Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1890-08-15

ment of eight of the richest counties in Vir-
ginia. The aggregate decrease amounts to
81, O3O,5S6, as follows: Augusta, DOB; AL
bemarle, $577 ,05O; Clarke, $4s4, 43S; Frederick
1921 1922; Loudoun, So. 1877 $40; Prince William
$1S9,071; Shenandoah, SCI, 952; Warren, $41 ,O4O.
Thomas Camp of Rutherford Co., N. g., had
ten sons and one daughter by his first wife and
ten sons and two daughters by his second
wife. One of his daughters has twenty-five
children. At reunion OF the Camp family in
Douglas Co., Ca, lately, 5000 descendants
were present.
Alice K. Folsom has brought suit in Omaha
against Mrs. Frances Cleveland. eX-Presi-
dent Cleveland, and other heirs of the Folsom
estate for her share of the rents on the prop
e:ty in that city, a portion of which she alleg-
es has been withheld from her by the admin
istrator.
j. L. Green, son of Rev. j. r. Green of Ce-
tralia, Mo-. formerly an express messen-
ger on and familiar with the Illinois Central
Railroad, leaped on the train the other night
and stole two mail bags and leaped off. He
fell under the wheels and was torn to pieces.
AT a blacksmith shop at Manassas, Va, an
aged cOlored man was seen sitting on block
and another negro with file sharpening the
old mans teeth. A large number OF little ne
groes were standing around the performing
parties.
James Robinson, who could not read or
write, went to Phoenix, Arizona, and became
millionaire. He could not write his name,
but could make his X mark. He is now forty
years old, and is attending a primary school
in Kansas City and learning his A., B., C's.
DR.. Gautrelet Of Switzerland, says a piece
of cotton wool stepped in a solution 6 to 10
per cent? of pyrogallic acid inserted in the
pipe OF cigar-holder, will neutralize any pos
| sible bad effects of the nicotine.
Mrs F. A. L. Smith of Danville Va, to
whom the Virginia legislature refused bill
enabling her and other women to practice
| law, is about to start newspaper. The legis-
lature will catch it this Fall.
Rev. II. II. Osgood the married pastor of
the Congregational church at Berlin, Mass,
has lost his situation by writing to Mrs. Ella
| A. Heberd, widow aged thirty-nine, letter
commencing 'Dear Birdie
| Col. H. e. Parsons denies that he has sold
the Natural Bridge. He reserved that but
gave the buying company the privilege of the
grounds around the bridge on condition that
no buildings are to be erected there.
| Africa is rapidly settling up. A town two
years old in the interior has telegraph line,
four hotels and about twenty factories for
different manufactures Its settlers are Eng
lish.
| W. K. Vanderbilt, has offered Governor
| Sprague $4OO,O 600 for his country estate ''Ca-
nonchet," near Newport, r. 1, If MI. VAN
derbilt buys the estate he intends to erect a
magnificent hotel on the grounds.
| 1t is reported that Geo. S. Knight, the we'll
known actor ("Over the Garden Wall'') who
is at New Brunswick, N. j., is failing fast,
and that all hope Of his recovery has been
given up.
John Boyle O'Reilley the Irish patriot and
poet died suddenly near Boston Saturday
night, of an overdose of choral taken to re
! lieve insomnia.
w. D. Jones of Philadelphia, the founder
Of Big Stone Gap, Va, and once the owner of
the site of marlborough, KY, has just died
worth o,ooO,o 900.
First Assistant Postmaster General Clark
son, better known as the "headsman," sent
in his resignation Saturday and it was accep-
ted.
The London Times estimates the amount of
English capital that has been sent to the
United States recently to be invested, at $4OO,
600, 900.
| young man in Richmond, Va, who had
smoked ninety cigarettes that day and taken
two ounces of chloroform to quiet his nerves,
| fell senseless on the street.
| Mr.. A. r. Rosenberger, the WaynesborO
banker, has sold his Valley View Springs
property near Newmarket, for $4,000, to Prof.
Beardsworth of Won Bora College, Luray
1t happened one time that a Mr..
Fell in love with a maiden and kr.
And he said: BE my wife
| And bring joy to my life p
She said: mo but will be your ST."
| When a blowing viper 81 feet long was
killed near Rawley Springs, few days ago,
sixty three infant vipers crawled out of its
mouth.
| The total amount subscribed by the whole
world to the Johnstown sufferers, has just
been reported and proves to be the magnif-
cent sum of 81, 49, 8O1. 4S.
At the wedding of Miss Theresa Fair in San
Francisco, the rooms were hung with drape-
ries of white silk muslin, while the ices were
served in cases of brocade silk.
| John Hunter, ST., who from 1922 to 1852 was
Clerk Of the Circuit and County Courts of
Louisa county, and its representative in the
House Of Delegates from 1857 to 1861, is dead.
| Florence, Ala, has $685. inhabitants ac-
cording to the census, an increase of five hun
bred per cent. in three years.
| Twenty-Five years ago the National debt of
| the United States was 50, 1856 900, 900. To-day
it only 1921, 100000.
The store of Richard Walton at Amherst G.
H., Va. was entered by burglars one night
last week. the safe blown open and $3.50 stolen.
Rev. Henry E. Eberling of Gainesville, Nd,
has become pastor of the Lutheran church at
Harrisonburg.
In Marie Bashkirtseff S tomb at Paris, is
her rocking chair, her little table and half
dozen of her favOrite books.
| The first sale of lots at Broadway, Rocking
ham, by its Land and Improvement Co., ag-
gregated 1914
| The largest Virginia watering place COM
pany up to date, is at the Rockbridge Alum
Springs and numbers 81
Rev. H. NJ. Wharton is going to Palestine
the coming winter, and is making up a party
to go along.
The Virginia State Convention of the Far
mers' Alliance will be held at Lynchburg on
the 18th and 18th Of August.
| The next national convention of the Dunk
ards takes place in 1892 at Hagerstown, Md.
The population of Lexington is 3,O57, and
| that of Buena Vista 1850.
| 1t is estimated that it will take ten years to
compile the results OF the census.
II. Peyton Gray has been appointed u S.
storekeeper and gauger at Lynchburg, Va.