Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1890-11-14
NEWS NOTES.


hack driven by VIM. Singleton, colored, to
drive to her friends house. Instead, he drove
her to a lonely spot and robbed her Of $500
and attempted to assault her The next
morning he fled from the town. He was cap
tured and hung, with this inscription on his
breast: THUS we protect our wives and
daughters"
The Lynchburg News account of the we'd
ding of Miss Sallie Manson and Mr.. John
Katz, Jr., says "Over the entrance door
hung huge luck bone in white flowers and
opposite, just in front of the large window, the
letters K. and NJ, also in white flowers Sus-
pended over the library door was a crimson
heart in red geraniums and dahlias, the dart
piercing through, being of white chrysan-
themums.
EX-Mayor Cottrell of Ced ar Keys, Fla,
being put in the police station at Montgomery,
Ala, last week, while drinking, swore to
kill Chief of Police Gerald on sight, and
drove up to the police headquarters Wednes-
day to do it. AS he got out OF the carriage the
Chief OF Police put the contents of both bar
rels of a shot gun into him killing him in
stantly. His body was sent to his home %
miles from montgomery.
Lieut.. Nixon, who was appointed from Vir
ginia to the Naval Academy at Annapolis, Md,
made good use Of his education. After he
graduated he took course in naval architec-
ture at the Royal Naval College at Green
wich, Eng, and when he returned to this
country was made assistant naval constructor
He has now resigned from the Navy and taken
the place of naval architect with the great
American ship building firm of Cramp& Sons.
Doctors the world over treat doctors for
nothing. A surgeon in Dever. eng. howev-
er, charged doctor eel for attendance, and
the latter refused to pay and went to court.
The plaintiff pleaded that, though physicians
treat their colleagues free when in active
practice, retired medical men, like the de-
PENDANT, have to pay like other people, and
the Judge accepted that view.
A lady called at one of our banks and pre-
scented a check which she wished cashed. AS
she was perfect stranger to the paying tel
Ter, he said very politely: MADAM, you will
have to bring some one to introduce you be-
fore we car. cash this check Drawing her
self up quite haughtily she said freezingly:
"But do not wish to know you sir !''-Rich-
msond Dispatch
Thomas J. Minis and Miss Gertrude Pitman
were married on the State fair grounds at
Birmingham, Ala, Oct. "a, and Immediately
stepped into the Car of balloon which soon
took them out of sight. They landed that
evening several miles away. They got $3.50
from the State Fair Association for the ex-
hibitiOn.
By newly invented mode of milking cows
by an exhaust pipe any COW can be mixed dry
in from eight to ten minutes. The india rub
Der caps are fitted to the teats, a boy works
the lever and the bag is soon emptied into the
can. The india rubber does not hurt the COWS
and they keep more quiet then when manipu-
lated with the hands.
During the three years before Waterloo,
Napoleon offered large rewards for the recOv-
cry of the pocketbook he lost crossing the
Beresina. After the lapse OF more than three
quarters of century it has just been discov-
cred in the possession OF Russian lady, who
received it as a souvenir from Count Felix
LedochOvsky.
Rev. DR.. Kelley of the NJ. E. Church. South,
who resigned the pastorate of the Gallatin,
Tenn, church. in order to enter the canvass
Governor, has been suspended by Bishop Har
grove for leaving the ministerial work for
such purpose.
Baron de Lutz, who lately died, was at one
time prime minister to Louis II of Bavaria,
and a man peculiar and fond of mystery.
Once, being seriously wounded in both legs,
he employed a separate surgeon for each and
compared their respective methods of treat
ment.
Col VIM. A. Anderson of ROckbridge
having returned from London. has
submitted to the Board of Directors of the
Rockbridge Company (the Glasgow town
company a financial contract with parties in
London to invest 81, 100000 in the company
The contract was ratified by the company.
Mrs. Jane Mcdowell wealthy widow aged
seventy, near Columbus Ohio became in
fatuated with a young tramp and married
him and is throwing away her thousands on
him like water. Her last exploit was to buy
a ready-stocked grocery store him.
Fifteen thousand scholars belonging to the
London Board schools and 800 teachers have
had an extra fortnight's holiday this year.
through the failure of builders and contrac-
tors to repair and clean the schools during the
vacation weeks.
DR.. VIM. NJ. Hubbard OF Chicago, ate some
stale oysters about week ago. He was taken
i'll and died. A post-mortem examination
showed that nc had been poisoned by the oys-
tiers.
Miss Lizzie O. Smith, known in Whitman
tic, Ct, as 1.-THE Modern Martyr" died last