Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1891-02-13
from his wife who has an income of $780, 900 a
year. and is the daughter of Judge Hastings
the California millionaire.

from his wife who has an income of $500, 900 a
year, and is the daughter of Judge Hastings
the California millionaire.
Samuel Nice. who died in Germantown on
Monday, was proprietor of an undertaking
establishment that has been in continuous
existence for 100 years. 1t was there when
the battle of Germantown was fought within
gun-shot range of it.
The Alabama House of Delegates has passed
a bill to levy a tax OF half a mill to yield
$125, 900 to pension disabled Contederates and
Confederate widows and orphans. Of this
sum, 81, 900 year is set apart for blind Con-
federates
VIM. Huffman a we'll known citizen of
Craig CO., Va, and a local minister of the
church of The Disciples, died suddenly in the
road near New Castle, on the I'd inst, of par
alysis.
The army of the Pope for 1884, is made up
as follows: Two Generals, two Colonies, two
Lieutenant Colonies, Major, two Captains,
four Iieutenants and sixty men, This num-
ber includes the famous Swiss Legion
A bill has been introduced in the Minneso-
ia legislature to give its state Railroad Com
missioner absolute power in debating pas
senger and freight rates to railroads in that
State.
Dr. Edith E. White, aged thirty-fve, a
dentist of st. Paul, Mimi, has laid the male
members of the profession in the shade by
running away with and carrying off Harold
Chambers, five years her junior.
The Iowa Columbia Exposition commission
has decided to employ architects to draw up
plans for 500, 900 Iowa building at Chicago.
The building is to- be constructed almost en-
tirely of iron and glass.
Sara Bernhardt, the great French actress,
now playing in New York, moved her quar-
tiers from the Gilsey to the Hoffman House,
because the bar of the former closed at l
o'clock A. NJ, which was too early for her.
/ Capt. j. w. Chew a Confederate veteran
and the holder of many offices in Highland
CO., Va, during his long life, died few days
ago, aged seventy-ive.
A man Of Minden, Neb., becoming enraged
at a COW, tied her in stall and sawed her
legs of. He was compelled to flee to escape
Il lynching.
Rev. DIR. Collyer recently proved by actual
ly trying it, thathe could still make nearly as
good horseshoe as when blacksmithing was
his only trade.
A runor is revived in Paris that the wealthy
5. y. v.
: to wed the not wealthy Russian Prince Dolgo-
rouki.
The Rutherford Figgatt house in Lexington,
/ Va, has been bought from Mr.. W. II. Wad-
, dell to be transformed into a Presbyterian
Home for Invalid Ladies.
John McCausland. graduate Of the Uni
versity of Virginia, aged twenty-one, was
killed at ST. Louis last week by falling under
an electric street car
Thomas Neel, an aged and wealthy citizen
of Pittsylvania county, Va, was killed last
week by falling from a railroad bridge over
| Sandy Creek, a distance of sixty feet
The income of Hon. John S. Wise from his
position as counsel for the Sprague Motor
Co., and his general practice in New York, is
estimated at S25, 900 year.
, A bill has been introduced in the Georgia
legislature to fine any doctor who gets drunk
5000 for the first time, and to forever prohibit
him from practcing after the second time.
Kalakaua, late King of Hawaii, was a
thirty third degree Mason, Master of a Blue
Lodge, Scribe Of the Chapter and Warden of
the Templars. He left fortune of 500, 900.
The grippe is again prevailing over pretty
much the whole OF the United States, though
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General Miles's wife is a sister of Senator
Camerons wife and niece of Senator and
General sherman.
The recent Indian war, OF scare, cost the
United States two millions of dollars and the
lives of thirty soldiers.
State Treasurer Woodruff of Arkansas, is
admitted by one of his sureties to be short
S96, 00o
The electric street railway plant, includ-
ing 10 cars, was burned at Danville, Va, last
week. Loss 500, 600.
The Kernersville, IN. CO. News, complains
that ten and twenty-five cent counterfeit coins
are circulating quite freely in that town.
j. r. l.. Murray has been appointed post
master at Leroy, Rockingham Co., Va, cice
A. r. G. Bass resigned.
Gen. James A. Walker is reported quite i'll
at his home in Wytheville.
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