Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1889-07-19

tories. They will inquire into the health and
working hours of female operatives; also into
the arrangements for safety, morality and
cleanliness.
In Richmond, on Saturday night, Charles
Runge, IS years old, was instantly killed by
Charles Henry Ferguson. The latter was
practicing in a shooting gallery, and the ball
went through a crack, striking Runge in the
heart.
Mrs. Elizabeth Cady Stanton is in the 74th
year of her age, and it is just about half a
century since she first became an advocate OF
''woman's rights She and Miss Susan B.
Anthony have worked together for the greater
part of that time.
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Adam Turner killed bear on Shenandoah
Mountain, which measured eight feet in
length One of his fore paws measured 81
by 81 inches.
Mrs. Maggie Haun, of Shenandoah county,
Va, who was shot and dangerously wounded
by her Jealous husband, is reported to be i'm
proving, and the probabilities are strongly in
favor of her recovery.
The author of "Home Sweet Home,'' died
without home, and now the author of the
homestead law, George w. Allen, of Ohio,
has no homestead of his own, and is about to
die in abject poverty.
Yours is an agricultural country, isn't
it?" asked a gentleman, on the limited, of
his new acquaintance from Dakota" " Yes,
pardner." What do you raise, mostly?"
Jack pots
Lieut.. Edward p. Turner, charged with
killing his brother-in-law, Robert Turner,
near the Plains, in Fauquier county, has been
tried and acquitted.
Members of Pentencost band, peculiar
religious Sect were arrested at Tuscola, Ill,
last week, for conducting boisterous and dis
orderly meetings
Miss Mosby, recently appointed postmis-
tress at Thaxtons, Bedford county, is sister
of Col. John S. Mosby, and relative of
President Harrison.
The recent death of Mrs ex-President John
Tyler has reduced the number of Presidential
widows to three-MrS Polk, Mrs. Grant and
Mrs. Garfield.
Whenever friend of W. d. HowelIs mar
ries, the novelist always sends as wedding
present a copy of 'Their Wedding Journey"
bound in white velvet.
Bishop, the mind reader, left an estate val
ued at $3.50. which goes to prove that people
who mind other peoples minds do not gather
in the ShekelS.
Elizabeth Akers Allen, the author of the
famous poem, Crock Me to Sleep Mother, -
is living quietly at Ridgewood, N. j. She is
an interesting woman of fifty-seven.
The town of Princeton, Butler county,
Ohio, was swept away last Saturday, by a
wind-storm.
The French citizens of New York city eel
ebrated the Tooth anniversary of the fall of
the Bastille, last week.
Already $4,000 of the capital stock for the
establishment and operation Of a cotton fac
tory in Front Royal have been taken.
Hillarries Baker, of Frederick county. Va,
died recently, aged 90 years. He was a sol
der in the war of 1872.
A meeting of the executive council of the
Scotch-Irish congress of America took place
in New York city last week.
The Baltimore Sun calls Prof. Jno. H. Hew-
tit Of that city, "the father of the American
Ballad"
The new Congressional Library building,
at Washington, is to be built of granite quar-
ried in Virginia.
Judge Humans old enemy, rheumatism,
has again got the better of him. He is going
to test the virtues of the Virginia Hot Springs.
Irish. Americans of Chicago are planning
for the formation of an Irish-American repub-
lie in North or South America.
License to keep hotel was recently grant
ed in Greenbrier county, West Virginia, to a
man named Vanstayern
The people of Woodstock are delighted with
the Merry Band Camping Club, of York, Pa,
who have pitched their tents near that town.
Lucas Silva, who was doctor in the indie
pendent army of Bolivia, is still alive. He
has reached his 10th year.
The Empress Augusta Victoria of Germany
has been converted to Catholicism.
A railroad trust involving one thousand
million dollars of capital is being formed.