Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1890-02-28


In ali hour OF two the nlolars we're paid for
and returned to the woman.
The Bonsack Cigarette Company of Virgin
ia has leased to the American Tobacco Com
pany, to be used only in this country, 100 of
their cigarette machines for s., 800 year each
for three years, making total of $3.50, 900 per
year.
The liquor license to go into effect in the
city of Lynchburg on May 1st is as follows
city wholesale and retail $500; city wholesale
$3.50; city retail $62.5O city rectifer's license
5000; U. S. wholesale license $780, U. S. retail
license 500; U. S. rectifer's license S25.
A Michigan calculator figures out that at
least II, 800, 900 persons in the United States
had the grippe. AS a result, he says, next
summer Europe will be full of American
physicians and druggists spending their sur
plus.
The Warrenton Virginian says Geo. w.
Strothers who was raising calf on sour milk,
gave it handful of soda to correct the acid.
The calf died and swelled greatly, and while
the hide was being removed the body burst
with an explosion as loud as gun.
The statue Of Gen. r. E. Lee by MERCER, the
French artist has been finished, and Col
Burgwyn has gone to Paris to receive it., if
it is satisfactory. The unwilling takes place
at Richmond, May 29th. The Fifth regiment
from Baltimore will be there.
DR.. S. Weir Mitchell is said lately to have
received a curious present from a young wO-
man whom he had rescued from nervous in
validism. 1t was cord of white oak chopped
down and sawed by her own hands and sent as
evidence of her strength and health.
Oranges are now preserved in silOs, the
fruit being wrapped in tissue and buried in
sand, care being taken that the wrappers do
not touch and only three layers deep being
laid in each trench
The Pittsburg Development Company has
purchased about 300 acres completely sur
rounding Big Spring. on the Norfolk 4 Wes-
tern Ry., in which tract, iron, zinc and marble
have been found.
The tobacco factories of Alex. Cameron, and
of A. and G. Cameron & Sizer, and the Durham
fertilizer works at Richmond were destroyed
by fire Saturday night. Loss 5000, OOO-heavily
insured.
Sufferer-"DOyoup pull teeth without pain %
Dentist-"Well, not always; sprained my
wrist last time pulled a tooth, and it hurts
me yet, occasionally"
"Pinafore' has had an astonishing resur-
rection. In Chicago last week, the audiences
drawn by it at the Auditorium Theatre aggre-
gated for the week $4,000 people.
G. Latham Stoles, inventor of the type
writer is dead at Milwaukee, Wis, at the age
of seventy. He published the first newspaper
that was established in Wisconsin.
Ponrocoptatiya of wv
has introduced bill in the House Of Repre-
sentatives to appropriate S25OO00 to build a
summer house for the President.
Canada will no longer be a refuge for en-
bezzlers and defaulters. The new treaty be-
tween the United States and Great Britain
eXtradites persons demanded for these crimes
Jos. II. Bear of Rockingham, who is about
moving to Roanoke, has sold his 2OO-acre farm
for $40, 900 to w. B., T. L., and VIM. L. Yam.
cey.
Gen. Butler has just had an operation per-
formed, to get rid of the dropping eye-lid
which is SO familiar to the people in the comic
papers caricatures of him.
London confectionery store gives to every
purchaser of shilling's worth, a ticket emit
Ting the purchaser to have one photograph OF
herself taken at all establishment upstairs
Two Mormon Elders have been preaching
in the vicinity of Camp Mountain, in Rock
bridge county for some time past.
One of the Normal Institutes the coming
season, Superintendent Massey has decided,
shall be held in Harrisonburg.
Nearly 800 horses changed hands at Har-
risonburg last court-day, some of them bring
ing as high as $780,
MI. George A. Mayse, Deputy Clerk of Bath
county, died on Saturday last.
Capt. VIM. S. Lurty of Harrisonburg has
gone to Washington to practice law