Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1890-10-10
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On the Baltimore q ONO express brdll lIOil
Cincinnati to Washington, Saturday afternoon,
after q lady entered the toilet room the lock-
spring snapped so she could not unfasten the
door to get out. She became hysterical and
her screams resounded through the car. The
conductor and passengers tried for three
quarters of an hour to get the lock loose, the
woman frantically screaming all the time
At last ex-President Samuel Spencer Of the
B. & o., who was on the train, took the car
axe and broke the door with its plate glass
mirror to pieces and released the prisoner
She had by this time become very ill and was
put to bed on the car.
The first flower strewing over soldiers
graves that took place in the South, was at
Winchester, Va, June 6th 1886, and the date
was selected because it was the anniversary
of the death of Gen. Turner Ashby whose
body was buried there. The idea was simply
to have Christian rites over the bodies OF the
8, 700 unknown Confederates buried in the
cemetery, but the thousands that gathered to the
event picked flowers along the country roads
and laid them on the graves. That was the
commencement of flower-strewing on appoint
ed days at Confederate cemeteries.
Health Commissioner Wickersham of Chi
cago has directed that the city medical in
spectors vaccinate no more persons on the leg.
The young girls have annoyed the physicians
by requests for leg vaccinations to avoid
spelling the smoothness of their arms, and
six of them came in a group Saturday to be
vaccinate ted that way. Commissioner Wicker
sham says those that want leg vaccinations
must get private physicians and pay them.
Some very strange accidents are brought to
light by the accident insurance business. For
instance, man at Zalski, o., stationary
engineer, was kicked very severely by a hog.
It disabled him for quite number of weeks,
and he was paid S97. Another case was that
of man at Chillicothe. o. AS he was stoop-
ing to pick up some kindling wood game
rooster gated him in the wrist, cutting an al
terry, which disabled him for some time.
The representatives of two handsome for
tunes were married in Chicago last week,
Edward Morris, an Israelite, whose father IS
worth $40, 900, 900, was married to Miss Swift,
daughter of e. F. Swift, who is worth
$40, 600, 900. The lady is Methodist, and
there were two ceremonies, the first by Rev.
W. A. Philips of the M. E. Church, and the
second by Rabbi Hrsh. The brides trousseau
cost $50, 000..
Rev. Father Walter, pastor of st. Patricks
church, Washington, d, G., the clergyman
who attended Mrs. Surratt intends to write
his "reminiscences of the famous trial. The
twenty-five years silence on all pertaining to
the subject which was imposed upon Father
Walter by his Archbishop, having now ex-
pired, he is at liberty to give the world much
that may throw light upon the history of that
period.
In a suit at Denver, Colorado, of Mrs. Kate
Williams of N. Y against her mother-in-law,
Mrs. G. S. Williams, for alternating the affec-.
lions of her husband (Mrs. WIS sony from
her, and causing him to abandon her, the jury
gave So, 800 damages. The case was precise
ly similar to the Curtis suit which created SO
much interest in Staunton, except that no
child was abducted.
An extraordinary case of delusion came to
light lately in England. Miss Gertrude Brown,
a niece of the Vicar of Hereford, who had just
arrived from Australia, committed suicide by
cutting her throat, leaving letter stating
that she had been ruined on the voyage and
was about to become a mother. An autopsy
was held which proved both statements to be
without the slightest foundation.
Nineteen years ago Gratiot county (Mich.)
farmer refused to let his daughter go to a
candy pulling. She went though, and remained
away Last week she drove up to her faith
er's door, lifted out her eleven children, coolly
took off her wraps and astonished her father
by declaring that she concluded to return and
stay home and hereafter be an obedient daugh-
ter.
At his wedding last week, in Turnbull,
Ala, to Miss Matte McCreary, exit. Cover
nor John E. Massey of Virginia wore Prince
Albert coat with a rose in the button-hole.
The bride wore white Rev. DR.. Hawthorne of
Atlanta married them The bridal couple
are now at the White Sulphur Springs in
West Virginia.
The Catholic Knight having severely criti-
cised Bishop Richard Gilmore, bishop of the
Roman Catholic Diocese of Cleveland, Ohio,
the bishop has forbidden the members of his
church to patronize OF in any way give that
paper countenance. The bishop reserves to
himself the exclusive right to absolve any
who do SO.
Wilmer Evans, a young man who lately
travelled over the Valley and other parts of
Virginia writing letters for the papers signed
"Wilmer Wellington, descriptive Of scenery
and Incidents died in Roanoke last week of
typhoid fever, at the residence of his brother,
Lemuel G.. Evans.
B. K. Whitfield of Holy Neck, Va, re-
ceived a bite on the hand from a pet dog while
playing with it. An inflammation and swell
ing set in which extended to his whole body
and caused his death. Where the dogs teeth
struck, the skin was not broken and only a
slight abrasion was visible.
Capt Robt. Irvine White, graduate of
Washington College, and once member of
the House Of Delegates from Rockbridge.
died in Lexington last week aged 78 years.
His mother was Miss Margaret Johnston, a
daughter of Zachariah Johnston of Augusta
county
While living, Cardinal Newman wrote of
the last verse of his hymn LEAD Kindly
Light'' as "tha unWarrantsd addendum of
another PEN Dr.. Biokersteth, Bishop of
Exeter, who added the last verse is now hay
the hymn, for use in his diocese, revised with
that verse left off.
The French tailors are up in arms, fighting
tooth and nail against the present form and
color of gentlemen's evening dress. Instead
of the habit now worn by gentlemen on every
available occasion, they call for the general
adoption of colored coats, embroidered vests,
knee breaches and silk stockings.
Ihe old cropof peanuts in Virginia is pretr