Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1891-01-30

for California. Now he has fortune OF
81, 0oO, OOO lie is deyout Presbyterian
churchman.
Frederick l.. Ames, at $4,000, 900, is reck-
oned the richest man in Boston, and his cous-
in Ex-Governor Ames, son of Cakes Ames, is
worth about $40, 10000 The founder of their
fortunes was the grandfather, Oliver Ames,
| who accumulated wealth in the shovelmak
| ing business.
Fredericksburg, Va, is forging ahead under
the efforts of the Development Co. Bower
ing s foundry work, there have been purchas-
ed by Northern indicate who will make a
large manufacturing establishment of it.
They will erect a number of dwellings for
their employees.
Bishops Randolph Ct Va, 1Iows of S. c.,
Thompson of Miss, and Fcterkin of w. Va,
assisted Bishop Wilmer of Ala. at the conse-
Grafton of Assistant bishop II. Melville Jack
son in st. Paul's Episcopal church at Selma,
Ala. The first named preached the consecra-
ton sermon.
A Rockingham CO., Va, correspondent of
the Rockingham Register, says Jos. Morris
living near Mt. Crawford, has a Holstein COW
which gives such rich flow of milk, that
they can make three pounds of butter from
three pints of sour cream, Or two and a half
pounds from three pints OF sweet cream.
The Duke of Bedford committed suicide in
London, Thursday, by shooting himself
through the heart. He was, with the excep-
ton Of the Duke of Westminster, the richest
peer Of Great Britain. His income was
81 800, 600 year from the rent Of 80 900 build
ings and 90, 900 acres of land.
A London dispatch says: Countess Russell
has filed a suit in the Divorce Court as a re-
dress for cruelty. The young Earl's amuse-
ments included the discharging OF firearms at
the footboard of the wedding couch. II e
complains bitterly of too much mother-in
law.
At the annual meeting Of the Salem, Va,
Improvement Co., last week, J. w. F. Allie
mong was reelected President and Manager
at salary of 81, 800 The directors were in
structed to declare dividend to be paid semi
annually. A conservative estimate places the
assets of the company as 81, 644, 34S.5s
A farmer who last year bought siXty-five
acres Of land in Prince Edward Co., Va, has
paid for the land timed the roof of the
dwelling, bought barrel of sugar and has
a balance of SO in his pocket, all from the
tobacco he raised and sold in the year, and
still has ''house' of bright tobacco unSold
John Myers, Philadelphia bunco man.
with many aliases, who with two pals came
down to Shenandoah CO., Va, on the Sth of
November and swindled Phillip Kibler, an
aged farmer, out of $3.50, has been awarded
six years in the penitentiary. His two pals
are yet i'll jail awaiting their turn in court
The striking OF twenty five-barrel Oil we'll
in Mountain Valley. forty miles from Flor
ence, Ala, has renewed the interest there in
boring for oil. Several companies Sc
cured options on large tracts of land last year.
but have never developed them.
e. A. Street, telegraph operator, of Helena
Montana, recently located a placer claim in
Idaho, and bought Zip adjoining ones until he
had 500 acres. Ex-senator Tabor gave him
500, 900 for the whole. Now 1t is said to be
worth S15, 900 900.
A letter has been received at Pittsburg
from London stating that Geo. Westinghouse
has received S2500 900 for his air brake patents
from the London Air Brake Co He is also to
receive a salary of $4,000 to cover any air
brake inventions he may produce.
North Carolina, changing the name of the
Western North Carolina Insane Asylum into
Estate Hospital and providing that inebri-
ates and opium victims should hereafter be
admitted and treated there.
Johnstown, Pa, is itself again. Handsome
brick business blocks and hundreds of dwell
ngs have gone up during the past year; hand
some bridges over the Conenaugh replace
those swept away. and it is a far prettier city
than it was before its awful experience.
Miss Maria Virginia Schley, daughter Of
the commander OF the y. S. Steamer Balti-
, more, was married in Baltimore last week tG
Ralph Granville Stuart Wortley of Norfolk
Va. Fergus Reid, formerly of Staunton, was
the groom best man.
J. GOuld's daily income is said to be about
Sc, 500. But this is rather small compared to
Rockefeller, WHO is supposed to receive S1S,-
coo daily, or Astor, who gets S23 900 daily, Or
even Cornelius Vanderbilt, who has to get
along with 81, 900 every twenty -four hours.
John e. CarIisle's ancestors went from the
Valley of Virginia in 1900 to Kentucky In
his political career he has presided over the
Kentucky Senate, been seven times elected to
the House of Representatives, was once its
speaker. and is now Senator.
4 fearful loss of life took place at the Prick
Coke Companys mine near seott.lale, Pa,
Tuesday, by an explosion, killing one hun
dred and fifty men-the largest loss ever &C.
curing in a mine in this country.
Second Auditor Frank G.. Rufin, has re-
ceived a letter from all authoritative sourc e
which says that as sooa as the sixty days eX-
pire, the bondholders will be ready to make a
proposition to the State.
The interest in the discovery of Prof. Koch
is abating in Berlin, and the government is
delaying its scheme for hospital until the
doubts Of the value of the remedy are re-
! moved.
| Carl Brunn, the workman who aided Carl
Schurz to effect his escape from Spandau in
1850, has Just died in Horde, Westphalia. He
was imprisoned two years for assisting Schurz
| in his escape.
Lit. E. P. Turner q. S. N, Of Fauquier co.
| Va, who killed his wifes brother in q fam
lily quarrel in that county few years ago,
shot and killed himself on a steamship be-
tween Hong Kong and Yokahoma recently.
John Hamilton, aged 80, and his wife, aged
| 20, living in Wythe Co., Va, were taken from
their house by white caps" one night last
week and numerically whipped. Three men
have been indicted for the brutal work
| Col. j. q. Sperry a we'll known citizen of
Botetourt, aged seventy, was run over and
killed Monday, while walking Oh the railroad
track near Cloverdale, Botetourt
Rev. J. S. White Of Rockville, s. e., a vic
tim of sleeplessness and dyspepsia, climbed
up sixty-five feet to his Windmill tank and
drowned himself therein
1t John S, Parks Jr., of Tenn, an officer
of the Dist Infantry U. S. A., has been de-
tailed to act as Instructor in military tactics
at the Virginia Military Institute