Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1891-01-02
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store, as they wanted to bny goods. After he
unlocked the store door they crushed his skull,
cut his throat, and robbed the store and es-
capped Five suspects have been arrested.
The Santa Claus OF the Sunday School Of a
Cincinnati Methodist church, on Christmas
night got stuck i'll the mistit chimney built
for him to descend. He waved his legs in
| much tribulation for some time before the
audience could understand that there was an
accident. When they did, the chimney was
Knocked to pieces and he was released.
The stockholders of the Rockbridgc Agri-
| cultural and Mechanical Society last week
adopted IL resolution to sell its Fair grounds
at Lexington and pay its debts, aggregatins
5000. This society gave its first exhibition
thIrty-one years ago; at one time had AS nienl-
bers, and ioi lWenty-four years hadn't missed
holding an annual fair.
Sir John Pope IIennessy, who defeated Far
nell's candidate in Kilkenny, is clever
handsome man and one of those who Were
| recommended by Disraeli to the Conservative
leaders just before his death. He is the orig
inal OF Anthony Trollope's "Phineas Finn,
+ the Irish Membe4.'
John Mathews, the postmaster at Carrolton
Miss, who has been III innumerable fights
and is accounted ID tough, of whom the town
stood i'll terror, went looking fer druggist w
S. Mcbride with a Winchester rifle Christ
mas morning. Mcbride found him first and
shot him dead.
In speaking OF the minute parasites which
are found in the hairy part of a tigers foot
a scientist says: "They constitute one of the
most wonderful curiosties | know of in the
animal world The parasites are so small as
to be almost invisible to the naked eye, and
Vet each is perfect counterpart OF the tiger. y
Herman d. Armon, aged twenty, died in
St. Louis last week from an orange seed swal-
lowed over year ago which lodged in the
| small intestine. Surgery was resorted to to
save his life, but he died shortly after the
operation.
Miss Ray Frank is one OF the few Jewesses
who in recent times have preached in a syna-
gogue. On the Day Of Atonement she spoke
at Spokane Falls, Wash, and SO interested
her hearers that they decided to establish a
permanent congregation there.
There are many young U. s. Senators. Du-
NASSeNN ,
Senators 90 years old and under are: Wal
colt, AZ; Gray, 80; Higgins, 50; Spooner, Al;
Aldrich, 80; Pettigrew, -; Daniel, 4S; Allen,
-; Faulkner, 49, and Kenna, ~.
Prof. Koch has been forced to take ten
days vacation. He has been made an honor
AIRY citizen of Berlin. He is the fourth man
to enjoy that distinction. His colleagues are
Prince Bismarck, Count MoItke, and Dr..
Henry Schliemann.
The Masonic Temple at Baltimore, part of
Which was theatre, was destroyed by fire on
Christmas afternoon at G o'clock. The loss is
$50, 900 on which there is 100000 insurance.
A good many Masonic records were destroyed
which cannot be replaced.
Mr. John Burns of Jefferson Co., w. Va.
has purchased the 4Go-acre 'Blakely' farm
from Col. r. P. Chew for sSl 400, giving in
part payment 81 acres of his land near Char
lestown, at a valuation Of ST. 49, 49,
A 1inclL H.. 81. 4 American made steel tested
atjseading, Wednesday only broke at a strain
of 90, 33333 pounds, being 20, 900 pounds in ex-
cess of the highest record authoritatively
known.
Henry 3. Brown Z. S. District Judge of
Michigan, who has been appointed Associate
Justice Of the Z. S. Supreme Court, is fifty
FIVE years old, and was admitted to the bar
in 1860
The skating pond on the roof of the Man
haitian Athletic Club house i'll New York,
was flooded for ice Christmas eve and on
Christmas day there was fine skating on the
house top
- DR.. NJ. A. Dauphin, a native of Alsace-
~ine, for twenty years President of the
Louisiana Lottery Company, died at his resi-
dence in New Orleans Sunday afternoon,
aged 80 years.
1t is estimated that there are thirty thousand
cases Of the grip in New Orleans, and the
daily death rate is nearly as great as when the
yellow fever was epic emc twelve years ago.
The Tennessee Supreme Court has decided
that real estate mortgages in that State are
not property, but simply an instrument to
secure debt and cannot be taxed by the State.
Colonel Bussey, who succeeds the foul
mouthed "Joe' Cannon in Congress, has
never been known to leave his house after
nightfall
Mr.. Linn Irwin Of Shenandoah county has
broken the record in the Valley by the slaugh-
ter Of a hog weighing seven hundred and
seyenty-fye pounds
Two of the late Senator Riddleberger's
children are employed in Washington; Frank
as page in the Senate, and Miss Olive, who
has a clerkship in the Census Bureau
Judge Cyrus c. Hines, of Ludlow, Il. H.,
who experienced an apoplectic stroke, was
for fifteen years the law partner of President
Harrison in indianapolis.
For the first time in four years, st. Louis has
had Christmas snow. She had to go with
out her street car service in consequence OF its
depth.
Miss Winnie Davis, daughter of Jefferson
Davis, has arrived in New Y ork, and IS at the
New York Hotel, where her mother has been
staying for some time.
At Marion, Ind. Christmas eve night, John
@. Thomas, dressed as Santa Claus at the fes-
tival of the children OF the NJ. E. Church,
took fire and was burned to DEATH
The only place in America where slate
pencils are now manufactured is in the State
of Virginia, near Charlottesville, Alhemarle
county.
Sadie Martinez paid sl1j for the doll dress
ed by Mrs. Cleveland for the New York
Charity Dolls Fair.
The new Richmond, Va, owners Of the
Bear I!ithia Springs at Elkton, have just sold
it to New York capitalists.
'Maplewood'' farm, the Col. J. II. Hop
kns place near Harrisonburg, has been
bought by MIS-. Mamie B. Fell for S12 GOO.
a colored preacher in Lynchburg is said to
| have baptized Ia candidates the other day in
thirty-iiye minutes.
Mrs. A. Lirtz, of New Orleans, is the pro-
prietor Of an undertaking establishment which
includes all details of the business.
The contract for the construction Of hotel
at Winchester. Va, to cost 500, 900, has been
awarded.
4 postoiiice has been established at Hoover,
Rockingham county. Va, with David E. Hoo
yer as postmaster.