Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1890-01-10
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The Dry and Wet campaign in Lynchburg
is being run at high pressure. The Drys have
the Opera House and the Sam Jones choir,
Rev Geo. w. Carter, Col. Cheeves of Ca, Col.
J. r. Miller, and Rev. Mr.. Granderson Cool
white and black, are plenty with them. The
blue badges are abundant on the streets. The
Vets have engaged the Bijou Theatre. They
got out call, signed by a number of bust
ness men, for a meeting in opposition to the
tdrys on the point of lessening the city's
revenue if it carries. The meeting was pres
ided over by Maj. J. II. Flood. A Committee
consisting of Gen. Jubal A. EARLY, Randolph
Harrison, L. S. Marye, A. R. Long and r. D.
Yancey, reported resolutions opposing local
option on both principle and expediency.
Speeches supporting the resolutions were
made by Gen. Early and Messrs Marye and
Yancey, and the resolutions were adopted.
Two white men, Akers and Cooper, were
arrested for outraging the persons of two little
girls, twelve and fourteen years of age, in
Montgomery CO., Va. 1t was with difficulty
the people were kept from lynching them. On
sentence was awarded twenty years imprison-
uGllG. liz Couutly poopAO Aodlo VI enO Fo1~
dict and made every effort to waylay the train
and catch him and hang him. The Sheriff
took him in wagon through Franklin, Bote-
tourt and Rockbridge and put him on the
Richmond & Allegheny train aud got him to
Richmond. He carried Cooper, yet tried
to Lynchburg for safety.
In Newark, N. j., the remarkable suit has
Just been tried of Mrs. Wilson, the landlady
of clearinghouse, against Miss Morgan, a
former boarder, for sum over and above her
board bill for "the wear and tear of house
hold effects caused by the visits of her beau"
The wear and tear consisted, for the most part
in damage inflicted upon sofa and upon that
portion of the parlor carpet in front of it. The
middle of the sofa was marked by perma-
nent depression some six OF eight inches deep,
the springs having been wholly ruined or dis
placed The court decided for Miss Morgan
holding that the "wear and tear" was only
what was usual where hoardar had visitors
The people assembled in the church at
Boothbay Harbor, Me-, on Christmas night
at the Sunday School festival, were astonish-
ed to see a constable come in and proceed to
despoil the tree of sixty-eight costly prizes
hanging on it, They were still more sur
prised to know that they had been stolen by
the lady who sent them. She had made the
rounds of the leading stores of the town on
several days before Christmas, and had by
theft accumulated the prizes which she sent
to the school. The day after Christmas she
and her husband fled from the town.
Intelligence has been received in this coun-
try that Rev. G. l.. Powell, who went as an
independent missionary from North Carolina
to Africa, has become insane and been placed
In an insane asylum at Algiers. But not be
fore he had cut the throat of his six-year-old
daughter and made an attack on his wife. He
was once an inmate of the insane asylum at
Raleigh, N. c., and had been in an asylum at
Algiers before he committed the murder.
In Leavenworth, Kansas a banquet was
given by the citizens to Justice Brewer, the
new Justice of the U. s. Supreme Court,
who was about leaving TOR his new duties. They
were notified that if any liquor was on the
table, the police would enter and confiscate
both it and the banquet Rather than have
disturbance with the authorities the banquet
tiers agreed to have nothing stronger than
coffee.
Henry NJ Flagler, of the Standard Coal Oil
COMPANY, sent Mrs. Eugene NJ. Ashley and
Mrs. John B. Arnold two sisters residing in
Lockport N. Y, a Christmas present of
ST., 900 in Standard Oil Trust certificates, to
be equally divided between them. These Ger
tifcates bear interest at the rate of p per
cent, payable quarterly: The ladies are sec
ond cousins of Mr.. Flag!er.
Mrs. Marie Lemon, widow Of Conductor
Lemon of the louisville 4 Nashville Ry., who
was killed last September by drunken man
he was eiecting from his train, received on
Christmas eve from the Directors Of the road
81. 900 of Its bonds, and a memorial resolution
adopted to the memory of her husband. The
bonds are worth more than So ,O0O having been
bought when it was low.
GOV. Mckinney has appointed DIR. Ino ",
Nash, Of Farmayille &. he Surgeon 10 the PEN
iteptiary; Dr. Moses D. Hoge, Jr., to be
vaccine Agent of the State, and D. X. Muir