Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1886-03-19
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The musical amateurs of Petersburg, Va,
gave an opera for the poor of that city, which
realized $4,000. Last week they asked the
pastors of the city to take charge of a pro rata
share of the amount, and expend it among the
poor of their denominations Rev. J. W. Rose
bro, formerly of Augusta county, Presbyte-
rian; Rev. S. S. Lambeth, Methodist, and
Rev. E. G. Dargan, Baptist, positively and
distinctly declined to have anything to do
with distributing money derived from an op-
cratic entertainment Rev. DIR. Haines, Epis-
copal and Rev. Father O'Ferral, Catholic,
signifed their willingness to receive and dis
tribute thefund among their congregations.
Capt. ]. G. Dame of the Richmond Il Allie
ghany r. r. Co., informs the Richmond
s.Dispatch" that Mr.. Theodore Ringharz, a
resident of Staunton, has purchased 5000
acres of land in Albemarle near Scottsville.
Mr.. Ringharz says that Mr.. F. W. Walter, of
Staunton, is associated with him, and that in
August they will bring thirty-fve Bavarian
families to this country and locate them on
this land to engage in viniculture.
Loudon promises to have more creameries
than any county in Virginia, and is confirm
ing the statement made at the Mt Sidney
meeting in this county, that if one is started
plenty more will follow. The Messrs. Kings
ley are now erecting another creamery at
Broad Run Ridge on the Washington turn
pike in Loudon and will shortly put it in op-
Grafton. 1t is understood that the new cream
cry firm in Augusta will adopt Staunton as
site if the neighborhood of Mt. Sidney does
not furnish sufficiently large list of COWS in
time.
Mrs. DIR. E. L. Baird and her three daugh-
ters, formerly of Waynesboro, arrived at
Christianburg, Montgomery Co., Va, last
week, and took charge of the Christianburg
Female College. DR.. Baird will not arrive
until the close of the session, and will not
take charge of the educational department
until next session.
Capt. G. W. Pettigrew, for ten years a well
known hotel-keeper, died in Lexington, last
week. He had been member of the Board
of Supervisors and of the Town Council of
Lexington and was a public spirited man.
year ago New Orleans city politics were
SO corrupt that judge of a court .Lr1 s,5aa
Ford; his brother, Patrick Foxa and John
Murphy, both officers 9. bis court murdered
city officer who gssssisted their corrupt rule.
The Judge IS sent to the penitentiary for a
~tteSng term, the other two were sentenced to be
hung and were executed last Friday. They
sat up talking to the priests and Sisters of
Mercy till 2.30 A. NJ, Friday, and then went
| to bed. When the watch went to wake them,
they were both insensible, having been fur
nished belladonna by their friends, to escape
the disgrace of hanging. The Governor was
| telegraphed to about their condition, but or.
dered the execution to 60 on. About noon
| the insensible men were carried out to the
| scaffold, propped against wall and hung.
| One of them left a letter bequeathing
his s'curse'' to the editor of the s'Picayune'
and DR.. Hubbard, an Episcopal minister who,
in the interest of society, had written in favo,
of their execution.
Gen. Winfield S. Hancock through his lib.
crafty to his old army comrades, and to the
family except two thousand dollars worth Of
personal property. A fund has been started
for his widow which has reached $37, 291, and
bill has been introduced in Congress to give
her pension of $4,000 per annum.
The usual story of the remarkable travels
of pin is at hand. This time the scene is
laid in Newton, Ia. where thirteen years ago
Mrs Cyrus Gage dropped pin in her ear
The pin in due course of time dropped into
her throat and was swallowed, The other day
doctor took it out of her left leg near the
ankle.
A prosperous farmer of Owingsville, KY,
well-preseryed widower of over fifty, has
two sons, who were both in love with the same
to take, and the old man solved the problem
by sending the boys off on business and mar
rying the girl himself while they were away.
Frank Carpenter, who was Lieutenant in
the Eighth Vermont Regiment, cher1shes care
fully saved copies of the Richmond Enquirer
of 1864. He was then a prisoner in Libby
prison, and was subscriber to the Enquirer,
paying 800 for a three months subscription.
He paid Sc for the insertion of personal,
which was copied in New York. and led to his
release.
The heaviest blow at the State Of Kentucky
has been dealt by the United States Commits
sioner of Agriculture. That officer reports
that whereas the average value of Pennsyl-
vania farm horse is $94.10, and that of an
Illinois farm horse $7521, that animal in Ken
lucky, SO long regarded as unrivalled in its
horsefesh, is worth only $63.69.
Governor VIM. E. Cameron will open law
Offices in Richmond, Norfolk and Petersburg,
but will retain his residence in Petersburg.
At the sale of Mrs. Mary Jane Morgans
curios and art objects, in New York, a china
vase brought $4,000. W. T. Walter, of
Baltimore, was the purchaser. The vase is
eight inches in height and three inches in di
ameter. 1t is ovoid in shape, with short,
slender neck, spreading slightly at the top
The peculiar peach bloom color of the vase is
what gives it its value. 1t is of the Kang-he
period-1661 and 1922
For the first time on a week day since his
inaugural, President Cleveland went walking
on Tuesday. He was accompanied by Geo.
W. Haywood, an old Buffalo friend, and was
gone more than an hour from the White
House.
Barbara Robinson, little uneducated g.
year old negro girl at West Point, Ca, bids
fair to rival Blind Tom as pianist. She
plays with wonderful correctness any compo-
sition that she has once heard Like Tom she
seems oblivious to everything else when listen
ing to music or playing the piano.
Virginia has furnished number of brides
to millionaires The second wife of Commo.
dore Vanderbilt came from Louisa county. in
this State Tho ,,ifo Of q D Hnn4;xl.La.>