January they will
sail tor China, to join their father, who is
United States Consul at Hong Kong.
Miss Kate Field lectured in New York Sat
urday night on the ''Vice and Treason of
Mormonism," giving her observations during
a recent visit of several months to Utah Il
it had not been for Vermont said the lectur-
er, there never would have been such thing
as Mormonism. Brigham Young, Joseph
Smith and Heber c. Kimball, and the found
ers and shining lights of the Mormon Church
were natives of Vermont.
The engagement of Miss Mary Goode,
daughter of Hon. John Goode, U. S. Solicitor
| General, to Mr.. VIM. L. Brooke, of Norfolk,
is announced. The wedding will take place
early in the new year in Washington, after
which the young couple will reside in Nor
folk
Lord Adelbert Percy Cecil, the youngest
son of the Marquis of Exeter and godson of
Queen Victoria, preached the gospel of the
|
of worshipers Sunday last, in the Retail Gro
GERS Hall, No. 213 East Twenty third street,
New York.
Maine newspaper says that the village of
Prospect Harbor, Goldsboro county, ''has no
church society, no temperance society, no gin
MILL no drunkard, and no pauper"
| Slaughter W. Flcklen of Charlottesville, has
suffered stroke Of paralysis, from which no
| immediate danger is apprehended. 1t does
not interfere with his walking.
Alta recent public dinner Lord Fife not only
condemned entail, but adv coated peasant pro.
prietorship, and expressed his willingness to
| sell his farms to any of his tenantry who were
| able to buy and successfully farm them. Such
statement coming from the owner of $780,
900 acres is full of significance. Lord Fife
has always been generous landlord and lib
eral-minded man. He is one of the wealtlliest
men in Scotland, and has large interest in o
London banking house.
The U, S. Seuatorship.
VIrgiiia has many gifted citiZeus who
could fill this place with credit, but viewed
IN the light of current events, there is no
Vtrrini..p who OF ands hi,rhnr ~, ko ootf-