Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1890-02-07
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Mrs. Vine Evans of Botetourt county, Va,
had only young lady companion in her
house one night last week when robber COM
menced trying the door. She lifted her win
dow and fired a pistol to scare him off. He
continued trying the door. She put a chair at
the door and mounting it fired down through
a crevice above and shot and badly wounded
him. The young lady who was with her, took
hand in the fight to the extent of leaping out
of bed, Selling her stockings and running I'M
der the bed where she prayed until the cruel
war was over. When victory was declared She
came out, said she wouldn't stay there another
night for the whole farm, and then tainted
away.
A few months ago, Annie Estricher of Potts
town, Pa, received letter Of love from Jacob
Berkowitch of Scranton, Pa, whom she knew
and with whom she had been excellent
friends. The correspondence which followed
led to a marriage proposal, and with the
consent of her parents, who also knew the
young man, the day was set and her wedding
clothes made. The young man had pied bus
mess as an excuse for not coming to see his
betrothed and they had not seen each other
week it TRANSFERRED that she had been
corresponding with Maurice, brother of
Jacob, who was carrying out a practical joke
and that Jacob knew nothing OF it. A law
suit will follow.
When the Cashier of the Albany County
Bank at Albany, n. Y. died last week, David
S. Mann, a Hebrew, who had been connected
with the bank for twenty years, was next in
order for promotion. At meeting of the
Directors, who seem to think we are still
in the medieval times, the opinion was ex-
pressed that no 'ssheeny" should be at the
head of the bank. Two of the directors at
once resigned, as did Mr. Mann when he heard
of it. VIM. n Sanders was elected Cashier.
The Jewish depositors in the city on hearing
of the sentiment in the Board, the next day
commenced withdrawing their deposits and
nearly half million dollars was drawn out.
David Alexander, devout young Episco-
palian of Philadelphia, who had become de-
mented on the subject of Prohibition, and
angered because his church did not take up the
fight, went to st. James Episcopal church
on the 26th ult Bishop Whitaker was con-
firming class, when the young man rose in
his pew and drawing revolver fired at him.
He was seized at once On getting to the sta
ton house, he said there were several Episco-
pal ministers he intended to kill for their
slackness i'll helping Prohibition
A s'labor agent in North Carolina last
week. got about 200 negroes to sell out their
property and join an emigration party to Al
kansas He collected the full railroad fare
from each and put them on the cars. He took
train in another direction. The tickets he
had given the emigrants were only for 40
miles and at the end of that distance they were
put off the train and had to walk back to their
deserted homes.
James Rigney, who had gone from bad to
worse through dissipation, blew out his brains
in saloon in New York Saturday. Pinned
on the inside of his shirt, and next to his body
were two S. bills. On a card in his pocket
was this:
January, 1890. God bless ALL forgive.
Now lay me down to sleep,
pray the Lord my soul to keep.
If should die before wake,
pray the Lord my soul to take.
Miss Phoebe Cousins, the woman lawyer of
ST. Louis has been appointed by the Superin-
tendent of the Census to be chief special agent
in charge of the collection of statistics of re-
ms is the only woman who has been given a
| position of such importance under the census
office. She was selected because of her legal
training and her business qualifications.
Mrs. Elizabeth de Hart of Reading, Pa.
aged eighty-six, is now cutting her third set of
teeth. So remarkable is her constitution at her
advanced age, that in the last sixty days she
has had the grip followed by pneumonia, and
by fall down a fight of stairs dislocated a
shoulder and broke an arm, and yet she is in
good health and the bones Of her arm have
| knitted.
In village in France a ten-year old girl,
last week, tired of nursing her baby sister,
tied the little thing to the tail of cow. graz
ing nearby, and drove the COW into gallop.
The girl went home and told of her shocking
feat in high glee. Several hours afterwards
the COW was found miles away with shape
less mass Of human flesh dragging at her
heels.
The New York World has awarded the
Nellie Bly, round-trip to Europe to F. W.
Stevens, 1893 Second Avenue, New York, who,
the day before Nellie reached Chicago sent in
| the guess of y days, 6 hours, IL minutes and
IA % seconds. The officially ascertained exact
time wasp days, hours, II minutes and IA
seconds.
Nellie Bly, Miss Elizabeth Cochrane) the
journalist, who has just circled the world,
will, it is reported, soon marry DR.. Frank
Ingram of New York. He is physician in
the insane asylum to which Nellie had her
self committed two years ago in order to work
up a sensational article for her newspaper
| ohout tha trna tmant of tho incaoa
The Claremont, Va, correspondent of the
Richmond Dispatch writes to that paper con
Tossing that he manufactured the shooting Of
pig near there, in mistake for coon, by
President Harrison last fall, out of whole
cloth and without any foundation whatever
for it. He says he Thought it would be q
good joke
"Well, my dear madam, and how are you
to-day"
ooh, doctor, l have terrible pains all ovel
my whole body, and it seems impossible tx
breathe! Of course, can't sleep at all; and
; haven't particle of appetizer
"But otherwise you feel all right, don't
you?" Fl5eqende Batter
Here are two remarkable statements from
''Talks with Edison,'' as published in Har
per's Magazine = = "To me it seems
that every atom is possessed by a certain
amount of primitive intelligence
''The existence of such a God an intelligen
Creator, personal God] can, to my mind, al
most be proved from chemistry
Edward Platner of Nebraska City, Neb.,
follower of Ingersoll, died last week On hi
death-bed he ordered every infdel book in tn,
house to be burned, and then called his famil,
about him and warned them from the way h,
had led them, saying that he at last realized
the great mistake he had made during his life
Jennie Parker, colored, of Harrisonburg