Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1886-02-26
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A decision of the New Jersey Supreme
Court has put that State in worse case than
even Virginia. 1t held that the law of 1884
imposing graded tax on railroads was I'M
constitutional. The State will have to refund
to the railroads 1864, 900 collected from them.
1t is from special tax on railroads (now de-
clared nulD that the State revenue heretofore
has been chiefly drawn. The financial out
look in the State is very bad.
Miss Lulu Meigs, daughter of Gen. M. G.
Meigs, Supervising Architect of the Pension
Building at Washington, is rudy blonde
with full, rounded and short figure. The
Washington correspondent of the "Graphic"
says she 'has now entered the lists as rival
to Mrs. McAllister Laughton and her foreign
acquired courtesy. Miss Meigs makes her
salaam with her knees, and has the appear
ance, for moment, of dropping in a luscious
heap at the honored ones feet She per-
formed this obeisance at the diplomatists' re-
ception last week before the President and
Miss Cleveland and Mrs. Whitney"
"Aunt" Sally Homan- Webb Smith Curtis
Gray, the relict of five husbands, died at Sag
Harbor, L. l., recently. By her will she left
her property oslo, 0O0) to the son of her Sec
ond husband, whom she said she had over
worked and ill-treated when boy
The counsel of DR.. Armstrong, who was
found guilty by an ecclesiastical court at At
lanta, Ca, have fled with Bishop Beckwith,
al appeal for new trial, on o number of
grounds.
A correspondent of the Rockbridge ''News"
writing from the Prohibition town of York
vile. S. c., says the apothecary stores sell
The correspondent says: ''The first Monday
in the month is known here as sSalesday,' and
the county people come to town to buy, sell
and trade horses. I think I can safely say
that two-thirds of them are under the infu-
ence of liquor before the day is over"
The letter written to ''Dear Winnie" his
wife, by President Davis, while he was fugi-
tive at Charlotte, N. c., April 23d, 1866, and
which was captured by the Federals is pub
lished. 1t concludes: Dear wife, this is not
the fate to which invited when the future
was rose-colored to us both, but know that
you will bear it even better than myself, and
that of us two I alone will ever look back re-
proachfully on my past career"
The Board of Supervisors of Rockingham
county have brought suit against Samuel r.
Sterling, late Treasurer, and his sureties for
$77, $685. 20, the amount of his deficiency on
county and district funds. The Common
wealth has brought suit against the same par
ties for $37, 900 deficiency in State taxes The
Treasurer left $4,000 in bank and the uues-
ton is to be tried in court as to who shall ge+
it.
Evangelists Moody and Sankey, who are
now in New Orleans, have written that they
will be in Charlottesville April 10th and 18th,
and at the University of Virginia (Which are
wholly separate meetings) April 18th and
18th. Staunton would seem from this sched-
ule to stand little chance of getting these dis
tingulshed preachers for couple of days.
g. Toler Wolfe, an actor, native of Win
chester, who for many years played old mems
parts in the stock company of the Richmond
theatre, died in Texas, where he was travel
ling with the stutz troup, last week. He was
q printer by trade and nearly seventy years of
age.
DIR. Dabney's collected writings are being
edited by DIR. G. R. Vaughan, of Brownsburg,
Va 1t is proposed to publish them in three
volumes, at $500 per volume, as soon as a
sufficient number of subscriptions are received
to cover the expense of stereotyping.
Editor Geo. w. Ward, Jr., who was shot
PRIOR to the election last November, in Abing-
DON Va, has returned from New York to
winchester, SO much better of his wounds as
to go on crutcbes.
Business is improving over last year. The
total number of failures in the United States
reported to 'Bradstreet's'' for the past week
is ia as against 227 in the previous week, and
254 in the like week in 1885. The total of fail
ures in the United States from Jan. l., to date
is 2, DOB against 2, 1856 in o like portion of
1885, decline of 1884,
Capt. Tom Gregory of Winchester, Tenn,
has unique pair of GLOW es They were made
by Miss Mamie Phillips, who shared lot of
rabbits, carded and spun their fur as if it
were wool, and from the yarn knit the gloves
She decorated the back of each glove with the
ear of full grown rabbit.
met the girl of the,
And gently took her ~,
thought I'd pop the
But didn't have the ST,
In the Mexican war the South furnished
Il, 629 troops and the North only 3,69S. vir-
ginia's quota was 1920.
After eating hearty supper at Frankford,
Pa., On the night of Feb. 16th John B. Cough
The famous lecturer, went to the Presbyterian
church to lecture on temperance. He was
describing the effects of alcoholic drink, when
MS head dropped on his chest and his arms
vent wildly into the air. The audience
thought it in imitation of the antics of
Trunk en- man. He fell and was taken to
,ofa Apoplexy had overtaken him and he
lied next day. He was an Englishnan by
birth and had spoken 1857 times in pnblic in
behalf of the Temperance cause. He never
ell but once after embracing the total alb
tionce cause. He was 70 years old.
Referring to the recent alleged bigamous
marriage at Tiffin, Ohio, the Rockingham
Spirit of the Valley' says, that it is not John
!. Beard, former postmaster at Broadway,
Rockingham, who is still q merchant there
nd doing business.
The death is announced of Mai. p. W. Hair
ton, whose first wife was sister of Gen. J.
G. B. Stuart. He died suddenly in Ralti-
pors. Col. Lewis Neale Whittle, brother of
bishop White Of Virginia, died at Macon,
Ia, February 18th.
The German Minister of War has given Or
!ers for q number of dogs to be trained with
view of testing the value of the services