Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1889-01-11
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Judge Geo. Grattan to that effect, he has Or
dered Local Option election to be held there
on Monday, June 24th-five months hence.
One of the Oldest patients ct the Staunton
Lunatic Asylum is Miss Nancy Bullock, of
Louisa county, who has been an inmate for
over thirty years. The lady is nearly GEN.
fury old. She is a niece of the late Maj.
with her sister, a large property owner in this
city.-Richnaoaad State.
Nine Janisch, the actress. who played SO
successful an engagement in Staunton, is
said to be confined in an insane asylum near
Vienna, the result of morbid detection,
brought about by financial reverses. Former
y she handled money freely, bathed in cham
payne regularly, lived in luxury that equall-
ed anything Vienna had ever seen i'll its pri-
yate life. and became famed for her reckless
disregard of the ''sinews of war;" and for her
Joyous disposition.
The Lexington Gazette says that few
days ago Miss Matte Parker left Raphine to
visit relatives in Washington city. A little
LATER Mr. Albert Fultz took the train ostensi-
blv for Staunton. Instead of coming to
Stanton he went on to Washington, where
he married Miss Parker. They have returned
to Raphine.
During the Christmas holidays, an old and
deaf gentleman living near Raphine, Rock
bridge. went to Vesuvius, after dark, to see
man on business. The man was absent
and there were only two ladies in the house.
They called out ''Who is there" but the deaf
man, not hearing. went on knocking. The
ladies taking it to be a tramp, went up
stairs, got pistol, and fred out of the window
at him. Not hearing the shot, the deaf man
calmly continued knocking. Some Of the
neighbors who heard the pistol shot. came
over and the matter was explained to him.
The Roanoke s'Sun" says that on Sunday
afternoon Miss Mile Lavelle, daughter of Mr..
Geo. D. Lavelle, residing there at the Relay
House on Norfolk Avenue, fred bullet into
her breast, the ball striking rib and glancing.
The wound was severe but not fatal Her
brother. George, killed himself there eighteen
months ago, after shooting Charles Reynolds.
The family is from Augusta county.
A correspondent of the Rockbridge 'News"
says that during the Christmas holidays,a man
named Henry Clatterbaugh, living near the Au-
gusta county line, to frighten his wife, put on a
scare-face and with club entered the house.
The frightened wife had spasm after spasm
until her death the next day.
II ID o~J-a
relative of President-elect Harrison, has given
up his practice, sold his farm to John W.
Rice of Winchester, and will make Washing
ton city his future home. His great grand
father Nathaniel Burwell, and Gen. Harrison's
great grandfather Benjamin Harrison, inner
tied large tracts of land from liking" Carter
of Lancaster county-Benjamin Harrison in
heriting 6,276 acres situated in the Valley of
Virginia.
A st. Louis telegram says all the -four mills
there, except one, have shut down in accord
ance with resolution of convention of
some $50 millers in the West, to close or run
half time during January. Mr.. Charles L.
Todd, President of the Gallego Mills Co. at
Richmond Va, says his mill is not in the
agreement nor does he thinks any of the
Richmond mills are.
The Pastors Union of Columbus, Ohio, are
preparing memorial that will be forwarded
to President-elect Harrison protesting against
the inaugural ball, and asking that he use his
year. The document will be taken to India
napolis and laid before General Harrison by
committee of clergymen appointed by the
Union for that purpose.
James Fl. Jones (colored), who was Jeffer-
son Davis's body-servant while the latter was
President of the Southern Confederacy, and
who was captured with Mr.. Davis in Georgia,
has been an alderman in Raleigh, N. G. for the
past eighteen years. He recently wrote Mr..
Davis and has just received a reply to his letter
Mr.. Davis sends Jones his photograph and
expresses the greatest interest in his welfare.
The tomb of the dead millionaire Wander
bilt is guarded by ten of Pinkerton's detec-
tives, in reliefs of five. Every fifteen minutes
at night each of the burglar-alarm clocks in
the tomb are examined by detective inside,
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repeating rifle. The theft of millionaire
Stewards remains has led to great and expen-
sive precautions over the tombs of rich men.
Harvey Ward has been driving the stage be-
tween East Eddington and Bangor, Me.-a
route twelve miles long-for forty years. Last
Thanksgiving Day he drove up to eat his for
tieth thanksgiving dinner at the Windsor
Hotel, and drove up in the identical red coach
in which he drew up at the same door on
Thanksgiving Day 1913.
DR.. Alexander Mcdonald, general superin-
tendent of the Insane Asylum on. Wards
Island, New York harbor, and who for years
has been recognized authority and specialist
on diseases of the mind and their treatment,
has just gone insane. DR.. Mcdonald was one
of the experts whose testimony convicted
Guiteau, the assassin of President Garfield.
The conference of the committee of the
Northern and Southern Presbyterian General
Assemblies. has adjourned to meet again in
Atlanta, instead of Baltimore. Nothing def
mite in the way of plan of cooperation (not
organic union) which was the subject dis
ed. could be agreed upon.
The last fight for life of Turner Ashby Ride
nour, convicted of the murder of Broy three
years ago. is now going On at Wlncester. He
has been twice convicted of murder in the
first degree, and his day of execution fixed, but
has gotten new trials On technicalities. The
Jury in this trial is from I4oudoun.
In the Circuit Court at Petersburg last
week, in 300 suits involving the tender of
coupons for taxes, the jury gave verdict for
the defendants in 20 cases where they were
able to produce the bonds from which the