Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1889-01-25

Ollie Total Ab6tenance Union OF America VIII
be appointed Bishop of the diocese of Rich
, mond, Virginia
| Ashby Ridenour. twice convicted at Win
chester of the assassination of Andrew Broy
and twice sentenced to be hung. was on his
third trial, last Friday, acquitted. The verdict
was received with cheers and that night the
| jury at their hotel were serenaded. The counsel
| for Ridenour, W. r. Alexander, who has
achieved great triumph in the case, made
] speech at the serenade.
| Mrs Scott and Mrs. Watson belonging to
the same church in Accomac county, Va
had long disliked each other. At festival
held for the church benefit, at Chessenmesex
: last week, in dispute, Mrs. Scott struck Mrs.
Watson square in the nose with her fist caus-
| ing it to bleed. The magistrate who heard
the case fined the assailant.
| The past mild weather spread all over the
country In Connecticut last week one young
lady picked bouquet of violets from her
garden, and another gathered a bunch of dan
delions In the same State crocuses and lilies
have b lossomed, the blue birds were chirping
in the meadows, and striped snakes have been
seen basking in the sun in the roadway.
| Col. W. W. Forbes of Buckingham, charged
James Gillespie with writing letter to State
| Superintendent of Education, DIR. Buchanan,
rejecting on him as teacher and on j. II.
| Forbes as school trustee. Gillespie replied
| by stabbing Col. Forbes four times with a
knife. The wounds are not deemed danger
| GUS.
| A committee is advertising for bids for the
erection of another female seminary at Luray
in Page county ''Clif Cottage" is the site
purchased and the company, which is said to
, have ample capital, will have the building
ready by the opening of the next scholastic
year.
Abraham Vandine had for forty-elght years
lived in New Orleans as poor man. at cheap
boarding houses. He was known very close
in his habits in order to live. Opening his
trunk after his death last week, they found
nearly $1,000 900 in greenbacks and bonds.
New Jersey brother is the heir.
Prof. John NJ Langston, colored, of Virgin
Ia, ex-Minister to Hayti, in a lecture the other
Knight at Charleston, S. c., said that American
institutions were in danger to-day from fore
ign immigration and the Catholic church, and
the destiny of the Negro may be to save the
country from both.
VIM. P. Boyd of Giles county, Va, is suing
Henry Bowen for $40, OOO for having spoken
of him in the notice of contest served on Hon.
John A. Buchanan, as ''being alias G. W.
Gallaton, an ex-convict." Boyd says he has
| she
fair name and honest character.
W. L. Steger has just made $685. by two
weeks trapping in Franklin county, Va. He
sold the skins of his captures at the following
prices-beavers, from $5 to So; coon skins,
| Is cents apiece, muskrat SKINS 20 cen is, and
| mink skins, 40 cents. Mr.. Steger ships the
| skins to New York.
| Land around Richmond is attracting pur
| chaserssfrom distance. The Messrs. Abel of
the Baltimore Sun, have bought Spring Hill
farm of 273 acres. across the river from Rich
mond, at $45. 900, and the adjoining tract
has been purchased by Wash Mclean of the
Cincinnati Enquirer.
The largest man in Woodstock, Va, Bob
Newman, colored, was buried last week. He
weighed $40 pounds. His coffin could not be
gotten in at the door of his house. It was
two yards and six inches long; yard lacking
an inch, broad, and two feet high. The de-
ceased kept an eating house.
Ernest Fl. Chalkley of Richmond, one of the
largest tannery proprietors in the State, failed
last week. The liabilities are 1000 and the
assets are large. The failure was caused by
the shrinkage of leather in the last six months,
and by the failure of Northern firm, large
holder of the Virginia firms hides.
Mr.. and Mrs. John E. Meeks of Louisville.
KY, aged respectively 40 and A. have twenty
living children-eigh girls and two boys.
Commencing with two years after their mar
riage, there never has been o time since that
there were not two cradles rocking in their
house.
The Central Presbyterian of Richmond has
commenced the excellent practice of publish
ing one of DR.. Hoge's sermons in each issue.
DIR. Hoge at the Old Market in Richmond
every Sunday night, has an audience as large as
those that Mr.. Talmage has in Brooklyn, and
they have as fine sermon.
J. W. Causey, register of deeds for Guilford
county, N. c., deserves premium as a re-
markable genius. He wears suit of clothes
which he cut and made himself. He makes
his own shoes, rides in buggy of his own
handiwork, and is practical printer.
Plymouth church which Henry Ward Beech
er left on the summit of prosperity, seems in
critical condition. Its pew rents have
dwindled from $4,000 to 1000, and its
to $4,000.
''Bolivar," the big elephant presented by
Adam Forepaugh to the City of New York
consumes daily-15O pounds of hay, Is loaves
of bread, 10 head of cabbage, bushel of po-
tatoes, peck of onions, a half-bushel of corn
and sixty gallons of water.
Of the 372 convicts received at the Virginia
penitentiary last year, 1913 were moderate
drinkers, $50 were total abstainers, and SO
were Incorporate. Of the total, 1877 could
neither read nor write.
Rev. Minor Jenkins, pastor of the colored
M. E. Church at Fincastle, was instantly
killed Thursday while returning from hunt
ing, by the accidental explosion of his gun.
Mrs. J. W. Smith of Kanawha county, W.
Va, has Just gotten verdict against that
county for $3.50, for hurts received in conse-
quence of badly repaired road.
On Thursday, March 2Sth, Botetourt coun-
ty. Va, will, on petition of the ''drys," again
vote on License" or s'No License"
Last Saturday was the eighty-second ami