Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1889-02-08

the beneficiaries under the will. And further,
that his brother John was of unsound mind
when his will was made.
Geo. W. Rodgerson of Beaver, Pa, has
good reason to fear violent end. few
years ago his father was killed by a fall from
a derrick Later, his mother was killed by
falling chimney, and few days ago John l..
Rodgerson, the last of seven brothers, all of
whom had met accidental deaths, was killed
in the cyclone at Pittsburg, Pa. Mr.. Geo. W.
Rodgerson is the eighth and last of the broth
ers.
A new remedy for skin disease, says the
'Hospital," is continual bath, the patient
eating, drinking and sleeping there until cured.
One patient has been kept in such bath for
1856 days. He is tied up always at night to
prevent him from slipping SO as to be drowned.
The palms and soles become much withered'
but the rest of the skin is unchanged. The
water is kept at SO degrees.
Four years ago, D. c. Myers came to Vir-
ginia leaving a wife, from whom he was separ
ated, in Schaghticoke, N Y. While here he
got divorce and married again. Returning
to that town last week, he was arrested and
jailed for not supporting his first wife-the
New York law not recognizing a Virginia
divorce.
James Moore, the Indianapolis Agent of the
Connecticut Mutual Life Insurance Co.. has
proved to be an embezzler of $500, 900 of its
money. Among the, embezzled money was
1926, 900 paid by the late Eugene Wetherell,
husband of Emma Abbott. to cancel mort
gage on some property he bought, not dollar
of which was turned over to the company.
Alfred Gaul, aged seventeen, of Shenando-
ali county, Va, was buried January 26th, in
the suit of clothes he had bought to go to
school in this Spring. His death was caused
by ball from an 'unloaded" pistol in the
hands of his playmate, VIM. Kibler, disc charged
on December 4th. The ball had been in the
brain ever since.
Col. Nat. .. Claiborne, once well known in
Virginia politics, but who emigrated to Mis-
souri, thirty-years ago, died at st. Louis, Fri
day, aged 81 years. After the war he was elect
ed to the Missouri State Senate to succeed
Gen. Frank P. Blair. He was member of the
Virginia State Constitutional Convention of
1850.
On wager, student at Dickinson College,
Pa, put two billiard balls in his mouth The
balls stuck there and all efforts to dislodge
the same proved futile, until finally surgeon
was called in, who, in order to get them out,
was compelled to cut slit in his mouth on
each side. The other fellow paid the bet
Marie Frances Norton, sister of Charles J.
Guiteau, has recently published novel, main
ly devoted to defence of her brother, who,
she says, was crazy, and was influenced by
others to shoot President Garfield. She calls
the book 'sThe Stawart; or, Who Were to
Blame ?'
The United States Adjutant Generals report
of the militia forces of the Union, organized
and unorganized, shows that Virginia has 22O
commissioned officers, 557 non-commissioned,
1902 privates, aggregating 2,021. Number of
men available for military duty unorganized
100000.
Last Friday was the twenty ninth day that
been asleep without waking moment. A
powerful galvanic battery has had no other
effect than to made her partially open her eyes.
4 little color caused by feverishness is the only
symptom that marks her long sleep.
Prince Rudolph the Crown Prince and heir
apparent of the throne Of Austria, blew his
brains out on Thursday, at a village near
Vienna. He was found dead in bed with the
the revolver close to his head. He had been
morbidly nervous for some weeks. He died
under heavy cloud of scandal
Two Virginia and North Carolina cigarette
firms, manufactured last year one thousand
millions of cigarettes for home consumption
more than one-half the whole output Of the
United States. Besides this, they manufac-
tured sixty million for export.
The table on which Noah Webster i;.ioIe his
dictionary, and tho saddle-bags in which he
carried the manuscript of his famous spelling
book when he rode fron State to State to
secure the copyright, are preserved in the New
Haven Colony Historical Society rooms.
st. Valentines day, February 18th, is tax
ing its place with Christmas, New Year and
Easter as day of gifts. 1t is now the fashion
to send flowers on that day, the season of the
year making that about the most expensive
kind of present to be found.
Johu J. Stuart of Abingdon, son of W. Alex
ander Stuart of Saltville, was married Janua-
ry 31st, to Miss Kate Preston of Abingdon.
The young groom is we'll known to the visitors
at the White Sulphur.
The Richmond and West Point Terminal a
sort of railroad Octopus, is being attacked in
the Circuit Court of Richmond, for alleged
violation of its charter in buying competing
lines.
Gen. James A. Walker of Wytheville, Ex-
1t Governor of Virginia, has accepted the
Vice-P Presidency of the Florence (Ala Land
and Improvement Company, at salary of
S. 900.
The grounds of the ''Little Sisters of the
Poor" in the western part of Richmond, Va,
bought twelve years ago for $12, 1000, are now
worth $4,000, SO rapid has been the growth
of that city.
The Charleston (Kanawha) Star learns that
DR.. Harper, we'll known physician of Green
brier county, W. Va, was found dead in bed
from the effects of inhaling chloroform.
Six hundred men are now at work on the
Winchester and Martinsburg railroad and
fourteen miles of it are graded. The road will
be operated by July 18th.
Madame Kowalewski, aged forty has
achieved the triumph of winning the grand
prize in Mathematics in the French Institute
at Paris.