Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1886-04-30

aaid the other small boy, that amt nothln.
MY pa is doctor and can kill your old pa"
President John Tyler was the only Execu-
tive who married during his presidential
term. His first wife died at the White House
in the autumn of 1912. About o'clock on
the afternoon of June 25th, 1874, he drove up
to the Church of the Ascension in Fifth Ave-
nue. New York, with Miss Julia Gardiner,
and was married to her by Bishop Onderdonk.
A pentleman's linen cuff, directed to the
owner and stamped with atwo-cent stamp, re-
Gently went through the Postofice In Port
land. OREGON. It bore this message "Please
call around and pay your wash bill. Your
Laundryman."
The bootblacks of Louisville have struck
against a shine for five cents. They want ten,
and will make it unpleasant for the boy who
doesn't demand it. The following manifesto
has been issued: .sNotis to the Boy don't
black no shoes for Sc. 1Oc the Price. We
will not black no man at that Price"
Last year, Capt. James B. Staples, freight
conductor on the Virginia Midland railroad,
already having wife in Alexandria, mar
ried Miss Rose Colvin of Culpeper. Last week
he was pardoned by Gov. Lee, to whom the
Alexandria wife wrote touching letter saying
if he pardoned her husband he would have the
! shumble blessing of heart-broken woman. u
He returned to his Alexandria wife but,
astonishing to say, only in time to see her
elope with Patrick Mannegan, whom she had
fallen in love with during his absence in the
penitentiary.
The floors of the famous old Libby prison,
now used as fertilizer factory in Richmond,
sunk in last week, carrying everything With
them to the earth. No lives were lost.
Mrs. Ann NJ Elan, daughter of the old
time Governor Peasants of Virginia, and
ulster of John Hampden Peasants, the editor
Of the ''Whig'' who lost his life in duel,
died in Texas recently, at an advanced age.
Rev. J. W. Dufey of the Baltimore NJ E.
Conference, and pastor at Falls Church cir
cult was badly injured by being thrown from
his wagon by runaway horse, last week. His
previous frail state of health makes his injuries
| serious.
Father Ryan, the poet-priest, the author of
saThe Conquered Banner" and other poems on
the late civil war, died in Louisville, KY, last
week. He was born of Limerick, Ireland
parents, near Norfolk, Va, in 1916. In his
ministerial capacity he was with the Confed-
crate army in tho field. After the war closed,
he was stationed as priest near the village
Jefferson Davis resides in and became
his intimate friend. At his funeral the
Judges of the Federal and State courts, and
other prominent citizens, acted as pallbearers.
The Alabama State Medical Society's session
in Admission, Ala, last week, resulted IN
breeze with the clergy. At the annual dinner
of the Society the clergymen of the town sent
them petition stating that it was "dry'
town, that the wine on their bill of fare was a
violation of law, and requesting them to dis
pense with it. Three times the association
passed resolution acceding to the preachers
wishes, and as often reconsidered and tabled
it, They finally referred it to the Committee
of Arrangements, which decided that it was
none of the preachers business.
The Earl of Shaftesbury, aged ffty-fve,
while riding in a cab in London, few days
ago, drew revolver and discharged several
shots into his body His dead body was car.
ried to an hospital. He was the son of the
late noted philanthropist of that name, and
succeeded to his fortune and his title. His
mind has been affected for some time by
melancholy.
A bill of great. interest to drummers has been
favorably reported in the U. S. Senease IT
provides "That residents of eech State and
Territory may. within thee~~other States and
Territories and within the District of Colum-
bia, solicit from dealers or merchants, orders
for goods and merchandise by sample, cata-
logue card, price list, description or other re-
presentation without payment of any license
or mercantile tax"
Frank Boiling of Cherokee, Kan threw
himself on feather bed that lay on the floor
during thunder storm. He neglected to
draw up his legs and his feet were touching
the floor, when the lightning struck the house
and played about his feet burning them and
knocking him senseless. That part of his
child lying by his side was uninjured. All OF
which may be used to show that feather beds
are good places of refuge in thunder storms.
Governor Fitz Lee having been duly
transferred" from Fairfax to the third pre-
cinct in Madison Ward voted in Richmond,
Monday, for the first time. He voted the
s'wet' ticket.