Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1889-05-03

church; his pastor, Rev. H. ID. Bishop of the
Methodist church, preached the sermon, and
Rev. j. A. Snyder of the Lutheran church,
assisted There were 800 persons at the funeral
from points extending from Harrisonburg to
Newmarket. He leaves wife and six chill
dren.
During a twelve-dayS revival series just
closed at Monmouth church in Rockbridge,
conducted by Rev. Dr.. Dinwiddie, there were
100 professions of conversion and SO joined
that church. 1t is the greatest awakening eX-
perienced there since that which occurred
nearly 100 years ago, and swept through Vir-
| ginia and Kentucky.
At Clifton Forge last week, j. W. Mathews,
a stranger was arrested while making the
rounds of the stores, making small purchases
with counterfeit silver dollars and getting
good money in change. In confession he
said, G. W. Lewis of Allegheny Station, man
| ufactured them, and Robert Kincaid of Allie
ohanv, VIM II. McDanald of Craig county,
and himself, were the agents for putting them
in circulation. All the parties named have
been arrested. Mcdonald is man of means
and extensive business and the charge against
him is not generally credited.
L. ~ DuI Sol VI 1Ndbuld 1 OIluSt, UllC VI ullS
largest merchants in Rockbridge, has assigned
with So 900 liabilities. His being on the bond
of his brother, the defaultng Treasurer of
Botetourt county, is given as reason for his
failure.
John Walsmith, aged fourteen, who died in
a Cincinnati hospital, was most remarkable
case. He could feel no pain and had never
known what the feeling was He could put his
hand on hot stove and see it broil without
feeling any pain. He died from Inflammation
of the stomach, but without pain.
| The mild winter, which has kept the hens
laying right along, has ruined the New York
egg market by low prices. The western eggs
have poured in all winter and the 'limed'
eggs and 'ice-house' eggs could find no
market Houses in the trade have lost from
| S15, 900 up to $4,000.
| The great fight between John L. Sullivan
| and Jake Kilrain, for $1,000 purse, has been
at last arranged and the money deposited.
Sullivan is going down to Louisiana to 60 in
training. He is represented as not being in a
| healthy condition.
| The old Libby prison at Richmond, is being
| taken down for transportation to Chicago.
| One hundred and thirty cars will be employed
! in making the transfer, at cost OF nearly
| SIC, 900. The purchase price of the old prison,
| the labor necessary to preserve the identity OF
each particular brick and the transportation
| and re-erection in Chicago will cost the pro-
jectors fully $4,000.
| Mrs. Baxter Oliver of Richmond county, N.
G., who had been for long time ill, woke
Sunday morning and told her husband of
dreaming that she was dead, and in the other
world met Mrs. TroXler. The next day at u
O'Clock she died. 1t was afterwards learned
that Mrs Troxler, who was not known to be
| sick, had died two hours before her.
| Robert Garrett, who is now living at his
place. ''Uplands,'' near Baltimore, went into
the city Monday with friend They drove to
the Hotel Rennert where they staid till after
noon. Mr.. Garrett, as he drove through the
streets, was recognized by many friends and
cheerful salutations exchanged. He had not
been in Baltimore since September.
Felice Viart, for twenty years a professional
beggar in New Orleans, died there, aged fifty
two. The coroner found in her shanty 50, SOC
in gold secreted in an old pot and $50, 900 in
gold, bonds and stocks concealed in the walls
Her only relative and heir lives in Paris.
Prof Brown Sequard of Paris has been con-
Quoting experiments to determine what, if any
are the poisonous qualities of the human
breath. By condensing the vapor from human
lungs he obtained an alkaloid poison, droI
of which injected under a rabbits skin caused
instant death, and without a CONFUSION. HI
says his experiments fully proved that tht
human breath, as we'll as that of animals is
highly poisonous agent.
The National Exchange Bank with 500, OO
paid up capital has been organized in Roam
oke, with T. T. Fishburn. President; and tn,
Citizens Bank of the same place with $50, 0O
of paid up capital with j. B. Levy, President
These make four new banks that have beef
started in that city.
| Great fortunes have been realized by SOM
of the minor inventions of this period. TIL
New Jersey man that invented attaching
rubber erasing top to lead pencils, is WORT
$500 000 The metal to protect shoe heels AM
soles, brought the inventor $3.50, 900. The rol
Ter skate man is worth S1,000,000 and tn
copper tip on children's shoes man mad
81, 0OO, 900 The owner of the needle-threade
gets 900 year. Toys have also paid won
derfully and the inventor of Pigs in Glover
is said to be already rich man.
| Mrs James e. Blaine has sold to Samue
L. Bryan, manager of the Chesapeake & Poto
mac Telephone Company, two lots in the rea
of her Washington house for $50, 1000
Meredith Stanley the athlete and bridg
jumper, 1eaped from the Cincinnati Souther
Ry. bridge over the Kentucky river two hun
dred and eighty-ive feet, into twelve-foo
water and escaped with no hurt but littl
blood coughed up from his lungs.
The grand jury of the U. S. Court of Orego
has indicted Herbert F. Beecher, (son of th
late Henry Ward Beecher) eX-U. S. Treasur
agent, for stealing money from the govern
ment.
1t is stated that Northern capitalists hay
taken options Oh the farms of Maj. Jolifft
Maj. Johnston (''Mount Joy'') James MuI
day, VIM R. Beale and others around The vi
lage of Buchanan preparatory to 'boom."
At a saw-mill explosion in Pulaski county
wounding many persons, Dr.. Howard L
Cowan, formerly of Staunton, was the atten(
ing surgeon.
Salem, Roanoke, went ''Dry'' Thursday b
by 113 majority. Williamsburg went ''Wet
by 115-the blacks in the latter town havin
taken that side of the question.
Capt. H. G. Bowie, for many years propri
tor of the Waverly House in Culpeper,
dead
Burwel1 Jones, the survivor of the note
Richmond firm of other days of Burwell an
Sampson Jones, is dead, at the age of eight
n seven.
Capt. Hezekiah Williams, of the Virgini
Pilots Association, who was one of the MerT
: macs pilots in her fight with the Monitor
:, Hampton Roads, is dead.
q Abram W. Marshall, a well-known citize