Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1889-03-22
CLEANED FROM THE MAILS.

At the funeral Of Hon. John A. Campbell
ex-Justice of the U. S. Supreme Court, and ex-
Assistant-Secretary of War of the Confederate
States in Baltimore, among the pall-bearers
wers Senator Pugh or Alabama and Senator
Gibson OF Louisiana. Justice Lamar of the
e. S. Supreme Court, walked at the head of
the coffin.
Willie Burch was tried in Albemarle county
court, for causing the death of J. W. Munday,
formerly of Augusta county, OH January 18th,
by criminal carelessness in the use of fire
arms, and was acquitted.
Peter B. Smith, we'll remembered in Staun-
ton, whose cold-blooded murder at game of
cards in Northampton county, has been nell
toned, was naralyzed and decrepid man.
The quarrel over the stake had subsidized when
Jefferson Adair placed his pistol to his head
and killed him.
The storehouses of Friese & Son, H. H.
Snapp, Kern Barr & Co., the dwelling of J.
c. Rely, and stable at Winchester, Va,
were destroyed by an incendiary fire, Friday
morning. On the same morning, about twenty
buildings in the business part of Orange G.
H., including the Virginia Midland freight
and passenger building, the mill of J. F.
Morris & Co. and the agricultural warehouse
of Williams & Co.. were burned. The loss at
Orange was $50, 900, and that at Winchester
about $40 900.
Rev. Justin d, Fulton of Brooklyn, n Y.
a noted ministerial crank on the subjects of
the negro and Rum, Romanism. and Rebel
lion,' preached to the colored people Of Rev.
John .aspers congregation at Richmond
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all the ideas prevailing there of white and
black, that the Deacons of the First Baptist
church (white) who had invited him to preach
for them Sunday, revoked the invitation.
Monday afternoon, at Richmond, when tn e
train arrived with Cleveland and his friends
ell route for Cuba, a crowd gathered at the
depot and called out for him. He came out
laughing on the platform, and said 'Well,
/ see you are all here" He shook hands with
number, and laughed heartily at a pretty
girl who cried out, 81 am Democrat all
over Governor FitZ. Lee and several Rich
mond men left Wednesday to join the EXPIRES
ident in his voyage to Cuba.
The substitution of idleness for penitentiary
convicts in place of labor, by the demagogues
of the New York legislature. is having ter
ward Broderck, age 10, and Jos. Trogan, age
q, were taken from Sing Sing prison to the
Auburn Insane Asylum for COnvicts Princi-
pal Keeper Connaughton says that the men
are going insane owing to their having no
no work.
The Chicago Tribune's advertising rate for
a column per year is $4,000; New York Tri-
bune $4,000 for lowest and s14SOOo highest
priced column. Rates in the Herald are not
given by the column, but the average prices
obtained are said to be about $4,000 year.
A protracted meeting led by Rev. A. B.
Cunningham in Braxton county, W. Va,
aroused the moral feelings of the converts to
such an extent, that, headed by the minister,
one hundred of them raided neighborhood
of ill repute, leveled eight houses and warned
the inmates to leave the county. Twenty-Five
of the raiders are in Jail.
The two American base ball teams are re-
ceiving distinguished attention in England.
The Dean of Westminster Abbey held spec
ial Sunday service for them, and they had
special permits to the House of Commons de-
bate, and to the Queens stables.
A Chicago museum manager has gotten ga
gallery of twelve big-footed beauties as an
attraction. The largest foot III the gallery is
that Of Volena Welted of Nashville, Tenn,
fourteen inches long, and the smallest, that
of Birdie McCallum of Chicago, eleven and a
quarter inches They get $40 week for eight
weeks sitting in the museum.
Ex-Mayor Hewitt of New York with his
brother-in-law, Edward Cooper, and J. H
Inman and j. c. Calhoun, are in the South
and were at Florence, Ala, last Sat
urdav. 1t is said the firm of Hewitt &
Cooper are prospecting for location to which
TO remove their immense iron works from
New York.
Harrison is the fifth Presbyterian Fresiden !