Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1891-02-20
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CLEANED FIpOIM THE MA lis.
Miss Nellie Hughen, farmers daughter,
nineteen years old, of Greene CO., Ind, conf
menced a correspondence a year ago with
Thomas w. Swanger Of Akron Ohio, whom
she had never seen. Ii resulted in an eX-
change OF photographs and subsequent en-
gagement of marriage. Last Friday was the
day set for the arrival of the groom and the
wedding With her father, Miss Hughen met
him at the depot She did not recognize him
from his photograph and he presented his
card. She said that the gentleman she was
looking for was much younger looking man;
refused to talk further with him and went
off with her father He has resolved to sue
for breach of promise.
Many OF The Washington correspondents OF
great newspapers in the Union receive gov
eminent salaries for doing nothing The rep
resentative of Senator Hoar's Boston organ
gets monthly government salary of $3.50; the
representative of great Democratic paper in
New Y ork gets salary also from the govern
ment for supposed work in the Senate docu-
ment room. The correspondent of an Indiana
paper gets government salary as a furniture
polisher. and a correspondent OF leading
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sheer.
In Richmond, Wednesday morning, John l..
Sullivan, the bruiser, whose company played
there the night before, commenced swearing
while ladies were present in the dining room
of Murphy Hotel. William Miller the color
ed waiter, demonstrated. Then Sullivan
cursed him and made for him. The waiter
threw coffee pot at him and then escaped to
the cupola on top of the house where he re-
manned concealed till the Sullivan troupe left
for Norfolk an hour later.
An elm tree seventy-f feet high and seven
feet in circumference, has just been removed
from near Willamette, H., twelve miles to
Chicago and replanted over the grave of j. IL.
LocBridge. About two years ago he saw it,
determined it should be over his grave and
provided in his will fund of $4,000 for its
removal. At his death the removal was COM
menced and has just been completed. The
roots were carefully wrapped to prevent
freezing.
Mrs. VIM Hardin of Darlington, Ind, is
the widow of four soldiers. In 1851 she wed =
dad Robert Frost, a Mexican veteran, and at
his death received a widows pension. She
next married John Lethermen, who died in
the army in 1868, and she again received &
widows pension. In 1867 she married H. w
Daugherty, also soldier, who died and next
she took VIM. Hardin, another soldier. She
is now receiving a widows pension, and has
a son by each of the husbands.
In one of the girl-children s rooms of the
public schools at Alexandria, Friday, pupil
put her hand in her desk and caught hold o!
! Il big rat She screamed and in an instant
every Girl was on top of her desk standing on
| her tip toes and screaming. The teacher and
all OF the girls bold enough to leap to the
| door fled to another room. The rat was kill
ed, but not until in his efforts to escape he had
run under one of the children's skirts nearly
giving her commissions.
At the funeral of Col. Richard F Beirne in
Richmond, there was a pretty bed of pansies
on his coffin. When his little daughter was
about four years old, shortly before his sick
/ ness he sang to her the song "Olly pansey
| blossom" and she was so struck with it that
she said Father if you die L am going to
| plant pansies on your grave" The pansies
OF the coffin were the child's tribute
Every Sunday morning, Prof. J. Randolph
Tucker, Professor of Law at Washington &
! Lee University, delivers lecture in the Pres
| }yterian church at Lexington on the 'Eyi-
| dences of Christianity" and every Sunday
night Dr.. }. A. Quarles, Professor of Moral
Philosophy in tie same University lectures
at the Virginia Military Institute on Chris
tan evidences.
Chauncey Nj. DepeW says: 81 made speech
in my youth, in the Mohawk valley, when ]
was frisky with aurora borealis and rainbows
! was depicting the possibility Of the ideal
republic under the principles of the party
which loved, and when ] concluded an old
campaigner, an old timer, an old Spokesman,
stepped up to me and said: 'Chauncey, thai
speech had more frill than shirt
Miss Kate DreXel the owner of $4,000, 0o0
took the final VOWS at Pittsburg, Pa, Thurs
, day. as sister Of the new Roman Catholic
! "Order Of the Blessed Sacrament" Of Whicl
], she Will be the Superior. Her convent, jus
, built, is near Philadelphia. She is nov
''Sister Mary Catherine, and expects to spen'
all the income of her great fortune for tn
benefit of Indians and Negroes.
The Charleston, w. Va, Free Press state
the fact learned from Col G. L. O'Ferral
himself, that his command had two engage
ments near Woodstock, Shenandoah, afte
/ the surrender at Appomattox, and the frs
news Col. OF. got of Lees surrender wa
through the prisoners he captured in the las
Of the two engagements.
Gen. Herman Haupt. an eX-Federal officer
has sold his tract of 100000 acres of minera
land in Giles and TazeWell counties, Va
and Monroe county. w. Va, including Til,
famous Mountain Lake, to a Boston syndicat,
for S25O,00O cash. He divided 500, 900 of The
money equally between his eight grandchil
i dTen.
Francis II of Naples, that luckless Bour
bon Ounce whose throne Garibaldi overthreN
in 1860, and who is said to be one eff Daudet'.
''kings in exile" still lives iii aimless com
fort III Paris, where his sole activity is walk
ing once day from his apartment to the
Church of st. Philippe to say his prayers.
An ingenious Briton has madea ca lculatior
that for the price OF three suits of clothes il
New York the American can buy a frst-clas:
return ticket between New York and Liver
pool, have his three suits made by good Lon
don tailor, pay the tailor good profit ans
have something left over for himself.
In Lee Co., Va, January 23d at s 2. NJ, J
NJ. Parsons dying of pneumonia. was married
10 Miss Mollie Mills standing by his bedside
At midnight he was dead. lie had made Iii:
viii giving her all his property, but it hat
not been witnessed, 10 one thinking his dealt
was so near.
i Col. E. ". Nichols, professor Of Applied
Mathematics at the Virginia Military Insti
tnte, has been elected to the joint chair OF
pure and applied mathematics and the Super
ntendent is instructed to advertise for pro
fessor Of mineralogy, geology, and natural
history. to be elected by the Board in June.
They are fast coming back John Roger OF
Rockingham Co., va, who enligrated to In
diana ten years ago, arrived in Harrisonbnrs
last week, having travelled all the way from
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