Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1890-03-14


refusing the use of horse the groom offered
her. She has resisted all entreaties of the
groom, reinforced by the minister of her own
church, to return to the groom's house.
The boys at the Staunton Y. NJ. e. A. GYM
nasium may as we'll know that the weight and
measurements Of fully developed young
man of twenty years of age should be as
follows: Weight, 139 pounds; height, CT 8
inches; length of right shoulder to elbow, IA 5;
length Of left shoulder to elbow, IA; normal
chest girth, 33.9; inflated, 1913; waist, % I;
hips, 1913; biceps, 11.6; depth of chest, IA;
capacity of lungs, 253; strength of back, $685.
The Alexandra Gazette has an exciting
story from boarding school at Culpeper, Va
One OF the young lady boarders accused one of
her mates of stealing dollar. The girl re-
fusing to retract the charge, the accused girl
and several companions went to her room that
night, gagged and whipped her and blackened
her with shoe-polish. The affair has caused
some of the observation-disclosures and scholars to
De dismissed from the school.
Mary Goodne of New Brunswick, who was
born without arms, legs hands, or feet, died
last week at the age of fifty-fve She used her
mouth for dress-making and would cut the
material with scissors. thread the needle, and
sew beautifully. She made that difficult
work-''log cabin" quilts, with ease Many
years ago Barnum tried to get her, but she
preferred living on the farm with her brother
A widower with a number of small children
married widow who was similarly blessed
In time the newly married couple added to
the number. Hearing voice in the yard one
day the father went out to see what was the
matter. "Well, what was il? 2" asked his wife
as he returned out of breath. ''Your children
and my children were pounding our children, y
was the reply.
Buffalo Bill presented President Carnot of
France with 81 900 lamp of carved brass on
a table of onyx. On a plaque of onyx fasten
ed to the lamp rod is attached large buffalo
head, captured by Col. Cody on the frontier
The President returned it with a poll tie not
of thanks, but saying he could not accept it
having made it a rule never to take gifts from
any one
The sentence of Henry Moore colored, who
was to have been hung for murder in Peters
burg last Friday, was committed by Governor
Mckinney on Thursday to life Imprisonment
He cried like a child when the telegram was
given him and has had it sewed to his shirt
He says he is going to change his name from
Moore to Mckinney.
The Presidents OF the various Land compa-
MES operating in and around Salem held a
full accord for the building up of Salem. The
following officers of their joint-association
were elected-A. NJ. Bowman, President J.
W. F. Allemong, Vice-President; Thos. 1.
Preston, Secretary.
Prof. Pancoast of the Medico- Chirurgical
College of Philadelphia is publishing facts
to show that many of the deaths supposed to
be from grippe in that city were caused by
patients taking anti-pyrine. He regards it as
risky drug, particularly hazardous where
any affection of the heart exists.
Queen Victoria has fancy for Vienna and
French bread and rolls in all sorts of odd
shapes. Besides having it made up in score
of fancy twists and curls, she always has some
baked in the form of little dolls. These are
for her grandchildren when they eat at her
table.
The old Craig Railroad Company charter
has been revived with Decatur Axtell, Presi-
dent, and Henry Wickham among the direc-
tors, and it is said the railroad from Eagle
Rock Gust below Iron Gate) on the Richmond
& Allegheny Ry. to Newcastle in Craig coun-
ty will be made by next fall.
John Hicks Dawson, church sexton at
Wickerville, Neb., assembled the steeple Sun
day while suffering from the grippe, rang the
chimes and then leaped out to the pavement
below. His mangled body was found by the
startled congregation who had rushed out Of
the church.
The ladies of Tabb-street Presbyterian
church at Petersburg, Grew. J. W. Rosebro's)
with the aid of S. W. Venable and other prom
inent citizens, have raised $4,000 to give the
youth of that city free collegiate education at
Hampden-Sidney.
A company has been formed in Baltimore
to work the iron deposits on the Biedly noun
tain property in Page county, on the S. V. Ry.
Frank r. Biedler of Baltimore is President,
and Levi WITT of Baltimore, A. W. Page of
Birmingham, Ct, and others, are interested.
One citizen of Augusta, Me-, called another
a "jackass" about two years ago. The matter
has been in court ever since, and the other
day, when finally settled, it had cost each
litigant over 81 800.
In forty years the Methodists in the United
States have increased from 100000 to 5000, 600.
Forty years ago the highest salary paid d
Methodist minister in the great city of New
York, was only 81 ,25O
W. S. Warner, fugitive from the United
States, who stood in with Ferdinand Ward in
wrecking the firm of Grant & Ward in New
York in 1887, and made 49, 600, 600 by it, died in
England last week
John D. Rockefellers wealth is estimated
at S135, 900, 900. He devotes two hours daily
from until o'clock in the morning-to the
examination of the pile Of letters addressed
to him soliciting money for various purposes.
A bee-raiser of Amherst county says his
bees have been making honey ever since
Christmas, and that he has taken from ten to
fifteen pounds of honey from each gum since
that time.
Elder Wealthy, Mormon Elder, is preach
ing and PROSECUTING near Orkney Springs, Va.
He gets P. o. money orders from Utah as high
as $50 at time.
While all eyes were watching the Louisiana
Lottery Company's effort to get charter in
Dakota, it had already gotten charter from
the Choctaw legislature, in Indian Territory.
Ex-Gov. Holiday of Va, who is again
travelling around the globe, had an attack of
grippe at Auckland, New Zealand.
At a sale in Rockingham county, Va, last
week, wheat brought sixty-nine and corn
thirty-nine cents bushel.
On Sunday, the ID of March, Pope Leo was
eighty years of age.
A Wall of Toe.
A little corn on a maiden grew,
Listen to my wall of toe,
Caused nv the pinch of n too tipht shoe