Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1889-01-04

tho Presbyterian pastor, formerly of Hebron
church, had visit from his congregation on
the Friday before, laden with gifts.
| The $50, 600 residence of Col. Perry Nugent
at Salem. Roanoke, with all the furniture,
jewelry and valuable papers of the family, was
destroyed by fire on Christmas Eve at noon.
Col. Nugent had only $1,000 insurance. He
is from New Orleans and for several summers
his interesting family summered in Staunton,
| where many friends will regret their loss by
this accident
| Mrs Pricilla Guin and her family, at Bal
| timore, every time any of them got letter,
dropped penny in a bag hung up last June
| to receive it. When the letter carrier called
on Christmas morning he was presented with
the bag which con aimed So ~ in pennies, and
was embroidered with holly leaves.
I On Christmas day, Miss Clara Smith wa
i married at Allegheny, Pa, to Jno. B. Miller
of Baltimore. She wore cream colored satin
skirt with trail of extreme length, and in
| her pocket she carried a silver spoon for luck
| The spoon has been in the family for five
generations, and had been carried in the
pocket of the wedding gowns of the brides
mother, grandmother and great-grand-
| mothers.
The longest name borne by any Virginia
young lady is that of little girl who lives in
| Wythe Co. 1t is 'sJulia Ann Morrison Doctor
Robert Crockett lessee D. Bailey Rider" Her
only rival is the little son of two enthusiastic
Baptists in Rockbridge, whose name is '.John
| the Baptist preaching in the Wilderness of
| Judea Thompson"
There are few wives who will not drop a
tear to the memory of the wealthy widower
| Miles Jobson, of Princeton, Ind. He was
| married on Christmas day, and on last Friday
{ night he hanged himself. He left note say
ing that he had broken his promise not to
marry again, given to his first wife on her
| death-bed, and that he could not endure the
reproaches of his conscience.
Miss Mildred Lee has presented James
Humbles colored man of Lexington, Va,
who followed the fortunes of the Confederacy
under General Jeb Stuart. with two handsome
| steel engravings, entitled sour Fallen
Braves" pictures of the generals of the
southern army.
The song of ''Listen to the Mocking Bird"
was written by Septimus Winner, the keeper
! of a music store in Philadelphia thirty-three
years ago, for a colored man named Dick Mil
burn, who was a whistling phenomenon. He
had little or no voice for singing, hardly an
octave IN compass, and the words which run
higher were intended to be spoken by him, not
| sung He could never learn the words, but
used to make up jargon in place and with
his wonderful imitation of the birds whist
ling made local reputation. The song be-
| came famous and the profits from its sale, to
Mr.. Winner have reached 100000.
Mrs. Mary Scelwig of Halifax Pa, was a
very nervous woman, and her husband fret.
ted over her complaints of aching teeth that
| she had not the nerve to have drawn. At last
she tried it the day before Christmas, but after
having three drawn, struggled to get out of
) the chair. He held her down while the dent
| lst drew thirteen teeth. She was so exhaus-
ted that physician was sent for, but she
died shortly after his arrival. The case has
been taken up by the law authorities
The German Evangelical clergymen of
New York city and vicinity have formed a
combination to oppose 'the growing political
power of the Roman Catholic Church. Thew
will issue an appeal to non-Catholics.
The editor of the "Forum" recently pro-
posed to Bishop Spalding, the Catholic bishop
OF Chicago, to meet Col. Robt. Ingecson in
the pages of his manazine, in discussion on
, revealed religion. The bishop promptly &C.
cepted, but after some of the preliminaries
had been arranged, Col, Ingersoll sent to the
bishop breaking it off, giving as the reason
that his wife was opposed to his taking part
| in the discussion,
Miss Annie Bruce Page of Charlotte county,
the wife of Thomas Nelson Page, the author,
who died after a few hours illness in Rich
| mond last week, was only twenty-one years
of age and had been married but little over
two years. She is said to have furnished in
her own lovely character the material for those
of the heroines in several of Mr.. Pages stories.
! II. T. Barber, government clerk who was
| troubled with heart disease, was sitting in
Shoemaker's saloon in Washington last week
| when fight occurred. He got up and walked
around nervously and sat down. Peace was
restored and while the laughter was uproar-
lous again, it was found that Barber, who was
sitting in his chair at table, was dead and
had been so for some minutes,
John H. Thomas, the agricultural machine
manufacturer of Sprinfeld, Ohio, sent mem
orial to the House of Representatives, urging
that fund should be provided by the govern
ment to pay the growers of wheat bounty of
20 cents bushel, to compensate them for the
tariff burden imposed on them by the govern
ment for the benefit of the manufacturers. He
estimates that it would require a fund of
500, 900, 900 annually.
At Seaford, Del, the oyster shuckers struck
for 15 cents gallon from the packers. 1t
was conceded. They then struck for 20 cents.
That also was conceded The packers after
| their supply of oysters on hand was exhaust
met moved their packing houses from the
: town and entered into a bond with $500
penalty not to shuck another oyster at Seaford
this season, They moved their packing
houses to Salisbury, Crisfeld and Cambridge
Md.
The Third class at the Virginia Military
Institute struck a tough one when they
''hazed" cadet Stoner, of Kentucky, ''pleb"
the other night. He knocked one of them
down and afterwards challenged one of them
for fight, and knocked him out All this
could not go on quietly, and three of the third
class have been dismissed for shazing"
Stoner; one for not stopping it when he was
the orderly in the room where it happened,
and a fifth for going out to fight Stoner when
he himself was under arrest on suspicion of