Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1890-01-31
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with brain fever on Christmas eve and was
almost wholly unconscious or delirious from
that time on, died at his home at 2:30 o'clock
on Friday morning last. His daughter Leila
his favorite child, chung to and caressed her
unconscious father until he died. He was
buried at Edinburg on Saturday and fully
| 1 200 persons attended the funeral. The MEM
bers of the "Clan-na Gael'' in Philadelphia
sent a floral harp of immortelles with cat
Rest on it in violets. TO it were attached
streamers of the Irish tri-color and the in
scription: ''Poor Erin Mourns Her Faithful
Friend and Fearless Advocate The widow
Of Senator Riddleberger received kilograms of
coincidence from every part of the country
One was from Rev Dr.. Hyde, President of
the Valley Female College at Winchester,
who had married the couple while he was
stationed at Woodstock, Mrs. Riddleberger
nee Miss Emma Bellew having been pupil
DIT the Wesleyan Female Institute in Staunton
shile he was President of it.
Adam Forepaugh, the circus proprietor,
With whose tremendous figure riding at the
read of the procession, almost everybody in
Augusta county is familiar, died of pneumo-
MIA in Philadelphia last week after an attack
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commenced life in Philadelphia as a butcher
boy at 81 month and his board. He saved
S36 out of the SIS the first year. He went
West and in the meat business had made
$50, 600 before he had attained manhood. He
got into the circus business through having
sold the proprietor A horses and having to
take an interest in the show for the debt He
Tilted it out finely, employed Dan Rice for
S25, 900 year and ran it in his name for three
years. Then he ran it as Forepaugh's circus
| and in 1876 was the first proprietor to stop the
old wagon business and build railroad train
| for his show He leaves an estate worth
81, 900, 600 to his widow and his only son Ada m
Forepaugh, il.
| Miss Nellie Bly,, who was sent on a sensa
| tional trip around the world by the New
Liverpool on November 14th, arrived in New
York from San Francisco Saturday last
making the circle of $4,000 miles in Y days, 6
hours and II minutes. Miss Elizabeth Bsland,
who was started from New York by the Cos
mopolitan Magazine on the same errand, nine
hours later, only going West instead of East
arrived in New York from Liverpool on We'd
nesday. But for a slow steamship she would
have arrived nearly the same day as Miss BLY,.
The woman who first circumnavigated the
globe was a member of Bougainvil les famous
expedition around the world in 1860, which
occupied just two years and four months.
Rev. J. r. Sturgis, pastor of Trinity Metho-
dist church at Richmond, who was suspended
by his Presiding Elder for writing an improp-
Ell letter to a married lady, has had a
| rot,ao NJ md thn oh hos l;c
missed on the ground that ''the tes-
timony shows the mental condition of Brother
J. r. Sturgis at the time he wrote the letter
upon which this investigation was based was
such as to render him incapable of under
| standing the moral character of his act" MI
| S. subsequently asked that he be relieved
from pastoral work until his health is re-
stored, which was granted.
| A novel written by a North Carolinian, en-
titled ga Watch-Key," and based upon the
Cluverius tragedy, has been dedicated '"To
that peerless Virginian, Judge D. A. Hinton,
of the Court of Appeals" The book speaks
of the judge as ga hero-immortal honor to
his name-who was brave enough to throw
the full strength of his name and influence
into the balance of justice against the wild.
| GlSCIloh, DIoou-uIliopy uiOO UAou Wao SlHS
at the other end Of the scales.' Judge
Hinton was the dissenting Judge on the bench
of the Court of Appeals which re-affirmed the
| lower courts sentence of Cluverius.
Drs. George Lyons and Augustus Meyer,
physicians with diplomas received in other
States, were arraigned before the city court of
Mobile, Ala, for practicing medicine without
authority The Supreme Court recently de-
cided, in effect, that any doctor securing
diploma in any State could practice wherever
he chose, and hence says Mobile
paper, the cases had to be drop
ped from the call. Indictments against two
OF three others physicians will also be mol
pressed upon the cases being called, and the
defendants showing their diplomas.
Among the letters received by Mrs. Jefferson
Davis is one from MI. Davis old servants at
Brierfield, Miss, which reads: "We, the old
servants and tenants of our beloved master
Hon. Jefferson Davis, have cause to mingle
our tears over his death. who was always so
kind and thoughtful of our peace and happi-
ness. We extend to you our humble sympa-
thy. Respectfully, your old tenants and SER
wants.
Miss Mary Potter of New York, has proba-
bly, the hardest head in the country. Last
week her insane sister Ellen bought an Amer
lean bulldog revolver, 80 calibre, had it
loaded, and on getting home fired at Mary's
head. The bullet weighing more than one
ounce, 1attened itself against the skull to the
thickness Of nickel, but could not penetrate
the bone, though the muzzle of the pistol
was in six inches of her head.
In Paris the French Academy of Sciences
had experiments made with the head OF a man
just guillotined, to test the theory that the hui
man body is itself an electric battery and affec
ted by the current from the North. The body
was placed on pivot delicately balanced,
and Invariably turned with the head to the
North. This is taken as confirming the belief
that persons should sleep with their heads to
the North.
Mrs. Cora Scales Morris, who in December
1888, at the age of twentyone, was made to
marry David E. Morris, aged forty-two,
against her will, was on trial at Wentworth,
N. G., for numbering him in his sleep in Au-
gust. 1889, by chloroform. after getting him to
will her all his property and $4,000 life in
surance. She was acquitted. She is a niece of
Gov. A. M. Scales, and the trial excited much
interest.
James McGill, an attendant in the insane
asylum at Columbus, Ohio, last week drew
all the money he had-S4OO-out of the bank
and eloped with Miss Hattie Green, one of the
patients, aged nineteen. He left his wife
eighty cents. Superintendent McMillen of
the asylum has offered reward for the cap
ture of the young lady, and the lady's rela-
tons are also hunting far and wide for her.
The suit of Catholic pastor Jean of
Of Dubuque, against Bishop Hennessey Of the
Iowa diocese for $1,000 900 damages for silenc-
ing him for disobedience few years ago. has