Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1891-07-03
JLEA NED FROM THE MAILS.

E. F. Schmidt. the tenth member of ''The
Suicide Club at Bridgeport, Ct, to commit
suicide, has just blown out his brains with
shot gun. The club was formed six years ago
with six members, but the membership has
been greatly enlarged. The suicides of menu
bers in that six years are-August Heisterha-
gen, suicide in bed with revolver; j. Kaipp,
shot himself while in bed; George Leaven-
worth died in Cases Hotel, laudanum self
administered; William Nickel cut his throat
with a razor in his room; John KinZy shot
himself through the heart with rifle in the
cellar of his saloon; j. G. Schneider threw
himself in front OF an express train at the
depot before dozen friends; John IIattern
hanged himself in his shop; Wendell Baur,
cut his throat with a jack-knife in an open
lot, New York city; W. IL. Moby, blew out
his brains with revolver; E. f. Schmidt.
blew his brains out with shot gun.
A dismal marriage took place at Brighton,
Eng, Thursday. Mr. Parnell and Mrs.
O'Shea, who have been the talk of the civil
lized world for a year past, were married at
the Office of the Register. Mr.. Parnell was
dressed in dark clothes. He appeared to he
well and in cheerful spirits, but occasionally
threw nervous glances around him, apparent
ly being somewhat anxious lest the wedding
party be observed. Mrs. OShea was also in
dark ATTIRE and wore pink-trimmed bonnet
She, too. was in good spirits, and was very
yiyacious, both before and after the ceremo
nv. 1t is said they will take house in Lon
don and attempt to rehabilitate themselve'
in reputable society by means of politics.
The real estate men of Brooklyn. N. Y :, arr
not behind in enterprise in other branches O.
business Mrs. Matilda Partridge, aged fifty
one. widow of Gen. Partridge, and a woman
of means, is now suing one of them, Andrew
Joyce, for breach OF promise. He courtet
her with such ardor that she unhesitatingl!
loaned him 1000 after they were engaged
When she asked him to keep his promise o.
marriage his reply surprised her-he asked
for further loan of $4,000. The suit is OIL
and the social standing of the plaintiff give
it much interest in Brooklyn society.
w. A. Thompson, an American, who is il
the Chinese customs service at WhaMpoa
China, is now in Chicago. He says that tn
grip swept over the Chinese Empire in Febru
airy last and hundreds of thousands of tn
natives died of the disease. The Mongolian
imagined the Evil Spirit was demonstratin,
his wrath by sending plague among them
and they went through the streets Of all tn
large cities beating drums to drum the Evi
Spirit out of the country. During one weel
in Canton 1O,O 900 people were buried.
r. E. Hardwicke, a policeman of Radford
Va, undertook to cowhide Rev. Samuel Saun
ders, the Baptist minister there. The minis
9 ter first got hold of the cowhide, and then at
ter breaking his umbrella over the policeman
jabbed him in the face with the handle til
he agreed to quit. A public meeting preside
over by Col. Bennett Taylor. at which Col j
Hampton Hoge was the principal speaker
denounced the assault and demanded the dis
missal of the policeman from the town en-
ploy.
Hon. J. R. Tucker of Lexington, was at til
commencement of Harvard University a
Cambridge, Mass, last week, by invitatio
= OF the University authorities, and they COZ
ferred on him the honorary degree of Docto
of Laws. Mr. Tucker is now the pOssessOr c
this mark of distinction from the three oldes
seats of learning in this country-WilliaI
and Mary College, Yale University, an
Harvard University. The first named col
ferred the degree in 1875. Yale in 1887, an
Harvard Wednesday.
The body of E. M. Haskell, who has bee
dead for over twenty years, was recently re
moved from his grave at Mortified, MINI
it being purposed to put the body in anothe