Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1886-01-08
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rLEA IN Ill II II 040 L IL ~ III hxAO.
If is strange, but it is true, that in the four.
teen wears since Dime Museums were started,
freaks of nature get higher salaries for exhib-
ting in them than actors who perform. In
Philadelphia the Mexican midget, the small
lest human being ever exhibited, got So, 800 for
four weeks. Jo-jo, the dog-faced boy, gets
$500 week. The turtle boy" a little negro
with horribly distorted limbs, gets $75
week. Chang, the Chinese giant, $3.50; Mr.
and Mrs. Bates, the giants, $500; Countess
Magri (the little widow of Tom Thumb) 5000;
Josephine Corbyn, the four-legged girl, $3.50,
and the man with the elastic skin which he
pulls over his head, $3.50 Fat women get
$40, living skeletons, from $40 to $50, and
original Greek tattooed man, retired with
fortune and now lives in Greece, but has be-
come blind.
Rev. Father J. T. O'Ferrall, former Assis-
and now of Petersburg, is making active war
on the Sunday liquor traffic in that city. AZ
ter efectually putting stop to it by mem
bers of his own congregation, he has sought
the assistance of the Mayor in the enforce
ment of the Sunday liquor law throughout the
city The Mayor has promised him his active
cooperation and the ''Index-Appeal'' says it
looks rs though there was gloomy prospect
looming up for poor Petersburg mortals who
seek spiritual consolation of this kind on the
Sabbath.
Under the high license law adopted in Chi
cago, the number of saloons has decreased
1000, just one third of the former number, and
the amount of revenue derived by the city
from liquor licenses, has increased from $780,
900 to 81, 100000 Those saloons that were
closed are usually of the lowest type, the
temptations to drink are diminished, and the
police supervision of the traffic is made easier
by reduction in the number, and by the in
terest of those who pay high license in aiding
in the suppression of unlicensed sale
P. T. Barnum in card explaining the re
cent dissolution of circus copartnership lately
between him and James A. Bailey, says it was
on account of the ill health of the latter, and
these hard times. ''our show has taken at the
doors over ST., 900 in single day."
The company of Eastern capitalists which
purchased the old government arsenal and
armory at Harper's FERRY, is making pre-
parations for the improvement of their prop
erty, and their attorney predicts that ''6ye
years from this time the sleepy old town of
Harper's Ferry will be a busting city of TO-
600 Inhabitants, with industries as extensive
as those of Wheeling Pittsburg and other
manufacturing centres" 1t is hoped to open
the works by July /.
Mrs Peter Donnelly is candidate for the
grand piano being voted away at St. Phillips
Catholic church at Phillipsburg, Pa, to the
most popular lady She wrote to President
Cleveland for his autograph, the sale of which
would aid her vote. He sent his autograph
and with it substantial sum of money.
Rev. W. H. H. Snyder has for twenty two
years been the pastor of the Salem Reformed
Presbyterian church of Harrisburg, Pa and
has built it up to be one OF the wealthiest con-
gregations there. Two Sundays ago young
lawyer was struck with the remarkable ability
of his sermon and on going home found it in
DIR. Talmage's collection. Mr.. Snyder admit
ted the plagiarism, but justified his action on
the ground of sickness preventing his prepar-
ing one. He has promised to resign, ha wing
been invited SO to do.
DR.. William Mcdaniel, q wealthy physician
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old and three times widower, on December
4th married Miss Carrie Gale of Baltimore,
aged seventeen. Last week his bride discov-
cred that his mind had given away and on
Christmas day he was committed to the
Mount Hope Lunatic Asylum.
''Bradstreets says that there were 237 ''boy-
colts" last year, of which SO were successful
in the labor association gaining their point, "a
were unsuccessful and ia are still going on
Cigar manufacturers have been most frequent
ly "boycotted7 with most success. Hat man
ufacturers are next in trequence but least sue
cessfully. How thoroughly they may be OPP
Grated may be gathered from letter received
in Stanton from Richmond lady. Her
milknan announced one morning that he
would come no more. His explanation was
firm, bad been reported to the labor associa-
ton, whose members discontinued the use of
his milk, and thus drove him out of the bust
ness.
j. M. Walker was once partner with Mac
kay, the silver king, and sold out to him for
1.
He never thought of walking even block,
and his bill for hack hire for a single wear
wds $3, 000 He built a mansion costing a
quarter of million in San Francisco and
speculated in the Eastern markets. Last week
the red flag fioated from the palace and he and
his family now occupy some rooms in rear of
. bank, of which he was once the head, by
the kindness of the directors. They are in
abject poverty.
Last Saturday, for the first time, there were
read by the clerk of the Virginia House of
Delegates the resolutions passed by the Lou
lslana legislature in January, eighteen hum
dred and sixty five, thanking Virginia for her
Kindness to the Louisiana troops on her soil.
They were adopted just as that legislature
broke up and Governor Allen fled to Mexico
and the paper was surrendered to the Federal
troops They however, after lapse of TWEEN
ty years, have just been sent to- their proper
destination.
Memphis society has been surprised and en-
ragged at the marriage Of G. N. Grosvener, a
leading merchant and club man, to Miss
Olivier ?. Hill, daughter of the President of
the Cotton Exchange. The marriage was
desirable one in all respects save for the fact
that on that day Mr.. q. was to have been
married to a we'll known society favorite of
Louisville, KY, and many ladies and gentle
men of Memphis had already gone to Louis
vile to attend the wedding, carrying about