Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1890-11-07
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Florence, Ala, recently fitted out two OF
three cars handsomely, put in them specimens
of the ores woods, &C., Of that section and
sent with the exhibition several prominent
citizens and their wives, Capt j. II. II. Fig
gait and wife among them. The cars were
taken to all the large cities of the North and
West. At Philadelphia the outfit was met by
S. ]. Graham, Judge W. A. Hudson and 9th
CT pro miIent Florentines.
A. II. Durant, negro pastor near Sumter,
S. c., professed to have power to raise the
dead and many of his congregation believed
it, Primus Jones expressed his doubts and
Durant and one of the officers Of the church,
Richard Campbell, killed him instantly, in
tending, the pastor and deacon claim, to restore
him tolife. They failed, and at the coroner's in
quest the jury, composed OF colored men,
found verdict of murder against them.
The postmaster at Donaldson, Arkansas,
has written a letter to Postmaster General
Wanamaker in which he assigns his reason
for resigning. He says yesterday l was
knocked down and kicked and stamped until
began to think l was used up. We have
compromised and have agreed to resign. 1
am told that will settle the whole matter. l
am truly glad to get away from here"
On Sept. 9Th, registered letter containing
s1O0 was mailed from the Covington, ALLIE
ghany county, Va, post Office to Baltimore.
The postal clerk on the G. & o. train, repor-
ted it missing the next morning. On Oct.
18th, James Stuart, the colored messenger,
who takes the CovingtOn mail to the depot,
spent one Of the bank notes listed in the let
ter He was arrested.
A lasting machine that enables one operator
to last 1000 pairs of shoes a week is one of the
latest things in labor-saving machinery. 1t
tackles anything from light feminine foot
gear to the heaviest brogans. and the product
is superior to hand work. Some infatuated
Republican will now claim that Maj. McKin-
ley invented it to lower the prices.
The Real Estate Dealers of Norfolk met
last week and adopted resolution filming any
member of their organization 500 if he at
tempts to sell piece Of real estate to any
member of the State Convention of Real Es-
tate Dealers of Virginia, which is to meet
there Nov 10Th and Goth. The visitors are to
be given an oyster roast at Ocean View.
SANKEY'S new book I'm Darkest Africa"
contains, from the personal observation of
Emin Pasha, new note for natural history.
The chimpanzees that emerge from the forest
of Misongwa to raid on the crops of the plan
tiers, carry torches to light their way. 1t is
the first animal known to make fire.
The German Roman Catholic Cemetery AS
ISOLATION at Cincinnati, has gotten out an
injunction to prevent Aloysius Sonnentag who
has changed to the Protestant church, from re-
moving the remains of his children which
were buried in its cemetery while he was a
Catholic.
While Sam Jones was in Wilmington. A:
g., he "shelled the woods nightly for Rev.
Dr. T. II. Pritchard, pastor of the list Baptist
church, who refused to countenance his meet
ings DR.. P. wisely kept quiet, but now that
Sam is gone, lands into him with two OF three
columns in paper he edits.
Conductor McAbee of the Norfolk & West
ern Ry, who was killed at Bedford City, Va,
by train. had previously lost a father and
two brothers by railroad accidents. The two
remaining haothers still cling to the railroad
work in Which the others lost their lives.
Kate Smith, colored, aged ten years, alarm
ed by the cry Of fire. leaped from the third
story of colored school building In Balti-
more Thursday, landing head first on the cob
BILE stone pavement. She escaped uninjured
except slight cut of the scalp.
The geport Of lss9-9o of that ancient institu-
ton, the Williamsburg. W.. lanate Asylum lAsi!n1aa
founded one hundred and seventeen years
ago, shows 65 patients admitted during the
gear; 70 discharged; ATS the whole number
treated.
Chevalier scovel the tenor at the Prince Of
Wales theatre in London, was dismissed from
ha tro1lna hacauSe in the love SCENE in 81. a