Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1891-02-20

dred and twenty-five guests on marble floor
carpeted with bear and tiger SIX ms.
There is at Anderson, w. Va, the only sur
viving lion out of five born there when
Frenchs circus was there last fall. 1t runs
at large in the house, and is as playful as a
kitten. Mrs. Bebout, who has raised it, has
been offered $500 for it,
To the application OF number of American
ladies DESTROYS of presenting France with a
statue of Washington, Governor Mckinney
replies that the legislature must give them
permission to take cast Of the Houdon statue
at Richmond, and that he cannot.
| The subcommittee Of the Judiciary Com
mittee of the House of Representatives, have
| leported recommending that Judge Alex
| Boorman, u. S. District Judge of the West
trn District of Louisiana, be impeached for
the personal use of moneys paid into his court
A delegation OF Sioux Indians, the tribe
recently surrendered, is in Washington city to
see the Great Fathe They are located at a
boarding house by the government agent in
charge and the street in front of it is continu-
ally full Of gaZers.
Twelve days ago, Henry Williams, aged 20,
Of Waverley, Tenn, led charming bride of
10 to the altar. On Wednesday morning of
| last week a friend called at their home and
found them both insane.
Samuel Morey, whose name was in every
body mouth in the Presidential campaign of
| Hancock and Garfield in 1880, as the author of
| the famous '-Morey" Chinese letter, died at
Nashua, N. H., Friday.
In Richmond, Saturday, the store of G. &
A. Bargamin was closed, with Grape on the
door, i'll respect to James Taliaferro, the col
ored porter, who had been with the house for
! forty years.
Col Llewellyn Hoxton who was Gen.
liardee's Chief of Artillery during the war,
and who for the last twenty years has been
Assistant Principal in the Episcopal High
| School at Alexandria, died on the 18th inst.
| At sale Of Washington relics in Philadei-
phia. last week, his autograph letters sold at
from S12 to 1925 each and the coffin plate from
Washingtons coffin was bought by w. r.
| Benjamin for $50.
Geo. w. Dupree, proprietor of one of the
New Orleans papers. was arrested there, Sat
urday, for sending papers containing lottery
advertisements through the mails, and a let
Ter containing lottery matter. He was bailed
The Norfolk grand jury has brought i'll a
report citing as an open violator of the Sunday
law one of the SWEETEST social clubs in the
South, the Virginia Club, of that city. Col
Walter II. Taylor is president of the club.
In speech at Ieavenworth eighteen years
ago, Just after his first election to the Senate,
Mr.. ingalls, said 81 shall not be like that
man who went into Office with but little oppo-
sition and who went out without any,
Mr. j. w. Mackay, the bonanza king, and
Mr.. G. W. Bonynge, a millionaire, engaged
in personal difficulty in the Nevada Bank at
San Francisco last week, in which the latter
| was knocked down.
Whitehall Female Seminary, near Concord,
N. G., was burned at O'Clock Friday morn
ing. The fifty-two girl boarders escaped, but
many lost their trunks and clothing.
Rev. NJ. B. Wharton of Montgomery Ala,
| has accepted a call to the Freemason-street
Baptist church at Norfolk, at 8, 500 and par
sonage.
The Virginia Court of Appeals says that
where man buys piece of property and gives
deed of trust the same day, his wife is not
| entitled to dover in it.
Minnie Taylor was found hanging dead in
vacant house near Buena Vista, Ohio, on
Thursday, and on her breast card on which
she had written, Good by. l am in hell. -
Mrs. Astor washes her hands in oatmeal
water twenty times day, and believes glyce-
rine is the best thing for keeping the skin of
the face fresh and blooming.
The Virginia Nail and Iron Works Co.
whose works are four miles from Lynchburg,
have made an assignment. The works cost
$40, 900, and the liabilities are only S175, 600.
| The order detailing L. S. Army officer as
professor of military science aud tactics at
the Virginia Military Institute, has been sus-
pended for the present.
| twG-story log house built near Bridge
water, Rockingham, III 1863, has just been
torn down. Many of the logs were as sound
as when put there 122 years ago.
Gen Nathan Goff, the West Virginia Re-
publican leader has, it is stated, decided to
leave his immense interests in his old State
and locate in Idaho.
Hon. Paul G. Edmunds is credited by the
Washington papers with being the only prac-
teal farmer in the Virginia congressional
| delegation
Judge Warder of Chattanooga, Tenn, who,
in whiskey frenzy, killed his daughter
husband, the banker Fugette, has been indict-
ed for murder in the first degree.
Saving dimes is the strong weakness of Mrs.
D. H. Mcdowell Of Oskaloosa, Iowa, and
during a year and half she managed to drop
$11S.70 into her little bank.
NJ Eiffel, whose tower has made his name
widely known, is running for Legislative Office
in the department of the Cote d'Gras a work
ingman's candidate.
The old and noted clothing house of Noal
Walker & Co. in Baltimore, suspended
Friday.
Rev. Sam Jones in a lecture at Lagrange
Ga, said 1.-The Mayor of Palestine will
, know whom to jump on next time
Senator Daniel on Friday reported a bill
approprlating $50, 900 for Government build
ing at Charlottesville, Va.
Ex-Gov John b. Gordon of Georgia, los
his pocket book and Slis in New York, Satur
day, by pick pocket
The California legislature has voted $500,
900 for that States exhibition at the World
Fair at Chicago
''she Stops to Conquer" given by amateur
in Lexington for the jackson Memorial Asso
citation, realized $500.
A few drops Of nitrate of amyl inhaled from
handkerchief, will cure the most obstinate
case of hiccoughs.
Ex-Governor Geo A. Crawford. of Kansas
died at Grand Junction, Col, Saturday, o.
hemmOrrhage of the lungs.
Jacob Shaner a butcher of Lynchburg, was
shot and painfully wounded by his clerk
Dick Berndt, Friday.
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