Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1889-05-24
GLEA NED FROM THE MAILS.

Thirteen years ago, Miss Sarah E. johnson
of Washington city, against the warning OF
friends and the entreaty of her parents, mar
ried Oswald G Allen, a worthless fellow from
Charlottesville, Va, with no trade OF means of
livelihood, but handsome. He went from bad
to worse, she supporting him by school teach
ing and bearing his ill-treatment and being
devoted to him. Four years ago she wrote let
tiers to be opened after her death. Last week
he went to the public school in Washington in
which she taught The scholars were standing
in the aisles ready to be dismissed. He strobe
up the aisle, seized his wife around the neck
and shot her dead. Then turning his pistol
blew his own brains out in the presence of the
Mortified school children. The letters written
before her death have been opened. In one of
Them giving directions about her burial, she
asks friend to purchase suit Of clothing for
sspoor Oswald" in which he might attend her
funeral.
Bishop, the wonderful mind reader, APP
parently died in New York, last week, in a fit
of catalepsy. In few hours the attending doc
tors, Ferguson and Irwin, had him opened and
were making an autopsy. His wife and
mother declare that he was not dead at the
time and they had seen him lie for days in
these fits like one dead. Both physicians have
been arrested and another autopsy is being
held to determine whether the man was alive
OF dead when the first one was made.
John Archibald Cooper, a young chemist,
has Just swindled the Western liquor men out
of about $4,000 and gotten away. He pre-
tended to have discovered a compound by
which new whiskey could be instantaneously
made cold" With a little refrigerator, the
false bottom of which was filled with old
whiskey, he would pour the new in the top in
the presence of the makers, and draw "Old at
once out of the spigot. He had around his
person hollow case filled with old whiskey
and could stand away from the refrigerator
and ''change" a glass of new whiskey by Sc
cretly emptying it and reflling with old from
his sleeve in which there was pipe. In
Kansas City alone he got $4,000 from the
liquor dealers for his compound.
Rev. Sam JONES' at Danville, gave utterance
to this rough truth which young girls should
remember "Girls are not as particular as
boys A boy will not go with fast OF i'm
pure girl anywhere, but girl will 90 to a
ball and dance with fellow that she knows
to be as smutty and dirty as the devil
Miss Martha Clarke and Mr.. Isaac Honaker
of Abingdon, Va, boarded the train fol- Bris-
toll, there to be married. AS the train neared
that town the brakeman called ''Bristol's the
next stopping place" Miss Clarke who had
travelled but little, thought he said, "This is
Brstol's jumping off place." and being nerv-
Gus and fearing pursuit by her parents, rushed
to the door and leaped off. Her leg was frac-
tured, her face disfgured for life, and her
back injured. The train backed up and took
| her on to Bristol where she still lies.
David l.. Git, until last week had been for
twenty years Chief of the mail division Of the
Pension Office. Under him, as one of the force
was Rev. DR.. Scott, an aged an incompetent
clerk, the father-in-law of President Harri-
son, who often fell asleep at his desk. Git
used to pin papers on his back when asleep
with humorous descriptions of him. When
the new Administration came in Dr. Scott no.
titled Git that he should ask it for his reno
val. He did SO and Corporal Tanner on May
18th, signed GIFTS dismissal from the service.
Il The new drunkard's law of Minnesota went
into effect ON Thursday of last week. 1t makes
drunkenness crime with fine of $40 to $40
for the first offence, OF imprisonment of 10 to
40 days. For the second offence it is a heavier
fine OF a longer Imprisonment, but for all Of
fences after the second there is no fine, but the
man convicted must be imprisoned not less
than thirty nor more than ninety days.
Joshua F. Ross, eX-member of the Virginia
legislature, who assassinated his aged uncle,
Mr.. Hughes, in bed in Gloucester, to get his
property, and who was out on bail after mis-
trial, blew his brains out with a pistol On
Tuesday last while on a spree.