Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1886-05-14

FredericAe Jay. Mr..
Hurkamp VIC -S- sunac manufact-
urer of this country.
His Excellency, Governor Fitzhugh Lee,
will attend the Agricultural Fair at Scottsville,
Albemarle county, on the 7th of next October.
ex-slave now living in Patrick county, Va,
shows that she was a former slave of Patrick
Henry and is now one hundred and five years
old. In the same county there live Mrs. Patty
Pack and Mrs. Judith Nowlin, both over
century old.
A 'fower concert was given at Concord,
Mass, the other evening. A screen, painted to
represent scene in a flower garden, stood on
the stage, and before it were potted plant in
profusion. Some of the painted flowers were
very large, and in the center of each big flower
was an opening, skilfully concealed by
movable cover. Behind the screen stood the
singers, and their faces appeared in the
centre of the flowers. The singing flowers
were a rose, dahlia, a sunfower, daffodil,
pansy, a lily, tulip, a daisy, and butter
cup.
Mr. Anthony Truax of Long Branch, N. j.,
though past eighty years of age, is still sus-
ceptible to the charms of the fair SEX Though
twice married and the ancestor of great
grandchildren, he, last Saturday, married
Miss Ida Conovsr, dark-haired beauty. She
is but thirty years of age-not as old as some
of her husbands grandchildren. Mr.. Truax
is very wealthy, and his children object to
their fathers marriage SO late in the afternoon
of life
Last court-day there were between seventy
and eighty buyers in Harrisonburg, and at
least $50 horses swere bought. About 212 head
were shipped North, the remainder going
South and elsewhere It is estimated that
between $4,000 and $S5. 900 were left in
town.
The tannery at Luray during the last year
paid out $92, 900 for bark alone. This is the
establishment that once tried to get establish
ed at Waynesboro, IN this county.
Mrs. Charlotte Elan, mother Of VIM. G.
Elan, former editor of the Richmond
''Whig," died at Fayetteville, N. c., few
days ago. Mr.. Elan is now on the editorial
staff of the National Republican"
The trial of J. Speed Thompson for killing
Ebert Fowler at Hinton, which took place at
Lewisburg, W. Va, last week, resulted in a
hung jury. Thompson was bailed in 500, 600
to appear for trial again in November.
Anthony X. Simmons, aged seventy-six,
lately died in the same house in Botetourt in
which he was born and had always lived, and
where SO years ago his grandfather died. and
where AZ years ago his father died.
The Low Moor Iron Co. recently shipped
carload of its product to San Francisco, Cal.
There is not, says the Allegheny Sentinel"
a more prosperous or successful blast furnace
in the South than Low Moor.
The dates and places for the Summer Nor
mails this summer, as far as decided upon, are
for whites-Farmville, June 9TH. and Salem,
Roanoke, in July; for misunderstanding
July LIST.
Senator-elect John W. Daniel of Virginia,
will be asked to be the commencement orator
of the State Normal School at Kutztown, Pa.
The Norfolk, Va, crop of strawberries Is
larger this year than any grown since its
trucking career began.
Rossville, Kan, is run by young men. The
Mayor is but 20 years old, the Police Judge
~, the Principal of Public Schools-25, and
the Postmaster Ga