Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1886-12-10


ferent companies 1,12o coke ovens to be in
operation early in the spring.
An order of the Delaware, Lackawanna and
Western Railroad Diminishing its unmarried
employees is said ito arouse great deal OF
Indignation" among the prescribed bachelors
Sam Jones closed O three weeks' campaign
in Omaha last week. At his last meeting he
raised So, 100 for the 7. NJ G. A. building.
He has gone to his home in Georgia to take a
rest.
A few weeks ago, D. Pierce Crockett walked
up to Thomas Hall and asked him if his name
was Hall and whether he was not the father
of Hall now in the penitentiary. Hall re-
piled in the affirmative, and Crockett shot him
dead. Crockett has just been acquitted at
Christiansburg, Va, on the ground of lnsanl-
ty!
In 1852 Samuel Baker of Wheeling, w.
Va, bet $40 with friend that he (baker'
would live thirty -four years. The money WAS
placed in q bank, and on the 9th inst. Samuel
walked down and drew it out, with interest
The other party and his entire family of five
were all dead.
The Lexington Gazette" says that the life
of the Hon. Walter N. johnson, who died in
Birmingham, Alabama few days since was
insured for the sum of 100000, which will
go to his only child. girl of ten or twelve
years of age. Mrs. johnson, who was Miss
BOYD, of Buchanan, has been dead number
of years.
The members elected ON the ID Of Novem-
Der to fill vacancies in the present Virginia
legislature are as follows: James Barbour of
Cnlpeper, to the House, James L. Gordon of
Albemarle, to the Senate. and John W. Cher
~ of Norfolk, to the House.
Judge Wingfeld, who retires from the bench
OF the Fifth Judicial Circuit, with the end of
this year. has served Is years in that position.
The bar of Liberty, Bedford, have presented
him with gold headed cane. He was at one
time President of the Special Court of APP
peals.
The Bell Telephone Co., has well paid
corps of government paid attorneys in pur-
suit of it and there is no danger of the suits
being allowed to lapse. The fees SO far are
pa Hunton and JEFF. Chandler, IS, 900; John
Goode, $4,000; G. s. Whitmer, patent lawyer
of Washington, SO, 900; and Il. P. Lowry, of
N. Y, retainer of 81. 900.
The old planning mill at Clifton Forge. was
burned Sunday night A. J. Accord loses $500
worth of machinery.
Thoebe, who was defeated by Hon. John S.
Carlisle, has employed Gen. B. F. Butler as
his counsel in contesting the seat. His claim
SO far seems to be based on informalities in
the returns of two or three counties, and will
hardly weigh much in Congress. He will be
allowed his contest expenses however, which
now nearly reach years pay.
Mrs. Hicks-Lord, the only American lady
who has been presented to Queen Victoria
more than once, gave reception in New
York last week on re-entering society from her
widowhood. Among the celebrities present
were Henry M. Stanley, the African Explorer,
Gen. w. r. Sherman. Miss Winnie Davis,
daughter of Hon. jefferson Davis and Lord
de Wilton.
Member MCGEE, the Knight of Labor elec-
ted to the Georgia legislature, has introduced
a bill to limit the profits on ''store goods"
1t is provided that merchants shall not charge
profit of over fifteen PEI cent. on the nee
essaries of life, such as corn, -four, bacon and
coffee. Penalties are provided for specula
ting outside of these figures.
The Insurance Inspectors have finished
their examination of the buildings at Charles
ton, S. G. they estimate the damage by all
Oh the IA, 600 chimneys in the city IS pc
cent. were broken off at the roof.
President Cleveland is KEEP. in doors by
rheumatism Of the knee.
George T. jackson, who embezzled 800,
600 of the funds of the Augusta, Ca, cotton
mills, and was sentenced to seven years in
the penitentiary, has been pardoned by Gov.
Gordon after serving year. "Great social
influence" was brought to bear in his favor,
as well as ''the statements of physicians that
confinement was injuring his health" The
old, old story.
The 'Belle Gilbert and Huntley- Starke''
troupes have again been consolidated, and
last week played in Richmond as the old
Gilbert Huntley" troupe.
The late Gen. McElellan's history of his
| connection with the civil war, from his own
nand, was issued from the press last week -
OF the mon engaged in the fight. Gen. McClel.
! Ian says: ''More gallant foes never met on
the field Of battle than these men of the same
race who had SO long lived under the ample
folds of the same flag; more desperate battles
| were never fought than those now about to
occur The military virtues of patriotism,
patience, endurance, self abnegation and he
roism were about to receive their most strik-
ing illustrations"
President Clevelands wife was in New York
this week doing her Christmas shopping She
made the tour of the shops in hired cab, and
| wore black silk dress, seal skin cloak, and a
small bonnet of dark material.
sThe 'Stonewall Jackson Institute" a
female college at Abingdon, Va, was badly
| damaged by fire Thursday evening, origina.
F., ting in defective fae. The baggage of the
girls and the furniture were all saved, and
the girls themselves found refuge in Martha
| Washington College. The Institute building
was the former home of Gen. John B. Floyd.
e. Price Greenleaf, miser who during life
| often denied himself its necessities, died in
Boston Monday and left $500, 600 to Harvard
College. The ambition of his mean life had
been to have his memory perpetuated by that
seat of learning.
A man passing as Mayer appeared in the city
of Mexico and opened the sale of tickets for