Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1886-01-29
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Hon. James P. Thompson, a brother of the
late Judge Lucas P. Thompson of Staunton,
died at his home in McMinnville, Tenn, on
the I'd inst, in his ninety third year. He was
for many years a member of the Tennessee
legislature. He WAS the last of his brothers
and sisters, except Mrs. Rebecca E. P. Davies
of Amherst, who has reached her 81st year.
On the 10th inst, J. K. Warner and Miss
Rebecca Weeks of Highland drove up in
front of the house of W. d. Hevener in that
county, called Rev. D. L. Reid out, and were
married as they sat in their sleigh.
Prof. John Il. Hewitt, who has reached his
eighty-sixth year, published in the Baltimore
an" last week, we'll written sketch of John
Browns execution at Harper's Ferry, in 1859,
which he witnessed as member of one of the
military companies that went from Richmond
Prof. Hewitt was formerly one of the faculty
of the Wesleyan Female Seminary in Staun-
ton, and was well known as an author and
poet in his younger days. He is the father of
Mr.. George W. Hewitt of Staunton, and Mrs
Bridgeford, wife of Provost Marshal General D.
B. Bridgford, of Gen. Lees army.
The Gas Companies of Baltimore have got
ten into war of rates. The new Chesapeake
Company has reduced the price of gas to fifty
cents per thousand feet. A bill is pending in
the Maryland legislature, and will likely be-
come law, forbidding &C nsolidation of gas
companies and not permitting any company
to charge over 81. % per 900 feet.
Two unusually large verdicts for damages
by accidents were given in Brooklyn, last
week. A little girl who lost foot by rail-
road was given $4,000, and man crippled
for life by the fall of an elevator belonging to
the widow of A. T. Stewart, got verdict for
S42, $780, On the first trial he got verdict of
only $16, 900, which the defendant, unfor-
tunately as it turned out, got set aside.
In order to settle the question IS to the
proper treatment for persons who have been
frozen, Dr. Laptchinkski has made series of
very careful experiments upon dogs. He found
that, of twenty animals treated by the method
of gradual resuscitation in cold room, fourteen
persisted; of twenty placed at once in warm
room, eight died, while twenty put imme-
diately into hot bath recovered quickly and
without accident
A big petition was presented to the Port
land, Ne, City Government last week against
permitting roller skating Kinks. 1t was
charged that two elopments, two family
arrangements, and twenty three serious cases
OF immortality were directly traceable to these
institutions in Portland.
A single locomotive recently drew al cars
in single train across Louisiana, at an aver
age of ten miles an hour.
The historical property known as 'Jacksons
Mills" in Lewis county, W. Va, is advertised
to be sold at public auction. This is the place
where Stonewall jackson spent the days of his
boyhood with his uncle, Cummings jackson.
He lived there when he was appointed con-
stable for Lewis county, and that was his
home when he left for Washington and OBJ
tanned his appointment to West Point.
Lily McAllister Laughton, regent of the
Mount Vernon Association, is asserted to have
''the smallest and most perfectly formed foot