Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1891-11-27

home with diptheria in an undeveloped stage
Every lady friend and child she kissed soon
complained of sore throat, and later of dip
iberia. Forty are now victims of the disease
At meeting of the Lexington Development
Company's stockholders i'll Lexington, las,
week, all their affairs were amcably ar.
ranged and the company starts out with
$4,000 in cash assets-and only owes 800, 600
James Corbin las been elected Secretary Of
the company.
John May of Greenbrier Co., w Va, aged
seventy-four years, while praying at a revival
meeting near his home, repeated the Lord ::
Prayer and added: ''Now, oh God, commend
myself to thee -" There he broke off and il
vas discovered he had been paralyzed. He
never spoke again.
At Roanoke, Va, Rabbi. Block, the new
Jewish rabbi kills animals for consumption
himself, according to Mosaic law When it is
ut up at the stall in ten pound pieces, the
abb stamps it in red wax as follows:
"Killed by me this day.
RABBI BLOCK"
The wind storm which visited Staunton
,Ionday extended pretty much along the coast
line up to Massachusetts. At Washington
Sne Metzart Music Hall, being erected was
,lownbver on an adjoining building killing
George White, tailor.
The first verdict ever won by woman law
yer in Massachusetts, was given in suit fol
damages in Boston last week in which the
mechanical merits of steam shovel were in
volved, and in which Mrs. Anna z. Fall was
the attorney for the plaintiff.
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neighborhood of Port Republic, Rockingham
and the school has closed. Among the sick
is Miss Rena Smith, a daughter of Hon. John
Amber Smith and a granddaughter of Hon
John f. Lewis.
He had no help.-Prof. Whackem-'sWhe
helped you to do these sums?" Johnny Fiz
zletop-"Nobody, sir" s'What! Nobody
Now don't lie! Didn't your brother help
you?" ''No, he did't help ME. He did them
all by himself
While hunting near Birmingham, Conn.,,
the other day, Samuel French discovered a
cow stuck in the mud, having been in that pc
cd down the stream. Two yokes of oxen were
necessary to drag her out.
At the McDonogh School for boys neal
Baltimore, Friday, a marble bust OF its for
mer Superintendent, Col. VIM. Allan, made
by Valentine, was unveiled. The reading OF
a poem by Margaret J. Preston was part OF
the ceremonies.
In the Virginia penitentiary there are 2Os
white men, 726 colored men, white women
male convicts working outside, making a
total of 1899. The convicts did S17,17O.1s
worth of work on railroads during the year.
The Moscow, Pa, tavern keeper who many
years ago bought Jay Gould's little library
for SIG when he was sold out by the sheriff
when young man making his start, has sold
$500 of the books it contained, to curiosity
hunters.
In the last six weeks DR.. S. L. INGRAM of
Manchester, Capt. Theodore A. Williams OF
Norfolk, and Henry Lukett Of Loudoun, all
of whom married daughters of the late John
P. Smart Of Loudoun Co., Va, have died.
Within six years the Methodlsts of Virginia
have subscribed 100000 to the endowment OF
Randolph Macon College, and the bnilding OF
the great educational institutions at Bedford
City, at Front Royal and at Lynchburg.
The crib in which President Harrison
slept when an infant, has just been sent to
Washington from Indianapolis, by his daugh-
ter. 1t is of black walnut made in the old
high post style by the Presidents uncle.
Col. r. Tyler Jones, son of the oldest
daughter of President Tyler, and who was the
first male child born in the White House, was
married in Washington last week to Miss
Sallie Gresham.
I. e. Weeks, of Stoneham, Mass, who re-
Gently failed. owing nearly half a million
dollars, has settled at one mill on the dollar
One creditor received $25 for his claim of
500 900.
The Grand Union Hotel at Saratoga, N. Y.
left its lessee the past season, j. Il. b. Wood
worth, $4,000 out of pocket. For the ten
weeks occupancy of the hotel he paid $50, OOO
rent.
DR.. Kinloch Nelson Of Va, has accepted
the bishopric of the Protestant Episcopal di
Geese Of Georgia, to which he was elected
The salary is $1,000 year, and the keeping ul
of a $4,000 life insurance policy.
At the burning of the Luray Inn few days
ago Col. Morrison lost his library and his
collections of mineral, geological and shell
specimens which he had been getting to-
gether for thirty years.
A. j. Hoffman of the Central Hotel, and
Jos. F. Hoffman of the Carrollton House al
Newmarket, Shenandoah, were convicted last
week in several cases Of violation of the LID
uor law, and fined $500 and costs.
Suit has been entered in Florence, Ala,
against the Florence r. II. Co., for S164, 352
claimed by the North Alabama Construction
Co. for building railroad for it.
The German war department, after expert
menting with American corn, has decided to
recommend the use by the army OF bread made
OF equal proportions of corn and rye.
Development has brought trouble into Po-
cahontas Co., W. Va, and Huntersville is
mad over movement to move the court house
to the new town Of Warrington.
Mr.. Allen Caperton who lives near Union,
W. Va, shipped OH Monday, Nov. I'd, 80 head
of cattle that averaged on the aggregate, 1861
pounds.
Mr.. Frank Wissler of Winchester, who
bought Gen. Mems splendid estate of
''Strathmore," in Shenandoah. for 100000
has put his son on it to manage it.
DR.. John J. Jennings. who in his wealthy
Rapids, Mich, died an inmate there last
week.
A cotton picking machine was exhibited
successfully in a cotton field near Atlanta
Ca, on the 9th inst, and it is thought will
revolutionize cotton growing.
Dom Piatt, the well-knOw journalist, and
formerly publisher OF the Washington Capt.
tai, died Friday at his home near Cleveland
Ohio.
Adams Express Company has begun suit to
recover 5000. 900 from Mr.. Hoey, the value OF
Southern Express Company stock which, il
claims, is improperly held by him.
DR.. David E. Bass of Lynchburg fell dead
Of heart disease, Friday evening, just after re
turning home from a visit of coincidence to a
family that had had a loss by DEATH
w. }. Haines of st. Louis, didn't retire