Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1889-10-25

oSiiOuiOC0 1iohl oiiO PulPiU OilC VI llls
Pensioners, Dr.. Louis Marsse, for marrying
after obtaining divorce, a jury has given DR..
NJ a verdict for 81, 72O damages against the
pastor.
Mr. Oldboy-"A1y dear, when is your birth
day?" Mrs. Oldboy-"Why, James The
idea of you not knowing. November A. Why
do you ask?" "Well I've lost my silk UNI
brella, and l was thinking it would be a
good idea to get you one for a birthday
present.
Rev. DR.. j. B. Hawthorne of Atlanta,
Ca, last week married a young couple
in the dark, in the hall of his house,
the bride being too bashful to go into
the lighted parlor where the ladies of the fam
lily were sitting.
mausoleum is to be built in New York in
which ten thousand dead bodies may be dried.
The bodies are placed in stone crypts through
which current of dry air is kept passing
until the moisture is taken away and the re-
mains slowly dry up without decomposition.
An amusing story is told of young preacher
in Texas who astonished his audience by an
nouncing as a text st. Charles iii, Z. The slip
of the tongue was understood soon after when
he was married to a young lady in St. Charles,
La.
Jno. G. Mcclure aged So, the last survivor
of the John Brown jury but one, died near
Summit Point, Clarke Co., Va, last week.
The only one now remaining is Mr.. Rights
tine Of Shepherdstown, Va.
Cardinal Gibbons of Baltimore was present
at Richmond Sunday at the conservation of
Rev. A, II. Van Devyver, the new Catholic
Bishop of the diocese. Among the clergy
present was Rev. John McVerry of Staunton.
Geo. S. Null, a printer, who with Gideon
Shirley once published the Enterprise" at
Harisonburg, was killed September 18th, in
Alaska, while hunting, by the discharge Of a
companions gun.
Mrs. Bailey Cockrell an aged widow near
Leesburg, Va, died suddenly Saturday night
from fright, her drunken son-in-law who was
beating his wife, having also threatened to
kill her.
Gen. George Foster who was District At
torney in Washington city in 1865, and con-
Quoted the prosecution of Mrs. Surratt Herold
and Atzerodt-has become common vaga-
bond in the police courts of New York.
Basil Gordon, the Virginia Democratic
Chairman, has a farm of 5000 acres in Rap
pahannock county on which he grazes 1000
cattle. He gives to every new enterprise in the
county and is a man of many charities.
L. B. King of Hebron, Neb., took thirty
day round trip ticket to visit his brother in
Dakota, and while there he died. The thirty
days not having expired he was taken back on
the same ticket.
DR.. David Tilton Brown, a distinguished
author on insanity land for twenty years Super
intendent of the Bloomingdale Insane Asylum
hung himself near Batavia, ILL.,, in fit of in
sanity.
Rev. James II. Moss of the M. E. Church
South has been elected Assistant Professor of
Languages at William & Mary Normal School
at Williamsburg.
Jno. l.. Sullivan, the pugilist, has spent the
5000 he made by, and on account of the Kill
rain fight and is dead broke.'' He has made
and spent S174,OOO in the last ten years.
Clement Garrett Morgan, colored student
at Harvard University. who during his fresh
man years worked at odd hours in a barber
shop, has just been elected class orator.
A saloon-keeper of Bement, ILL.,, named
William Goddard was Saturday fined $4,000
and costs for selling liquor in violation of
the law.
The Edinburg Systematically Agricultural
works lately bought by the Farmers Alliance,
and $4,000 of the $4,000 purchase money
paid, was burned few days ago.
Paul Keys, colored, who was hung at
Fredericksburg for outraging little girl,
left will saying that his wife might sell his
body for $500, but not cent less.
In Utah territory, mile and half above
the level of the sea, is a mountain of which
thirty acres is thickly crusted with oyster
shells.
At the Cooperstown On. Y. Fair, Edward
Walworth descended from his balloon with
his parachute, and lighting in Otsego lake was
drowned in the presence of the spectators.
Geo. T. McCahan a freight conductor on
train and was crushed to DEATH near Berry
vile, last week.
Patrick H. Kearney, the policeman who al
rested Guiteau at the depot in Washington,
when he shot President Garfield, died last
week in that city
1t is stated that U. S. Judge r. W. Hughes,
who in twenty months will be seventy years
Of age, will then retire from the bench on full
pay.
John OBrien, the circus proprietor who
died lately, had amassed a quarter of mil
lion dollars during his circus experience. He
began life as an omnibus driver.
Miss Ann Jones who died in Maine at the
age of 81 had been an invalid for 70 years and
confined to bed for 60 years-and all this time
in full possession of her faculties.
The 540-acre farm of Reuben Zirkle, near
Newmarket, Shenandoah, containing the
endless Caverns," was bought last week by
H. j. Rosenberger for S24 ,95 an acre.
Students continue to arrive at the Univer-
sity of Virginia, and already upwards of 400
students have matriculated.
Samuel H. Shaw the fastest printer in the
United States, dropped dead in the street at
Atlanta, Ga.
Miss Matte Roberts killed herself with
revolver at the Buckingham (Va.) Slate
Quarries, last week.
The Dayton Buckingham Coz Carriage
Works are about to be removed to Salem,
Roanoke.
'sThe. Kings Daughters" of ST. James Epis-
copal church at Leesburg, Loudoun, have
bought 81 800 site for a new church.
The Exposition building at Richmond is
about to be sold, to pay the debts of the Expo
sition enterprise.
Madame Janauscheck, the actress, was
thrown from her carriage in Cleveland, Ohio,
and badly hurt.
Mrs. Frances Folsom Cleveland has purch-
ased in Winchester, Va, a mahogany side
board supposed to be over a century old.
Elk Gov. Edward A. Perry of Florida is
dead.
Henry Smith, the famous 'srazor strop man.
one more left of the same SORTS dead.