Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1891-01-23
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pariOr one night. In the light the rather was
killed The girl then refused to see Johnston
again and he left the city. Last Spring he re-
| turned there to live, accidentally met her at
friend house, and the result was that they
were married last week
Sam'l Hirshman the mail carrier in Ran
dolph Co., w. Va. who had not been seen
since the great snow storm, was hunted for
and found in a shanty in the mountain where
he had been for three weeks, snowbound. The
Harrisonburg Spirit of the Falleysays MI. and
Mrs. c. S. Ward Of Pendleton, W. Va, who
reached there just before the big snow on their
| wedding tour, are there still. 1t is not yet
possible for vehicle to get across the noun
| cain to Pendleton
| Diamonds have increased enormously in
quantity in the last fifteen years. Fourteen.
years ago the yield of the African mines wa
d million and Il half carats, last year it Wa
our million, and the present year it is cstima
ed it will be sixteen million. The price,
however, does not diminish from the fact that
now 'every body" is able to wear either small
or large diamonds and the demand is steadily
increased.
The arrest of Edward H. Horner a Wall
street banker in New York, and chief agent
Of the Austrian Bond Lottery, develops the
fact that it has branch Offices in various
American cities, and its business 'exceeds
the Louisiana lottery business in its busiest
times" its collections amounting to over
800, 900, 900 year. The expenses of the chief
| agent alone are 1926, coo year. 1t is simply
a gigantic swindle.
| man who argues that one pound of tea
makes 400 small or 300 ordinary sized cups
states his case as follows: Tea-testers Ordi-
narily use silver scent piece for weighing
the exact quantity of tea required for a cup.
AS there are about twenty-five scent pieces to
an ounce, and as there are sixteen ounces to a
pound, it follows that one pound of tea will
actually make 400 cups.
| Peter Miller who owns million dollars
worth of land around Cicero, Ill, but is a
miser and for the last twenty years has made
periodical begging expeditions into Cicero,
has at last worn out the patience Of the al-
| thorities, and last week was locked up in jail
as a vagrant. On searching his house his bed
was found to be pile of rags in corner.
Mrs. Barbara Heidtman of Cincinnati, who
died last week, left will specifying that
her shroud should be bound With white satin.
her gloves and stockings should be of white
silk, her shoes of white kid, and twelve car
riages should be furnished for her friends to
ride to the cemetery.
One hundred old blue whiskey barrels were
rolled out of the U. S. Mint at Philadelphia
last week, containing the daily sweepings
which are thick with the dust of fine particles
of bullion. Each barrel of the dirt weighs
800 pounds and its value is estimated at s., 900.
1t is put in furnace and the metal gotten
out of it.
One Of the three daughters of John ID. Rock
efeller, the millionaire, while a student at
| Vassar, had handsome allowance in the
way Of money from home. Instead of spend
ing this on rich gowns and apartments she
paid for two years the tuition and expenses of
girl from the country who was not able to
pay them herself.
The town of Kearney, n. j., is about re-
moving 9o-foot tower to give room for a
street. 1t is of wood, eight feet square, and
was erected in 1913 by Lewellyn Haskell a
wealthy Millerite, who in May of that year,
arrayed himself and family in white robes
and assembled to the top to await the coming
of the Lord.
/ Rev. W. j. Coulston has resigned as asss-
tant pastor OF the Brantley CDR. H. NJ. Whar-
tons) Baptist church in Baltimore. His res
! ignation followed a letter from the deacons
suggesting it, and which Mr.. Coulston and his
friends claim was the result of a conspiracy
on the part Of Dr. Wharton and the deacons
to force him out.
Jack Dempsey the light weight, who never
lost but one battle, and Bob Fitzsmmons the
light weight of Australia, who has never lost
a battle at all, fought at the Olympic Club in
New Orleans with 5-pound gloves Tuesday
night. Dempsey was badly beaten and the
sponge was thrown up on the 18th round. The
Australian was little hurt.
Rev Howard B. McQueary, rector of the
Protestant Episcopal church at Canton, Ohio,
who published ''rhe Evolution of Man and
Christianity" and has been tried for heresy
| in the denial of the miraculous birth and res
direction Of Jesus, began life as a country
blacksmith on the farm of Warner Wood near
| Charlottesville, Va.
Mr.. Hugh Wallace, of Tacoma, whose mar
riage to Chief Justice Fuller's daughter took
place in Washington city, provided himself
with three plain gold rings for that occasion.
To guard against any possibility of hitch in
in the proceedings, Mr. Wallace placed a
ring in each vest pocket and gave the third to
his brother, who attended him as best man.
Judge j. A. Warder, City Attorney of
Chattanooga, Tenn, and U. S. District Attor-
ney under President Hayes, went home Sun
day crazy drunk and shot dead his son-in-
/ law, S. NJ. Fugette, cashier of bank, and
badly wounded F.s wife. Fugette shot War
der through the breast before he died.
Gen. NJ. l.. Bonham, eX-Adiutant General
of South Carolina, and son of the late Gov
Bonham, has written to Gov, Tillman con-
Tossing that he has embeZZled some s., 900 of
the military fund of the State, and expressing
the hope that he Will be able to make resti-
tuition.
One of the victims of the recent Indian war
was \. j. Hamilton, of Preston county, W.
Va. Mr.. Hamilton owned large ranch in
Dakota, on which his sons were herding, cat
tie. He started with friend to visit it some
days ago, and on the road they were ambushed
by hostile Indians and killed.
Maud--"Oh girls. Have you heard the
news? Ethel Vane is engaged to MI. Barrel,
and she told me he was as rich as a Turk -
Omnes-"How perfectly lovely.' "And her
brother George, has been accepted by Miss
Barrel, who has $500, 600 in her own right p
Omnes-"Oh, the mercenary wretch!''
Lon Grandstaff, near Hawkinstown, Shen
! andoah co., Va, cut splendid % pound
watermelon Oh Christmas day, and found it
sound and sweet as if just from the vine. 1t
hat been hidden in bin full of wheat since
September, and had kept all its good quail
ties perfectly.
Mrs. Mary Mason, aged only twenty five
was welded to her fifth husband, Jos. Arm
strong, in Philadelphia last week. She mar
ried at sixteen and lost her first husband by a
tree falling OH him; the second by smallpox