Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1889-03-08

have a parlOr, dining-rOOm, library, two large
chambers, &c. MI Daniel Lamont will have
suit of rooms adjoining. The rooms were all
newly upholstered and re-furnished last week.
Near Brampton, Canada, last week, Almost
remarkable railroad accident occurred at the
grade crossing of the Grand Trunk line and
the Canadian Pacific line. A Trunk freight
struck Pacific freight right in the centre,
went through it, and went two miles on its
way before stopping-not a wheel having left
the track. The broken train was knocked right
and left.
Mrs Mackay who is just now in Paris, has
ordered some marvellous original and artistic
toilettes One is in old rose satin, covered
with white lace, that is studded with real
pearls while the sleeves to the loW-necked
bodice consist of strings of precious stones
valued at 100000.
A fac smile of the white silk brocade
bustles that Mrs. President Harrison and
her daughter, Mrs. Mckee, were to wear at
the Inauguration ball drew interested crowds
at the corner of Broadway and fourteenth
streets, New York, where it was on exhibition.
The bustles are II inches long and inches
wide. They have an ornamentation OF three
white silk bows, and inside and out are COM
posed of the same material. They cost about
50 each at wholesale.
John f. Laidley, lawyer of Huntington,
W Va, interested to the extent of a million,
in suit now pending before the West Virginia
Supreme Court, at Charleston, was arrested
there Thursday, under the influence of liquor.
In the Station-house he cut his throat with the
glass from the cell window, and it is feared
will not live.
Mrs. Louisa Seitz of Toledo Ohio, aged
fifty-four, has just married for the sixth time'
and the same man for the third time. AS the
divorced wife Of w. c. Queen she married
Samuel Setz; since then she has been divorced
from Seitz twice, each time marrying again.
and then returning and marrying Setz. On
February 18th she married Seitz for the third
time.
Hon. Samuel j. Randall who served three
months as a sergeant in the Philadelphia City
Troop during the war, was on Monday initia
ted into the Grand Army of the Republic,
Joining the Meade Post at Philadelphia.
photograph of the Faculty and distin-
guished alumni of Washington & Lee Univer-
sity is being prepared for the Paris Exhibit
ton.
Maggie Mitchell, (N[rs. Henry J. Paddock
the actress, after twenty years of married life,
is suing for divorce from her husband, on the
ground of infdelity.
John S. Dodson, a well known hotel-keepe1
at Richmond who was one of the Anti-Mahone
delegates at Chicago, died on Monday night
at the hotel Dodson est. James, in Richmond
Col VT. Poague has rendered to Gen. f.
H. Smith, Superintendent of the v NJ. l., his
resignation as Treasurer, to take effect July
A. II. Shepherd, son of Capt. Ham. Shep-
herd, United States revenue collector, has
been selected as the clerk of Admission (Ala.)
City Court, a new tribunal.
Mrs Catherine Shirley of Rockingham, who
died at the age of SO, leaves $50 living deScen-
dants.
At Lexington, KY, the great stock sale of
51S blooded horses, brought 1901, 10.
Orkney Springs in Shenandoah, has been
sold to Robt J. Wilson of Mt. Jackson, fol
| 500, 5O0-about one-fourth of its value.
Elliott II. Dickson, aged 80, proprietor OF
the Hotel Dickson at Ronceverte, W. Va, is
dead
Capt. J. G. Featherstone, formerly the head
of the State Grange of Virginia, has taken the
position of Secretary of the Educational, Land
and Development Co., at Florence, Ala.