Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1886-12-24
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4 writer in the Richmond State" says, that
while James A. Walker of Augusta, who af
terxgards became General in the Confederate
army. was at the Virginia Military Institute,
he got into a fight with cadet and upon Prof
T. j. fStonewalD jackson interfering, knock
ed the Professor down. For this, his diploma
was withheld from him. Afterwards during
the war on an occasion IN which Walkers
command had done some particularly bril-
h@,t hshting, jackson went up to him and
sh ssins, MIN by the hand, congr itulated him.
After that they became warm friends, and fur
thermore. Walker succeeded jackson as COM
mander of the famous 'Stonewall Brigade"
Abraham Wormser, the millionaire broker
of New York, and Isaac McConnihe of Troy,
NY, have had served in the Supreme Court Of
that State notice against the Chesapeake i
Ohio Railway Company and the Central Trust
| Company of New York The action is brought
for the purpose of restraining the railway
detriment of the holders of the bonds of series
''B" of the company. The plaintiffs complain
| that the interest on the ''B" bonds is not paid
wholly in cash and, further, that the railroad
company is annually paying large amount
| in the shape of interest on the Newport News
extension bonds out of the earnings that
should be applied to the interest on the ssB"
bonds.
| A writer in the Warrenton ssIndex" saws
that the Western Ulion Telegraph Co. is now
constructing through line from Staunton to
Washington up the Manassas road, which is to
be used exclusively for commercial business,
between those two points.
The Richmond papers report Judge Lewis
of the Court of Appeals, who has been critical
ly i'll, to be much better and probably out of
danger. The Judge has deep-seated abscess
in the cavity of the abdomen, on the right
side. technically known as perityphitic alb
scess. Dr. Lewis Wheat is his attending ply
stefan.
The Lexington Gazette" says gentleman,
In from Mill Mountain, Bath county, Satur-
day morning, brought with him a two-ycar-old
! deer which he killed out of herd number
ing sixteen.
The Virginia congressman in Washington
are located this winter as follows Barbour,
at his residence on Capitol Hill; Cabell and
Croxton, at the Congressional Hotel; OFFER
rail-, at $40 Twelfth street, Northwest; Trigg
and Tucker, at the Clarendon; Brady, at 4O3
G street, N. W.; Libbey, at the Ebbitt House;
John W. Daniel and family, at a home he has
purchased at 1852 M street. N. W., and Wise
at 1928 G street, N. W.
Some parties in Charlottesville mailing
razors to Baltimore to sharpen, having
'thoughtlessly" slipped written directions in
the package, U. S. Postofice Inspector W. H.
| Barclay thoughtfully called on them and gave
them the choice of paying the $50 fine, or CO.
ing before the U. S. Court at Richmond.
They paid the fine.
Judge Paxon OF the Supreme Court of Penn
| sylyania, is the richest Judge in America. He
| has just started on trip South. He has
private car for the entire trip, has his own cook
and valet and Mrs. Paxson has her maid. He
laid in bountiful supply of everything good
to eat and drink before starting.
The report of the Executive Relief Commit
tee of Charleston. s. c., shows that the total
| amount of money contributed to that stricken
city during the earthquake reign was 1854, 1858,
of which $449, 119 has been expended. After
the necessary expenditure for repairing pri
vate buildings are made, it is estimated that
500, 200 will remain for repairing the city
hospitals, orphan school, almshouse, and
other public buildings.
In 1869 James Fl. Paine, a noted miser of
New York city, went into the Office of Chas. F.
Chickering, the piano maker, and handed him
a bundle wrapped in old green silk pocket
handkerchief and asked that it be deposited
for safekeeping in his iron SAFE When it WAS
opened few days ago after his death, it was
found to contain SS4O0, 600 in u. S. bonds and
greenbacks. His relatives are already at law
over it.
The Gate City Guard, the crack military
company of Atlanta, Ga, armed and equip
ped, is going to sail for Europe from New
York on July for Antwerp. The boys will
be gone two months, and hope to see most of
Europe before they return. They expect that
Gov. Gordon and lot of their friends will 90
with them.
Last week, on the Norfolk & Western Rail
road, Engineer Tom Roberts who was running
his freight train on schedule time, was run
into by another train, near Pulaski. He was
thrown down an embankment into creek
but soon emerged from the water and Yelled
Regardless order!" He was on the safe side.
To an inquiry about what the lawyers and
low Cffinarc ouf Of +ho 10 %lo
of Samuel Miller, who founded the "Miller
Manual Labor SCHOOL, in Albemarle, the
Richmond "Whig" replies that there were
some thirteen or fourteen lawyers employed
in the case, and the fees allowed to them out
of the estate by the Judge of the Circuit
Court of Richmond amounted to about 1928 :
600. The clerk of the Court thinks the other
expenses ran the costs of the litigation up to
between $135 600 and $4,000.
James Howard of Texarkana, Texas, aged
aged nineteen. He has often stripped and
beaten her since that, but lately tied her to
the bed and with a red hot branding iron
branded the letter .'H" in two places on her
person. The news got abroad, and last week q
mob took Mr.. Howard to trestle work and
hung him by the neck till dead.
Two years ago, Jos. P. Evans, colored, of
Petersburg, O former member of the State
/, Senate ran as an Independent Republican
candidate for Congress, against James D.
Brady, the party nominee. Gov. Cameron
canvassed and spoke for him and he got 6, 900
votes. Yet he was beaten, and the defeat