Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1889-07-05

John G.. Watts of Tazewell county, to be U.
S. Marshal for the Western District of Viz
ginia, in place of J. r. Jordan, of Pulaski
county, removed Mr.. Watts held the Office
under former Republican administration
A money order convention, between Ger
many and the United States, was signed on
Saturday by the German Minister and the
Postmaster General, which increases the
amount of money order that can be sent by
either country to the other from, $50 to 500.
The simple way to fumigate a room is to
heat an iron shovel very hot, and then pour
vinegar upon it drop by drop. The steam
arising from this is disinfectant. Doors OF
windows should be open that it may escape.
The high licence law went into effect in
Delaware on Monday, and all the saloons
throughout the State were compelled to re-
move their screens and conduct business in
full public view.
During the first fourteen days of June up
ward Of 1000, 900 visitors passed through the
wickets of the Paris Exposition. Such sue
cess ought to be a strong temptation to New
York to hold Worlds Exposition in 1892.
A dispatch from Waverly, Ohio says: An
unknown man was taken suddenly sick
Friday last in Scioto county and expired in a
few hours. Two doctors pronounced it a
genuine case of Asiatc cholera.
Stephen Gordon, colored, was shot through
the breast by Emanuel Jackson in Berkeley
on Sunday, in a fight over game of cards in
a negro bar ROOM Jackson escaped. Gordon
will die.
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The trial of Dr. Mellow, for the murder of
Editor Dawson, ended at Charleston, S. c.,
last Saturday. The jury, after two hours
deliberation, returned verdict of "not
guilty.
The price of sugar has gone up between
thirty and forty per cent. The New York
Herald says: The trust men are in need OF
funds to pay for their summer trip to Europe
and so levy on every poor man in the country
Edward Quinn, foreman of the machine
room in the Brush Electric Light Works, New
FORK, was killed by shock of electricity last
week while repairing one of the broken wires
on an open circuit.
Mrs. John w. Mackay, wife of the Ameri
can millionaire, has brought action claiming
$4,000 damages each from the Manchester
Examiner and the Loudon Echo for libel il
stating that her mother was a washerwoman
Maria Mitchell, a noted astronomer, died
Friday morning at Lynn, Mass. She was fol-
many years member Of the faculty of Vassal
College.
Lyons, Neb., claims the champion wolf
hunter in the person of l.. d. Higley who il
three weeks killed siXty-siX of the animals
The bounty on their scalps amounted to S245
Pennsylvania physicians predict that the
long continued rain will be followed by a
hot, dry summer and autumn which will be
productive of many cases of typhoid fever.
The Charlottesville Jeffersonan of July
unpublished the speech of Henry W. Grady,
delivered before the Literary Societies at the
University of Virginia, last week.
The wife of an engineer on the Norfolk and
Western railroad, residing in Roanoke, pre-
scented her husband with three fine boys last
week.
1t is reported that Dr.. McCray of Highland
county has discovered a valuable coal mine
on his farm, located near Roadside, in tina
county.
At the top of the Eiffel Tower, for fee
specially prepared notepaper, dated from the
summit of the tower, is provided, and the
"II9C1 Sdl itlNC tll0 1CtlCl pOSlCu vi tllC SpUl
Rev. w. Henry Beecher, brother OF the late
Henry Ward Beecher, died in Chicago, june
sd, aged 81 years. He was one of sever
brothers, all of whom became preachers.
Thomas Ewing Sherman, eldest son of Gen
W. L. Sherman, will shortly be admitted t.
the Order of Jesuits as a priest.
Hobart College, New York, has conferred
the degree of L. L. d. upon Cornelius Van
derbilt
The South has 464 $50 acres more of cotton
planted this year than last, a gain of 2.34 PEE
cent.
The losses of property by the recent flood
in Pennsylvania are estimated, by Brad
streets, at S44, 100000.
The Louisiana Lottery Company offers tx
assume the State debt of 81, 900, 600 for the ex
tension of their charter fifty years.
A nugget of gold weighing one and one hal
pounds was recently found near BilesVille
in Stanly county, N. c.
Francisco Garcia Of Los Angeles, is 1O
years old. His wife is So and his younges
child 2 years old.
West Point, Va, remains dry by III ma
jority.
''He thinketh no evil is the inscription OF
Henry Ward Beecher's monument.
The Legislature of Missouri has passed
law prohibiting the marriage of first cousins.
Frederick Douglass has been appointed
Minister to Hayti.
Miss Marietta Minnegerode of Alexandria
Va, won the Corcoran art medal this year.
The city directory of New York puts tn,
population at /, 100000.
Ex-President Woolsey of Yale College, dice
Monday, aged So years.