Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1891-09-04

them down pourS OF great violence In some
cases the rain falls after each discharge of
dynamite or powder.
At Salina, Pa, Thursday, tie mother of
Ray Lloyd laid him across her lap to spank
him. In his hip pocket were a number of toy
pistol caps. A blow fell on that pocket and
an explosion followed, and when the smoke
cleared away the boy stood there without a
stitch OF clothing on him and with his hips
and sides burned in horrible manner.
Near Ironton, Ohio, August 23d, three little
boys Of Mr.. George Hamilton, the Oldest only
eight years old, were found locked in a chest,
smothered to death. Wil6er Warwick, a
little playmate of the children, confessed that
they had been playing jail' and that after
locking the little ones up he had forgotten to
come back and unlock the chest.
The past summer season, rattlesnalles have
been unusually numerous in the suburbs of
Little Rock, Ark, and one morning last
week when Mrs. Lucille Morgan got up and
thrust her foot in her slipper one was in it
coiled up for warmth. 1t did not bite her,
but the fright threw her into CONFUSION after
convulsion
Fifty-two well-to-do colored men, under the
leadership of r. II. Waterford of Memphis,
Tenn. have left Kansas City for Oklahom a,
where they will await the opening of the In
dian lands soon to be thrown open to general
settlement. They are from various parts of
the South and expect to found colony of
their own on the lands.
Dr.. q. W. Macune, editor of the National
Alliance Economist at Washington, who has
exchanged charges of a disreputable charac-
ter with Alliance Lecturer W. S. McAllister,
met him by chance at Durant, Miss. last
week, and fight ensued. Each charges the
other with having "sold the Alliance out" to
Wall street OF other interests.
The authorities at Ocean Grove and Asbury
Park, N. j., having by rule forbidden the
ing suits through the streets of the town, the
young men visitors have diminished so that
there are four girls at these parks to one
young man.
The young men Of Tenille, Ca, have re-
solved to boycott any young lady over fifteen
years old who "allows boys under sixteen
years of age to call upon, or accompany her
to any place of worship OF amusement - and
also ''any young ladies who make two en-
gagements for the same night
Miss Leonora Mitchell who was shot in a
railroad car in England, died last Friday
morning. The shooting, like that in the
sleeper near Basic City, was very mysterious,
no assassin having been seen by any one on
the train. She said he stood on the foot-board
of the car and fired through the window.
A Russian press censor permitted the fol
lowing item to appear in a Moscow paper:
cit is our opinion that Russia needs new rail
roads, and will have them" For this the
censor was suspended for three months and
the editor fined $500.
Ex-Governor Frederick W. NJ. Holiday of
Winchester, sailed Saturday from New Y ork
for Europe In this tour he will visit Spain,
Portugal, Tunis, Algiers, Italy and all coun-
tries bordering on the northern coast of At
RIGA.
Mrs. Tom Thumb, who is one of the most
popular ''freaks" in America, is paid $500 q
week by her managers. She has handsome
home in Bridgeport, Conn.,, and when not I'M
der an engagement lives there in luxury and
ease.
Now, Charley" said young Mrs. Tucker,
zone OF two things must happen. Either you
will have to quit smoking or you must let me
bny your cigars myself. You men know SO
little about bargains "PIl give up smok
ing" said Charley, without hesitation.
The application of Mrs. Gen. Stonewall
Jackson to the q. S. Government for the pen
sion granted the widows of soldiers of the
Mexican war has been refused as she has al
income of $500 and is not over sixty two year:
Of age.
The spe cal committee Oh the reduction o.
criminal expenses, appointed by the last Vir-
ginia legislature, has prepared eleven bills tt
submit to the next legislature. The crimina
expenses for 1SSS-S9 were nearly $500, 900 more
than they were for 1SS0-1S64.
Misses Sallie and Claudia Morson, aged six
teen and fourteen years, daughters of Jane:
Bruce Morson, formerly of Virginia, were
drowned while bathing in creek near Biz
mingham, Ala, August Goth.
Off of 81 acres of land on his farm in Page
county, Va, Mr.. l.. G. Printz has dug thi.
year 700 bushels OF Irish potatoes. At SOC
per bushel this is $3.50 off about acres of land
Another profit of big money in small crops.
| A prominent schoolmistress in Australia
has recently been suspended by the minister
of education at Victoria for undue indulgence
in the singular improperly of praying for the
death of her husband.
General Maury is the third distinguished
Confederate officer to have desk in the Wal
Records Office in Washington. The other two
are General Marcus Wright and General
George Field.
Miss Summit-"IIave you heard the dread.
full news about Miss Ringster? Yesterday
she jumped out of a three-story window and
killed herself Miss Palisade- "Oh, isn't
it awful What did she have on?"
Prof Chas. A. Perkins PHI. D. of Johns
Hopkins University, who has been elected to
the chair Of the late Prof. Holiday at Hamp-
den Sidney College, was for several years a
professor at Bryn Maur College, Pa.
A hay-ride party of ladies and gentlemen
while driving up the Main street of Gordons
vile, Va, had their merriment silenced by a
shower of eggs from some unknown hands
The ladies dresses were ruined.
The Florida Sugar Manufacturing Compa.
ny has just applied to the government fol
$50, 900 bounty on its three million pound pro-
duct. The Virginia wheat farmer gets moth.
ing-a practical beauty of the Mckinley bill
A convict out in Ohio in giving his wife 8
parting kiss slipped into her mouth a note
telling her where some of his booty was con-
cealed.
The only foreign cadet at West Point, it is
stated, is 20-year-old son of General Isidore
Urtecho, Commander int Chief of the Nicara
guam Army.
One of the curiosities at the Worlds Fail
at Chicago will be four hundred pianos play
| ing at once by an electric automatic attach
| ment.
| The white waiter girls in the Intermont
Hotel dining room at Covington have left and
their places have been filled by colored
| walters.
Easton, last week the canning houses were
refusing them when offered at five cents 8