Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1890-01-17
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On Thursday last that court, after hearing
argument by Jas. II. Hayes a colored lawyer
for the appellant, and Attorney General
Ayres for the State, reversed the decision Of
the lower court on the ground that that cour
instructed the jury that the attempted arrest
by Seal without a warrant was legal, while
in law it was not. The case was remanded tG
the lower court for new trial. When the
news got to Charlottesville, the military had
to be called out to protect Musco in the Jail.
The Presbyterian church at Townsville,
Md, was filled on January ID, to witness the
marriage of Mr.. W. G. Damron, young law
yer, to Miss Mollie J. Peacock of that place.
They were greatly astonished when the we'd
ding couple stood before the pastor to hear
him, instead of reading the marriage service,
read the certificate of the marriage by the pas
tor who performed the ceremony, October 18th,
1889. Of all the assembly, only the mother of
the bride, the groom, and the pastor who mar
ried them, knew of the ceremony. In Fairfax
county, Va, precisely similar occurrence
took place last week, only the parties had been
married on November I'd, 1885,
Seventeen years ago, in Pulaski county, Va,
John, David and Pole French and man
named Dunford, shot dead colored man who
was trying to protect his mother from their
abuse. Gov Gilbert Walkor offered reward
for their capture. David French was captured
and sentenced to term in the penitentiary
which he served. The others escaped. Last
December, John and Pole French were heard
of in Laurel county, KY, when Gov. Lee
issued requisition for them and they have
been brought back to Virginia. John had
come to be well-to-do merchant, and Pole,
since his Virginia murder, had been Prose
cutting Attorney of Laurel county.
Rev. J. W. johnson pastor of the NJ. Z.
Church South, at Huntington, W. Va, and
Rev. W. F. Marshall, rector of the Episcopal
church of that city, were, on Friday night
last, going through the ceremonies of the
Royal Arch degree in the Huntington Chapter
of Royal Arch Masons. One part of the cer-
emory was lowering the candidate by rope
into vault thirteen feet deep. Mr.. Marshall
was lowered, but when Mr.. Johnson's turn
came the block slipped precipitating him to
the bottom of the vault He was taken home
where he died on Sunday morning, of his in
iuries. His remains were sent to Hannibal,
Mo-, his former home, for interment.
Mrs. Margaret Arnold of Washington
county e. H., Ohio, is 112 years and six
months old She was born near Richmond,
Va, July A. 1777, and her father was Robert
Kiser. She has two sisters and one brother
living, for whom the following ages are
claimed-Mrs. Elizabeth Hilliard of Lynn
Co., Iowa, aged 10; Mrs: John Bailey Of
Dakota, aged 100, and VIM Kiser living near
Richmond, Va, aged 104. These eXtraordi-
nary ages are given by the Ohio papers in
good faith, but they do not say whether the
parties are white or colored, something that
would make great difference
Two weeks before Christmas the wife of a
physician in Cincinnati died of cancer. On
Christmas eve the door bell rang and packa-
ges were handed in directed in the writing of
the dead wife to each member of the family
The dying mother, feeling death near, and
thoughtful in her last moments, had sent out
and purchased the gifts, directed them, and
then sent them to friend s house with instruc-
lions to send them to her house on Christmas
eve.
Bishop Potter, of New York, is opposed to
the compulsory use of the Bible in the public
schools. "Many people," he said in his Sun
day sermon, ''are agitated over the compulso-
ny reading of the Scriptures in our schools.
do not believe that any good would come out
of such legal compulsion. Of what earthly
service would it be to force teachers to read
passage every morning unless we read it our
selves in our closets, in our homes upon our
knees?''
Mr.. VIM. Walters, aged 80, and Mrs Rachel
Money, widow aged 60, both of Fairfax CO.,
Va, announced their determination to be
married on January 10Th, at Bethel Chapel,
and then quietly drove oyer to the chapel Jan
uary 9Th and were married. The change was
made TO avoid the critical crowd, but, thanks
to a talkative neighbor, it got out and they
found the church full. They drove from the
chapel after the ceremony to the groom's
home.
On New Years day of last year, John M.
Lewis of Talladega, Ala, gave sixty boys
between the years of eight and twelve, So in
money, pocket knife, free lunch, and
some good financial advice. This year they
were all called to his office to report Nearly
every boy had added to his So, and one bow.
who had made and saved $13S, was given
prize OF $40. After hearing their reports, tie
Captain again gave each one So and knife.
A. Moore, Jr., who has farm near Berry
vile in Clarke county, Va, gives the Clarke
Courier the figures of his dairy farming la.
year. He kept 81 COWS, the milk of each COW
averaged $50 and the calves averaged $3.50
each, making $54.60 per head. No grain was
fed. A small quantity of bran was fed in the
winter and early spring months, with hay and
fodder. The milk was sold to the Berryville
creamery.
Judge Wells of Dakota tied two COWS behind
his buggy to take them home He had not
gone far when the cows, concluding they were
gong the wrong way, turned and made off in
the opposite direction, dragging the Judge and
horse and buggy after them at lively rate.
Finally, the horse was pulled Off his feet and
rolled over in ditch, piling the Judge and
the buggy up in a promiscuous heap by the
roadside,
1t is said that influenza first made it's debua
IN the civilized world in 1910, and with it
came great caterpillar invasion, murrain
among cattle, an eruption of Hecla, and, what
was equally startling, comet The next
epidemic was in 1867, another followed in
1880, another in 1868, in 1915, in ITO, in 1929
in 1872, in 1887, in 1743, in 1885, in 1862 in 1867
in 1775, in 1882, in 1SO3 in 1881, in 1888, and
the last in 1887
In this npfavOrable weather for keeping
slaughtered pork, the experience of VIM.
Weaver of Rockbridge, is valuable. His meat
began to spoil and he hauled it out and dump
ed it on the charcoal bank near his iron fur
mace. When be came to look at it long after
wards, with view to using it as fertilizer, he
found the charcoal had arrested the decompo-
sitlon and made the meat pure and sweet,
Hon. John S. Wise, who was in Richmond
last week, in speaking of the ducking marty of