Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1889-08-09
CLEANED FROM THE MAILS.

Charles B. ROuSS who served in the COnfed-
crate army, went to New York from Wmches-
ter, Va, in 1866 with no money. He went
into the dry goods auction business on the net
spot cash plan and is now worth more than
a million. He is putting up magnificent
store corner of Broadway and Prince streets,
costing 100000. On piece of brown paper
he has written and stuck on the front of the
building this:
ale who bids, owns and will occupy this mar
vel of brik, iron and grant, thirteen years ago
walked thes streets pennies and fifty thousand SAND
wer poor men twenty years ago and that many
fellow facing poverty toda may be capitalist a
quarter OF century hence IF HE WILL.
"Pluck adorned with ambition. backed by hon
or brite will always command successeven with
out the almity dollar"
Notwithstanding the ridicule leveled at him,
Gov. Lowry of Miss, has Sullivan, in
Jail at jackson, Miss. Sullivan made
no trouble in New York when he was arrest
ed and went South with the detective. At
Jackson the people gave him such an
ovation that Gov. Lowry had him put in
jail until he furnished bail. Muldoon his
trainer, and nearly all the prominent pugilists
in the fight are now in the hands of the law.
At Marion, Mass, where Mr. Cleveland and
'Marigold fair Mrs. Cleveland was post
mistress. She wore a cream-colored dress
with a full skirt, bound simply with three
narrow strips of white watered ribbon, and a
waist of the same with full vest of golden
silk, broad lapels and big embroidered but
tons. On her head she wore big white Gains
boro hat with a yellow sash tied around it..
The receipts at the post-office were enormous.
A brute named John Stiller near Steuben-
vile, Ohio, has been convicted for cruel whip
ping OF his children. He would take his lit
tie girls, eight and ten years of age in the
yard, strip them, and whip them with hick-
DRY withe as long as he could WELD it. At
another time he tied one of the girls feet to-
gether, hung her on peg in the stable with
her head down and whipped her until she
tainted
Miss Lillian Dumont of Brooklyn, summer
guest at Glen Haven, N. Y, about twenty
years old, left the hotel ball room after a
dance and went to another room. Disrobing
sufficiently to get at her corset strings, she
got them and hung herself. Her body was
discovered by lady. Unrequited love is
said to have been the cause. Her parents are
| PioihiLOho PCoplC III DlOohly
The wife of Rev. James H. Graybill, near
| Lowry'S Station on the Norfolk & Western
Ry., went over to the cannery across the rail
road track, not knowing that her two-y
child was following her. Just as the little
thing had climbed out of some weeds it was
struggling through, and had gotten on the track
going after its mother, the passenger train
came along and killed it instantly.
The famous Dunlop & McCance roller pro-
cess Touring mills at Richmond, were pur-
chased at auction last week by Mr.. Charles l..
Todd, Ga brother of John W. Todd of Staun-
tom for 81, 900 for Warner Moore. The new
roller mills, put in few years ago. cost So, 600
alone.
"Young man" said long haired passenger
to the occupant of seat ahead, edo you know
that I've never spent dollar for liquor in my
whole life? "Really?" responded the young
man, turning half way round with look of
great interest on his face, chow do you work
| it 2"
Delegates of the Pamunky and Mattiponi
Indians on the Virginia Peninsula have call
ed on Gov. Lee to protest against the residence
on their reservation of persons with negro
uloou III tlcl1 Wits, DIS tilclI Treaty. provides
that none but pure Indians OF mixed White
and Indian shall have a right 10 reside there
Florence. Ala, seems to have struck a
steady manufacturing boom. Last week two
special cars from Connecticut arrived there
filled with forty three skilled operatives to so
| to work in the Foster factory: IN the same
week q now hardware factory started up
with "a hands:
W. Smith Dinkle, the fifteen-year-old son
of Mrs. Mary Z. Dinkle of Rockingham,
after attending church Sunday morning, stop.
ped as he rode home, to battle in Dry river.
His horse was found tied to the bushes, and
the boys clothes were lying on the bank. His
body was found at the bottom of deep hole
The hottest weather ever officially reported
in the United States, was at Fort Mcdowell,
Arizona, june 1883, with thermometer at
1870. The coolest reached was at Poplar RiY.