Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1891-11-06
Averill a saloon keeper, whom he was trying

AVerlll a saloon Keeper, WHOM He was trying
to shoot.
The beautiful church Of All Saints. at Refs
terstown Md, which was presented as me-
mortal gift to the Episcopal vestry, by VIII
liam Keyser, Ga former President of the Val
ley Railroad) Ill honor of his late mother,
Elizabeth Wyman Keyser, was coHsecrated
Friday by Bishop Paret.
Near Rocky Mount, Va, Thursday night,
w. II. Gibson OF Charleston, W. Va, who
was going to Tar boro, n c., to engage in the
hotel business, when awakened by the porter
calling the station where he had to change
cars, ran to the car door leaped to the ground
and was instantly killed.
'The best is none too good must be the
motto of the Melbourne Australia, audiences
in the matter of female beauty A Beauty
Show exhibited there in the Olympic Thea
tire, not coming up to their expectations, they
wrecked the interior of the theatre and nearly
killed some of the employees.
At the Orf circus in Berlin, Prussia, last
week, favorite equestrenne, Madame Bor-
chart, smiled gaily on. a group of young
officers who applauded as she rode in where
upon the clown, her husband. in fit of
jealousy drew a revolver and shot her dead,
in the ring.
A rejected and detected lover wrote to Col
onel r. g. Ingersoll for advice. The Colonel
replied: ''My Dear Boy--In a month from
now you will feel only half broken-hearted
In six months you won't feel broken-hearted
at all, and in year yoa will probably be en-
gagged to some other girl.
Raw onions placed in bandage and beaten
in pulp, the cloths, containing onions Juice
and ALL being then bound about the throat
and we'll up over the ears; renewals to be
made as often as the mass becomes dry; is said
to have been SO successful in diptheria as tc
be we'll worth trying.
The arm of Gen. Stonewall jackson, which
was amputated just after the battle of the vii
derness, is still buried in the garden of Mai
j. Horace Lacy. The monument marking the
spot where Jackson fell is inclosed by iron
palings ten feet high, to prevent relic hunters
despoiling it.
The Charlottesville Chronicle says that
Josephine Jackson, colored, has returned tt
Charlottesville from Africa, which continent
she has been travelling for about a year as a
| member of the Jubilee Singers Belle Glib
bon's troupe.
Mr.. w. N. Seay of Buena Vista, furniture
manufacturer, has made an assignment, his
assets being $4,000 and his liabilities short
OF 81 900. He was engaged in manufacturing
there several years before the town was foun-
| ded.
| John Wright, aged sixteen, and Miss Nick
attic Mullins, age thirteen, were married il
Dickerson county, Va. last week at the home
| Of lo ,ri1 wit +bo IF oil +l,a or
ents interested. Both are very small children
for their age.
| President Mcbride, the new President OF
the Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical
College at Blacksburg, seems to be OF the
right sort Of stuff-he has ustexpelled ffteer
of the older students for "hazing.'
August Miller from Philadelphia, the man
ager Of the Max Meadows Inn in Wythe coun
| ty, Va, who had been suffering from sleep
lessness, took an overdose of morphine last
week and died from its effects.
| Dr.. w. II. Ruffner Of Lexington, Va, in en-
gagged in the State of Washington preparing g
report Of certain mineral properties for new
York syndicate, for whom he did similar
work in the same region four years ago.
Capt. Jos. r. Deal for many years hote
keeper at Scottsville, Albemarle, and who
in youth, was engaged with the late Capt. e
K. Mason in building the old Virginia Cen
trail (now G.. & O. Ry., died last week.
The booming of the cannon firing In TIN
sham battle at the Richmond Fair, Thursday
was distinctly heard at Petersburg, twenty
miles distant.
A Berlin physician has discovered that kiss
ing is dangerous from the fact that twenty tive
different species of bacteria find lodgemen
in the human mouth.
| E. B. Chidella, D. D., Presbyterian min
lister of Cleveland, O., aged eighty, was mar
red in New York, Friday, to the millionair
widow Manning, aged seventy-siX.
DR.. Ely of Johns Hopkins University place
the number Of railroad passengers killed il
the United States, at five times the humble
killed in Germany in proportion to travel.
The Farmers Alliance of Nelson Co., Va
has added to it Mutual Aid Association fea
ture, with a death assessment for the familie
of those who die.
Mrs. Fanny Plaster of Loudoun county
Va, mother of Dr.. Geo. E. Plaster, attained
her one hundredth year last Saturday.
OF the hundred missionaries sent to foreign
fields by the Southern Presbyterian church
Virginia furnishes about fifty
Louis Kossuth, the Hungarian patriot, ha
just entered his ninetieth year. He is in fai
health in his Italian home
Ex-Gov. J. Madison Wells, the famous cal
pet-bagger of Louisiana, is now eighty-fv
years old, and almost blind.
Ex.-Gov F. w. M. Holiday of Winchester
is spending two weeks at Vichy, France, O.
his travels.
Mr.. E. W. Sibert, for many years tobac
conist at Harrisonburg, Va, is dead.
Queen Victoria has thirty-four living grand
children, twelve of whom are boys.