Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1886-07-23

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| Hon. John s. Barbour accompanied Miss
Daingerfeld and Mrs. VIM. Pinckney Brooke,
is travelling in Europe. They will pass the
summer on the continent. ARGUS
CLEANED FROM THE MAILS.
| About two hundred and fifty teachers are in
attendance at the Salem Normal Institute.
Campbell county, Va, has voted subscrip-
ton of 800, 900 to the proposed Lynchburg,
Halifax and North Carolina Railroad.
Rev. Robert Nelson, D. D., former mission
airy to China, died at Oakland, Hanover coun-
| ty, Thursday last.
The mother of Gen. James H. Williams, of
Woodstock, Va, died few days ago.
Dr. Columbus Minter, of Winchester. Va,
died Thursday last.
Charles B. Burks, who for several years has
worked as = compositor on several of the
Lynchburg papers, is III pitiable state. says
the Lynchburg ''News." He talks in dis
, connected manner, and imagines all sorts of
unreasonable things Among others, he i'm
AGNES that the friends of Cluverius in Rich
mond have conspired to get him in the Rich
mond jail in the place of Lillian Madison's
murderer, and release the latter. He believes
that he b ears close resemblance to Cluverius
although there is no likeness whatever. The
young man was taken in charge by his friends
and will no doubt receive proper attention.
In a snake killed in Southern Maryland was
found a. big china egg.
Convsst Ferdinand Ward, the champion
embezzasr of the country, who is now serving
well-das erved term in the Albany penitentia-
ry, has been interviewed by some of the New
York reporters, and to them he vents his dis
gust shat James D. Fish, who was as deeply
implicated in the gigantic scheme of robbery
as he was, is not sharing his fate. He ap-
paars disposed to tell all he knows, and his ut
! terances are accepted as undoubted truths by
| the New Xork press.
| A heroic attempt was made by Jesse j. Cat
lin, yard-master of the Pennsylvania railroad
at Elizabeth, N. j.. Friday morning, to rescue
Annie Wyckof, highly respected young girl
of Elizabeth, from death at the South Eli
zabeth railroad station. While Miss w. was
standing on the east bound track waiting for
the twenty minutes past seven train, through
east bound passenger train was sighted. Cat
lin jumped to her side and was dragging her
out of harms way, when both were struck by
the train and instantly killed.
It was mentioned few days since that
Washington photographer was in ecstacies be-
cause he had obtained series of negatives of
Mrs. Cleveland in various poses and costumes.
His expectations of realizing a handsome re.
turn from the sale of photographs are in dan
ger of disappointment. 1t was understood
that the President and Mrs. Cleveland would
make selection of the negatives to be used,
but when he called at the White House few
days ago and preached the subject of placing
the photographs on sale, the President prompt
ly interposed his objeetion, and insisted that
he did not propose to have his wife's pictures
put upon the market
The first bale of new cotton was received at
Cuero, Texas, on last Thursday, July 18TH
This is one week earlier than last year, the
first bale (season 1SS5-'6) being received at
Galveston, July %.
A despatch from Jacksonville. ILL.,, says
Some time last year man named Fred. Hol-
lar was arrested on a charge of stabbing Mrs.
VIM. Mclaughlin and her sister so severely
that they nearly lost their lives A party of
disguised men broke open the jail and shot
Hollar through the abdomen. Before Hollar
died he insisted that he did not commit the
| foul deed. VIM. Mclaughlin, who had basely
deserted his wife, died recently in Western
State, confessing in his last moments that he
was the author of the terrible crime for which
Hollar lost his life.
| Tom Roy, of Washington, in Pennsylvania,
was supposed to be bachelor until last week,
when his wife and three children, whom he
deserted fourteen years in McKeesport, called
upon him. 1t then appeared that his name
was George McDermott Accommodation was
his wife owns property.
Jake Bradwell. negro, was lynched at noon,
| Friday, near Flatford, Bullock county, Ga
Bradwell had ravished and horribly maltreat-
ed Dolly Woods, six-year-old girl, while on
her way to school. She identified him after
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would have killed the child but thought her
| dead when he left her. He was caught within
three hours after the assault. A crowd of one
| hundred whites and blacks held a conference,
! and gave Bradwell the choice of being burned
or hanging himself He chose hanging,
climbed up tree, fastened the rope around
his own neck and a limb of the tree, but then
refused to jump off, A negro climbed up and
| tied Bradwell's hands, and the crowd pushed
him off with poles. His body was riddled with
| bullets. The child is not expected to live.
On Sunday, July 4th, Miss Emma Connolly
walked into Hunter Chapel, in the town of
| Midway, Barnwel county, S. c., while the
Sunday school was in session, with cooked
revolver in her hand, and passing into pew
behind John A. Steedley, she fred her pistol
into his back. He arose, looked around, tried
to get out his pistol, and at the same time
made for the door, Miss Connolly snapped
her pistol at him again, but it failed to go off.
Steedley fell at the door of the church, Just
outside, and died in about three minutes
Miss Connolly surrendered to the authorities,
but was not placed in Jail. Her only excuse
for numbering Steedley, who was her second
cousin, was certain defamatory reports circu-
lated by him about her, and obscene letters
addressed to her and her brother by him. On
Tuesday, July 18th, the grand jury found
true bill charging Miss Connolly with the MUIR
Ger of John A. Steedley. Her trial took place
the following day, and lasted seven hours
The court room was packed, as it is the first
time lady has ever been tried for murder in
South Carolina, The evidence against her