Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1888-11-09

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struck him down and trampled him to death.
DIR. VIM. A. Hammond, the famous neurol-
ogist, says nothing in nature impresses him
more thanits preparation of man for death.
At all the death beds, he has seen, and they
were many. he never knew a sinner saint
to express any adherence of death or appre-
tensions about the future.
Samuel Gruber, aged fifty years, and six
feet eleven inches high, died in Frederick
county, Va. He was the tallest man in the
all day, and made baskets at hight up to 10
O'Clock.
Robert J. Burdette, the humorist of the
Burlington 'Hawkeye." has been licensed as
a preacher by the Philadelphia Baptist Asso-
citation. He left newspaper life some two
years ago.
At the Lynchburg fair there was a So prize
given for the boy who could quickest eat pie
with his hands tied behind him. The pies were
put on a board, and ten boys attacked the ten
pies. Charlie Bolocline won the prize in 2:53.
The fruit Sc ason of 1888, in Southwestern
Virginia was the worst ever III own. On May
18th, heavy frost fell, killing most of the
fruit. On September 29th, snow fell and the
next day there was frost. Besides this there
was thirty days of drought in June and July.
At Danville, Va, list of the members of
the German Club was published in local
paper That night, Rev, DIR. John E Edwards,
who was conducting revival at the Mt. Ver-
non church, startled the congregation by say
ing that he knew that the devil would start an
opposition as soon as he began his meeting,
but he did not expect it would be an organized
effort in the shape of s'German Club" Off
cered by members of his church.
The London (Eng) 'tWorld" says of Lord
Sackville-West that though favorite with
the Queen Ito whose household he was attach
ed for over forty years, and who gave him a
peerage when he succeeded in wrestling the
Knole estates from his brother), he was uni
versaJly disliked by his neighbor, with whom
he waged war perpetually. His quarres about
rights of way more than once occasioned a
riot, and he resolutely refused to allow any
body to visit Knole.
stuffed robin-red- breast found dead on
Stonewall Jackson's grave in April, 1856, is
exhibited at the Richmond Exposition,
Arkansas is not the ''bowie knife" and law
less State it has been represented In half of
its counties no liquor is permitted to be sold,
and in nearly all the rest High License
prevails,
There were 10, 600, 900 children at the pub
lie schools in the United States last year.
Gen. Walter C. Newberry, the new post
master of Chicago, was Superintendent of
Public Buildings at Richmond, under Gov.
Gilbert G. Walkers administration.
The U. S. Court at Harrisonburg has de-
creed the sale of the Shenandoah Iron Co, Is
property.
Mayor R. F. Harris of Charlottesville, in
consequence of late accident by which lie
| lost his sight, has resigned his Office.
George H. Vanderbilt of New York has
purchased Loco acres of land near Asheyille,
N. c., and it is believed intends to spend a
million of dollars in establishing mechanical
,, nd.industrial school there.
AAo doHlAiStrdtor u q. OOIcT MaynoW3
brakeman on the c. g. O. Ry., has brought
suit against the company for $40, 600, fer the
death of Mayhem, by a railway accident.
Louis Brubaker, aged twenty -four. of Wash
| ington, Kansas, just recovering from spell
. of ty phoid fever, killed his mother and sister
by cutting their throats.
| Miss Mamie Gordon of Powhatan county,
Va, who was to have married Henry Flippen
OF Cumberland county, at noon, one day
last week, walked to the river at sunrise and
drowned herself.
The new law prohibiting the use of stoves
on railway trains in New York, went into eff
| feet November 1st.
bridget, has Johnnie come home from
school ysk fis, ss" Have you seen
nlm ?' mo, sorr." '"rhen ~ ssg 1now
he's home ?" cause the cats hiding under
the stove, sorr."
Sweet Sixteen Ito mother )-"Mr. Ielyle
told me last night, mamma, that he loved
loved me-" Mother-''What did you say to
him Z" Sweet Sixteen-'I couldn't say very
much, was so amused. The idea of a twenty
year. Old boy talking about Lowell
First Wheelman-'I can make it from he re
to Jugville in three hours" Second Wheel.
| n-''Stumper says he can do it in two
First Wheelman-"Oh, well, he is a profes.
sional," Second Wheelman-'Bic do