Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1889-05-31

and the problem consists in making q by
using any six of the following figures: 1, Il,
1, 3, 3, 5, 5, 5, 5, Z, Z, Z, 9, 9, 9. Some doubt
exists in the minds of those who have tried it
whether it can be done.
James B. Green, blind lawyer, has just
obtained a verdict in the Circuit Court of
Richmond for $4,000 damages against the
Virginia Midland Ry., for injuries received in
an accident at Culpeper last August, by which
he is paralyzed from his waist down.
Farmers in Oregon can find no market for
potatoes, and the Oregonian says that many
farmers are literally throwing potatoes away
Mr. Tyszkiewicz, of Bachelor Island, recently
dumped $50 sacks of as fine Burbanks as even
were seen into the Columbia river.
The meetings of the Rev. Sam Jones at Dan
vile, which closed last week, had lasted ten
days, and during that time over 1000 persons
professed conversion, including some of the
most prominent business men of the city.
During his life, l. V. Williams of Philadel-
phia paid taxes on $67, 500 of moneys at inter
est. An inventory of his property since his
death, shows that he had 49, 100000 liable tc
taxation that he did not give in.
jefferson Affair." tried in Northampton coun
ty, Va, for deliberately shooting dead at a
game of cards, Peter d. Smith, who was once
we'll known in Staunton, was convicted and
given eighteen years in the penitentiary.
The officers and pupils of William and Mary
College, visited jamestown on May 13th com
memorating the landing of the col0nists there
on the same day two hundred and eighty-twc
years ago.
Il or hIly InnnpSSpe
girl, met her father at the depot the other day
and broke two Of his ribs at a single hug. An
exchange wants to know what show her sweet
heart would have.
At last the firer of an ssunloaded" gun has
been punished. VIM. Kibler, convicted of kill
ing Alfred Gaul in Shenandoah by swapping
at him supposed unloaded gun, has been SEN
fenced to year in the penitentiary.
Charles A. Dana of the New York Sun, DR..
Norvn Green, President of the Western Union
Telegraph Co., and some prominent capital
lists, stopped in Roanoke Friday ION tour
South.
Laura Bridgeman. made famous by Charles
Dickens in his american Notes" died Satur-
day in the South Boston Asylum, aged GO
years. She had been deaf, dumb and blind
from her second year.
In consequence of Gov. Lee and Mayor Ell
lyson's mission in the Spring against coupons,
about 5000, 900 less were rendered for taxes this
year than last.
By giving 100000 in cash and land, Biz
mingham, Ala, last week secured the loca-
ton of the State Farmers Alliance Exchange
and warehouses there.
Mrs Emma G. Folsom, motherof Mrs. Gro
yer Cleveland, was married Monday at Jack
chant of Buffalo, N. Y.
w. g. P. Breckenridge of Kentucky, gave
the people of Nashville, Tenn, some of his
splendid Oratory at the Confederate memorial
day Tuesday.
U. S. Senator Chas James Faulkner, grad
uate of the Virginia Military Institute, is to
deliver the address before the Alumni associa-
ton at the semi-centennial, July 3-4.
J. Thomas Williams, who drove the street
car on which Tommie J. Cluverins rode out to
the reservoir at night to murder his cousin,
died in Richmond last week.
Harry Graham of Florida, son Of Mrs. L
A Graham, Of Allegheny county, Va, was
killed by railway accident in Mexico last
week.
E. G. Jordan, of the Jordan White Sulphur
Springs, is just recovering from critical ILL
ness caused by blood poisoning, resulting from
the bite of a pet squirrel.
Rev. Dr.. Randolph II. McKim of Washing
ton has gone to Vienna, Austria, to visit his
son, DR.. Duncan McKim who was seriously ill
there, but is better.
Frank S. Waddell, formerly of Charlottes-
vile, who mysteriously disappeared in New
York March 31st, has not been heard of since.
In New Hampshire in the last five years
there have been 900 divorces, OF one for every
ten marriages.
J. J. Boyle, the Catholic priest who assault
ted Miss Whitaker, his church organist, in
Raleigh, n c., is to be tried in September.
The Southern Baptist Convention at Mem
phis, unanimously endorsed ''the speedy and
entire prohibition of the liquor traffic"
Twenty-Five officers and four hundred men
of the U. S. ships wrecked at Samoa, arrived
at San Francisco Monday.
Hon. c. 7. O'Ferrall will deliver the adj
dress at the Richmond High School COM
mencement, June 18th.
-Four locomotives to be run by soda under the
boilers in place of fire, have been built for
street service in Minneapolis.