Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1890-01-24


slipped out, got in Mr.. Merriweathers CARR.
age at the gate, drove at gallop to Ger
treville and We're married twenty minutes be-
fore the pursuing party could get there.
| Leonidas Strauss of New York city, now
worth 81, 100000, drove into Talbotton Ca,
| just before the war, with two horse wagon
containing his goods. The outfit looked so
poor that he was made to pay the rent of the
little store he got, in advance. He made most
OF his money in cotton. His son Oscar was
appointed by Mr.. Cleveland to be Minister to
| Turkey.
The prize of $500 Of the American Agricul-
turist for the largest crop of shelled corn
grown on one acre, has been awarded to z. j.
Drake of Marlboro, S. g., for 255 bushels
green weight and 239 kiln dried weight He
| also took the South Carolina State Board of
Agriculture prize of 81 900 for the same thing
Henry F. Burton of Utah, for 80 bushels of
wheat to the acre, got $500 prize.
Rev. James Joseph Boyle the ex-pastor of
the Catholic church of the Sacred Heart at
Raleigh, N. c., who Violated the person of
Miss Whitaker, the church organist and was
sentenced to death, has been given a new trial
on the ground that the Judge Of the court
below failed i'll his charge to the jury to call
attention to the evidence which went to dis
credit the testimony of Miss Whitaker
G. g. Damron of Bedford county, whose
people are among the most respectable cti-
zens of Allegheny, was arrested in Fincastle
last week charged with obtaining a consider
alton on bond bearing the signatures of r.
Mickey and j. L. Stevens, who he alleged
were well to do farmers Of Augusta, living
near Waynesboro. No such persons could
be found
The case of Gen. e. S. Meem of Shenandoah
rs. Hal. Dulaney of Fauquier, now before the
| Virginia Court of Appeals at Richmond, is
attracting much attention as it involves the
construction Of the usury act. The attorneys
in the case are Judge E. G. Burks, Holmes
Conrad Jas. B. Brooks and Attorney General
Taylor Scott
Rev. j. r. Sturgis pastor of Trinity Church
at Richmond, Of the M. E. Church South, has
been suspended by his Presiding Elder for
writing an improper letter to married lady.
He had been pastor of Trinity for three years
and there was much grief shown in the
congregation ON the announcement of his
suspension.
Judge Thayer of st. Louis, in deciding suit
for damages by an employee againsta railroad
company, laid it down that "any Waterman
who permits a train to overtake him on rail-
road track at a place where he could not get
off OF step aside, is guilty of such contradictory
negligence as precludes recovery
Walker Blaine, aged 30, the eldest son of
Secretary Blaine, and Examiner of Claims in
tho State npna rtm cd on Frid of mn
monia following the grip. He had been con-
nected with the diplomatic service nearly ever
since Garfeld's administration, and Was the
staff of his fathers official life.
Col. Isaac J. Leftwich the ninety year-old
President of the Farmers Bank at Wytheville,
Va, recollects that the winter of 1928 was
exactly like this one, the fruit trees in full
bloom in January, and nearly every one lost
their pork. The fruit crop of the following
year was the largest that had been seen.
Two prisoners in the Harrisonburg, Va,
jail-Henry Rogers, who took a horse and
rode it to Ohio, and John Shiffiett, another
horse thief dug their way under the steel cage
in which they were confined last week and
escaped
The Colonial Ball. to be given Gov. Nc
Kinney by fashionable society at Richmond
has raised many awkward questions. Neither
Gov. Mckinney nor Lt.-Gov. Tyler dance,
and it has been quarter Of century since
either wore swallow-tail coat.
MI. Henry Gibson, city solicitor of Roa-
noke, died suddenly in carriage at Rich
mond Friday evening. He had gone there to
attend to some legislative business for
Roanoke. He was son of P. H. Gibson of
Richmond, and was promising young lawyer.
Joseph Hall, one Of the Oldest inhabitants of
Madison G. H., Va, and an old Mexican vet
eran, who from injuries in that war had to
have an eye taken out, has just been allowed
by the United States government a pension of
S1S per month.
George W. Strole took from the Shenandoah
river, near Newport, Page county, Va, on
Friday last, german carp, which measured
1871 inches around the body, 2619 inches long.
and weighing IA pounds and ounces. 1t is
the largest ever taken from those waters.
Frank Payne, aged thirteen, of Fairfax Co.,
Va, while delirious from grip, got out of bed
at A. M. and wandered off down the Alex
andria turnpike. He was found very cold
and weak.
The Merchant Tailors Protective Associa-
ton of Philadelphia is preparing black list
of men there who do not pay their tailors.
The number so far is 5000, and the list it is
threatened will be published
The American Tobacco Company is raising
a storm in North Carolina equal to that it
raised in Virginia. Judge Armfield at Dur
ham, N. g., charged the grand jury to inves-
tigate it's Trust features.
Queen Victorias oysters are shipped direct
from Long Island Sound N. Y, to Windsor
Castle. The last outgoing steamer took her
twelve barrels. They are selected of middle
size.
An English syndicate has just purchased
five potteries in Trenton, N. j., for 81, 800, 900,
and eleven in East Liverpool, o., for So, 900, 900
The English Trust Company is the name of
the new concern.
The name Of the village of Halifax Court
house, Va, has been changed to Houston, in
honor of the president of the Penn Construc-
company, of Philadelphia the builders of the
Lynchburg & Durham road.
The deaths Of Judge David J. Goodwin of
Norfolk, at Washington, and Judge q. W.
Easily Of Giles county, the State Senator from
the 9TH Va. Senatorial district, at Richmond,
are recorded this week.
On the 14th inst, Rev. DR.. Chester pastor
of the Metropolitan Presbyterian Church at
Washington, went to the house of Hon.
Samuel J. Randall and baptised him and ad-
mitted him to membership.
Prince Amadeus of Italy, who was King of
Spain for three years from 1870 and abdicated,
died of pneumonia on Saturday last at Turin.
He was brother of the King of Italy.
The Richmond Dispatch publishes list of
the price of gas in twenty five cities. In all
but three it is less than 80 per thousand, and
in half of them it is 81. 80 OF less
Col. Wilson the Federal officer who COM