Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1889-05-31
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Baltimore, they were waiting for Rev. Henry
Greenfield Schorr, the assistant rector to come
out of his room. To one who knocked at his
door, he replied that he was taking a BATH
Shortly after, report was heard. The min
lister had blown his brains out. He left this
note: Sunday, May 26. 'S9.-Many will con-
denim me. God will have mercy Tell my
dear aged parents, 905 Eastern avenue, but do
it in a gentle manner. Bury me from st.
Paul's House, and do not send my body to my
parents; it will kill them if you do.-H
GREENFIELD SCHoRR.'' He had shown symp-
toms of a deranged mind, and just before he
committed suicide had mailed to the n. Y .
World for publication his love correspondence
with widow lady in Baltimore, older than
himself, who had refused to marry him. The
World published them.
William Coins was tried in Allen county,
Ohio, in 1885, for murder in an election riot
The jury was equally divided as to his guilt
and innocence. The Judge on Saturday Or
dered them to be locked up over Sunday. They
returned to the jury-room, threw heads and
tails for verdict of acquittal or murder in
the second degree. 1t came murder in the sec
ond degree, and the man was sentenced for
life. The Supreme Court of Ohio has reversed
the lower court and sent the case back for an
other trial, on the ground that trial by heads
and tails is not the jury trial contemplated by
law.
At the unwilling of the Confederate monu-
ment in Alexandria, last week, Gov Fitz Lee
of Virginia, in his address, said that the fail
ure of the charge at Gettysburg was due to
Gen. Longstreet's failure to carry out Gen. R.
E. Lees instructions; that Gen. Lee being
told after the action that the assault was not
made as he intended. said: 81 know it, know
it," and that Gen. Lee told Prof. White of
Washington & Lee University afterwards, that
'Had I had Stonewall jackson at Gettysburg
l would have won great victory
Five miles from Virginia Beach lived Rev.
F. G. Clarke Baptist minister and his fami-
ly. On Wednesday night of last week his
house took fire, and the minister, his son. two
daughters and Miss Pullen, niece, were
burned to death. MI. Clarke had saved his
wife, two of his children and Miss Ella Bid
good, the governess, by lowering them from
window, but was himself lost with all the
rest of the family.
DR.. w. II. Shoemaker of Birmingham, Ala,
victim of the cocoaine habit, has been sent
to the insane asylum. Last December while
alone at night, he took his surgical instru-
mentS and deliberately cut into the abdomi-
nal cavity, cut tumor from his liver, sewed
the incision up showed the cut and tumor
next morning to brother physicians, and has
since entirely recovered.
The saloon keepers of Long Island City, n
l,ox, TO a11 IL
pound, at cents pound. The vessel into
which it is drawn hangs in scale suspended
from the spigot The price of beer is S1,75 a
keg and when sold by the pint brings only
$1.55, and that is the reason for the new meth
cd.
The sale Of the Oakland herd of Jerseys last
Tuesday in N. Y. by Kellogg & Co., brought
prices which recall the old time fancy
figures of the little cream-giving breed. The
highest price cow sold at $1,000, next S2,1O0
another, 81, 700, several $1,000, and down to
$500 and 5000. The herd of 30 aggregated ST.
800, an average of S6OS per head.
Chief Justice Fuller of the u S. Supreme
Court was in Norfolk, Va, on his annual cir
cult. The members of the bar gave him a
banquet at the Atlantic Hotel. Among the
ornaments of the table were baskets and pyra-
mids of flowers with electric light bulbs nest
ed in them, making the scene beautiful and
dazzling with light.
At the Confederate memorial day in Ports
mouth, Va, the United States marine battal-
ion and battalion of sailors from the navy
yard united with the military companies of
the two cities and the Confederate Veteran
camps. Among those present on the stand were
Commodore Brown and the officers of the Ger
man war ship Nike.
John E. Miller of Hampshire county, w.
Va, has daughter twenty three years old,
only twenty six inches tall, who has spent her
whole life in cradle. She can neither walk
nor talk but has a wonderful memory A song
sung in her hearing but once, even year ago, if
repeated now will make her frown and cry
out.
Last week Mr.. Oliver Landlord aged II,
and Miss Effie Landlord, aged 10, eloped to
North Carolina and came back man and wife,
and this week Mr.. James Roberts, aged 1s,
and Miss Sue Beale, aged IA, did the same
thing All lived at Boydton, Va. What
long time they'll have to enjoy life OF to-
repent!
Louisville is enjoying social sensation
caused by the elopement of Miss Mary Hara-
han, the beautiful eighteen-year old daughter
of Major L. J. Harahan, late of the Louisville
& Nashville Railroad, now general manager
of the Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad The
young groom is James Shirley. Her parents
required another ceremony.
The recent count Of money at the New York
bTreasury revealed a discrepancy of $50
out of total sum of S1S4, OOO 600 to be account
ed for. The shortage resulted from the accep-
lance of a few counterfeit notes in the hurry
of business and by the loss of a few pieces of
silver. The loss was promptly made good.
"Let us not waste our time," yelled the tenn
perance lecturer, "Let us not waste our time
in dealing with the small saloons and grog-
shops. Let us go to the fountain head. Let
us go to the brewery, my friends "All |
right chimed in an old soaker from back
seat. ''Im with YOU
The University of Va. Base Ball Club went |
to Lexington Saturday and beat the V. NJ. 1.
Club in the morning 10 to 4, and the Wash
ington & Lee Club in the evening, IS to s.
Later, it beat the Johns Hopkins University
Club of Baltimore in game at Charlottes-
Vile.
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