Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1889-06-28
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During the advance up the Virginia PENN
sular in 1862 some of the Federal troops COM
mitted almost every excess, even to robbing
graves. At Williamsburg they broke open
graves and stole the silver plates off the
collins. One was the plate on the coffin of
Norborne Berkeley Lord BotetourD the
second Colonial Governor of Virginia. 1t has
Just been discovered in a jewelers. window at
Rome, n. Y, by Rev. James III. Taylor. The
jeweller had bought it for old silver from the
widow of the soldier who stole it from the
grave twenty six years ago. Mr.. Taylor
wrote to Gov. Lee and the plate was presented
to the State by the ieweler who had bought it,
and is now safe in Richmond.
The Court of Appeals is to decide case of
interest to County Judges. In the matter of
fifteen presentments for gaming, the county
Judge of Nelson Judge Fitzpatrick did not
sign the orders for six days after the present
ments were made Ex-Judge Kirby, counsel
for three of the defendants, excepted because
the order was not signed in three days. The
Judge refused to sign and enter his exception
on the record. Judge Horsely of the Circuit
Court, on an appeal, refused to issue a man.
damus requiring the County Judge to sign the
exceptions, holding that the orders were valid
though not signed for six days. Judge Kirby
gave notice that he would take it to the Court
of Appeals.
At Johnstown, Pa, last Friday, the recon-
structed Cambria Iron Works paid out $1,000
in wages and the Gautier Steel Go. S54, 900.
! The first named company lost ], 400 of its 1000
employees and the second $50 out of its 200
The surviving resident physicians who had
| long lived in the city, met on Saturday and
compared their estimates of the losses, and
came to the sad conclusion that the number OF
missing persons is from 10, 900 to Il, 900, almost
as high as the first estimate. From fifteen tC
twenty bodies are still being gotten out of the
debris daily. A fire broke out in the city
Tuesday, destroying twenty-five houses.
Ria Kittredge of Belfast, Me-, is past
seventy-seven years of age, but holds as steady
a hand and has as keen sight as ever. He has
written one of President Cfeveland's mes
sageS-15, 900 words-on a postal card. Still
later he has written the Lords prayer eigh
times in space the size of a fve-cent silver
piece; but now he is engaged in a work that lay:
it all in the shade; heis writing % 304 words OF
a single postal card. Though microscope
has to be used to read it, Mr.. Kittredge il
writing uses nothing but steel pen, and wears
Spectacles.
-Four months ago VIM. II. Haun, young
, farmer of Shenandoah, of insanely jealous dis
: position, married Miss Maggie E. Gaines o
) Rockingham, and took her to his farm. Ii
their brief married life he has been jealous o
, everybody, even of her speaking to the farm
, hands. Last Saturday morning he said to her
. 81 have to die and you must too,' fired thre
bullets into her body and then shot himsel
; dead. There are hopes of Mrs. Hauns recov
; cry. Haun is son of eX-Sheriff Henry Haul
=, of that county.
; While Prohibition is getting tremendou
: black eyes throughout the country, the re
1 strctions on the saloons seem to be tighten
. ing. Gov Francis of Missouri last week deal
the saloons of Missouri the most severe bloy
ever received when he signed the Newberr
: bill This bill prohibits music, cards, dice
: billiards, pool tables, bowling alleys am
; boxing gloves in the saloons, and will go into
) effect July 1st.
) Gen. A. G. Myers who was the Quartermas
], ter-general of the Confederate army, died il
(; Washington city, Thursday. He had serve'
in the Florida Seminole war, the Mexican
T. war, and the civil war. In the Mexican wa
he was brevetted Major for gallantry atsPal
y Alto and Resaca de la Palma, and Lt.-Col
G onel for gallantry at Cherusbusco His wifi
was daughter of Gen. David S. Twiggs.
The Highland Board of Supervisors met OF
the 14th inst and rejected the bids on the re
building of the Bullpasture bridge, they, il
F; the opinion of the Board, being too high
: whereupon J. b. Bradshaw, the superinten
{ dent of the Staunton and Parkersburg road
f was directed to procure the services of
! practical and competent bridge builder all,
proceed at once to rebuild said bridge
G. P. Huntington is about building TIN
; largest ship-yard in the country at Newpor
News, in connection with his vast railroad
interests. BY the beginning of 1890 it will b
in operation, and the keels of two steel freigh
steamers of $500 tons each laid. He viii
remove there the machinery of the ship-yar,
he has recently purchased at Newbugh, N. Y
H.K. Hawthorne son of Dr.. j. b. Haw
h, thorne of Florence, Ala. the distinguished
Baptist clergyman, has purchased the G. 2
Lipscomb farm about two miles from Aftol
and will make his home there. Dr.. Haw
| thorne is expected at Alton about July 1st t,
: spend his vacation.
| The Tucker county, w. Va, Democrat say
that the front of the st. George post-office
in that county, is covered with constables' no
tees of sales; over these notices is a picture
of Harrison with hand pointing down to til,
, sale notices as if to say: "These are the goot
. times promised you p
Joseph COIN we'll known merchant OF
Lynchburg, is not certain whether he is cit
lien of the United States. He finds that il
1862 he was naturalized as a citizen of the
!, Confederate States. AS he wants passpor
) to travel in Europe he has applied to the State
, State Department to settle his difficulty.
: At the session of the International Typo
; graphical Convention at Denver Col, las
week, an offer of eighty acres of land on which
to build home for invalid printers, was re
ceived from the citizens of Colorado Springs
!, the condition being that the house be bull
!, within three years. The offer was accepted
A wealthy eccentric who died in Tyler
Texas, recently, directs in his will that his
large fortune shall be distributed equitably