Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1890-11-28
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wife and spend the winter.
Mrs VIM. Ashford died in Fairfax Co.. Va,
last week, Of grippe, after an illness of but
few days. She was among those who had it
last year and was the first to take it when it
appeared i'll the county again this year.
Ground has been broken for $40, 900 Ma
sonic building at the new town of Glasgow
and among those who threw the first shovel
fuls of dirt were Gen. Fitz Lee Arthur &.
Hartman and several Others
The Virginia State officials are not holding
back on the booms. Gov. Mckinney, 1t.
Gov. Tyler and State Treasurer IIarman, are
all officers of or interested in improvement
companies.
The 100000 year income of Hal Dulaney
of Loudoun, who died few days ago, was
from property inherited through his mother
who was an English lady. The estate he left
is estimated at s., OOG, 900.
Judgments were entered in New York
against the Duchess of Marlborough CORNER
ly the widow Hammersly of that city, for
English debts aggregating s676, ISL. The Duke
and Duchess are now travelling in the South
P. T. Barnum lies very i'll at his home in
Bridgeport, CT, and it is thought the days of
Tic fCilCldUlC SllONUltH are uIdWlIlg 10 IL
close.
Miss Mildred Lee having declined to serve
as manager of the Worlds Fair from this
State, Commissioner Groner has nominated
Mrs. John S. Wise.
Jonathan IL. Green, of Hamilton, Ohio, the
Reformed Gambler who thirty years ago
lectured and wrote against gambling. died
last week, aged seventy seven
Bishop Jno. w Beckwith of the Protestant
Episcopal diocese of Georgia, died at Allan
ia, Sunday, of a stroke of paralysis received
three days before.
President Fitz Lee of the Glasgow Company
has received a telegram from London saying
the English stockholders had made their first
payment on their 81 800, 900 subscription.
Z. uageman OF NOrrsville, Pa, went to
sleep with his right hand under his head and
it remained so all night The next morning
it was found to have been paralyzed
Capt William Parrish who was one of the
pilots on the Merrmac when she sunk the
frigates Cumberland and Congress in Hamp-
ton Roads, died near Norfolk last week.
A sudden spell Of damp and warm weather
in Alexandria the other night caused big
punches of bananas to be offered by the deal
ers at five cents the bunch.
Deputy U. S. Marshal Thos E. Ballard of
Richmond had his thigh seriously injured by
being run into and thrown down by New
foundland dog on Main street there.
Edward Bellamy is said to be feeling we'll
over the result Of the election. He looks up
on the present situation as largely inspired
by Looking Backward
Gov. Fleming of W. Va, disappointed Ho-
mer A. Holt of Greenbrier, to the bench of
the Supreme Court Of Appeals, vice Judge A
g. Snyder resigned.
In Providence, Rhode Island, the State of
Roger Williams, two OF the theatres gave per-
formances last Sunday evening.
| 9. B. Wood of Rappahannock county, Va,
has sold this fall about 500 barrels of apples
for which he received So, 800.
The Charlestown CIV. Va.) Improvement
Co. has purchased the James NJ. Ransom tract
of 334 acres adjacent to the town for $50, 800.
| Hetty Green, the richest woman in America
has opened real estate office in Chicago.