Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1886-01-22

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y. washington society aggravated her disease,
she was twenty-seven years of age.
on Saturday last, Dr. Thomas W. Keen.
democratic member from Pittsylvania, rose
IN MS seat to reply to Mr.. Waddill (Rep.) on
Inc subject Of free books for the schools. He
enoed his brief remarks by saying that ''when.
ever anything comes before this House, wheth.
OF Tor good legislation or otherwise, the min
orlty on the floor could not recognize the fact
they were defeated by the will of the people. -
Az ne concluded, he sat down and those around
him saw his eyes glazing. They rushed up to
him, but only in time to catch his lifeless
body. He had died Of aneurism of the heart
Much excitement prevailed and the House
adjourned. He was sxty-two years of age
and native of Pittsylvania, but in other days
was prominent in the politics OF North Caro-
lima and was an elector on the Douglas ticket
in that State For time he was Mayor of
Salisbury, N. G. He returned to Danville in
1877 and was elected to the legisl ture in
1883. He had suffere from heart disease for
a long time.
The cold weather notes still come in, and
one Is that the thermometer was IA degrees
below zero in Falling Springs Valley in Bath
county, Va There was skating on the Hall
fax and Indian rivers in Florida, something
never witnessed before in that State. The
damage to the orange crop, it is now said, is
not SO bad as was expected. In Page county,
Va, William and Lot Walker, colored men,
walking to Bentonville at night in the snow
storm, were frozen to death.
Coal OIL seems to be the coming drink. At
Chrlstiansburg, Montgomery county, Va.
| there is an old colored man who is u habitual
drinkeI and takes half pint at a time with a
relish. His health is excellent. AT the
Lynchburg police court last week white cit
izeu was arraigned who is 10 the la bit OF
drinking coal oil. town in Germany boasts
of a female resident who can drink pint of
it at draft. The Berlin .'Deutsche Wochen-
schrift' tells of man who drank habitually
an ordinary liquor glass of petroleum several
times weekly without any disagreeable conse-
quences
Queen Victoria has commanded the produc-
ton of Gounod's oratorio "Mors ct Vita, at
the Royal Albert Hall, and will come from
Windsor to attend the performance. 1t will
be her first appearance at an amusement
since her widowhood.
| John Bowyer colored employee at the
Charleston, W. Va, custom house, says he
was the body servant of Robt. E. Lee at the
| time of his death. He informs the local paper
that the day the General died, "Chief," his
] 70 toll
Miss Mildred, the Generals daughter, of it
and she powdered some sugar over bread and
sent it to the horse but without effect. After
| the procession at Gen. Lees funeral in which
"Chief" walked, draped in mourning he res
turned to his stable, refused all food and in a
| short time died.
Rev. H. D. Jardine, the ritualistic rector
of the Episcopal church at Kansas City, Mo-,
was recently convicted by an ecclesiastical
court and sienced. He went to St Louis to
ask rehearing of his case, and while there
occupied the Iestry room of Trinity church
| as lodging. On the morning of jan. 18th,
he was found lying dead on the lounge, hav-
| ing taken chloroform. On his body next to
| the skin was found small iron chain one
| eighth of an inch thick. 1t was worn around
the loins, probably for penance.
| At the City Hall in San Francisco last
week. just previous to the rumble and jar of
an earthquake, stood a couple applying for
marriage license. When asked her age the
! lady replied, "Twenty-oh, au earthquake"
and fed out of the building. Her intended
ran nearly as fast. Neither have applied for
| a license since.
A sure cure for fingers and toes slightly
frost bitten, which afterwards burn and itch,
is that they be painted, at first once, and af-
forwards twice q day, with a mixture of dilu-
ted nitric acid and peppermint water in equal
proportions After this application has been
made for three or four days, the skin becomes
| darkened and the epidermis is shed, healthy
| skin appearing under it. The cure is effected
in from ten to fourteen DAYS.
| Oscar Schlam, sued in San Francisco to re-
cover 1899 damages for contracting the char
ber's itch at the shaving saloon of Solomon
Cohen. After hearing testimony, Justice
Burke said it was doubtful whether the disease
was contracted at Cohen place, and he gave
him a verdict.
James Bowler Commonwealth Attorney
| of Allegheny, was married on the 18th inst,
to Miss Edmonia only daughter of Robert J.
Glendy.
A large suit involving $4,000 is being
tried in Greenbrer county, W. Va. A wealthy
real estate owner named Jarrett died there aud
left his estate in trust for the benefit of
young boy who had been reared in his home,
His will has been admitted to probate, The
relatives of Jarrett are contesting the will. Il.
| L. Parrish of Covington, and Judge Ferguson
of Charleston, W. Va, counsel for the
boy.
A Southern student attending Washington
and Lee University, Lexington, beheld snow
for the first time last week. He was Devil
dered by its beauty and did not want any one
to walk on it, as it was too pretty.
The old and new year were sad events in the
household of Scott Fristoe of Page county,
Va. He lost five children by diptheria, in
December and January, and two more were i'll
of the dreaded disease last week.
The ''London Lancet" high medical author
ity has statistics showing that of given 100, :
900 bachelors between twenty and twenty-five,
there are annually about 200 deaths, where
as out of 100, 900 married men of similar
,e the annual deaths arr only about 600.
Again, between the ages of thirty and thirty
five, $500 bachelors ule ana only 900 married
men to the 1000 The statistics do not
state how many married men who are not
dead, wish they were.
Col Edmund Richardson, the President Of
the late World Exposition at New Orleans,
and the richest man in the Southern States,
died instantly at jackson, Miss, JAM 10th, OF