Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1890-10-10

ty we'll played out and it is estimated there
are not 600 bags in the State. In Norfolk they
are 10 cents pound. A farmer at Wakefield
made $4,000 by holding his crop while. The
new crop will be along in about thirty days.
Winchester, Va, which is misrepresented
by the census as having less population than
she had ten years ago, is about taking her
own census. Under the recent census giving
her only 4,957 she would lose the free mail
delivery by letter carriers.
California has done much toward supplying
the fruit deficit. The San Francisco Bulletin
says that 40. OO0,O0O pounds of fruit have al
ready been shipped over the mountains east
ward, and the shipment of late peaches, pears
and table grapes still continues.
Sam Jones doesn't beat around the bush
much. The price Of virtue, he says, should
be the life of the scoundrel who violates the
law, and it should be paid at the blazing end
of doublebarreled shotgun, with forty buck
shot in each barrel,
The Grand Jury of Rockbridge, in the mat
ter of Cadet Taliaferro's death, failed to find
a true bill against Cadet McConnico and he
was discharged. He will shortly return to
Texas with his father who is in Lexington.
W
land, who was Secretary of the Treasury for a
time under President buchanan, and had rep
resented a Maryland district in Congress, is
dead in his I'D year.
The sum of 81 ,295 of the Peabody Fund was
expended in Virginia during the past year, of
which s.. Cos was for scholarships; $500 for
Normal Schools; S40O for schools, and 81 200
for institutes.
Mary w. Whitney, who succeeded Maria
Mitchell as professor of astronomy at Vassar
College, advocates the study of that science for
girls, with the express object Of disciplining
their emotional natures.
J. G. Moss of Lynchburg has taken the
General Secretaryship of the Winchester Y.
burg has taken the General Secretaryship of
the Roanoke Y. NJ. G. A.
Miss Eva Magruder, sister of Miss Julia
Magruder the authoress, died at the home of
Mrs. Gibson of Concord, N. g., another
sister, last week. The authoress is now in Paris
with Mrs. Amalie Rives Chandler.
At a school election at Birmingham, Ala,
last week, five hundred females cast their
ballots-the largest vote of women ever poll
ed. The presence of ladies at the polls secur-
ed the very best order.
Mrs. Jane umgardner of Wood county,
who is 10l years old, attended the reunion OF
the Army Of West Virginia at Parkersburg
last week. She does not use glasses, even
when doing the finest sewing.
Rhoda Broughton is fifty years old, white
haired and sunny faced. She has written
twenty two books, but only ten Of them have
been printed.
The Covington, Allegheny Co., Va, I'm
provement Co. has reorganized with Decatur
Axtell President, Mr.. R. L. Parrish having
resigned that position.
Alexander Campbell, of st. Augustine,
Fla, Tuesday, shot and killed Miss Mamie
Joseph, because she refused his offer of
marriage.
who was Adjutant of the Libby prison during
the war, died last week in his 10th year.
The clergy of Treves, Rhenish Prussia, have
denounced law tennis as an unbecoming game
for German girls.
The Wytheville Va, agricultural fair had
to postpone its opening On account Of the pour
ing rain Friday.
The Pocahontas, Va, Coal Company, has
for the year ending Sept. 22d, shipped ,349, APO
tons Of coal
La grippe has reappeared at Carthage, ILL.,,
and the wife of the City Marshal has died of
it.
The new tariff law went into effect on Octo-
Der 6. Goods in bond need not be taken out
until February 1.
Hon. D. G. Gallaher of Charleston, has
n Of
, versity of West Virginia.
Forty-eight hours of falling snow at Aspen,
Colorado, in the Rocky Mountains, last week