Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1889-02-22

a contract with the City Council of that CITY
to furnish it 40 electric street lights of not
less than l, j00-candle power, to burn every
night till midnight, at $40 each per year.
The personal estate of Miss Catherine Pier
son of Richmond, Mass, has just been apprais-
ed. 1t consist of S45O,OO0 in bonds and
stocks, fifty bonnets, seventy shawls, and
three hundred empty bottles.
Arnori Mori, former Japanese Minister to
Washington and one of the most progressive
statesmen as we'll as Minister of Education in
his own country, was assassinated last week
at Toxic.
The grand jury of Norfolk city has indicted
Judge Geo. S. Oldfeld, Presidents II. C. Per-
ley, Cashier, and two of the Directors of the
broken Home Savings Bank, for making
false report of its condition
Old Mrs. Baker of Cairo, Ill, took new
departure on her sixty fourth birthday She
ate an orange, fig and date for the first time
in her life, but concluded not to try glass of
lemonade for fear it might be dangerous.
The Roanoke Street Railway Co., have an ex-
elusive privilege from the City Council to use
the streets for their tracks. The citizens Street
Railway Co., who want to enter, are attack
ing that right in the courts.
j. G. Bell of Culpeper has hog of the
Jersey red breed which has killed one of
COWS with his tusks and disabled another The
animals tusks had to be knocked out.
l. A young lady of eighteen summers, OF win
tiers, weighing only three hundred and fifty
pounds, was married at Cape Charles City,
| Va. the other day.
The citizens of Salem, Roanoke, experienced
an earthquake shock at 3 A. NJ, February
10Th, shaking the beds and rafting the win
dows.
Maj. James d. Patton, a well-known politi-
clan, and Miss Mamie Leary, a famous beauty
both of Richmond, are to be married February
9th.
Rev. B. F. Campbell of Bath county, a mem
Der of Lexington Presbytery, filled the vacant
pulpit of Grace-street Presbyterian Church in
Richmond, Sunday.
| John Wanamaker's life is insured for a
round million of dollars, which statistician
computes is at the rate of $500 for every
pound of his flesh.
| In Liverpool the rate of mortality is 1873
per cent. Every fourth funeral is that of a
child under one year old, and every second
funeral is that of a child under five years old.
By spraying the region of the external eye
with ether Drs. Henoque and Fridel, of Paris,
render the dental nerves insensible, and ex-
tract teeth without pain or general anesthesia.
NJ. W. Camper proprietor of the Fincastle,
Va, Herald, is in Florence, Ala, with view
to newspaper enterprise.
W. O. Atwood, of Stonington, Ct, is in
Lynchburg, Va, arranging to start silk fac
tory there.
Henry W. Grady, the Atlanta, Ca, orator,
is to speak at the Scotch Irish congress at
Columbia, Tenn, May Sth.
Mrs. Margaret S. Tippett (aaee Lewis), an
aunt of ex-senator John F. Lewis, of Va, died
in Baltimore last week, aged eighty-six years.
traveller reports the snow on the Cheat
Mountain, W. Va, last week, at twenty inches
deep.
Rev. J. R. Bridges of Leesburg, has accepted
call to the Presbyterian church at Salem,
Roanoke.
G. P Huntington has just purchased Meis-
sonier's picture, "Game Lost at S26,300
The State Bank of Liberty, Bedford has
suspended.