Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1888-11-23

tons of the globe is borne by France. 1t is
| about So $50, 900, 000 Russia comes next,
with $4,000, GOO, 900; then England, with So
$50, 200 900; Austro- Hungary, with $2,4S5,-
| 90 ;000 Italy, with So, 225, 600, 600; SPAIN
with $l,207, 500, 900; Prussia, with $1,000
900 0O9
Rebecca Collins, aged eighty-three, has
been O minister in the Friends Church for
sixty-fve years.
/ A French electrician claims that he will
soon be able to produce thunder storm
| wherever and whenever it is desired.
| Mr.. Thomas Branch, for years the head of
the banking house of Thomas Branch & Co,
his eighty-sixth year. Mr.. Branch went to
Richmond from Petersburg soon after the war
and became identified with the ba hiking bust
ness. He had for years been one of the most
| prominent member of the Methodist Episco-
pal Church South in the State. Mr.. Branch
was the lifelong friend of Randolph Macon
| College. He was Union man before the
war, was a member of the secession conven-
ton, and spoke and voted against the ordi-
nance. but afterwards signed it,
A real, live princess keeps millinery store
on Fifth avenue, New York.
| P. T. Barnum has given his granddaughter,
Mrs. H. P. Clarke, of Columbus, s. c., $780,
900 with which to purchase plantation,
Mr.. Edison has, it is stated, devised doll
with small phonograph inside, which talks
when the handle is turned. The photograph
is placed in a receptacle within the chest of
the doll and the handle protrudes. When it
is turned the words appear to issue from the
dolls mouth. Edison has also devised clock
| which announces the time by speaking, the
talking apparatus being, of course, phono-
graph.
A shaving table, formerly the property of
General Washington. has been deposited in
the National Museum. This is, perhaps, the
most valuable and interesting article in the
collections of personal relics on exhibition in
the museum. General Washington, in his
will, bequeathed the table to DR.. David Stuart,
of Fairfax county, Virginia, the father-in-law
of the present owner, Mrs. Margaret Cox. The
latter inherited it from her father, Henry
Robinson.
"Autrefois," the latest production from the
pen of Prof j. A. Harrison, Chair of English,
Washington and Lee University, is attracting
general attention. The style and subjects
handled are entirely new for the author,
treating upon Creole life in New Orleans in
the earlier days of the city, brought out in
short sketches. The work is pronounced by
competent critics to be in most happy
strain. and full of beautiful word pictures of
the Sunny South and its people. The book is
said to be literary gem, destined to become
popular and add lustre to the already bright
reputation of its author, who, as an English
| scholar and the author of works requiring pro-
found study and deep research, occupies q
place second to none.
most distressing affair says the Charlottes-
vile "Chronicle," occurred near Gilbert's
station, on the Virginia Midland Railroad, in
Albemarle county. on Monday night. Mr..
Porterfeld Brock and family live on place
on Preddle's creek, owned by the old gentle
man. Mr.. Brock, the elder, had become en-
|
that county, and the son was violently oppos-
ed to the father getting married-possibly
forseeing the usual result in such cases. of hay
ing to leave his home with dependent family
to provide for. On Monday the elder Brock
came to Charlottesville and purchased his we'd
ding suit, as is supposed, and the son, possibly
brooding over the condition of affairs, ard IN a
probable fit of alteration, shot his father kill
ing him instantly. He then left the house,
returned. went to bed, and getting up again,
found his pistol, and placing it to his head
blew his own brains out. Thus was the wife,
which the dead bodies of her husband and his
father lay until some of the neighbors could
be summoned. The young man did his work
we'll. There was nothing left to do but to
bury them. Mr.. Porterield Brock was about
fifty years of age. He was said to have been
well thought of by his neighbors He was a
good soldier in the late war. The younger
man leaves wife and several little children.
A single page in one issue of the Century
taken for advertising purposes costs $500, in
''Harper's" $4O0, in other magazines from
$3.50 down to 800. A yearly advertisement
of one column in the Chicago t'Tribune" is
$35 900, in New York ''Tribune" 1929, 544 for
the lowest, and $14S, 900 for the highest price
columns. These figures will doubtless be of
interest to the man who invests $40 and flat
tiers himself with the idea that he is an ex-
tremely liberal advertiser.
Despite the fact that other cities are spring.
| ing up around it, Atlanta, Ga, continues its
steady growth in population, Since the first
of Apri. last three hundred and twelve houses
costing $685. 900 have been completed
These estimates do not include the improve
ments on old buildings. This would add sew
eral hundred thousand dollars to the above
| figures. The business of the city keeps pace
with the increase of population
The great Durham failures of last week con-
tinue to be the uppermost topic throughout
North Carolina. W. T. Blackwell known
throughout the country. has assigned, and
with him many other tobacconists, operating
upon large scale. It appears that all the
| firms which assigned were doing business large
ly on capital supplied by MIR. Blackwell,
who is president of the Bank of Durham, and
that business might not suffer he strained
! himself to hold them up, hence his assignment
and consequently the others assigned TO make
him as secure as possible. 1t is now reported
that he assigned for 100000, will pay out
and have probably $3.50, 900 left Also, that
Parish, who assigned for $196, 900, will pay
dollar for dollar and have 300, 900 over. AS
developments are made the liabilities increase
and viii certainly raach $1,000 Tha
other firms will scarcely, it is feared, meet de-