Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1890-03-21
NEWS MATTER.

from 81, 800 to $500 pair, while Western
bred horses only bring from 5000 to 81, 900.
The Percherons bring from $500 to 500 team
for heavy work, according to weight. Horse
car horses bring $135 each. Gentlemen's and
family horses, which come largely from the
South, bring from $3.50 to $3.50 team, accord
ing to speed 1t advises people at the South
to breed thoroughbreds as money making
business.
M. Chanteloupe the brass-founder who died
in Montreal, last month, left the whole Of his
estate of 100000 to his 500 workmen.
Bristol, Va, has her boom. One hundred
and fifty lots were sold there, last week, for
| $124,5OO.
Mrs. Walker, sister of Gov. Mckinney,
her niece Mrs. Scott, and the latter's children,
all of Farmville, are guests at the Executive
Mansion.
A soldiers corpse was dug up in field in
Culpeper, Va, last week, the arm bones being
run through a half-inch thick steel breast
plate. On the breast-plate was: 81. q. Biggs,
hansas, presented by J. K. Turpin, January
| 9th, 1863
| John E. Rice of Newmarket has taken the
| Wilson Hotel at Mt. jackson, and Mike Geai y
is about to resume the proprietorship of his
own hotel at Woodstock.
| Rev. Leonidas Rosser is holding an extra
ordinary revival at Edinburg, Shenandoah.
The DR.. Jos. B. Strayer property in Shenan-
doah has been finally sold. The CLOVER
| (Strickler) farm of 334 acres, was sold fol
| and Samuel Hoover, Jr., and the upper
1, L. A O.
Henry H. Tucker, who edited the Labor
Herald in Richmond during Gen. Malone
campaign, last fall, has been arrested in
Washington for swindling Miss Audenreid
out Of s10O worth of jewelry
| Charles E. Mount of Loudoun, who ran for
the legislature on the Malone ticket last ia II,
died last week. He was Lieutenant of
Confederate cavalry.
| The house in which Mrs. Caroline Lee
Hentz once taught school in Florence, Ala,
is still standing and habitable.
The famous A. t. Stewart marble mansion
on 9TH Avenue in New York, has been leased
| by the Manhattan Club for eleven years at
$4,000 year.
| Bishop McGOven, catholic bishop of the
diocese of Pittsburg, has issued letter recit-
ing that owing to the epidemic called '1a
grippe, or influenza. now prevailing through
out the world, 'Our Holy Father, Pope Leo
XIII, has impaired to his prelates the faculty
to annul the obligation of abstinence from
meat during the continuance of the disease in
the present Lenten season.
"You don't love me any more, John. The
lea of getting home at this time Of night!''
why, my dear, it's a great deal earlier
than l used to get home while was counting
YOU"
Henry Clay Caldwell, a native of West Vir-
ginia, has been appointed u S. Circuit Judge
of the 9Th (Arkansas) Circuit His home was
). District Judge of the Eastern District of
Arkansas.
Briggs-"Hello, what's your hurry 90
Braggs-"I am going down to kill an editor.
sent communication in signed 'Honestas,
| and the blamed fool added an extra IS to it.
Georgia has 1920 miles of railroad which
she taxes S159,9O9, Virginia has 3,4O5 miles
which she taxes $421, 74O.
A big rat hunt which has been con-
| Quoted by rival parties of farmers in
| Fairfield township, Ohio, has been
brought to a close at Big Plain. The
count shows grand total of 6,5S1 rat tails
| The Williamson party won by 1000 tails.
| The past winter has been one of the most
remarkable known in Russia for many years
| The capital has experienced such mild wealth
er that it is difficult to believe it was a Rus.
sian winter. The ice on the canals has melted
in London or Paris.
Neighbor-"I hear your master has married
again, and is taking a bridal tour" Uncle
Mose-"Don' know bout him takin' bride
to dis un boss; but he did take a paddle to his
| fust wife, shure.'
Grover Cleveland has sold coax View his
summer residence near Washington fo,
| $4,000. He paid $4,000 for it four years
ago.
Rutherford B. Hayes is aging rapidly. His
once sandy and luXuriant beard is snowy
white, and his form is becoming bent.
Mrs. Gladstone's extraordinary energy is
| like that of her husband, and increases with
years. She has never taken more active
part in public affairs than since she passed her
10Th birthday.
DR.. Roger Williams of st. Bartholomew
Hospital, London, has found that out of u, 36S
cases in which chloroform had there been used
during the past ten years, ten had resulted
fatally. while there had been only three
deaths out Of l., 5S1 cases in which ether had
been used.
Hon. W. G. P. Breckenridge, the Kentucky
orator, will deliver the Grafton before the
literary societies of Roanoke College, June
9th.
VIM. Quigley of Cleveland, Ohio, has leas-
ell several tracts of land in Rockingham Co.,
Va, and is getting out lumber and red and
yellow Ochre. On other farms containing