Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1890-10-17
NEWS NOTES.

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for street begging, He and his family were
found by the police when they went TO arrest
him, in handsomely furnished fat in East
sd street Two years ago he owned a fruit
store in New York, but seeing the liberality
of Americans to street beggars, went into that
business and his income has been several
thousand dollars year. He spent from A.
NJ to 2. NJ. at begging on the streets.
Rev. David Spurgeon Perry, aged ninety
three, white haired and trembling from age,
who seventysiX years ago was noted as a hoy
preacher" in this country, was arraigned in
New York court last week for stealing
horse and buggy. When he ceased to be a
4'Ooy preacher" he studied medicine and made
enormous profits from patent medicine and
gave most of it away i'll building churches
and in charity OF late he had gone TO the
bad. He was remanded for sentence.
Bedford, Iowa, has been convulsed by the
development of the fact that Rev. Wesley
Brown the Young and good looking pastor of
the Christian church there had engaged HIM
self in marriage to five young ladies of his
choir. The trustees of the church asked for
his resignation. Mr.. Brown sent it in and
left, and, what was worse, didn't take single
one of the five girls with him.
In an Episcopal church near Boston the
other Sunday, lady in passing up the aisle
caught her dress on a corner of pew and
tore it. AS the process of tearing was very
audible to the congregation, the feelings OF
the lady may be imagined, when at that mo-
ment the clergyman began the service by
reading the sentence, ''Rend your heart and
not your garments.
The Turkish war frigate Ertougroal, which
I left Y okohoma Sept. 18th, was caught in
gale that night, 259 miles from port during
which her boilers exploded and she went
down. Out of a total of six hundred officers
and men, only six officers and fifty-seven sea-
men reached the land The boilers were
tlli ty-ive years old. Admiral Osman Pasha
was among the lost.
Messrs Powell and Harris having sold to
Capt. Foxhall Dangertield of Harrisonburg,
the Fair grounds at Culpeper for $1,000, for a
stock and training farm Messrs. Smith and
English have obtained one injunction to pre-
vent the two vendors named from delivering
and another to prevent Capt. Daingertield
from taking possession OF it.
Mrs. Plummer, wife of prominent ply
stefan of Muscotah, Kan, Wednesday night
Lodged three bullets in the body of DR.. j. F.
Martin, proprietor of drug store for selling
whiskey to her husband Martin tried to
shoot in lf-defence, but was TOO excited.
Mrs. Plummer was afterwards clubbed off
the premises. Martin will die.
Monsignor Lafleche Roman Catholic Bishop
of Three Rivers, Canada, has made a new
order levyng a tax of 81 30 per thousand bum
dies on hay in default of which the sacra-
ments will be denied. Formerly the inhabi-
tants were exempted from tithes on hay and
paid only on grain.
Lewis Ball an old citizen of Nelson county,
Va, was found by his son lying on the floor
at night dead, his throat torn open by load
of shot. The old man still held in his hand
the muZZle of the gun with which he had
taken his life, and near it was the poker with
which he had pushed the trigger.
James NJ. Dougherty the insane lover of
the actress Mary Anderson, made his escape
from the Kings county, N. Y, lunatic asylum
three weeks ago and returning there last
Thursday night, shot DR.. Lloyd one OF the
assistant physicians dead. He was arrested
in Brooklyn the next day.
Lawyer John Lyon formerly of Petersburg
now of Washington, the attorney for Langston
in his contest for Venable's seat, has brought
suit against Langston for his fee of 81 900,
which Langston left Washington without
paying.
j. NJ Martin of New York, who victimized
several Roanoke (Va.) lawyers by appointing
them attorneys of Collecting Association
that had no existence, has been sentenced to
ninety days in Jail in one case, and will get
that for each OF the cases against him.
Congressman G. r. Breckenridge of Arkan-
sas, who was unseated by the Reed House,
was fired at while making speech at Centre
Ridge, Ark, on the night of October 9th. The
would be assassin was not identified.
The U. S. authorities have seized the weekly
edition of the Atlanta (Ga) Constitution I'M
der the anti-lottery law, because it offered a
prize distribution to subscribers to be settled
by Christmas drawing.
In Berlin, Prussia, Albert Kahn bet some
comrades s.. 40 that he could drink four quarts
of beer and eat eight pounds of sausage in ten
minutes. He had nearly finished the feat
when he fell dead of apoplexy.
On the o. S. Pension list are the widows OF
nine Major Generals at $1,000 each per annum
and four at 81 200; of five Brigadier Generals
at $, 200; a widow of Colonel at 81 200, and q
widow of Rear Admiral at 1900
President Harrison sat in the cab with the
engineer near Galesburg, ILL.,, and footed the