Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1891-09-25
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finding young Thos. ]. Haines of Washington
city, not guilty Of the murder of Ed. A. Han
nagan of the same city. The young men were
boating off Fortress Monroe, and in quarrel
the former shot the latter who was unarmed,
dead in the boat. Public opinion agreed that
Haines should have been given term in the
State prison at least. A public meeting on
Thursday night in Hampton, adopted calm
and dignified resolutions condemning the yer-
dict. at the meeting A. A. Lipscomb of
Washington, one of the counsel who assisted
in the prosecution, denounced the jurors After
it was over Booker Jones one of the jurymen,
and his two brothers hunted Lipscomb up at
the Hygeia Hotel, but the government watch
man sent them off the reservation before any
attack was made.
The county court of Loudoun county, Va,
decided in a case before it last week, that the
fact that temperance meeting is interspersed
with religious worship, such as prayers and
hymns does not bring it under the law protect
ing public worship from being disturbed Two
defendants had been fined $40 by Justice I'M
der that law for selling watermelons near the
grounds OF temperance meeting SO conduc-
ted, without the permission of those in con-
troll of the ground. The jury acquitted the
defendants under instructions from the court
that, eff the cause of temperance is subordi-
mated to the worship of God, then the meeting
is one for religious worship, if the worship Of
God is incidental to and subordinate to the ad-
vancement of temperance doctrines, then the
meeting is not religious and the jury must ac-
quit the defendant
The Sangamon, ILL.,, county fair offered a
$500 piano as premium for the best jelly
cake exhibited. There were 600 competitors,
and Mrs. Samuel Willett of Springfield, was
awarded the piano. It has leaked out since
that Mrs. Willett's jelly cake was angel $
food with jelly between each layer The
greatest excitement arose among the defeat
ed ladies, and they telegraphed to belmont
co in New York, whom they insisted knew
how it ought to be done to know if such a
cake could be called jelly cake lie replied
that it could properly be SO called, though it
was an unusual way to make it. The ladies
now say Delmonico knows nothing about it,
In Grayson county, Va, last month, J. NJ
Young, aged fifty-four, shot and killed his
father, VIM. Young. aged eighty. The son
had spent 81 900 of the fathers money to pay
for ':counterfeit money or 'tgreen goods
from New York. The goods" were sent by
express and were the usual saw dust and
wrapping paper. The son then went after
the father and demanded that he give him his
share Of the estate before his death. The old
man refused and the shot him dead Last
week, the son who had fled, was tracked to
Jonesville, Ark, arrested, and is on his way
In cly n Graycon poInty in ouctodv
The passengers on the Pennsylvania fast
express train between New York and Phlla-
delphia, Friday night were astonished by a
shower of iron chips that came through the
windows while the train was going a mile a
minute slight thump under the engine
caused the engineer to bring the train to a
halt, when it was found that one of the for
ward driving wheels had been shattered, the
tire burst and the spokeS crushed. The ties
for several miles back had been broken bv
the spokeS and tire.
Elias Young is being tried at Wilkesbarre.
Pa, for the murder of 1t. Stewart Robinson
a Federal enrolling officer, twenty
years ago. He, with three others, was draft
ed for the Federal army and fled to the moull-
tains and formed camp. 1t. Robinson SUI
prised this camp and the deserters shot him in
the melee. Els being brought to trial now is
due to Robinson'S brothers who have been
waiting for years to get some clue to the three
men, and one of the three last June confessed.
Col. II. Clay King, convicted of the murder
of David H. Posten, at Memphis, Tenn, has
been sentenced to be hanged November 6.
King is Tennessee lawyer of prominence
and the author of Kings Digest" Though
married, he became infatuated with Gen. Gid
con j. Pillows widow, who got possession of
all his property and then threw him over.
He was suing to recover the property and
Posten was the widows lawyer. He shot him
dead on the street without warning
Myers, New York thief, who, with some
companions, robbed an old Shenandoah, Va.
farmer out of several hundred dollars bv a
confidence game, and who has been twice con-
victed of the crime in Woodstock, last week got
another new trial on the ground that in the
trial of him and his companion writ of
venire was issued summoning forty men,
whereas two writs each summoning twenty
men should have been issued.
The census. shows the value OF the properly
held by colored people i'll the Southern States
to be as follows-Maryland, SIS, 900, 1856 Vir-
ginia, $4,000 900; North Carolina, Sill, o1O, 652
South Carolina, S12 800, 900; Georgia, $40, 49,
$780, Florida, $1,000, 900; West Virginia,
S5,O06, 900; District of Columbia, $500, 900;
Louisiana, SIS, 100000; Mississippi, $13, $780,
900.
At Marienbad Mr.. Joe Rosenberg, of Chi
cage, has died, aged no. He was the principal
heir and executor of the San Francisco mil
lionaire, Michael Reese, who left $4,000, 900.
Reese who had gone to his native village to
visit the graves of his parents, to save the 2
cents charge for opening the cemetery gate,
climbed over the wall, fell, and died in con-
sequence.
Second Auditor Frank Ruffin OF Virginia
produces the figures to show that in the last
nine years Virginia has only paid for legal
services to fight the coupons $4,000, and by
that expenditure has kept out Sc, 900, 900 of for
feited tax receivable coupons which would
have bankrupted the Treasury and compelled
increased taxation.
Rev. James p. McTeer, who was found dead
Sept. 14th, in the Hancock House at Wythe-
Vile, Va, his former home, which he was Wis
iting, has been q Readjuster county Judge
the youngest in Virginia. minister OF the
gospel and Prohibition lecturer. He was
spending his vacation at Wytheville
AT Sulphur Springs, Texas, Thursday, Ev-
erett Moore. editor OF the Alliance "Vindica-
tor and E. NJ. Tate, editor Of the Hopkins
county echo" closed up a hot debate over
the Sub-Treasury scheme, with pistols Moore
was wounded and only lived four hours Tate
is in jail.
At the fair grounds at Oswego, N. Y, last
week, George r. Woods, q young farmer,
volunteered to help hold down the balloon
which was being inflated. When it shot up
the rope caught around his leg and he was
carried up a hundred feet. He kicked loose
and fell head first being instantly killed.
General Hill, Va, Commissioner of Rail