Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1888-08-31
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The romantic marriage of ex-Gov. Sprague
of Rhode Island, in Staunton, which occa-
stoned SO much talk at the time, seems to have
come to sorry end. correspondent of the
Baltimore ''Sun" writing from Narragansett
Pier, says he met him at the Casino, "carry-
ing in his hand a battered old plug hat, and
neither speaking to, nor being spoken to by
any one. Canonchet is now mortgaged up to
its eyes to ''mutual friend" who lives there
with Mr.. Sprague and his present wife. They
have no society but their own, as they are not
visited by any of their neighbors."
They have some large wheat crops in Rock
bridge. Col. J. D. H. Ross raised 1900 bush
els SamuelW. McCorkle, 1852 bushels, and
Capt J. P. Moore, 1850 bushels.
At baptizing at Carter's Creek Wharf in
Richmond county, Va, on the 18th inst, the
crowd took refuge from the rain, in ware
house. A flash of lightning came, killing Mr.
Warren Saunders, Mrs. Bartlette, and Mrs.
Motherhood. Mr.. Saunders was sitting on
the knee of another gentleman, but the light
and boots of his companion. One of those
killed was one of the candidates for INNER
sion. In Chesterfield county, Va, Robert l..
Taylor was sitting on trunk playing a fiddle
while his sweetheart was sitting on the other
end. A fash of lightning killed him but she
escaped unhurt.
John McCune, aged forty-fve, native of
Ireland, who left Castle Garden twenty-five
years ago with one dollar in his pocket, is
worth 100000 to-day. He invested a
small sum in land near Bradford, Pa, on
which oil was afterwards discovered. The
well has been steadily running all this time.
Michael Council, native of Ireland, nine
ty-six years of age, died in Lynch
burg Monday, to which city he came sixty
seven years ago.
Here is question going the rounds for a
summer puzzle Multiply SIS by SIS and the
result is 1926. Five dollars equal 500 cents.
Now multiply 500 cents by 500 cents and the
result is $50, 900 cents, or So, 500. AS SIS and
500 cents are equivalent, how do you explain
the great difference?
In Mecklenburg county, Va, lady some
years ago had her hair cut off during sickness,
and preserved it. She has since had fine
new growth of hair which is now turning
gray on one side of her head. Strange to say,
the hair which was cut off years ago, is also
turning gray on one side.
Thomas P. Dali has rendered his resigna-
ton as Postmaster of Bank, Cecil county, Nd.
He says: eff it is necessary to furnish a
81, 900 bond for $50 office, strike my name
off the ist.'
The wife of W. J. Scott, Missouri Pacific
Railway clerk, who had left her husband at
home in bed to go and meet lover in a
house of iil-repute, met horrible death Sat-
urday night. Thinking she heard her hus-
bands voice, she leaped from the window,
lighting on an iron picket railing, one of the
ratings piercing her stomach and lungs. She
was taken home and died in great agony.
Henry M. Vermont, young man of prom
Use of Millersburg, KY, was committed to the
Lexington Insane Asylum, his mind being
broken down from cigarette smoking.
Cyrus Mccormick of Chicago, 20 years old,
worth 81, 100000, is a bachelor.
Mamie Owen Easley, two-years' graduate
of Kleinberg School in Nelson county, passed
the Local Examination at the University of
Virginia, in the Honor Division, in all five of
her studies.
''The Home of the Soul" now sung SO
much, was written by Mrs. Isaac E. Gates, a
sister of G. P. Huntington.
The lady visitors at Lake Spring, Roanoke,
had sHay wagon ride" the other night on
two wagons drawn by oxen.
The handsome widow of Marshall O. Rob-
erts of New York, who is living comfortably
marry the Earl of Arran, broken down and
penniless Irish peer.
Gen. W. G. Wickham left his whole estate,
valued at $780, 900 to his widow.
The U. S. Senate has passed bill subject
Ing telegraph lines to the same restrictions
that the Interstate bill does railroads.
T. Clinton Boude, Deputy Clerk of the
Rockbridge Circuit Court is dead.
Lyon G. Tyler of Richmond, son of Pres
ident Tyler, has been elected President Of
William & Mary College at Williamsburg at
50, 500 salary.
A Local Option election is to be held in
Buffalo district, Rockbridge, Saturday, Sept.
10Th.
Rev. J. S. Lefevre of the Associate Reform
ed Church, died at the Rockbridge Alum
Springs last week.
Ex-Gov. Holiday of Virginia, is exploring
the head of the Amazon river in South Ameri
ca.
President G. W. G. Lee of Washington &
Lee University, who is suffering from rheu-
matte govt, is at the White Sulphur Springs
In glut of the Philadelphia market Satur-
day, dealers were selling tomatoes at two
cents basket