Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1889-04-19

cancer of the mouth OF throat, blow in the
ashes of scarlet cloth. For a consumption,
eat cow-heel soup, and every morning cut up
a turf of fresh EARTH and breathe into the hole
three-quarters of an hour.
Joseph H. Rotheman of Connellsville, Pa.
has a remarkable blue birth-mark on the back
of his neck in the crescent shape of new
moon. When the moon is turning its first
quarter the mark begins getting red and swell
ing, and progresses with the moon until the
full, when the mark is a bright red and swollen
to two inches in height from his body. As the
moon Wanes so WaneS the mark in size and
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! The eighty-ninth birthday of MI. Charles
Reid, one of the Oldest merchants of Norfolk,
was celebrated by his family and friends last
week, by a trip to Virginia Beach and recep-
ton at home He is native OF Fairfax, Scot
| land, and has been merchant in Norfolk for
6S years. He has held many prominent pc 81
tions in that city and Notwithstanding his
great age is still active in experimenting his
great business interests.
On the 4th of April, a clerk entered Post-mas-
ter General John Wanamakers room with a
monthly payroll, at the top of which was,
written John Wanamaher, $50. IS, which he
requested him to sign. He then handed him an
envelope with five crisp 500 bills and three
2O's and the rest in small money, all fresh
from the Treasury. "This is the first money
for salary said Mr.. Wanamaker, ''that 1
have received since 1861
Russell B. Harrison, son of the President,
has been sued by EX-Gov. John Schuyler
Crosby of Montana for 100000 for having
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Journal, statement that the Ex-Governor
had stolen jewelry from lady in Washing
ton. Harrison offered to make the usual cor
recton in his paper, but Crosby demanded
that he should write personal letter of apol-
ogy which he declined to do.
Among the worst losses in the U. S. Navy
may be named the sloop of war Albany, which
went down in West India waters in 1853 with
every soul on board, 210 officers and men; brig
of war PorpOise, sunk in the China seas in
1858 with all on board, 100 in number; sloop
of war Levant, sunk in 1858 in the Pacific
with all on board, 200 men; brig of war Balm
bridge, sunk in 1868 off Hatteras, only the COL
ored cook saved
Gen. Malone of Va, Senator Jones of Ne
vada and others, have brought suit against W .
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ex-Congressman Russsll of n c., and ex-
Postmaster E. R. Birch of Wilmington, N. c.,
for having used sfraud and conspiracy" in
the matter of the Carolina Creosote and Lum-
Der Co.. into which it is stated Gen. Malone
dropped $4,000, Senator Jones S15.OO0 and
Don Cameron about $4,000
Every ex-Confederate of the Army of North
ern Virginia, will be sorry to hear that t.old
Pete" Gen. James Longstreet, has lost by
| fire his home near Greenville Ca, and all his
Confederate relics-the sword he carried
through the four years, the sash Jeb Stuart
gave him, the spurs he wore in the Mexican
war, and many Others The old general is very
poor and had not a dollar of insurance.
Now that George Washington is dead and
cannot speak for himself, the Richmond Dis
patch is circulating the report that he courted
Miss Bette Fauntleroy, Miss Mary Cary Am
bier and Miss Lucy Grimes, all of Virginia,
and after being rejected by all of them fell
back on the Widow GUSTS. 10 justify all
this, the Dispatch says George was at that age
''long lean and red, and his feet and hands
stuck out with too much bigness and promi-
nence.'
Mrs Maryetta Holiday, a daughter Of the
late Humphrey Powell Of Va, and sister of
MrstJohn Randolph Tucker, will be married
at Louisville, KY, on April 23rd to Congress
man Charles H. Gibson Of Maryland. Bishop
Dudley will perform the marriage ceremony
Exactly in the same spot where, last Octo-
Der, flaming poster, setting forth the beau
ties and necessity Of high protection for Amer
lean workingmen, was displayed, in Clark S
go N T." Mill No. 3, there was posted two
weeks ago a notice of a reduction in the wages
of the spinners.
The Virginia Court of Appeals in the mat
ter of the Fidelity Trust Co. and the Shenan-
doah Valley Ry., has decided that the First
mortgage creditors are ahead of the Trust Co..
but as regards cars and equipments, that the
Trust Co. furnished it, is ahead of all other
creditors and they must be sold and the pro-
ceeds turned over to it.
John McKeon who has an income of $50, 900
a month from his oil wells the largest flour
mill in Minnesota; a million dollar business
block in Baltimore; and %, 900 acres of yellow
pine lands in Alabama, works all day at his
oil wells in the ordinary workman's overalls,
and knocks off work when the whistle blows
in the evening.
| Mrs. Amelia-Rives Chandler before leav-
ing for Europe, had a dozen or so pho
tographs of herself taken in Richmond in
various positions. In some she is holding her
collie dog up by his fore feet; in others she
lies on a couch in flowing garments, with
closed eyes, while a colored maid bends over
her.
Ex-President Cleveland has gotten back to
New FORK from his Florida Cuba trip. While
| Of tI,o ho4o al w, To- en-
bouquet, prepared by the propretors, and hav-
ing the initials of his wife, ''F. F. c." was
placed before his plate. He very gracefully
returned his thanks for the compliment
Of all the feats of the gale of April 9th, in
tidewater Virginia and along the coast, that
related by Judge Garnett of Mathews county,
is the most startling He says that in that
county a large sturgeon was blown out of the
water, through an open cabin which stood on
the beach, and landed in field half mile off
1t is said in the Pail Mall Gazette, that each
year fifteen people out Of every 1000 marry.
Of each 900 men who marry S61 are bachelors
and 139 are widowers, while of each 1000
women only SO have been married before and
902 are spinsters. Twelve marriages out of
every 100 are second marriages.
W. Branch Hawkins of Amherst county,
who graduated at the Albemarle Miller
School and won the scholarship to the Uni
versity of Virginia, was killed by blast ex-
plosion on the railroad work of Gooch 6,
Waugh near Lexington, KY, on which he was
a foreman.
The Page Va, Courier, learns from private
letters that on the 18th Of April at one point in
the Blue Ridge, the snow was thirty five inches