Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1890-02-28
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Jennie Winston, whose declining vocal
powers are familiar to Staunton audiences, is
about to try and make up the deficit by SEN
sation. She is to appear in an opera written
for her, entitled 1.-The Young Messiah, in
which she is to represent Christ in his youth.
She appears as beardless youth and repre-
sents Jesus as in love with the High Priest S
daughter. 1t is not likely that the public will
give enough encouragement to this sacrile-
gous sensation to keep it on the stage long.
| George Wilcox of West Franklin, Pa, Just
deceased, in his will leaves to his grandsons
and granddaughter a considerable sum of
money each, Oh condition that the former shall
always support the Democrat ticket, State
and National, and the latter shall marry
Democrats. Ii any fail in this, their share goes
| to the others; if all fail the whole of the
shares go to the National Democratic Com
mittee.
The Virginia legislature having passed the
bill making Gen. Lees birthday legal holt
day, the State will now have the following
| 1CSdI yo-cditudly loU ANCW Odl Cdll-
uary 10Th (Gen. Lees birthday, February 22d
(Washington's birthday, July 4th Cndepen-
dence Day., December 18th (Christmas), and
the day set apart by the Governor OF Presi-
dent of the United States as Thanksgiving
Day.
A lady sixty years of age with lovely COM
pleXion and without wrinkle says the absence
Of wrinkles has been accomplished by years of
use of olive oil and rose water applied daily,
after the skin is washed in mild soapsuds and
then rinaed and thoroughly dried. The Oil is
| first beaten into cream and very little of
the rose water is added. The mixture is thor
oughly rubbed into the skin.
The wife Of e. L. Hammitt of Fincastle,
Va, dreamed ON the night after her husband
| left for Roanoke that she saw him lying dead
in coffin, a handkerchief covering his face.
The next day the received the news that he
had been found dead in the cellar of the Ponce
de Leon, a hotel being erected at Roanoke.
He had gone in to look at it and fallen through
the rafters.
An important bill is pending before the
Kentucky Legislature and bids fair to become
law. The measure is proposed law to
punish circus proprietors for not presenting
what they advertise The penalty is made a
fine ranging from $40 to $50 for each and every
offense, and the case may be brought before
the proper court by any one who has visited
the circus and come away dissatisfied.
Five Deputy U. S. Marshals armed with
Winchester rifles appeared at Sharon, Ca,
last week, and arrested seventeen prominent
citizens on the charge Of conspiracy and in
L. A.,
postmaster. 1t appears that he is prescribed
socially and the people wont patronize his
post-office
A meeting of one hundred farmers was held
at Snow Hill, Md, to consider the nOtifica-
ton they had received from the Gamers that
they would pay but So ton for tomatoes this
year-5O cents less than last. The farmers
adopted resolution that they would not
grow tomatoes at less than $3.50 ton, and
sent it to the Gamers.
w. II. Robinson, a One-legged x-Confeder-
ate employed as mail-carrer between Rawley
Springs, Rockingham, and Franklin, w. Va,
was drowned in Dry River, opposite the
Springs, on his last trip. The river had swol-
len and could not be forded. His horse was
found all safe, three days afterwards. on
uIy pOl1lG Ill tllC llfCl SullOullucu ny WduCl.
Chronic Borrower-"Canyo you lend me TWEEN
ty dollars for few days?" Weary Friend
''Why don't you pawn your watch?" "Be-
cause it is a keepsake from my dear mother,
and don't like to part with it, "Well, my
money is keepsake from my dear father, and
l don't like to part with it, either
Rev. G. w. B. Gordon colored Baptist
minister of Petersburg was, until the last
election in Virginia, the pet of his congrega-
tion to whom they had given a handsomely
furnished parsonage. In the election he sided
with the anti Malone Republicans, and next
Sunday he breaches his farewell sermon.
For over one hundred years the Protestant
Episcopal Diocesan Convention of South Caro-
lima has been held in st. Philips church, at
Charleston. The congregation have this year
notified the Bishop that they will not permits
body containing colored clergymen to occupy
their church.
Vidal, the blind sculptor, is one of the won
ders of the French capital. He has been blind
since his 21st year. By slowly passing his
hands over an object he notes its external pro-
portions, and initiates them in clay in man.
ner which strikes the behOlder dumb with sur
prise.
1t is stated on good authority that the enorm-
Gus stock yards of Chicago with their acres of
land and miles of pens have been bought by
English capitalists, for $50, 900, 900, and the
agent has just gone to England to close up the
sale.
At the meeting of the Congregational
Club of New York, - Friday evening, Gen. 0.
o. Howard spoke on "Stonewall Jacksons
last charge The Rev. w. F. Junllin of
New jersey brother-in-law OF Stonewall
Jackson, was present.
Mrs. Lille DevereuX Blake, who is at
tracing attention as one of the members of
the American Women's Woman Suffrage
Association, says she is a North Carolinian
by birth, and that half her heart is Southern
and half Northern.
1t may comfort the victims of grippe who
used up so much anti-pyrine to know that Dr..
Knorr, the German discoverer of that remedy,
gets royalty of go cents on every ounce that
is sold 1t is thought he made over 81, OoO, 900
by the grippe.
Bertha Reed, a little s-year-old nurse, is in
Jail at Belvedere N. j., charged by her en-
ployers, Mr.. and Mrs. Wm Read, with man.
slaughter, in persistently pressing on the soft
spot on their baby's head, until inflammation
of the brain ensued ending in death.
A few weeks ago Dodge City (Kan.) dent
ist who had made set of teeth for a lady who
had failed to pay for them took them out OF