Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1888-04-06
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Gen. Thomas FL. Williamson, for forty-eight
years Professor Of applied mathematics, civil
engineering and Typographical drawing at the
Virginia Military Institute, died in Lexington
on Saturday last, at the age of IS. He was a
native of Norfolk and a graduate of West
Poirt. Up to year ago he had never left his
post in the Institute and was only retired then
on account of i'll health. He was an able in
structor, and to him many of the ablest civil
engineers of the present day owe their early
education. He leaves four children, one of
them Mr.. Thomas Williamson, who, while
with the Revenue Office ir Staunton, made
many friends that Will sympathize with him in
his loss.
DR.. James M. Steele, a venerable physician
of Fincastle, died last week of pneumonia, con-
tracted while visiting patient in Craig coun-
ty. He was in his 18th year. He was native
of Augusta county, but removed many years
ago to Rockbridge, and from there to Bote-
tourt. He leaves two children, Mr.. John
Steele of Augusta, and Mrs. T. H Allen of
, Fin castle.
Archibald Allen Darden, of Suffolk,
nephew of the wife of Rev. DR.. James Muir
ray of Augusta county, died last week. He
was a student at Randolph Macon College,
and his funeral at Suffolk was attended by
President W. W. Smith, of the College, and
number of the faculty and students. DIR.
Murray and his wife were also present.
The Raleigh, N. c., State National Bank
of To aar1y ho ofa MI
and fugitive President White and Cashier
Cross were captured in Toronto, Canada,
Tuesday, with 1924, 900 sewed up in their coats.
They were identified by the police by the
fact that they had the negro porter of their
bank still with them. On receiving news of
their arrest, the Raleigh grand jury indicted
them for forgery, Gan extraditable ofense)
having discovered that they had forged nearly
/ 800, 900 worth of paper in the bank, and
officers left with the papers for Toronto to
bring them back. The colored porter re-
turned to Raleigh Wednesday of his own ac-
drunk ever since they left Raleigh. At To-
ronto he told them he wanted to go home, and
they gave him money to go.
The cannery items in our Virginia exchanges
are numerous. In Wytheville $1,000 as been
subscribed for one, and a company organized.
At Lithia tBotetourt) three new oAes will start
this spring with capacity of $500 cans At
Roanoke the establishment of the Virginia
Packing Co. has been built and the machinery
for making cans is being placed in position.
In Lexington an association has been formed
with 600 capital to establish factory to
put out 240, 900 cans the first year. The
''Alone" oannery in Rockbridge is under con-
tract to be finished and the machinery IN by
April LIST. 1t is to turn out $40, 900 cans the
first year. The "Buena Vista" cannery of
Capt. G. T. Jordan in Rockbridge is about
getting its machinery in, and will turn out
$780, 900 cans of vegetables the first year.
A ''size'' in a coat is an inch; in underwear
it is 2 inches; in sock l inch; in collar ]
nch; in a shirt J inch; in shoes 1-6 inch; in
pants 1 inch; in gloves ! inch; and in hats
of an inch.
What is supposed to be confederate gold
dollar was found in an ash-heap, in Atlanta
recently, and sold for $50. 1t is said that only
six such coins were issued by the Confederate
government, and if genuine this specimen
would be worth $3.50,
A Richmond, Mich, woman lost her watch
a few days ago. She could not find it, but
wherever she went she heard the watch tick.
This nerved her on to greater efforts, and she
turned the house upside down in her search
and then found the watch in her hustle.
Mrs. Sarah J, Neal, an efficient clerk in the