Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1886-05-14
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tioual Medical Congress.
Miss Alice Cook, sister-in-law of District
Attorney Waltman of Pittsfeld, Mass, lady
of all the accomplishments save youth, having
arrived at the age of thirty-six, last week ran
off with and married John Acres, the. young
Irish coachman of Mr.. Mailman, aged twenty
three and with a good share of good looks
Except the capital to be found in the lady's
wears and the gentleman's good looks, the
newly welded couple are penniless in the
house to which they have moved.
An Iowa cattle-grower has dehorned 121
cattle with no bad results, and regards it a
great economy. He thinks that horns do
81, 900, 900 damages annually in Iowa alone.
The Washington monument at Richmond
which was inaugurated, SO to speak, Oh plan
of popular subscription in 1916, was thirty
years before the fund for it reached $780, 900.
At the end of thirty three years the thing
looked hopeless and the legislature took it in
hand and built it by appropriation. The big
equestrian statue on it was hauled from the
dock to the capitol in 1857, by thousands Of
citizens pulling on the ropes.
David Scully and Miss Mary V. Bittner
went into the Recorders Office, at Scranton,
Pa, the other day, and Mr.. Scully asked the
clerk to give him marriage license. Having
received the license he and the young woman
in the presence of the witnesses present de-
to be the first marriage in that county under
the law allowing persons to thus marry them
selves.
Hon. John s. Barbour will sail in August
for three-months' tour of England, Ireland,
Scotland, and France. Two gentlemen be-
sides himself, and several ladies will consti-
tute the party.
Thos. r. Smith, of the Society of Friends, of
Lincoln, Loudoun county. whose letters about
the creamery were read at the Waynesboro
meeting the other day, lost by death last
week his fine Registered Holstein Cow,
''Delia S." She was splendid COW, 5 years
Old and cost Mr.. S. nearly $500, at an auction
ssle of Holsteins in New York, last fall.
Rev. DIR. J. G. Armstrong lectured in
Atlanta, Friday night, on '"The Crisis in Ire
land" to fifteen hundred people. AS he re-
tired from the stage, hundreds of bouquets were
showered upon him. The ladies had decorated
the stage and it was perfect bed of the rarest
flowers.
The Upper Kanawha Valley coal miners
having resolved to continue work, it is an
nounced that Influenced by that action, the
New-River miners, who thought the strike
was to be general one, will return to work.
At the Democratic primary in Lynchburg
were nominated Mayor, N. c. Manson; Com
Treasurer, j. w. Bransford, and City Sergeant,
M. J. Day. At the Roanoke Democratic pri-
mary were nominated Mayor, Col. VIM. Carr;
Commemorative Attorney, r. H. Woodrow;
City Sergeant, G. W. Thomas.
John II. Noyes, the founder of the Oneida
in Canada. Long before his death, however,
his influence had weakened in the Community
| and the system of complex marriages had
| long ago been voluntarily abandoned.
High license in Illinois has increased the
| revenue of the State from the liquor tax from
100000 to over 50, 500, 900, and reduced the
number of saloons from $4,000 to 5000. In
the city of Chicago alone there has been an
increase in tax of 1890, 600 and reduction
of 600 in the number of places where liquor is
sold.
A Baptist missionary in China writes home
that what an American family throws away in
a year would keep dozen Chinese II sec
and what a Chin % To-; = s
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