Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1891-11-06
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CLEANED FROM THE MAILS.
The women postmasters have measured
fully up to the standard in the visits of in
spection they have been call on to make to
the country post-ofllces, under Mr.. Wanama-
ker's order. An idaho postmistress rode 254
miles on horseback to make her inspection.
Another in Kentucky travelled over 100 miles
and spent S15 for horse-hire alone. A post
mistress in Mississippi reached the post-offices
off the railroad line in sail-boat. Another
in Mississippi travelled through piney woods
inland without hesitation. Another, New
York woman. visited forty-four post-offices
with horse and carriage travelling 29l miles
A Texas woman omitted to visit one Office
because it required a horseback ride of thirty
five miles. Virginia and California postmis-
tresses visited every Office in their counties A
Pennsylvania woman attacked the tremendous
Undertaking of visiting 1913 offices, many of
them among the Allegheny mountains, and
disposed of it. A West Virginia woman wrote
that some of her offices were almost impossible
to be reached, but she would reach them Just
the same.
VIM. A. Feagle a merchant of Newburn
Pulaski Co., Va, is on trial for the assassi
nation Of John II. Caddall, County Treasurer
OF that county i'll April of last year. The
prosecution consists, besides the Common
wealth's Attorney of Gen. James A Walker
of Wythe, Joseph g. Wysor of Newburn, and
Robert B. Berkeley late Of Farmville The
defense is I. N. Williams of Lynchburg, I.
H. Larew of Newburn, and Brown & Moore of
Abingdon Monday, Gen. Walker having
characterized W. ]. Morris, one of the wit
nesses, as "a chimney corner lawyer, with
out any practice Morris attacked him at the
hotel. Morris was bound over to keep the
peace.
Prof. II. Y Lauderbach, aged seventy years,
principal of the boys Academy in Philadel-
phia, sat at his desk Friday morning and
wrote: 'My dear wife-I know it is coward
ly -" and crumpling the paper thrust it
into his coat pocket. A moment after, he
opened a closet door in the room, looked back
over his shoulders at the scholars, and put
ting pistol to his head shot himself dead
He had been teaching for fifty years, and
lately he lost several thousand dollars he had
saved up, in speculatiOns.
There were 10000 persons present at the I'M
yelling of the statue to Gen. Williams G.
Nickham in Richmond, Thursday. There
were over 900 volunteer troops there and the
proceedings at the monument were opened by
the sounding of the reveille by the old brigade
bugler. The Governor of Virginia and the
Governor of North Carolina were both there
Gen. Fitz. Lee delivered the Grafton. In the
procession were large number Of Confeder-
ate veterans, and employees of the Chesa-
peake & Ohio road
AT the revival now being carried on in Dan
Vile, Va, by Drummer Fife ha requested
twelve prominent ladies to go around to the
saloons and request that they close daily dur
ing the hours of religious service. Accom-
panied by some young gentlemen they went
but beyond being politely treated, they did
nothing but evoke information that. nearly
all the saloons were run by agents for theil
owners, who as agents did not feel at liberty
toclose up.
1t is proposed to erect a $4,000 Memorial
Hall of Stonewall jackson at the V. NJ l.
One relic in it will be the following, which
now hangs framed in Washington & Lee
University, and is receipt jackson gave
when he, at seventeen years of age, was riding
Constable in West Virginia:
t'DEC. md, 1911.
"Rec'd of Isaac Mitchell twelve dollars and IL
cts in full OF two executions AGAINST said Mitch
ell in favour OF James Blare assignee of s. p
Jackson, &C., the other in favour of John P
Reed & Co. THO. JACKSON: Const.'
In Baltimore last week, Henry Wunder, a
patient at the City Hospital, demented from
the use of bromidia, leaped from the fonrth
story window landing on the head of Neal
Cooke, a colored man who was on the pave
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Strange to say, neither the patient nor the col
ored man were at all injured though the SHOW
ell being used by the latter was bent double.
| Jacob Lawrence of Gordon, Pa, MANY
years ago made several thousand dollars at
| horse trading, and after investing it in subur-
ban property in Brooklyn N. Y, went back
to his regular business of Car inspector for the
railroad company at his village. Last week
he was run over and killed by train. His
Brooklyn property is now worth 5000, 900 and
| goes to his sister.
NJ. Guillot, French chemist, has declared
that more than five million dollars worth OF
''whitened' diamonds have been sold in Der
lin alone at 50 per cent. above their value
He recommends diamond merchants to insist
when purchasing diamonds, on test bath Of
alcohol. That is solvent of analine, which
is the basis of the process for making dia-
monds more brilliant.
Mrs. William Astor has wonderful snake
ring, which literally writhes in constant mo
ton on her hand. 1t was made in Egypt,ant
is of flexible gold wire, each scale represented
by a ruby, an emerald and an amethyst. The
| lightest movement of the fingers sets the wire:
qniverng, and the ring scintillates and seem:
to go around the finger with serpentine move
ment that has something eerie in it,
A cask of Scotch whiskey, 1715 gallons, val
ued at Eli, with the S54 of duty prepaid il
Scotland, arrived at the New. York cnston
rected to Benjamin Harrison, Executive
Mansion, Washington, d. CO. The invoice
showed that it was purchased at Perth, Scot
land and was invoiced to "Mr. Andrew Car
nege Cluny Castle"
| The Virginia State Board of Agriculture
last week, Maj. Absolom Koiner of Augusta
voting with the majority, resolved by vote
of to 5 to recommend to the legislature the
passage CT laws prohibiting the sale of liquor
| on, or within quarter of mile of, any fail
ground while a fair is being held, and pro
hibiting any game of chance whatever on such
fair grounds, OF within a half mile OF them.
Dr.. John f. Owen, Medical Director Of the
Chicago Worlds Fair appoints women physi-
clans on his staff and gives them equal rank
with the men in the Exposition hospital. In
addition to this, the Board of Lady Managers
will have a model hospital of their own In
the womens building equipped with physi-
clans and nurses.
Frank Dickson, who was tried three years
ago at Charleston, Kanawha, and acquitted
of the charge of wrecking G. d 0. train
there by which conductor Netherland and
fireman Elkins were killed, was shot and
killed at sewell, w. Va, last week, by John