Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1889-08-16
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| A duel took place on Saturday at Coosa, on
the Alabama and Georgia line, between Pat
Calhoun, a grandson of John G. Calhoun,
attorney of the West Point Terminal, and
j. ID. Williamson President of the Chat
tanooga. Rome and Carrolton Ry., the offence
being Williamson's having given Calhoun the
lie direct before committee of the Georgia
legislature Williamson fired his five barrels
rapidly without effect. Calhoun fired one and
had four yet to fire. Instead of firing them, he
again demanded withdrawal of the language
and after explanations it was withdrawn. The
Governor of Alabama has made a requisition
on Gov. Gordon of Georgia, for the principals
and the seconds.
MI. Jacob Thompson, co1ored, of Bedford
county, Va, was the treasurer of the colored
Baptist church, which was about erecting a
new building. The money collected, 500, was
committed to the treasurer. The money was
accounted for in so unusual way that the
brethren are about to go to law for it. MI.
Thompson said that, going home in the rain, the
notes got soaking wet and putting them out
on plank in the sun next day to dry, the
wind 'blowed the last dollar of it away" AS
Thompson bought a farm directly after the
hurricane, the congregation think that the
''last dollar of it might have ''blowed' over
to the farm.
How expensive mans unruled tongue may
be, has been proven at Atlanta, Ca, in the
case of Fox vs. Harlem. The defendant had
tossed off in a moment of bad temper the re-
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in the penitentiary." The jury in the lower
court gave Fox 81, 500 damages and the Court
of Appeals affirmed it. Judge Blackley re-
marked in his opinion affirming it, that the
| court thought the verdict was harsh one, but
it was legal, and taught an energetic lesson
| in favor of holding ones tongue"
DR.. Isaac White, for twenty years resident
physician at the Allegheny Springs, Va, and
who year ago was sent to the Southwestern
Lunatic Asylum, died there last week. He
was native of Albemarle, and during the
war was surgeon of the 18th Va, and afte1-
wards of the 31st Va. regiment under Gen.
Imboden. In 1880 he was Vice-President of
the Medical Society of Virginia. He was 80
years of age.
While every two OF three days the workmen
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three bodies in the debris, incidents even more
distressing than that come to the surface. A
&. West once the wealthiest merchant in that
stricken city, lost his wife, three children,
father, mother two sisters and brother, on
the dreadful night, besides being made penni-
less He has now lost his mind and is living
ON charity.
When Sarah Althea Hill who lived with the
millionaire Sharon in California and claimed
to be his wife, brought suit for part of his
fortune Ex-Judge David S. Terry acted as her
counsel and afterwards married her. Judge
Stephen Field of the U. S. Supreme Court,
decided the suit against her. On Wednesday
last while Judge Field was eating breakfast
at hotel, in Lathrop, Cal, Terry walked in
and slapped his face. Deputy U. S. Mar
shall Nagle, who was at the table, rose and
shot Terry dead.
Two very remarkable railroad car robberies
have just occurred. The st. Paul sleeping
car as it reached Harlem, Mo-, not far from
Kansas city, was entered by two armed and
masked robbers who went through" the five
passengers in their berths, holding pistols to
their heads. Three nights later the Chicago
sleeper was entered by a single armed and
masked man who robbed the single passenger
on it and then jumped off.
There are sixty three millionaires in the lit
tie town of Forest city, Ohio. John d. Rookie
Teller is worth one hundred and fifty millions
and has an income of $4,000, 900 year. II.
M. Flagler has an income of SIS, 900, 900 year.
Col. Oliver Payne is worth go ,OOO 900. Selah
Chamberlain is worth $2S 5000, 600, and Jeptha
II. Wade has 100000. The three first
named made their millions out of the Stand
ard Oil monopoly.
An old physician of Pittsburg, Pa, says
that in his practice he has found many per-
sons who have had their legs "bowed'' after
coming to maturity. They were men and
women who lived in the higher parts of the
city and who habitually come down hill to
business. In the descent the weight is thrown
on the knee and ankle joints which relax in
order to relieve the strainion the fore-limb,
and so the ''bOw-legS'' are formed.
J. W. Haymaker of this Valley finds that
his loss in wheat by the rains is not so much.
The way he managed it was to take rake and
rake down the stacks of wheat removing all
green and sprouted wheat and making the
stack solid and impervious to water. Another
farmer has tried scattering lime over wheat
that was threshed out in damp. condition, and
it dried it out in very short time.
Henry Harrison near Leesburg, Loudoun,
has a dog who accompanied the milkman
to milking every evening" and would be given
saucer of milk after it was over. The dog,
however, learned a trick worth two of that 1t
was found that the cow gave less milk and,
soon after, it was discovered that the puppy
having learned where the milk was, had taken
to sucking the COW himself.
Two young men Of Harrodsburg, KY, adj
dicted to the constant smoking of cigarettes,
are becoming spotted all over their bodies
giving them the appearance of leopards.
Their minds, though now apparently sound,
are in imminent danger, for their nervous sys-
tens are so affected that neither of them can
sleep without smoking several cigarettes after
retiring.
The delegation sent from Florence Ala, to
the session of the Farmers Alliance at
Auburn in that State, was rugged out as a
practical advertisement for their town indus
tries. They all wore Jeans suits made at the
McAlester factory, shoes made at the shoe
factory, suspenders made at the suspender
factory and shirts made of shifting turned out
by the Cypress mills.
The bad feeling existing between Dr. W. H.
Milhollen, druggist of Round Hill, Loudoun
county, and Dr. F. M. Nichols, who has an
Office over his drug store, broke out into
fight on the 9th inst, in which Nichols was
stabbed in the hip and in the left lung. The
lung wound is dangerous though not necessa-
rily fatal.
AS the President and family contemplated
being absent from the White House all sum-
mer, Mr.. Harrison discharged Madame Petro-
lard, the French cook. She holds that her |
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