Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1889-04-12
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IeIL Ills UOdIOlHS HoqSe III P1ooh1l II, SATURDAY
evening, March 30th, and has not been seen
since, though friends and detectives have
hunted every hospital and Other. place where
he might be. The greatest concern is felt
about him.
While in her dressing room at the Arch
Street Theatre in Philadelphia Monday night,
April lst preparing to go on the stage as Par
thenia in Ingomar, Marie Prescott received
telegram announcing the death OF her 16-year
old son. In moment more the call=boy an
nounced the act and she went on, dazed by the
blow. At the point where Parthenia says to
Ingomar II shall never see thee more" she
uttered the words and fell senseless and pros
trate at Ingomars feet. The curtain was low
cred, the actress removed to her hotel and
physician summoned. The audience on learn
ing the cause showed the deepest sympathy
for her. MI. Mclean who played in Staun-
ton with her, was playing Ingomar.
The Fruit and Vegetable Packers Associa-
ton of Virginia held its annual meeting at
Lynchburg last week. Among the new men,
bers admitted was the Crimora Packing Com
pany of Augusta, represented by r. H. 7.
Adams The Association fixed the weight of
d UuSlltl VI dG SiAuN pOulltto ICoolN GU
that cases should be the size of the Baltimore
canned goods Exchange, and decided not to
give guarantee lasting longer than six
months for swellage and leaks,
The Board of Visitors Of the Virginia Mill
tary Institute met in Richmond last week
Hon. Marshall Hanger being one of the MEM
beers present. S. II. Letcher, of Lexington,
was chosen Chairman. The Board fixed on
the 4th of July as the date of the next COM
mencement, this being the semi=centennial
celebration and committee was ordered to
confer with committee of alumni on the pro-
gramme for the occasion.
Rev. DR.. NJ. d. Hoge of Richmond, preach
ed on Sunday week in the Church of the Cove
nant, at Chicago, on..the theme: "The Teach
ings of Our Master; or what we know when we
learn Christ" The Chicago papers reported
it, and referred to it as the effort of an excep-
tionally finished scholar and earnest and elo-
quent preacher.
Ex-senator G. T. Smith of Nelson, has just
sold to company headed by d. B. Strouse of
Salem, Va, 1920 acres of coal land in Ala
bama, on the Louisville & Nashville Ry for
1920 900 1t will be capitalized at 81 zoo, O00
Mr.. Smith is interested in the company He
retains his citizenshipin Nelson county
The unprecedented swarms of office-seekers
in Washington, and the fact that they all want
their applications properly spelled and
put in plain type-writing, furnishes a
harvest for the lady type-writers, One
young lady has averaged $40 week at the
business since March 4th.
Besides the uniforms of the New York Park
police, the Charlottesville, Va, wooden mills
have another contract for furnishing meltons
and doeskins for 900 suits for the Philadel-
phia letter-carriers, and still another contract
for 10000 yards of kersey cloth for the Soldiers
Home at Hartford, Conn.
Attorney-General Miller has little room
ON the fifth floor of the Riggs house, Washing
ton. Secretary Tracy lives in pretty apart
ments at the Arno. Secretary Proctor has
several rooms at the Arlington. Postmaster
General Wanamaker is the only member Of
the new administration who is permanently
located in his own house.
A Confederate veteran says he has seen TO-
900 snow balls in the air at once. 1t was at
Guinea's Station near Fredericksburg, in the
winter of 1868. The snow was foot deep, and
the snow-balling commenced between compa-
ny A, I'd Ga, who opened on the Cherokee
Brown Bifes. and it did not end until the
whole of Lees army had taken hand at it.
Isaiah V. Williamson, the many times mil
lionaire, who before his death in Philadel-
phia, had given s., 600, 900 to establish train
ing school for boys, though handsome and
attractive man in youth, and even in his old
age, was fearfully bashful. He was once to
have been married and the wedding party had
| assembled. He went in sight of the church
but fed, saying 81 could not bear to go before
all those people" The angered bride that
was to be, ended the matter there, and Villa m
son never married,
| The housekeeping duties pertaining to the
White house have been about evenly divided
Mrs. Harrison superintends the work of the
laundresses, chaimbermaids and cooks, Mrs
Mckee has charge Of the butler and waiter,
and SuperintendS the china and glass closet
while Mrs. Russell Harrison sees to it that
the supplies of food and wine are kept up in
proper style.
Mrs. Gottleib Wechter, a blonde of forty
two, left her husband in Wilmington Della
ware, and went to live with Peter Vent
in Philadelphia. Her husband followed
her, but failing to induce her to return
hung himself to the door knob of the house
during the night The faithless wife was
shocked on pulling the door open III the morn.
ing, to pull her husbands corpse in with it,
The female Mayor and all the female mem
bers of the council of Oskaloosa, Kansas
were reelected last week after pretty severe
fight. At the beginning Of her term Mayor
LOman removed the Town Marshal who was
not in sympathy with them, and then went tc
work. The female town government has en-
forced the Sunday and liquor laws, broken W
loafng on the streets, improved the side
walks and made ali orderly town out of what
wasn't so before.
Husselton Compton who died at st. JOSEPH
Missouri, aged one hundred and one years
was Democrat of Democrats. To the day OF
his death he spoke of the Republicans as cab
olitionists." In his will, made five years ago
he said that he had brought up his children
right, and if ''any OF them ever voted the abo
litionist ticket, J" he wasn't to blame. He di
rected that his death be inserted only in the
Democratic papers, saying: "a mans name is
his own, and he is not bound to have 1t In AbO
litionist papers if he don't want it,
Judge Patterson of the Supreme Court OF
New York has appointed Grover Cleveland as
one of three discreet and diSinterested per-
sons to appraise the lots to be taxed for the
| opening of the High Bridge Park