Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1888-07-13
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The "Refreshment privileges" at the Rich
mold Exposition have been bought by Robt.
Hill, Jr., for $12, 900. He will have to erect
from twenty to thirty houses at his own ex-
penses to accommodate the applicants al
ready in. Meals, sandwiches and beer are
to be sold.
The Highland Recorder" announces the
dangerous illness of typhoid fever, at Leba-
non, Ohio, of the wife of Prof J. Luther
Sheppe, formerly of that county. DR.. H. H.
Jones and Mr.. A. 81. Jones, her brothers,
have gone to Ohio.
The Alexandria & Charleston Ry Co. has
been organized with John s. Barbour Presi-
dent. 1t is to run from Alexandria 300 miles to
Charleston, Kanawha, and connect there with
the road owned by Hon. Henry G.. Davis.
The engineers of the Richmond & Danville Co.
will make the surveys at once. In accepting
the Presidency Mr.. Barbour notified them
that he should resign when he entered the
Senate, as he did not intend to be connected
with any railroad while in that body.
Thomas Williams aged twenty six, Chi
cago barber, beat the record during convention
week. He earned on his chair at shaving,
shampooing and hair cutting, the following
sums-Monday, $21.6O; Tuesday, $25.95;
Wednesday. $685. Thursday, $2O.15; Friday,
$13 Is; Saturday, $3.50, and Sunday, $11.sO
total $131.4O. Of this he got as per cent.
for his share, little over 800. The highest
record before that was SOB in seven days.
An enterprising physician in Australia ad-
Yertises: 81 will pay half the funeral expen-
ses i'll cases where am not successful"
Secretary R. A. Brock of the Southern
Historical Society has searched the records
for the ancestry of Gen. Harrison the Repub-
lican nominee. He says he cannot trace him
to the regicide Harrison. The first land grant
issued to Harrison in Virginia was 260 acres
in Isle of Wight, in 1885. There is no record
ed evidence to show that the Harrisons were
entitled to any coat of arms.
Judge Brand, of Page County Court decid-
ed last week that the recent SWEET" result of
local option election annulled the feature in the
Luray town charter requiring the approval of
the town council to get a liquor license. Judge
Turner of the Circuit Court reversed his de-
cision.
Last week there were 100 visitors at the
Rockbridge Alum, 20 at the Rockbridge
Baths 20 at the Cold Sulphur, and $50 at the
White Sulphur.
Orr Thomas Balm, venerable colored
dentist, who was a member of the Underwood
Convention, died at the Petersburg Lunatic
Asylum last week, whittier he was taken some
weeks ago from Norfolk.
Smith-Arent you going to take vacation
this summer, Brown? Brown--Pm (hic) TAX
ing vacation now Smith-That SO? Brown
Yep, my (hic) wife left for the country last
week.-Epoch.
Rev. Dr. Abbott, the new pastor of Henry
Ward Beecher's church, is having much trou-
BILE. Mrs. Beecher is outspoken in her enmi-
ty to him, and says he ought not to have
accepted call by AGO voters of membership
of 1,eOO. She expresses her intention of say
ing this and more when DIR, A. pays his first
pastoral call to her. She recalls unfriendly
acts of his to her husband when he was alive.
The new Cathedral of the Protestant Episco-
cal Church in New York, is to be one of the
grandest structures Of its time. 1t will have a
depth of 400 feet. It is to be of granite and
marble, It's name will be the church Of st.