Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1891-05-08


with the conviction that The interests of pub
lie morality and religion demand that the
gates OF the National Columbian Exposition
to be held in Chicago should be closed on
Sunday
Young OF Newberne, n g., who had got
ten verdict of $4,000 against the Western
Union Telegraph Co. for mental anguish oc
casioned by its failure to deliver message to
him i'll time to reach his wife's death bed, has
at the second trial of the case which the com.
pany got, withdrawn the suit. The fact had
leaked out that it was not his wife, but another
mans with whom he was living in that re.
lation.
i John b. Werner of Allentown, Pa, and r
MOrey Ludlow of st. Louis, (the latter of
| whom was once student at Washington IL Lee
| University, Va, two students at the General
! Theological Seminary OF the Episcopal
| church in New \ Ork, left the Seminary one
night last week and were received the next
day into the Roman Catholi; church by the
Paulist Fathers, whose community they will
join.
AT the funeral in Charlottesville Saturday
of Gen A. l.. Long, who was Gen Lees Mill
tary Secretary, Capt. II. f. Lee Col. Walter
Taylor, (Gen. Lees Chief of Staff), Gen. r.
l.. Rosser and Capt. II. G. Niche were among
the pail bearers. Among the floral tributes
was one from Mr.. and Mrs A. F. Kinney of
Staunton.
Abingdon, Va, went ''dry' Saturday by 81.
The pastor of one of the churches having been
misinformed about the result painted the
town in his sermon Sunday morning, includ-
ing the tglad shouts OF the cohorts of the
| saloons over the good news. The cOngre-
CATION smiled audibly during the sermon.
Young McCracken's acquittal of the muir
der of Ills father, which was deliberate and
brutal, on the ground of insanity, was lie
ceiyed with much Indignation at Fredericks-
burg. The following sign was posted on the
courthouse door after the acquittal ''For
rent; no order. no law
Miss Maggie Schutt of Derry, Pa, de-
scribed as "perverse old maid'' died last
week Her bustle-which by good fortune
was cut open, just as her two sisters in clean
ing up the house were about throwing it into
the fire-was found to contain $4,000 in green
backs with good quantity of gold.
The Aetna furnace property at lronton,
Ohio, has been bought by Jos. S. Clark and
Jno. IL. Barnes Of Philadelphia, representing
the first mortgage bondholders for $3.50, 6OO
The Norfolk 81 Western Ry., it is understood,
is the purchaser.
The Whlteley Reaper works which were
started at Springfield, Ohio, with $1,000, 600
worth OF machinery and the ambition to be
the largest agricultural works in the world,
have gone into the hands of receiver and
will be sold this month
(,On0raScmau Row Pocav q 7 actor of +ba
Danvlle district in Virginia, has been taken
quite i'll on preaching tour in Kentucky, and
will be carried back to his home in Floyd
Co., Va.
Bridal outfits to rent is the legend over a
bijou store in New York. This does away
with the trials of experimenting the con-
structiOn of a trouSseau, that makes so many
brides invalids.
No less than four we'll known citizens of
Norfolk-a dentist, two real estate men and a
commission merchant-have disappeared
from that city in the last ten days under
peculiar social OF financial circumstances.
The executors Of the estate of the late Adam
Forepaugh, the famous Snowman, have made
return OF the estate. showing it to be worth
$50, 900. 1t is divided between his widow and
son.
The Rockbridge Savings Bank at Lexington
has just declared an annual dividend of per
cent. on its capital stock, and passed 81, 700 to
its surplus fund which now amounts to per
cent on the capital stock.
MI. Bernard ID. Chalkley of Richmond
Va, has been elected an honorary member Of
the Partisan Inventors Academy and received
a diploma on his inven Jon Of a leather-dresS-
ing machine.
DR.. 1dward Maynard dental surgeon of
Washington city, and tine inventor of the
Maynard rifle, died on Monday of Bright's
disease.
Miss Mary Garrett has given another 500, 900
toward the 100000 yet to he raised for a Wo-
mans Medical School for Johns Hopkins
University. -
Mrs. NJ. L. Mills of Tennessee, lecturer and
organizer of the National Womans Temper
ance Union, will be in Virginia from May
It'll to .July1Oth.
Prof. Rogers of Dickinson College at Car
Isle, Pa, in his lecture last week, located on
blackboard with great precision the exact
locality of the Garden of Eden
The electric street cars started in Lynch
burg Saturday, and successfully mounted its
hills.
The ladies of the Women's Christian Asso-
ciatlon in Rich mond, Va, Melted $4,000 by
their carnival Just closed there.
The Italian government has decided from
motives OF economy not to take an official part
in the Worlds Fair at Chicago.
Hon. John f. Lewis is at his home in Rock
ingham, and is now considered hopelessly
i'll.
The new furniture factory at Front Royal
was burned Sunday. 1t was worth $23, 900 on
which there was an insurance Of 81 800.
The capitol dome at Washington is of iron
and weighs S,00O,5O0 pounds. The figure of
America on top of it weighs 1895 pounds.
The grippe is prevailing severely at Monte
rey, Highland, and j. Trimble, a prominent
citizen is very ill of 1t.
The "plan of campaign" CT Pre- sident Polk
of the Farmers Alliance, is to put 81, 600 lee
turers in the field.
Rev. Jas. Atchison of Ligoneer, Ind, aged
70, was married Friday to Mrs. Mary Ann
White of the same place, aged II.
A prune orchard of ten acres at Pomona,
Cal, yielded last year 800 per acre, of which
$500 per acre was net profit.
The "NIildred Lee is the name the Wash
ington & Lee boat club have given their $3.50
racer received from Troy, N. Y.
Rev. Sam Jones delivered his lecture "Get
There" in Wytheville, Va, last Tuesday
The dry town of Salem, Roanoke, has gone
'wet'' by Is majority.