Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1891-02-13
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county court to relieve him of the Office of
road surveyor, and asked DIR. Jas. S. Cox to
draw up the petition for him. Knowing that
Carroll could not read, the Doctor wrote it
praying the court that Carroll might be
hanged and to appoint speedy day for the
hanging. Carroll took the petition around
and secured two hundred and fifty signatures
to it, not half dozen of the signers having
read its contents. The court was somewhat
astonished when Carroll presented the petit
ton at the first day of the term.
In Germany the census of its forty odd
millions of population was taken in twelve
midnight of November 3oth
anC noon of December LIST, Printed forms
are furnished in advance, and they are col
lected by persons appointed by the govern
ment without any compensation whatever
The questions far exceed in number the Amer
lean census. Is the infant nursed by its
mother OF by the bottle; how many windows
are in the house; what rooms are heated in
winter; what windows face the street, and
such like queries. Railroad passengers are
at the station the train happens to
be stopping at in the twelve census hours.
Theodore Edmond who boarded with Mrs.
Dusen of Newark, ~ j., has been
arrested on a novel complaint by that lady
He put photograph in the kitchen which
caught all her talk to the cook, such as tell
ing her not to send such large pieces of steak
to table, not to put so much coffee in the boil
ing, and the like. On the following Sunday
he took the machine iuto the parlor where the
boarders were gathered and Mrs Dusen was
present. On turning the crank her instruc-
tions to the cook were heard She claims
thatthe did it to injure her business.
w. I'll. Green, who was recently made Gen
eral Manager of the Richmond and Danville
Road, commenced at the bottom of the ladder
Thirty-six years ago he began his railroad
career as an apprentice in the shops of the
Charlotte and South Carolina Road Since
then he has fired on an engine, been an en-
gineer, then conductor, Master OF Transpor-
tation, General Superintendent, and now fills
the position of General Manager
Last fall three prominentpublicm men stood
conversing at the Mansion House at Williams
town, Mass, all of stalwart frame and APP
parently in vigorous health-Wm Window
Secretary OF the Treasury, A. D. Bullock, OF
Cincinnati, and Dr.. g. L. Hubbell, of Will
Jamestown. All three have in the four months
SINCE died suddenly Of heart disease, two al
the dinner table and Dr.. Hubbell Just afte1
leaving it.
In a speech at the Western Reserve Univer.
sity of Ohio, last week. ex-President Hayes
said: Gin this day it is plainly to be seen
that there is a wide spread and grave discon
tent with the existing methods and principles
of business. with the distribution of wealth
and even with the present social order. Or
these questions the New Testament is read
and studied as it was never read and studied
before"
When Thomas Sharp died at Springfield
Ohio, he left S3OO,O0O. He called to his bed
side his adopted son, Joseph, and his adopted
daughter, Mrs. Sallie Phillips,a widow. fftee1
years older than Joseph and with whom hi
had lived all his life as sister, and request
ed them to marry and inherit the fortune
They promised, and last week they kept theil
promise.
Mayor Ward of Palestine, Texas, who at
tempted to cane Sam Jones and got caned, i;
out in card saying that Jones in his sermon
last fall attacked his ''private life and hab
it's A large meeting of citizens was held at
Palestine, Thursday, which adopted resolu
tons condemning the Mayor in the severest
manner and calling on him to resign.
Pay cars are familiar sights on American
railways, but this country has not yet EN-
ployed the locomotive in banking operations
One Of the New Zealand banks has a special
car which visits the rural districts, cashes
checks and receives deposits. The experiment
is said to be profitable. and is great conven-
fence to settlers.
1t is proposed in Paris to do away, as far as
possible. with lunatic asylums, and to place
insane persons who are not prone to violence
in the homes of country people, who will be
suitably remunerated by the State. This plan
was advocated by the late DR.. VIM. Hamil-
tou of the Western Lunatic Asylum of Vir-
ginia as much as thirty years ago.
At the Kalamazoo, Mich, Insane Asylum,
last week, Jennie Barth patient, insane from
religious excitement, was given bath by the
attendant, and the water drawn off leaving
water was turned into the tub and before it
could be turned Off the patient was so badly
scalded as to die a few hours later.
There are thousands of wives and mothers
in New Y rk who make ends meet by sewing
on overalls that pay Is cents, shirts 60 cents,
vests 95 cents trousers So, flannel shirts 81 a
dozen. They are obliged to find their own
thread for the overalls and shirts and carry
the work to and from the shop. If they take
a street car one-tenth of their earnings is gone.
The Shendun News says that prominent
official of the Norfolk and Western Railroad
said the other day, in Roanoke, that every III
dicaton pointed to such year of prosperity
as Virginia has never dreamed of. He eX-
pected that $40 would be invested in the State
in 1891 for every dollar that was brought here
in 1890.
George Dougherty, variety actor, whose
home is supposed to have been at Westerly,
r. l., committed suicide at Huntington, w.
Va, January 81, by swallowing two ounces
of laudanum. The act was committed on the
stage of the Bon Ton Theatre. where he was
engaged about two weeks ago.
In Berlin, Prussia, lastSaturday, the police
served an order of arrest ON Nine. Patti i'll
behalf OF the st. Petersburg authorities for a
breach OF contract in refusing to sing unless
her advance money was deposited with hel
bankers. Nine. Pattl was compelled to de-
post 81, 100 in order to obtain her liberty.
The fayors at Mrs. Astor's grand german in
New York last week We're snnshades and
round hats in pale blue, cream and pink silk,
Wreaths of wild roses and daisies, tennis rack
cts bordered with heather and roses, jeweled
and ribbon orders, cigar cases and quantity
shaped mandolins.
Dr. Hankin, we'll known English nyesti-
gator, has remedy for carbuncles which con-
sists of matter extracted from the spleen OF
the rat and fifty per cent. of glycerine, the
extract being precipitated in alcohol. When
it is to be used it is dissolved in water and i'll
iected under the skin.
Delegate HOLE, of Dodlridge county, on
the I'd inst, in a series of Whereases setting
forth how all things are dependent upon the
state and condition Of the weather, introduced
A resolution that the West Virginia legislature