Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1886-12-31

the National Encampment of State troops at
Washington City. on Decoration day, May
23d-30th, 1887, the prizes to be contested for
aggregate 5000 the highest being SIS, 200.
Direct shipment of apples to Liverpool,
Eng, would handsomely pay those apple
growers of Augusta county who have crops
that would justify it. The cost per barrel lis
ST. II freight and 43 cents commission for
selling, making $1.60- Mr. Frank Wayland,
of the adjoining county of Albemarle, sells
many barrels in Liverpool at $500 net per
barrel, the good price being mainly from the
fact that he carefully grades them. There is
one apple orchard in Albemarle that yields
81 900 year.
Mrs. Lyons, the widow of Hon. James Lyons
of Richmond, Va, who was the Democratic
candidate for Vice President on the O'Connor
ticket in the Greeley campaign, holds position
of copyist in the Office of Recorder of Deeds in
Washington. Miss Lizzie Van Lew, former
postmistress of Richmond and well-known
during the war to the Federal troops, holds a
81, 200 clerkship in one of the Washington
departments.
Some exasperated man or boy of Charlottes-
vile, whose Christmas hopes had been blasted
by an order of Mayor B. F. Harrison, forbid
ding the firing of crackers on the streets
during the holiday season, threw dynamite,
or powder bomb into his premises, the Monday
night preceding Christmas, which shattered
his windows and those of his neighbors.
Rev. Daniel Webster Eichelberger, Luth-
eran minister of Middleway, Frederick coun-
ty, Va, and former professor in Roanoke Col
lege, on his last Sunday in the pulpit took for
his text. ssWatch ye therefore, for ye know
neither the day nor the hour wherein the Son
Of man cometh." On the Wednesday following,
he fell dead in the yard of his residence. HIS
funeral sermon was preached by Rev. DIR.
Gilbert of Winchester. He was So years old
and had served as private in the I'd Va.
regt., Stonewall Brigade.
The q. S. District Attorney of Boston has
commenced five suits against the Bay-State
importing foreign labor under contract. the
company having brought French Canadians to
work in its brick-yard. The punishment for
violation of this law is fine of 81, 900 for
each offence.
Mrs. Margaret Ashton of Factoryville, N.
Y, who died suddenly last week at a funeral,
was seventy years old, and wealthy. For forty
years she had attended every funeral in that
and the adjoining counties. Besides being
present at so many local funerals, she had
been among the spectators at the obsequies of
all the noted people of this country who have
died in the past half century, including
Daniel Webster, Abraham Lincoln, Horace
Greeley, Gen. Grant, President Garfield and
Stephen A. Douglass. She was prevented
from being present at President Arthur's
funeral by the death of relative who was
buried on the same day
The old and mutilated bank notes, when
they come back in the United States Treasury,
are chopped up and made into pulp, and
this is moulded into various shapes and forms.
The latest design is miniature bust of Mrs.
Cleveland. 1t takes $4,000 worth of bank
notes to make one of the Presidents fair wife,
and each figure is labelled: ''Made from mu-
tilated United States bank notes worth
$4,000" These are sold for a fair price, and
are having good sale.
A hardware man at Galesburg, ILL.,, is in
hard luck. He offered stove to any person
who would guess the correct number of seeds
in a pumpkin in his store window. One of
the guessers put the number at $40, 1877
There were 500 seeds, and six persons guessed
the correct number.
The special election at West Point, Va,
Wednesday, for mayor, resulted in the choice
of Edwin Wilkinson, DEM, by SO majority
over Morgan Treat, candid tie of the Knights
September.
Geo. W. Child, the millionaire proprietor of
the Philadelphia Ledger" sat in his Office late
Christmas eve night, with four piles of crisp,
new $500, 800, $50, and $40 notes, putting
them in envelopes and sending them to his
employees and others. In all he distributed
1926, 900 in Christmas presents. In the corner
of each envelopeswas simply, with the best
wishes of Mr.. Child"
B. Fl. Brennan, the owner of the "Carlton"
farm, formerly owned by Judge Rives in Al
bemarle, and formerly banker at Charlottes-
vile. died last week.
Christie Birmingham, for forty years super
intendent of the grounds at the Virginia Mill
tarY Institute, died last week. He had been
there for several years on the retired list at
full pay.
For contempt of court, Judge Latham of
the Lynchburg Hastings Court, last week, or
dered Thos. N. Williams, a prominent crimi-
nal lawyer, to Jail. He was released from Jail
after the adjournment of the court.
The jury in the case of ohm T. Haas, book
keeper of the Shenandoah County Bank, a
State bank, on trial at Woodstock, Va, on
the charge of altering certain accounts of the
bank, was unable to agree, and the State
abandoned the other indictments, ten in
number.
Challenging Stonewall Jackson.