Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1889-07-19


at Bristol. On Sunday last he surprised her
in her home, and the aged pair are now re-
ceiving congratulations on all sides.
Charles Writ, colored, was hanged Satul-
day at Someryille, Fayette county, Tenn, foI
the murder of Eyaline Hester, on the 9th OF
December last. Writ was jealous Of the wo.
man, and meeting her in the company Of Ii
val he shot her dead. The scaffold was cree
ted i'll creek bottom near the town, which,
owing to heavy rains, was nearly foot deep in
water. Y et the crowd stood in the water for
hours and pressed so close that military COM
pany with fixed bayonets was employed to
keep them back.
A solution of three pounds of lime, one
tablespoonful of concentrated I've and six
gallons of water is said to be an effective
remedy for the protection of Irish potatoes
and other crops from damage by the potato
bug. 1t has been used in many sections OF
Virginia with entire success. One applica-
ton, with an ordinary sprinkler is all that is
necessary. This application is claimed to
not only protect the crop but to stimulate the
growth.
The New York World states that Mrs. S. P.
Pierce a daughter Of the late Hon. Charles
j. Faulkner, of Martinsburg, w. Va, is now
slowly recovering under the treatment of Dr..
Lewis Sayre of that city. She has sustained
with fortitude one of the most wonderful OPP
erations ever attempted. Every bone in Der
body was broken, as means of relief from
the ossifieation produced by virulent inflam-
matOry rheumatism.
A sad story is told by the Warrenton Vir-
ginian, as follows 'While our urbane clerk
of the county court was issuing a marriage
license to colored brother he laid aside his
hat, the day being warm. A few minutes
after the ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS individual
had departed the clerk found that his new
straw hat had gone also. The next day the
groom passed through town on his wedding
trip with the hat on his head"
New York brokers ceased talking stock last
Wednesday to speculate upon the personal af
fairs of Mr.. John L. Macauly, one of the best
known men in Wall street, and leader in
many of the most important deals in recent
years. The report was freely circulated that
Mr.. Macauly sooner than face law suit, had
paid to Miss Ida Brown the generous sum Of
$50, 900 in cash, and had received from Miss
Brown release of all claims.
At the session of the American Institute of
Homeopathy held in Minneapolis lately, the
body declared itself opposed to the indiscrim-
mate and common use of alcoholic liquors.
They opposed all preparations known as bit
ters and tonics in which alcohol is the chief
ingredient, and denounced what is known as
the whiskey cure for consumption or any
other disease.
Consumption directly communicates from
one person to another is the warning to be
sent out, with set of rules about to be pub
lished by the New York Health Board, for
the instruction of those having to do with
consumptives. The rules direct that contact
with the persons of consumptives, OF with
their clothing, should be avoided as much as
possible.
Patrick Fox, of Clifton Forge, employed in
flooring the bridge of the new Grocer furnace,
at Roanoke, fell distance of ~ feet striking
heavily on the ground, breaking his right leg
and arm and rupturing several blood vessels
in his breast. After striking the ground he
turned over and asked for help and did not
lose consciousness for forty minutes, five min
utes before he died.
A cable dispatch from Paris states that Miss
Gwendolen Caldwell, the founder of the
Washington University, is engaged to Prince
Murat. She is a daughter of the late Shakes
and his wife died some ten years ago, leaving
their daughters fortune estimated between
S. 900, 900 and 81 1000, 900.
When the food poured into Milton, Pa,
lately, Western Union operator, John VOL
finger, telegraphed Superintendent Gill: ''rhe
water is coming in the office-what shall l
do?" "Get gum coat and pair Of rubber
boots and stay there" was the quick reply.
Wolfinger obeyed orders and remained at his
post till the flood subsidized.
Three "blind tigers" OF holes in-the-wall,
are in successful operation at Holstein Ida
county, Iowa. In purchasing drinks the visi-
tor places his money on the bar, mentions
what he wants, and is handed what he calls
for. He sees no one, doesn't know whom he
buys of, and that is all he testiies to before
the grand jury.
Richard Halves, who was sentenced to be
hanged at Birmingham, Ala, on Friday last,
was not executed owing to his appeal to the
Supreme Court of Alabama, which will not
meet until December. Nine men were killed
in an attempt to lynch him some three months
ago.
The body of Mrs. Mary A. Swineford, of st.
Louis, was recovered in the drift above the
bridge at JohnstoWn, Pa, Saturday. Her
gold watch was sticking fast to her breast
without being held by any guard OF chain.
The body was one of the best preserved found
for long time, the features being almost per-
feet.
A farmer in Montgomery county, Pa, has
a colt that has learned to ring the farm bell
by catching the rope in his teeth and prancing
back and forth. He knows too, when to ring
it, at day break, to awaken the farm hands
and at noon, to call them to dinner, and is
never five minutes late OF early.
What promises to be a very profitable in
dustry for Salem is to be started in few days
A company has been organized and have
purchased the exclusive privilege for the
and sale in Virginia of the
Gage patent folding chair" the only up
holstered spring seat folding chair made
The Williamsburg Gazette, established in
1929, and the first paper in which the Decla-
ration of Independence was printed, will sus-
pend publication with this weeks issue
This paper, after some years of suspension,
was re-established at Williamsburg in 1884,
by MI. Ben Long, of Liverpool, England.
John NJ. Brosius landed in Atlanta four
years ago with $3.50 in his pocket and chest
of tools which We're made in 1913. The same
man to-day is worth over 100000. The for
tune was made on two patents-an axle for
wagon and sewing machine.
1t is estimated, says an exchange, that the
wreck on the Norfolk & Western railroad of
July 3D. will cost the company not less than
S300,0 i'll damages for loss Of life and person.