Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1889-07-19
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Lexington correspondence Richmond Dis
patch: The Board of Visitors of the Virginia
Military Institute will act on the suggestion
Of the Alumni Association in naming Gov
ernor Fitzhugh Lee to succeed General F II
Smith as Superintendent of the Virginia
Military Institute, who retires, by resigna-
ton, January l, 1890, by OF before the regular
December meeting. His election and accept
ance of the place is certain, and he will be
officially notified of the election the moment
he retires from the Executive mansion as
Governor, and will at once relieve General
Smith as superintendent. From the very first
there has been no doubt of the Governor
accepting the place, should the board call
him to the trust.
Louisville POST "What is the hottest
weather ever known in the United States?"
Thequestion is answered in the May bulletin
of the Kentucky statistical weather service
The highest temperature recorded by the Uni
ted States Signal Service was at Phoenix and
Fort Mcdowell, Arizona, in June, 1888. The
thermometer marked 1890. However, unoffi-
cial observers report temperatures as high as
1913 and 1920 at Mammoth Tank and Humboldt,
Cal. The coolest weather recorded by the
service was $50 below zero at Poplar River
Mon. But this is warm place compared
with Werchojansk Siberia, the coolest inhab-
tied spot on the globe. The thermometer there
has been as low as 800 below zero In view
of these figures let us not complain of paltry
800 above zero.
The street cars in Norfolk are draped in
mourning, on account Of the death of Maurice
B. Flynn one of the directors of the road.
He died suddenly at Long Branch last Tues
day night. He went to Brooklyn in 1865
when H. years of age, worth $50, and secured
situation i'll grocery at SIS week. He
attended night school and graduated from
Cooper Union night school in 1871. He had
then gone from a S. clerkship up to a junior
partner in the establishment Of Guy c. Hotch-
kiss & Co., and had saved $4,000 He then
went into the contracting business with HUI
bert q. Thompson, deputy commissioner OF
public works at Brooklyn, and died worth
$1,000, 600.
A Petersburg letter says: A relic of the
recent railroad disaster at Thaxton's on the
Norfolk & Western road, was received here
to-day. 1t was the double-case gold watch
worn by MI. James W. Livesay, the train
dispatcher who was killed by the accident
and whose body was burned in the wreck
The WATCH though rendered worthless by
fire, is yet sufficiently preserved to be identi-
fled as the one owned and worn by MI. Live
say. The works are all destroyed and the
case much blackened by heat 1t will be sent
to the relatives of the deceased in Greenes-
Vile county as a memento of the terrible dis
aster by which Mr.. Livesay and many Others
lost their lives.
Rockingham Register: Some dastardly vii
lain, on Monday night July Sth, entirely de-
stroyed moving machine belonging to Capt.
Lurty The mower had been in use and as
usual, was left in the field for the night, when
some one, taking advantage of the dark
ness. entered the premises and made a total
wreck of the machine by breaking the wheels
cogs, &C., to such an extent that they cannot
be replaced. We did not think that such an
Infamous outrage would be committed in oul
community, for we did not suppose charac-
ter mean enough to commit it existed in our
midst. The villain should be hunted down
and punished to the extent of the law.
The Atlanta Constitution says: 'sThe fol-
lowing words, uttered by the Nashville Chief
of Police, last week, to Mr. John l.. Sullivan
have mighty wholesome sound: IF Won
strike one of my men | will kill YOU That
is just the way to check up a bully like John
Il. Sullivan. 1t is hard to imagine anytbtno
more sovereign than Johns contempt for the
authorities of little Southern city like
Nashville. AS he was on his way to the
Nashville Jail after having looked into the
cool, keen eyes of the Chief Of Police at the
back end of pistol barrel his contempt was
doubtless mitigated.''
While Corporal Tanner is stretching his
authority and making lavish use of pension
money for Union soldiers, the disabled Con-
federate soldiers have not been forgotten by
the people of the South Recently asplendid
subscription was made in Georgia for the es
adjustment of Confederate home near At
lanta, and 1t Willsoo be ready for occupancy.
ON the Fourth of July a large meeting was
held at Little Rock. Ark, and IS, 900 were sub
scrlbed towards the erection of a Confederate
home Active steps are being taken in North
Carolina for the same object.
AT the recent session of the Alabama Press
Association Miss Virginia Clay, of the Hunts
Vile Democrat, was unanimously elected
secretary OF the association. This lady is
daughter of the Hon. q. Withers CLAW, who
has been in i'll health for several wears. |
during that time his paper, the Huntsville |
Democrat, has been almost entirely under the |
management OF Miss Virginia Clay and that
OF her sister, Miss Susie Clay. They have
succeeded III Increasing the subscription LIST
and advertising patronage Of the paper.
Bristol, Bucks county. Pa, was the SCENE
of Joyous reunion or Sunday. A brother
and sister, Major Mcdowell and Mrs. Maroa-
ret Roti aged 10 and rs respectively, had not
seen one another for quarter of a century
each believing the other dead, BY chance