Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1889-02-01

the first engagement she gave him the play
saving she would use it no more.
On May 9Th next, congress of the descen-
dants of the Scotch-Irish race is to be held at
Columbia, Tenn. Col. Alex. Mcclure of
Philadelphia. will deliver the opening adj
dress, and Rev. DR.. Jno. Hall of N. Y, and
other eminent divines will speak. Augusta
county and Rockbridge should certainly be
represented at Scotch Irish gathering.
The Post-ofice safe at Liberty, Bedford
county was blown open on Friday night and
$500 in currency and gold and 5000 in stamps
stolen. blacksmith shop near by was
broken open to get tools, pretty much like the
attempt at the Waynesboro post-ofice not
long since. The clerks Office of Henry coun-
ty court was robbed the same way few days
ago.
Emma Abbott is playing her first engage
ment since her husbands death, in the city OF
Memphis, Tenn, but 1t is not peaceful one.
She sat in the congregation of Calvary Prot
estant Episcopal church nundiy while her
tenor, Sig. Montegrifo, sang in the choir.
After the service the rector from the chancel
thanked the tenor. A local paper spoke in
praise of this in contrast with the denuucia-
lions of the Abbott Opera by Nashville min
lister. On reading it. the other ministers of
Memphis took fire and rallied to the Nash
vile divine and denounced the opera troupe.
In Indiana there seems to be bloody
social code on the subject of unwelcome at
tentions. At Watson, Ind, last week, Mr.
John Alcott and Miss Marie Balm were talk
ing at her front gate with no excitement
Suddenly the girl drew pistol from under
her cloak and shooting him in the head, cool
ly passed on into the house. where she ex-
planned that she had rejected him some
months ago and requested him not to persist
only way to stop him.
Near Watermeet, Michigan, last week, a
train on the Northwestern road ran off. John
A. Mcdonald, the Lit Governor of Michigan
and o. G. Davidson, editor of the Common
wealth, were sitting at a table in the car play
lug cards with Messrs H. A. Tuttle and VIM.
Corcoran. A stump passed up under the table
breaking the neck of Mr.. futile; and tearing
the right arm of 1t. Gov. Mcdonald from his
body-one dying instantly and the other with
in an hour-and also killing Mr.. Corcoran.
Brig-Gen. Ronald S. Mckenzie, U. S. A.,
has just died in an insane asylum on Staten
Island, N. Y, having become insane by q
fall. He was the youngest volunteer Major
General in the Union army. He was the first
officer who rode into Lynchburg at its sur rem
der, and he made straight to the hospital in
which the Confederate General bearing. his
old West Point comrade, lay dying of
wound. The meeting was very affecting and
Mckenzie stood by Bearings cot and wept.
Rev. H. G. Marshall of the Congregational
church at Middletown, Ct, is member of
the Board of the Cromwell Public Library
there, and the rest of the Board are members
of his congregation. At the annual handing in
by citizens of lists of new books desired
'tRobert Elsmere'' stood at the head of most
of them. The Board refused to gel it and the
refusal has opened social war in the town.
1t is threatened to vote out the members of
the Board.
In the House of Representatives, Tuesday,
Mr. Butterworth of Ohio told Hon. James N.
Burnes of No., that now was the time to offer
his amendment to pending bill. Mr.. Burnes
answered thickly. Mr.. Butterworth soon saw
he was sick and took his arm and walked with
him to the committee room. He had been
paralyzed, and in a few minutes became un-
conscious and remained so till midnight when
he died. His ancestors were from Culpeper,
Va.
On Monday, William Pierce was led out of
the Auburn, N. Y, Asylum for insane crimi-
nails, where he had been for fifty years under
life sentence for numbering his father. to be
transferred to State asylum for incurables.
He went in at sixteen, and had never seen a
locomotive and was amazed at the sight of the
train. When he was brought to the prison
from Franklin county it was in a wagon and
through wild country.
Thomas Conway who was to have married
Miss Mary Sullivan of Mattuck. N. Y,
January 18th, did not appear. His trunk
packed for the wedding trip, and in it $500
for the expenses of it, were found safe at his
home. On January 23d, he was found in a
hay NOW many miles away, insane and half
dead, having subsisted on what milk he could
get from COWS in the field. The awful solem.
nifty of marriage had demented him.
,, Speaking of the Richmond tobacco market
the Richmond State says: On Change, the
West Virginia brights were commanding sat-
isfactory prices, ranging from 500 to $50. A
few years ago very little bright was raised in
West Virginia, and what was raised was OF
poor quality. Now, the bright wrappers that
come to Richmond from the line of the Ches-
apeake & Ohio railroad, compare favorably
with the celebrated North Carolina wrappers. u
At dancing school in Culpeper, Va, some
persons put red pepper on the stove, went out
and locked the door, and then climbed up and
put blanket over the chimney. The dancers,
unable to escape through the door from the
pepper and smoke, climbed out of the window
and found the awning on which they climbed,
already tarred. The dresses of the ladies were
ruined. A number of arrests have been made by
the Mayor.
Though she knew her children would be
heirs to hundreds of millions, Mrs. Jay GouIG
in her will, out of her own property set apar
fund of $3.50, 900 for each of her two daugh
ters to be held in trust by the United States
Trust Company for them, the income to be paid
them during their lives. She had seen Sc
much of the evanescence of railroad riches
that she made that much safe.
Nancy Mills, colored, disappeared some