Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1891-09-18

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broke her hold Mr.. Hollster has not been
in the surf since the occurrence.
The career of Victor D. L. Nudge at Nor
folk, Va, which closed last week. reads like
romance. He went from Jacksonville.
Fla, as bigamist and swindler. When he
| arrived in Norfolk only four months ago. he
had no difficulty in getting admitted to the
par 10 practice, without ally sort of
vouchers, soon became the law palt-
nerof the Commonwealth Attorney, Duncan,
and last week fled from the city. having swim
died his law partner and numberless mer-
| chants out of money.
Mr.. John Wilke and Mrs. Martha Wilkie
have been married nine years. Last Tuesday
walking along the beach at Spring Lake, n.
T., the lady was heard to say: Il will kill
myself" and sprung into the lake. Her hus-
band watched her calmly while the breakers
tossed her about. Several guests who stood
nearby called to the man to go in and get his
wife, but he told them that she wanted to die
and he was going to let her. AT last the
bathing master rescued her.
The eXcursionists to Atlantic City from
Staunton this season have generally returned
with the impression that the hotels there were
making great deal of money. Last week
five Of them--the Grand Union, United States.
Hygeia, Cambridge and Congress Hall failed
with the proprietors largely in debt Sever
al boarding houses also collapsed, in debt. The
Florence Hotel at Long Branch, N. j., col
lapsed $50, 900 behind hand. The season has
| hoI o. bo D1o
Mrs Gen. Jackson has presented to the
| Virginia Military Institute the bronze mural
tablet which has occupied place in Gen.
Jackson's square of the cemetery since 1888,
when it was placed there by veterans of the
Maryland line. The Institute authorities have
had it placed in the wall in Gen. jackson
| section room, Immediately behind where his
| cnaIr usually stood. Fs8
There is great religious excitement at Syder-
| ham, village near Kingston, Ont. The ac-
lions of the Free Methodists in the village hall
created SO much disorder that they were put
out of the building. They then retired to a
vacant field, where ''corset meeting was
held bonfire was started. and women
threw their corsets on the blaze, crying: eve
will die as God made u.s.
Miss Ida Hewitt. daughter of Col. Hewitt,
one of the principal stockholders in the road.
who has spent good length of time in the
shops of the company, now has the situation
OF locomotive engineer on the branch of the
Cairo & Kanawha Valley Ry. Her engine is
said to be model of neatness and cleanli-
ness. She will run an engine at the Chicago
Worlds Fair next year.
On September 1st, at noon Andrew Muir
rell adopted the modern plan of s'holding up''
the officers of the bank at Corda Mo-, and
robbing the bank. He was captured the next
day and as the officers were taking him to
Lexington, Mo-, mob adopted the old time
plan of dealing with such cases and dragged
Murrell away from the officers and to a tree
where they hanged him.
John H. B. latrobe famous lawyer of
Baltimore in his younger days, is just dead at
the age OF eighty-nine. He was, besides be-
ing lawyer, a great architect, civil engineer
and mechanician. He rode on the first loco
motive that ran out OF Baltimore; helped
Prof. Morse with the first telegraph ever built,
and designed the Latrobe stove.
Woodstock, Shenandoah, thought it had had
an unusually heavy water fall, it having
rained fifteen out of the thrty-one days in
August. The observation OF the rain fall OBJ
server at that station, however, showed the
fall for the month to have been only 3.86-10O
inches, very slightly over the fall of the same
month last year.
Mss Charlotte Higgins who carried off the
honors of entrance into the University of Lon
don over 1000 male students, is little Scotch
girl, 20 years DID, and, to Judge from her pic
ture, is very youthful-looking person. Her
brilliant education has been due to the efforts
of her mother, her father having died when
she was child of 8 years.
Miss Anna M. Williams, the Philadelphia
school teacher. whose profile is the Goddess
Of Liberty on the silver dollar, is oftened an
noyed by her pupils furtively holding a dol
lar in their hand and comparing the likeness.
She is much stouter than when her profile was
made and her features are not so clearly cut.
In Luray, Va, several ladies have started
the plan of forming Worlds Fair Club,
each member to commence now making a
small monthly contribution, SO that by the
time the Fair opens in 1892, each member will
have sufficient amount saved, to meet the
expenses Of the trip.
Dr.. G. L. Slich of Berlin has discovered
that simple water injected under the skin with
a syringe renders the flesh at that point insen-
sible to pain. 1t was tested by an incision in
carbuncle. The discovery was made while
testing for the greatest dilution of cocoaine
which would have any effect.
Horatio N. Slater of Webster, Mass, aged
sixty-five and worth many millions, is to mar
~ Miss Mabel Hunt, aged twenty, youngest
daughter of VIM. Morris Hunt, the New DIRK
architect, and his son, Samuel Slater, is at
the same time and place to wed Miss Mabel s
elder sister Enid.
There is $1,000 pledged to a monument at
the V. NJ. |. to the cadets who fell at New
market, and $500 to monument to Gen.
Francis II. Smith the father of the V. NJ. |.
These are the beginnings of what it is hoped
will be sufficiently large funds for the two
objects.
Ernest Hedderly of Boydton, Va, aged
fourteen years snapped an empty gun at An
ME Mason Hedderly, his eighteen year-old
sister. who was the organist at the Methodist
church. 1t went Off and she died in a few
hours.
| A railway clerk and a detective arrived in
Bristol, Va, Friday, sent there by Gen. John
Echols, Vice President of the Newport News
d Mississippi Valley Ry., to Identify Sylves.
ter Young the $4,000 defaulting railway
cashier. The man proved not to be Y Dung.
The fastest railroad mile yet made in the
United States was on the Bound Brooke, Pa,
road, last week. with the private car Of the
President attached to the train-a mile in
forty seconds. The fastest ten miles was made
in seven minute, twelve seconds.
Eiffels plans for a great tower for the
Worlds Fair have been received in Chicago.
M. Eiffel proposes TO erect a higher tower
than the one built at the Paris Exposition 1t
would be something over1 900 feet, while that
at Paris was about $50
| The Pamphlet Laws Of 1891, state that here