Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1891-11-27
GLEANEp ERoM TILE MAILS

pending at Elkland, Pa. Nine years ago
Miss Betsey Rowland Tilted David Basler and
ran off and married Leander Oakford. Basler
took to drink and pretty we'll went to the
dogs when he suddenly reformed and became
sober, money making man. About two years
ago Mrs. Oakford's husband died, and she
with her two children came home to her faith
crs to live. After time Basler renewed his
suit and was accepted, and Thursday, October
10Th, fixed for the wedding. The wedding
party gathered but the groom did not come.
A messenger sent to his home returned with
the following brutal message: "You tell
Betsy Rowland wouldn't marry her for the
best farm in Pennsylvania. She fooled me
nine years ago and turn about is fair play.
May be she'll learn now how to take joke. -
Mrs. Oakford is suing for $1,000 damages.
Basler who is IS years of age and worth S15,-
600 and his farm has, it now turns out, put his
property beyond reach OF any verdict for dam
ages
At Salem, Va, tie trial of Charles Wat
kins for the murder of his wife has ended b.
his conviction and his sentence to be hum
January Sth. 1t was strange case for this
latitude. Watkins is a good looking mulat-
to hotel waiter with large side Whiskers and
was known as a waiter in most of the Virgin
ia watering places. lie went to Ohio and
married a colored woman. Last year he de-
serted her and at Chicago married Ida Field,
a white waiter girl from Sweden. lie came
with her to Roanoke and got place in a
hotel there. The coIored wife heard OF it and
followed them. He enticed her to a mountain
near Salem and murdered her with rocks.
He escaped safely to Washington, N. c., and
would never had been heard of had he not
written letter to Ben Wright, his cousin, at
Salem, telling of the murder and asking the
whereabouts Of his white wife, Wright gave
the letter to the authorities.
In Judge John Paul's U. s. District Court
at Danville, Va, Saturday, Garrett Morrison,
a gray headed, one-armed ex-Confederate SOL
dier, was found guilty of illicit distilling and
the sentence was month in Jail. The Judge
directed the Marshal to bring the old man
back into the court room. The kind hearted
judge, who is an ex-Confederate himself,
looked at his empty sleeve and said, "Come
back here tomorrow morning and I'll con-
slider your case. We old boys are getting too
scarce to send you to jail The Old man
broke into tears, and tie next day when he
came into court the judge gave him another
chance to be law abiding man and let him
off.
The firm of Cowie Bros, having obtained
the contract to make the uniforms of all the
station agents on the Southern Pacific, one OF
the members thinking he could save time by
having each agent on the platform and measure
him while the train made its stop, sent tele-
orr q 1nnf fl1n limo Do
when No. 10 passes with nothing on but your
pants and Shirt When the train arrived at
Banning, he leaped to the platform and was
Immediately attacked with club by the stall
wart brother of Miss Matte Folk, the lady
station agent there who thought the message
was sent to insult her. The tailor did not
measure Miss Folk.
On Monday, November 9th, Emmett Cline
Powell, the tive-yearold son of Rev. Ed. NJ
Powell of Chestnut, Amherst Co., Va, was
sent from the school house with a number OF
boys to the woods near by to gather wood for
the school. He disappeared, the children who
had not missed him came back without him,
and he has not been heard from since. The
neighbors have secured the country for miles
around the school house, but to no purpose
Rev. Mr. Powell offers $500 reward for his re-
turn to him alive. The child has light hair,
blue eyes, fair skin, full forehead and is in
telligent and tall for his age.
VIM. J. Florence, the noted comedian died
in Philadelphia Thursday night. lie was a
New Y ork boy but made his first appearance
on the stage at Richmond, Va, forty-two years
ago. He and his wife made fortune in 1.-The
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money with almostevery play they starred in.
He founded the Masonic Order of the Mystic
Shrine in this country, bringing the large
symbols from Egypt, where the Khedive him.
self had given him them. He had taught him
self the French German and Italian Ian
guageS.
Twenty years ago, John B. Stetson of Ottowa
Kansas, fell out with his wife about correct
ing child, and vowed he would never speak
to her again. She in turn vowed never to
speak first. They are both superstitious
about the effect of breaking their VOW, and
years ago learned to talk On their fingers and
make signs freely to each other. To their
seven children they talk as much as ever
This has been going ON now for twenty out of
the forty years of their married life
Maria Kullburg has brought suit in the
Superior Court of East Boston, Mass, against
Rev. Hugh II. O'Donnell, pastor of the Ro-
man Catholic church of which she is a mem
Der, for $1,000 damages for having from the
altar publicly and officially issued an inter
dict forbiddihg all his Pensioners and his
congregation to trade, or deal OF in any way
associate with the plaintiff because she re-
fused to send her childrrn to the parochial
school.
DR.. Julian 2. Thomas member of the fac
ulty OF the Southern Medical College at
Atlanta, Ca, and filling professors chair
there, inserted in his advertisement as a can
Ger specialist the words, IF | say will cure
and fail to do so, the treatment will cost you
nothing" This ''unprofessionaI offer raised
such storm in the profession that DR.. Thorn
as has thought best to withdraw from his
position in the college.
The second trial of DR.. j. A. P. Baker at
Abingdon, on the charge of poisoning his
wife. has been postponed to January I'd, in
consequence of Hon. Jno. A. Buchanan, one
of his counsel, being i'll Of fever. Public
opinion, says Capt. Frank s. Blair. another
of his counsel, is now as overwhelmingly in
favor OF the accused as it was opposed to him
a few months ago, and he expects his acqut-
tai.
Il am compelled to announce, brethren, p"
observed the minister, taking off his glasses
and wiping them, ''that our regular Wednes
day night prayer meeting Will not be held
this week. shall be on hand, of course but
the janitor Will be unavoidably absent that
evening, and it takes two to make prayer
meeting. We will sing the doxology and be
dismissed.
John Browns Fort, y familiar oevery pas
senger going through Harper's Ferry, was
bought some days ago by a Chicago firm and
loaded on the cars to be rebuilt in Chicago as
war relic good deal Of indignation
was aroused among the Harper's Ferry people
by the nlIrnha SnrS of the fort alSn tr,,inn 4l,