Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1891-01-09

! of Nell Gwynne." who was the fayorite OF
King Charles II. The chief pension is e2 ,0Oo
paid annually to the Duke Of St A1bans,
whose only claim upon the British treasury
is the fact of his being descended from one OF
Nell Gwynne's royal infants.
Rev. Dir. J. L. Burrows, last Friday night,
resigned the pastorate of the Freemason-strcet
TIE infirmities of old age His Sunday
chool children gavaAim on Christmas. seven
ty-seven gold dollars one for every year OF
his life.
On Christmas night, at Sylyanus. Carroll
county, Va, Miss Edmonia Andrews and
her wedding guests sat up till midnight wait
ing for the. groom who did not appear. The
next morning when her mother went to wake
Miss Andrews she was dead. She had taken
iaudanum.
The New York courts have decided that the
widow Hammersly now the Duchess of Marl-
borough must hereafter only draw $50, 900 OF
ler annual income of $4,000, and the re,
naming $50, 600 must be applied to the pay
ment of 500 600 of judgments for debts hang.
lag over her.
Mr.. William l.. Graham young man
about twenty five years of age, and son Of DR..
John Graham, prominent physician at Lex
ton and surgeon OF the Virginia Military In
stitute was found dead in his bed Friday
morning The cause of his death is supposed
to have been a congestive chill.
Mr.. John S. Patton of the Charlottesville
Jeffersonian was arrested there Monday, on
the belief that he was starting for Harrison
burg with the intention OF challenging Mr. D.
Shefey Lewis Of the Spirit of the Valley to a
duel. The trouble grew out of articles in
their respective papers.
The father of Rev. j. W. Wildman, pastor
of the Baptist church at Farmville, fell into
the Lithia Spring near there Saturday, while
dipping up a drink OF water, and was drown
ed. He was pas. eighty years.
Walter Il. Abel, one of the owners of the
Baltimore Sun, and who had done some good
literary work, though mostly for private cir
culation among his friends. died OF heart dis
ease on Saturday.
Mrs. John ID. Rockefeller, wife of the STAR
dard Oil millionaire, the man whose income
i, $500 minute, is herOwn house-keeper, and
she keeps set OF books in which she accounts
Col. John Shackelford Green, formerly OF
Rappallanncck, vino commanded the 9th Va
Confederate cavalry, died at his home il
Norfolk last week. He was Ii cousin of Gen
Turner Ashby.
The committee appointed by the last Pro
testant Episcopal Council of Virginia, on The
division of the diocese, will meet in Richmond
January 18th. Bishop Randolph is the chair
man.
Vice President Morton has sold his magnif
icent summer house, known as Fair Lawn, OF
Bellevue avenue, Newport. to Mr.. Burden o
the Burden Iron Works, Troy, n. Y. Thu
price paid was about S145,000.
Gen. John II. Rice, who has come promi
nently to the front as q member of the Farm
ers' Alliance, weighs about $50 pounds. HI
is tall. raw boncd and deep-lumged. He dres
ses in gray homespun.
The Christmas tips given by the member:
of the New York Union League Club thi;
Christmas to the employees OF the building
were over S., 900, while those Of the Uniol
and Athletic Clubs averaged So, GOO each.
An Apt Pupil.-Mrs. ouIghusband NOV
that it is the new year, John, hope that yol
will be able to say no; and, by the way, won
you let me have a little money!" john
(herocally): No"
Silas Fouran the Florida snake charmer il
in the Everglades collecting a snake from
every variety known, to be exhibited at th
Chicago Worlds Fair in 1892
Edward Bro wn of Bath, Me-, on new year
| day. swung nine-pound clubs for six hour
and forty-one minutes without ceasing. H.
averaged So full swings to the minute.
The Missouri Farmers Alliance is taking
the first step to fight the great CONSOLIDATED
American Harvester Co. by establishing
| factory at st. Louis.
George Knights condition continues to be
come worse. He is very docile and is handled
as child. He is living with his aged mother
His wife is still playing.
Randolph Coyie of Washington city, th
Assistant U. S. District Attorney who france
the indictment against the assassin Guiteau,
died of pneumonia Monday.
There were 14S business failures in Virgini;
during $780, involving liabilities amountin.
to 81 1908, 525, being less in number and amour
than for either Of the two previous years.
The Oakley Land and Improvement Co., il
session at Lynchburg, broke the record Mon
day, by declaring dividend of nine hundred
per cent
Miss Fanny Hogue, teacher in the Firs
Presbyterian Sunday School at Charleston
w. Va, last Sunday completed the thirteenth
| year that she had never been a bsent Sabbath
The two firms of A d. Abbott & Co. ant
Abbott & Co., in Bedford City, Va, failed OF
the 9th inst, as did the firms of p. Adder ant
Siggerman Il Rotham in Roanoke.
Alexander William Kinglake, the historian
author of 'The Invasion of the Crimea,'' dice
in London Friday,
G. T. Swift of Atlanta, Ca, who had mad,
princely fortune out of a proprietary medi
cine, died last week.
Capt. A. NJ. Earle, who represented War
rem and Clarke in the Virginia legislature il
81 SO, died at Front Royal Saturday
Mrs. Milton Mobiles, dolly has recover
ed her health, and is again with her husband
company.
The Peoples National Bank building al
Lynchburg lost its upper story by fire OIL
Monday night.
T. d. Wilkinson, Secretary of the Richmond
i. NJ. G. Association, is dead.
There are oyer 200 unemployed actors nov
in the city Of New York.
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