Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1890-05-30

that in the summer of 1890 in this latitude we
would have tropical heat So far the astron-
omer has proven correct.
The Missouri Grand Lodge of Odd Fellows
III session at st. Louis, adopted report ex-
ending saloon keepers from membership in
the order.
Ada Shaw, aged seven, was killed at New
ark, Ohio, May 18th, while crossing the rail-
road track with her school books. Her moth
er was formerly Miss Moore of Goshen, Rock
bridge.
While congregation was praying in church
at st. Mahlen, Prussia, last week, for the
cessation of hail storms which had been ruin
ing the crops, lightning struck the building
and killed four of the suppliants.
Through the oversight of the Sheriff the
town of Newmarket had no election for town
officers on May 22d: The fine against Sheriff
for that neglect is 500.
In a storm at Harrisonburg last Saturday
afternoon at single explosion the lightning
struck both the Baptist and Episcopal
churches, which are five squares apart. The
tower Of the Baptist church was badly torn
and the corner stone of the Episcopal church
was split and its contents thrown out into the
church yard.
DR.. J. Addison Sticky, only few years
ago one Of the most noted and prosperous
physicians in Lexington, KY, has been de-
clared a 1unatc and sent to the Eastern Ken
lucky Lunatic Asylum. He is victim of the
use of that new and seductive drug, cocaine
DR.. STICKY graduated from the Louisville
Medical University in 1876.
At Burlington, Iowa, the young ladies of
Christ Episcopal Church Guild, obtained cos
tunes from the wardrobe of the Opera House,
put them on at their homes and went to the
Opera House to give tableaux for the benefit
Of missions. The Sheriff had claim against
the owner of the costumes and levied while
the performance was going on. The young
ladies protested, but in the end had to send
home for their clothing and dress again. They
think the Sheriff "mean thing
A Richmond correspondent of the Norfolk
Virginian says: ga gentleman told me yes
terday that the Clerk of Rockbridge county is
becoming rich man from recording deeds
He has had to add several assistants to his
force, and it is difficult matter to keep up
with his work He lately wrote to the Clerk
OF Ine CNduCeIy COuIb VI hlCHNlOuu 10 lHO
out his plan of recording deeds.
Norfolk has her ''boom'' on, and fabulous
prices are being paid for tracts of unimproved
land adjoining the city. A s25O,oOO syndicate
is forming to start new town near the navy
yard.
The Virginia Bible Society is authority for
the statement that from seven to nine per
cent of the homes in Virginia have not copy
of the Bible in them.
The advertising agent of the great house of
Rogers, Peet & Co., who has tried every mode
of advertising, says: "We have settled down
now to regular newspaper advertising, and
believe that, for permanent business, that
alone pays. Nothing ever pays us like ordi-
nary newspaper advertising"
The ten cent piece which President Lincoln
spent at drug store for a bottle of smelling
salts on his way to the theatre where he was
assassinated shortly after his arrival. is in the
possession of DR.. Mobley Of Fairburn, Ga,
who bought it for S25.
A local syndicate of Anderson, W. Va, has
bought the adjoining farm of Hon. John W.
johnson for 1000, and a "boom" has conf
menced.