Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1890-03-28
GI.EA NED EXON TIE MALLS

CLEANED FROM THE MAILS.
! George ii. Watkins of Portland, Me-, a
business man. was to have been married on
Friday evening. He had bought and fitted up
a house for his new home He went to his
hotel from his business place to dress for his
wedding. The wedding guests assembled at
the home of Miss Balm who was to be the
bride, but the groom did not appear. A friend
went to the hotel to see after him. On enter
ing his room he was found lying on the bed
dead and covered with blood. He had put on
half of his wedding suit when hemorrhage
of the lungs came on and ended his life
A member of the T. S. Eclipse Observation
Corps on the coast of Africa writes to the N.
Y. Evening Post: ''Tle Cape Ledo oysters
are truly gigantic. | opened one OF which the
cavity occupied by the bivalve measured nine
inches in its Ion est diameter and four and a
quarter across its greatest width. Nor was
the specimen an exceptionally large one. |
retain the shells for a voucher. The oyster
itself was as delicate as the tenderest Blue
| Point"
The Richmond correspondent of the Norfolk
Virgnian gives the fol lowing estimate of the
yearly incomes of Richmond lawyers: W. W.
Gordon $4,000; E. Y. Cannon, w. W.
Crump, Waller R. Staples and j. II. Guy
$4,000; Edgar Allan, B. B. Munford, Will
liams & Boulware, Elicit & Mcclure, and
Christian & Christian, $4,000; G. V. Mere
dith, James Lyons A. R. Courtney and John
Randolph over $4,000 Besides these there
are dozen more who make $1,000 year.
The U. S. Army Register now prints list
of the students who stand highest for the year
in military tactics in all Universities, Col
leges and Schools which have military in
structorS detailed from the army From this
list civilian appointments to the army are
hereafter to be made. Among the graduates
mentioned this year is S. H. Graves of the
Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical Col
lege.
| On the stained glass window in St. Paul's
church, Richmond, to be erected to the memo.
ry of Jefferson Davis, will be this text: Sam
uel, xii: % v.-"Behold here I am, witness
against me before the Lord and before his
anointed; whose OK have l takeno OF whose
ass have taken, or whom have l defrauded?
| Whom have oppressed? OF Of whose hand
have | received any bride to blind mine ewes
Herewith? and will restore it ye''
Gen. Geo. Crook, U. S. A., one of the ablest
generals in the Union army during the civil
war, and who is remembered in West Virgin
ia and the Valley of Virginia for the Crook
and Averill raid, died suddenly at the Grand
Pacific Hotel IN Chicago Friday morning. He
had just finished exercising with weights and
pulleys in his chamber at O'Clock A. NJ.
when his heart failed and he died in a few
minutes.
The Progress Hebrew Social Club of New
York at the corner of 9Th Avenue and esd
street. is marvel of splendor. The building
and lot cost S1,O00,0O0. Its walls are of
paneled marble and its grand vestibule is
paved with the same. There is no club house
in the city that approaches it in the wealth of its
adornment and in its foyer is stained glass
window thirty-feet high in which is figure
of Progress.
Prof. Ponfic of Breslau has made the dis
covery that three-fourth of the liver may be
| removed without serious disturbance to the
animal functions. He has verified the fact
that the liver has wonderful power of re-
production, in some cases portion equal to
two-thirds being replaced by new growth
within few weeks.
New York firm was panicked into the
belief that the senior member was insane by
his telegraphing from his country home. "a
| mosquito i'll to-day. Can't come down." 1t
was only after his arrival the next day and
explaining, that the panic subsidized He had
written amos quite i'll to-day Can't come
down.
In Highland county, Va, man became
engaged to buxom lass and the day was ap-
pointed He got the license and repaired to
her home. She had changed her mind, and
to avoid a scene refused even to see him.
Long afterwards he enclosed the license in
an official envelope and returned it to the
County Clerk endorsed IN property found %
1t is said that Mrs. Frances S. Williams,
widow of the heroic railroad conductor killed
on the R. & A. Ry. in 1885, will be appointed
postmaster of Lexington. Col. Parsons who
was on Williams train at the time of his
death, is urging the widows appointment on
the President
Not every person knows that the sure test of
genuine paper currency is to hold the bill up
to the light, so that you can discern two lines
running parallel across its entire length
These are red and blue silk thread inside
the paper No counterfeit has them.
The V signed by Mrs. jefferson Davis to
Utl lttU6IS, ID dlUtI UL6 O1u TT6UCH custom Ill
Louisiana. She writes jefferson Davis. 1t
is for ueu0e (widow) and is intended to read
widow Of Jefferson Davis. The Partisan
French mode is Vue.
Mrs. Conway, an aged woman of Atlanta,
Ga, has put on morning in honor of ex-Presi-
dent jefferson Davis and Henry W. Grady
Her dresses are made from the calico used in
draping some of the city windows when these
gentlemen died.
Last year about &c, 900 tons of Irvine were on
the market, of which 5000 tons were made of
of native hemps, the balance of foreign; so to
favor the producers of 5000 tons of material
the consumers were taxed on 47.OOO TONS
The hat said to have been worn by It. Gen.
J. E. B. Stuart when he fell at Yellow Tav-
ern in May. 1864, is in the possession of col.
ored man in Spottsylvania. 1t is Of English
make and we'll preserved.
Not Worth a tear.-Y Dung wife-"Oh John,
the rats have eaten all my angel caker' Hus-
band-''What. All of it?'' Young wife
every piece. L feel like crying Husband
''Oh, pshaw. Don't cry over few rats
Mrs. Mary B. Ross of Charlottesville left
S., 900 to be given to Washington g. Lee after
the death of Mrs G. S. Darlington, who has
the interest for her life.
Bluffton, Ala, offers gift Of s5OO,O 900 to the
Methodist Episcopal church for the location
there of the college known as the University
of Southland.
In view of the ten hour law passed by the
last legislature the cotton mills at Petersburg
have reduced the wages of the women and
children operators in proportion.
The land around Appomattox c. H., has
been bought up by Grand Army men and is to
be laid off in parks. Gov. Campbell of Ohio,
is interested in it..
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