Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1888-12-14
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lttO ilOlAbCI5 VI d 1dCStlOub jury dt hif-
ingsson, Montana, were each fined five dollars
by Judge Liddell for returning a verdict that
''this jury do hereby agree to disagree"
Rev, S. N. Whiteson of Raleigh, N. c.,
who preached on "Sudden Death" in the
Baptist Church at Midway, Penn, on Sunday.
dropped dead of heart disease al the railroad
station there next morning.
Mrs. Broadway of Chicago has the monopo-
ly of all the bill posting in that city. She
covers 100000 square feet of bill boards
each week.
DR.. Lewis G. Pedigo of Roanoke, has dis
covered an antidote for that deadly poison,
prussic acid. He made an account of his sue
cessful experiments before the late session of
the state medical association at Norfolk. and
has been invited to read it before the North
Carolina medical society at its next annual
meeting.
Altogether about 100 American diamonds
have been found. The most recent discovery
was in the summer of 1886, when diamond
was found in the spring on the Alfred Bright
farm in Dysortville, Mcdowell county, N. G.
While boy was drawing a bucket of water
his attention was attracted by the brightness
of the stone. 1t was sent to Tiffany q Co.'s,
| the celebrated New York jewellers, where it
was tested and proved to be a diamond.
A Maine genius has discovered that Spruce
sawdust is an excellent substitute for sand in
making common mortar for plastering houses.
He has used it in building house and other
masons in that State are experimenting with
it.
Among the old buildings burned at Hills
boro, n. c., last week. was the headquarters
of Lord CORVALLIS during the war of the Rev
olution. Hillsboro' was noted town in those
| old days, and it retains good deal of the
flavor and romance of the olden time. The
old court house is bit of the antique, and in
its belfry is clock presented to the "bo-
rough" by his gracious Majesty King George
". The clock yet keeps time, as it has done
for almost 100 years, and is one of the great
street west of the court house stood the quaint
wooden building in which CORVALLIS quar-
tered and from whence he issued some piping
hot proclamations.
1t was an old woman in Indiana who in
vented the whisk broom, and millions of them
| are whisklng from daylight to dark, but she
has never made cent out of the invention.
| Valuable deposits of glass sands have been
| found in Tazewell county, on the Clinch VAL
| ley division of the N. d W. Railroad. The
| analysis shows the Virginia sands to be far
superior for the manufacture of glass than
those of Pennsylvania.
John Crawford, aged 1902, who died at Will
mington, Del, last week, was a native of Dom
agal, Ireland, where he lived until the death
of his wife, eight years ago. Despite his 81
years, he emigrated to America to spend the
rest of his days with his children. His death
was caused by a sudden attack of pneumonia
A centenarian brother of the deceased lives
in Philadelphia and another brother of SO in
Lancaster county, and sister of SO in Ches-
ter county, Pa.
Mrs Sarah Isler, aged 100 years months
and 20 days, died at Louisville, KY, Friday
| She was born at Dover, Del, and was the
! daughter of Col John Taylor, of the colonial
| army She was married to John j. Isler in
| Baltimore in 1915.
| Miss Belle Bridewell, school teacher in
Streator, Ill, was kicked to death lately by a
boy she was Furnishing.
| Horace Smith, of Philadelphia, is said to
possess the largest collection of newspaper
clippings in the world. He began when boy
of ten, and has been at it fifty years. 1t
would take a furniture van to hold what he
| has now, although he has sold thousands and
| thousands of slips.
Benjamin Bardley, colored man who died
at Denton Md, lately, was noted for his i'm
mense strength. He had on occasions walked
through the streets of that town with 800
pounds of iron on his shoulders.
The historic s'Hackwood" mansion, near
Winchester, is being restored by Charles M.
| Spangler, who owns that famous farm. The
lakewood house was in the very midst of the
famous battle between Early and Sheridan in
September, 1864 and every acre of the land
surrounding it was stained by the blood of
the eontending armies.
In the village of Wittenton, Mass, excite
ment runs high over several assaults on women
by an unknown man who, from his acts, has
evidently been reading of the Whitechapel
murders. The police have been on the look
| out for him, and large number of young
men have been patrolling the ward for several
nights in the hope of discovering him. So
far seven or eight women have been attacked,
| but in each case the intended victims either
escaped or gave an alarm, which frightened
| the wretch off,
| A young man, Protestant, attended Ro-
man Catholic Church for the first time on a
recent Sunday at Bar Harbor. When he was
| going out he thought he saw the congregation
dropping offerings into receptacle at the
| side of the door, SO when he reached it he put
forth his hand and deposited quarter in the
| holy water font.
Maggie Watson, of CINCINNATI who died
there a short time since, left clause in her
will which read as follows "It is my will
that the two china dogs now in my room be
each separately put in box with glass fronts,
both alike. and enc placed on my dear hus-
bands grave at Spring Grove, and the other
on my grave, and all to be paid for out of the
money ! leave"
The National Woman's Temperance Union
is by far largest society of women ever formed.
1t has a membership of 100000, taking in
almost every State and Territory and most
foreign countries.
Preparations age already being made by the
census bureau for the taking OF the census of
1890. 1t is estimated that the. population of
the country Will, by that time, be in the
neighborhood of 70, 900, 900.
, 4 large dark brown mule on Cortland
street ferryboat. New York, the other day con-
victed himself Of tobacco chewing in plain
view of a boat load of Interested spectators.
''Zeke is the mules name," said the driver