Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1886-11-26
years, she has sued for a divorce.


years, she has sued for q divorce
Two years ago the Exchange Bank of Nor
folk was gutted by its officers, it being discoy.
vered after the break that they had loaned
more than a million of dollars to themselves
under the firm name of Balm Brothers Geo.
81 Balm Jr., the Cashier, and John B. White
head, the President, have just been tried in
the o. S. Court there and acquitted,
Thomas Branch, an old banker of Richmond,
recently gave this advice in a speech to a
meeting of commercial men: s'Always bring
good paper to discount, never overcheck, and
never wait Until the last day to get any money
you need. Discount week in advance; then
deposit the money, and it will make your bank
account large. Laughter Always make good
showing before the BANK
4 Property Defense Publishing Associa.
tom has been formed in New York with a
capital of 100000. It will publish an English
and German newspaper and it's members are
pledged to patronize all firms that are boycott
ted. One of its objects is to procure evidence
and prosecute ''demagogues and rioters"
The president is James Russell Wallace j,a
Clarke county, Va, votes on local option on
December Goth. In Wythville, where local
option was carried. G. W. Otey, proprietor of
billiard saloon, has been tried for "giving
away" liquor to his patrons. The giving away
was clearly proven in two cases but the jury
rendered verdict of not guilty. In the other
five cases a molle prosequi was then entered
Mice
Jefferson Davis, had her first sleigh ride at
Syracuse N. Y, few days ago. Mr.. Davis
was present, last Sunday, at the dedication
of Baptist church on the site of the house
he was born in at Fairview, KY. He presented
the congregation with a communion set of
solid silver. After the sermon, Mr.. Davis was
Invited to the pulpit, and bent with axe and
supported to the stand, he made few appro-
pirate remarks.
Gen. Phil. Sheridan and Senator Don Cam
eron drove into Woodstock, Va, on Monday
the 18th inst, in vehicle. They had made
the trip by Fairfax G. H., crossing the Blue
Ridge to Luray Cave. They called on Sena-
tor Riddleberger and that night when serena
ded at the Shenandoah House, Senator
Cameron was deputed by Sheridan to do the
talking, which he did by warmly acknowledge
ing the compliment. During the day they
spent, Senator Cameron made many inquiries
about the history of Gen. Muh lenberg of rev.
olutionary war memory, who was once a
preacher at Woodstock. He is preparing q
lecture to be delivered in Pennsylvania, in
which Muhlenberg is one of the central fig
ures. The two distinguished visitors went
down the Valley on Tuesday morning to
Winchester and Charlestown, thence Ola Ber-
ryville across the mountains.
DR.. Black, President of the Board of Direc-
tors of the Southwestern Lunatic Asylum writes
to Gov. Lee that the Asylum will probably be
ready to receive patients on January 1, 1857,
and the white lunatics now in jail will be &C
commodated there.
The annual report of the Baltimore & Ohio
Railroad for the past year shows that on It's
main stem the receipts have been SIS, S46, 913,
and the expenses $4,026, 365, or SIS, SIC, 54S
less thanthe earnings. The cost of opera
ting the road was $40 per cent. upon the
earnings. The whole value of the sinking
fund is stated at $71S, 739. The earnings of
all the branches, including Washington, were
$1S, 1922, 437, expenses 1912, O35, 742-leaving q
net balance of 1886, 694.
The Georgia Presbyterian Synod, at Sparta,
has sustained the decision of the Presbytery
finding DR.. W oodrow guilty of heresy in his
evolution belief and trusts. Dr. Woodrow
gave notice of appeal to the next General As
sembly against the Synod's decision. Drs.
Stricken formerly of Augusta) and Adams,
and Colonel Billups will represent the Georgia
Synod at the General Assembly as respon-
dents to DR.. Woodrow's complaint
Mr.. Corcoran, the venerable Washington
millionaire, has been presented with portiere
which consists of squares of silk from every
State and Territory in the Union, each en-
broidered by ladies, friends of Mr.. Corcorau.
The devices on the squares are mostly allie
gorical or historical, and the whole was made
up in the most elaborate manner by the Dec
orative Art Society of Baltimore.
1t is related in Buffalo that young married
man of that city, going home very early the
other morning, and endeavo1ing to steal quietly
to the spare room without awakening his wife,
was fairly paralyzed by clear, wide-awake
voice saying: "What was the limit, George?"
| She had sized George up.
Preacher E. L. Tanner, of Plainwell Mich,
| is reported to have said in recent-sermon
that any Christian who refused to vote the
Prohibition ticket ought to be yoked to the
devil and made to toll for thousand years
on the hot pavements of hell. His congrega-
ton have asked him to resign.
Senator-elect John w. Daniel, has rented
a furnished house in Washington and will
reside with his family there during the win
ter.
The women journalists in Virginia are Mrs.
M. H. Whitehead of the Temperance Advo-
cate," Lynchburg; Mrs. Woodward of the
Norfolk Progress; Mrs X. B. Mcclure, Of
/, the Portsmouth Times and Mrs. L. E.
Fisher, of the GAINESVILLE Banner of Truth
-four in all.
The publishers of ''Don M1ff," virginius
Dabneys admirable book, have announced
that they are now getting out the fourth
edition.
TEE STATE DEBT.