Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1889-01-18

ment in the penitentiary, and having served
a term there he didn't think it was much. The
gallows was salutary surprise to him.
Shenandoah county has produced a boy
since the election whose grandfather voted
for William Henry Harrison in 1910, and who
has had his grand-child named Ben Harrison
grandson of VIM. Henry Harrison the Hero of
Tippacanoe, Smith" The boy is two months
old.
There was lively scene in court in Win
chester at the Ridenour trial. r. E. Byrd,
the prosecuting attorney, and w. R. Alexan-
der counsel for the defense, had an alterca-
ton, in which Alexander threw volume of
Blackstone at the head of the Common
wealth's Attorney.
General Joseph E. Johnston says he recol-
lects such winter as this when he was boy,
and before he went to West Point. There was
. mild weather, he says, up to February I'd,
but that during the remainder of the winter
it was very severe, with the deepest SHOWS he
remembers.
David Batchis, who has recently been trans
ferred from an insane asylum in Pennsylvania
to one in New York, is the man who as "Sig
nor BIitz" used to delight the grandparents of
the people of the country with his famous
juggler's tricks.
bloody fight took place at the Newcastle
coal mines, Washington Territory, last week,
between the Miners Union and the Knights
of Labor. One man was killed and several
| wounded before the militia could restore
peace.
Miss Halle o. Woodward of Charlottesville,
who teaches school in Loudoun, and who is a
first cousin of President-elec Harrison and
ex-Guerilla Mosby, was married in Washington
city last week to S. D. Hicks, Jr., of Rich
mond.
( :, A company has been organized in Rock
bridge with A. T. Barclay President, and
capital stock of $500, 900, to develop the old
| Buena Vista iron mines at Green Forest in
that county, on the r. & A. and Shenandoah
| Valley railroads.
Mrs jefferson Davis writes that the ex-
President weighs one hundred and forty
| pounds, which is more than she has ever
known him to weigh, but he is too feeble to
| get about much
| Owen Brown, son of "Ossowattamie Brown"
| and the last survivor of the Harper's Ferry
| fanatics, was buried at Pasadena, California,
on Tuesday last.
E. L. Hopkins, former agent at Lynchburg
of the Richmond Insurance Co., has been SEN
] fenced to four years in the penitentiary. for
forging the names of parties to certificates of
death and drawing the money on them.
The Indianapolis ministers who have been
praying in the Indiana legislature daily for
nothing, have quietly conferred and agreed
| not to pray hereafter in either house of that
body at less than $5 prayer.
Capt. J. H. H. Figgatt, M. W. Camper, W.
A. Glasgow, Jr., Jno. Ross, and Thurston
Allen of Fincastle, have gone prospecting to
Florence, Ala.
The author of the 'sMurchison letter."
which ruined Lord Sackville-West, turns out
to he George Osgoodly of Pomona, California,
a native New Yorker.
Samuel G. Ludington, the we'll known
/ West Virginia cattle buyer, died at Frank
ford, W. Va, Jan. 10th, of paralysis.
"Buffalo Bill" (Col. Cody is suing Adam
Forepaugh for 800, 900 damages, for giving
show called after his own, ''The Wild West"
Rev. DR.. Fl. M. Wharton is drawing great
crowds in Norfolk.