Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1890-01-17

River some weeks ago, said statute of Vir
ginia provides that any nonresident who kills
ducks below tide water in Virginia shall be
fined $40 and have their guns confscated to the
State. The President did right to be in hur-
~ going through Richmond.
To be eligible to jury duty in Missouri it is
not necessary that the party summoned should
be 81 years of age. A gentleman, whose son
aged 20, was included in list of persons
eligible for jury duty, went to Judge WithroW
in his behalf, when the Judge said that if he
was but years of age and possessed of the
requisite intelligence he would be obliged to
serve.
Henry Labouchere thus describes how he
doctored his grip.-To prevent any fever, I al
once administered to myself thirty grains Of
quinine-that settled the fever. 10 meet the
cough 1 took unlimited squilI pills-that set
tied the cough. To meet the cold went to bed
heaped on my bed-blankets, and took nothing
but Slops-that settled the cold. In four days
| was quite well.
Some of the rulings of an English court
would not be tolerated in the United States
for moment. In the examination OF a scan
dial case in which several of the nobility WERE
implicated, on Friday in London court, the
justice directed the witnesses not to call the
names of the nOblemen but to speak of then
as Lord C. 'Lord L. &c.
The widow of Foster the author of ''Way
down upon the Suanee River" has brought a
suit in the Federal Court at Indianapolis, to
prevent the Echo Publishing Co. of Lafayette
Ind, from publishing atSong under the title
OF a. CJ,o o1o; j,
it is an infringement on the copyright of 1877!
which was under the first named title.
Mrs. U. S. Grant made her first appearance
in company at Washington for many years
past, at reception given by Mrs. Washington
Mclean, ON Friday night. She wore a mourning
toilette of black silk and dull jet. She has moi
changed in appearance and is in good health
but her failing sight obliges her to wear dark
glasses.
Gen. William L. Branden of Fort Adams
Miss, Nicholas M. Lewis of Milton N. c.,
and William Woods of Nelson county, Va,
who completed their course of study at Wash
ington College, now Washington & Lee Uni
versity, at its session of l817-1S, seventy-two
years ago, are all still living.
David Miller, who was one of the central
figures in the Brownsburg tragedy, has not
full control of his lower limbs. 1t is thought
that the sciatic nerve, the nerve running down
the spine and legs, was injured by the pistol
ball which entered his body and has not yet
been located.
At Edison's factory in Orange, N. j., they
are making dolls that talk by a photograph
inside. For several weeks they have had
Gro ot+ bn 1ol NOV fol
laughing, crying and singing in all sorts of
ways to the monograph, in order that their
chatter may be reproduced by the dolls.
Capt. James 7. Cecil, general agent of the
Norfolk & Western Ry at Norfolk, who was
a member of the oath Va. regiment, Stonewa1l
Brigade, during the war, died on Thursday of
pneumonia following the influenza. He was
a first cousin of Lt.-Gov. Tyler.
They live to good old age in Rockingham
county. The last number of the Harrison
burg Spirit contains the death, of Mrs. Eliza
beth Sheets, aged 80; Mrs. Mollie Jones, aged
80 and four months; Peter Armentrout, aged
70, and Miss Amanda Gaines, aged rs.
DR.. John Clopton, for eighteen years ply
sician at the Williamsburg Lunatc Asylum,
has resigned to take effect April 18th. The
Board of Directors have abolished the place
of Matron, which was filled by Mrs. Garlick,
wife of one of the assistant physicians.
Mrs. Alice M. Swain, whom everybody in
Augusta county, at some time OF another, has
paid ten cents to see in the circus side shows
under the name of Dolly Dutton is dead. She
was twenty nine inches high and weighed fiji
teen pounds. She leaves husband.
In Dearborn, Mich, Friday night, the fami
ly of Morrill, Griffin who were all down with
the grippe, took what they thought was qui-
nine. 1t proved to be strichnine. Griffin and
his thirteen-year-old daughter died in a few
hours. His wife and little son may recover.
The Liquor League of Pennsylvania, on
last paid off the $500 debt Of the
colored Baptist church of Madison, Ind,
whose pastor. Rev. R. W. Christian, stumped
Pennsylvania against Prohibition for them
last Spring.
The meanest set of men in the country are
set Of doctors at Findley, O. They met, took
account of stock, and, upon finding that there
was considerable influenza about, they formed
a trust to put up the price of professional Wis
its from s1.5O to 50 each.
At Strasburg, Va, during the holidays,
twenty-five ''white caps rode into the town,
took several of the inmates of a disreputable
house out, gave them severe lashing, and Or
dered them to leave town. They left.
L. P. Scoville, nephew of Charles J. Gui
teau, the assassin of President Garfield, has
just disappeared from Chicago S., 900 short in
his accounts as Secretary of Building and
Loan Association.
For year before his death, Jefferson Davis
had been working on his biography, and had
completed much of it. His widow it is tn ought
will finish it, the work being all prepared and
laid out
Mrs. Florence Harp Licklider, wife of Mr.
Chas. A. Licklider, General Secretary of the
Y. NJ. e. A. of Atlanta, Ca, died in that city
Wednesday, after long illness. She was a
native of Shepherdstown, w. Va.
In the strawberry fields around Norfolk,
Va, last Saturday, the berries had commenced
to ripen and if the extraordinary weather
continued would be ready for shipment North
this week.
Judge R. W. Hughes will, in few months,
be of an age at which he can retire on full
pay. His health is excellent, however, and he
does not propose resigning.
3. Keigwin, book agent of Norwalk, ct !,
aged seventy-ive years, has surpassed even
the time honored enterprise of his calling by
clipping with Mrs. P. l.. Rufus aged fOrty-six
Mrs. Mary Brown Day of Frankfort, KY,
has been elected State Librarian by the Ken-
lucky legislature. She beat Capt E. T.
Thompson, the incumbent, by p to 43.
Washington and Lee University has had eos
thus far during the present ses-
sion, an increase of 25 per cent. over the num-
Der of last session.
Rev. V. W. Wheeler of Roanoke, was at
tackled by heart disease while attending a
of Murray Chapter on Friday
night. He was carried to hotel.
Ex-senator Riddleberger still lies at home,
a very sick man, with little or no change