Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1891-06-26

OradO Conference to another conn ectlOn,
where he will pursue his ministerial work.
Rev. j. Wesley Hill, one of those who SIAN
dered Mr.. Small, has been indicted by the
grand Jury for libel.
| AT Portland, Oregon, q big beer hall has
counter made of one stick of timber running
its whole length. 1t was cut III the State OF
Washington for the purpose and is Ill 1eeG
| long, cut square, each side being four feet. 1t
cost 81, 800 to put it there and it is polished up
in the highest style of art.
The Charlestown jefferson co., W. Va,
Spirit of jefferson. now puts at the head OF
its paper Charles Town. and urges its people
to adopt that writing of the name and thus
avoid the confusion with Charleston, Kama
| wha CO., w. Va. 1t is good idea.
| The census report shows that the real estate
owned by Negroes in Virginia cities is valued
at S3,019,950 and their personal property
| S454, 799 In the counties the real estate owned
| by Negroes is valued at SIS, $50, 9G4 and their
| personal property 81, 996,0S9. Total in State
| $15,026, 500.
| George IIutchins of New Jersey, a few years
ago, left Henry George So, 900 to be used in
printing and distributing his book Progress
and Poverty" The widow contested the will
and after two years litigation there is 1854 left
out of the $4,000, in the division of which
| the court awards Mr.. George two-thirds.
On the farm of Geo. Vandevander i'll High
land Co., Va, was blown down, last week,
an apple tree planted about one hundred
years ago, and which, up to three years ago,
bore eighty bushels of apples year. 1t
measured 10ls feet around the trunk.
Benz. J. Brooks, u school teacher near
Americas, Ga, has just been sentenced to
$500 fine or eight months in the chain gang
for cruelty beating Il pupil. Brooks has
money to pay the fine but preferred working
it out in the chain gang, TO paying it..
Why do people wait until Il man is sick and
can't eat, to send him good things? When he
is Well, and would like something good, no
neighbor comes in With fancy jellies, old
wines, and things like that. Things are very
unfuir.--1tchSsoa Globe
The bronze statue of the late Gen. YIN. G.
Wickham has been completed and is ready
for delivery to the city of Richmond 1t is
thought that it will be placed in Monroe
Park.
AT q circus sidc-show in Chicago, while
Miss uno, the snake charmer, was perform
ing with fourteen-foot python, it frightened
its folds on her and seized her arm with lis
teeth 1t took three men to release her.
Mrs. Ellen Moore of Williamsport, Pa,
who is a member of the Funeral Directors
Association of Pennsylvania, has been in the
business forty years and buried 8 33S persons.
Robert Garnet of Va, a near relative OF
the late Senator r. NJ L. Hunter, has been
appointed keeper of the 'morgue at Wash
ington.
A London tradesman recently received an
order for sixty-four pairs of shoes for the
daughter of the Grand Duke Paul of Russia
a child less than a year old.
Gov. Mckinney says he Will recommend ii
his message to the next Virginia. legislature, g
law requiring separate cars for whites ant
negroes on the railroads
The Florence National Bank of Florence
Ala, suspended Monday after a run on it
caused by false report. 1t expects to re-
sumo in few days.
john ID. Rockefeller, the Standard Oil
man, is the richest man in America and mucl
ahead Of Gould or the Vanderbilts. Hi
wealth is estimated at Sl29,OOO, 900.
The second lot of new Virginia wheat re-
ceived in Baltimore, this time $3.50 bushels
| from Lancaster county, sold at 81 80 bushel
| General Grants sister, Mrs. Mary Grant
Cramer, of Orange, n j.. is lecturing to ex
| soldiers in central New York.
England and Wales Exclusive of Ireland
| have % 900, 600 inhabitants.