Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1891-01-16
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| Emma Abbott's funeral took place at the
| Central Music Hall, Chicago, last Friday,
and was attended by thousands. The pail
! bearers were members of her company. Prof
David Swing and Rev. DR.. Thomas OBLIGATED.
Her remains were placed in vault, but will
| be placed under the monument with her hus
bands when it is completed. Her will, which.
was admitted to probate in New ork, Mon
day, leaves property in trust to pay her near
est relatives $500 month, gives S., 900 each to
nine churches, and, after making other per-
sonal requests, gives the residue to six CHAIR.
/ table institutions in New York city.
Miss Alice Perry, of Bridgeport, CT, in
great agony, Tuesday evening, sent for Il
! physician. When he came she, between con
yulsions, told him she had swallowed hel
| false teeth and was strangling. This doctor
sent for another and they prepared for
trachaeotomy as the patient was likely to die.
As they were about giving the ether, one CT
| them trod on an object under the edge of the
| bed 1t was the missing plate and teeth which
! had never been swallowed but fallen from
under the pillow during the night. lie show
ed it to Miss Perry who was struggling for
breath. She at once recovered.
! Dr.. NirchoW, the eminent Berlin physician,
after tWenty-one post-mortem examinations
Of persons who had died after receiving injec-
ton of Koch's lymph, said in lecture before
the Berlin Medical Society that the injection
! increases the bacilli in the body and causes
! them to migrate to previously unaffected
! parts of the body, thus virtually generating ID
/ new affection. The nnfay0rable opinion oi
| Prof. Nirchow and other prominent German
/ physicians regarding the Koch remedy has
caused the German government to postpone
/ ITS intention OF making the remedy the prop
| erty of the State.
| James Thomas, colored, who broke jail at
salem, Va, in 1885, knocked at the jail dool
| Tuesday, well dressed and plenty Of money i'll
| his pocket. He said he had spent the tveyears
working i'll Pennsylvania ana Pocahontas, but
always in dread of arrest, and he thought the
best thing he could do would be to come back,
give himself up and be tried for hog stealing,
! the charge against him when he escaped lie
was bailed on his own recognizapcs to appeal
and it is not likely that the county court Will
give him much trouble.
Speaking Of superstition in Scotland about
red heads q prominent Scotch merchant vi
New York, who himself has an ntensel,
red head says the belief is that if red Ieau-
ed person be the first to enter house on the
opening day of the the new year it brings bau
luck Tor year, and 81 have known my father
and mother to send dark haired servant
girl out OF the basement of the house directly
after midnight on more than one New Year s
Day, and then admit her at the front door 50
as to be sure to head me off,
/ When Lawyer Kimbrough attempted to go
| on the stand TO testify on behalf Of his client
at Memphis, Tenn, the other day, Judge Du
Bose ruled that he must first retire from the
case. The rule Of this court is that no attor-
hey in case can testify for client, said the
Judge. "'Wharton Oh Evidence takes strong
grounds against such practice, and / will not
permit it" Kinbrough formally announced
/ his retirement and then gave his testimony.
! A lively young lady av9wed that she was
going to give up flirting and be serious ''aftel
| this season." The old physician who was
| honored with this confidence on her part, laid
! his hand on her shoulder and said, with {.
smile: My dear, you will never be serious:
you'll go on flirting all your life, if you live
to be hundred, and l believe you would tlirl
in your grave. if you were buried next to ID
man."
Sunday school SUPPLEMENTARY led
the children of Israel into Canaan? Will one
of the smaller boys anSwer?' No reply Su-
perintendent somewhat sternly - Can't any
one tell? Little boy on that seat next to the
aisle, who led the children Of Israel into Ca
mann" Little boy Gladly frightened)-"I
wasn't me. IL just moved we're last week
fin Mizzoury.
A few days ago when sick neighbor was
confined TO his bed at Fairhayen, Wash, the
neighb0rs made "bee, furnished the seed
and put i'll 20 acres of grain in one day fol-
! their afflicted neighbor, then collected enough
money to pay the sick mans taxes, and made
the family comfortable with things the, need
cd.
4 Luther n Baugh was arrested in Lynch
burg last week and carried 20 Petersburg, OF
the charge Of having robbed his employers
N. NJ. Davis & Co, in that city of large
amount OF goods two years ago. He disap-
peared from Petersburg at that time and went
to Texas from which State he had not long
returned TO Lynchbarg. lie is from Luray.
Hon. B. b. Gordon, State Senator from Rap
pahannock, and late Chairman OF the Viz,
ginia Democratic State Committee, is be-
| lever III the campaign Of education lie
has sent his check for $50 to the editor Of the
Blue Ridge Guide" directing him to send
papers to that amount to his people in Kappa
hammock.
When Rev. I. K. Beecher at Elmira. n.
| Y, last Sunday, preached sermon in memo
/ IF Il,a
| TWain's wife, Nh and Mrs. Clemens listened
| to the whole service through telephone at
their home in Hartford, Ct, four hundred and
! fifty miles OFF.
! f. j. Thompson Of Danyille, Va, has lust
| gotten verdict in the superior court of Cas-
we'll county. X. g., for 81, 800 damages against
the Western Union Telegraph CO. for failing
| two years ago to deliver message to him in
time for him to be present at the ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
| OF bis wife.
| Mrs. Maggie Van Colt, the old-time Metho-
dist reviYalist, is now holding meetings in
| Chicago. She is siXty-one years old, and for
a quarter of century she has been active in
church work. Her voice is clear and strong.
and her complexion has the hue of health.
| The reduction Of the number of liquor IL
censes to be issued in Washington city, from
| 800 to 400 by the authorities, has created a
! panic among the saloons there One of the
places refused q license under the new ree,,-
lation was the well known Welkers Hotel.
| Rev. j. b. Taylor of Lexington. in rssnonse
to the letter informing him Of his election to the
SUPPLEMENTARY Of the Baptist Orphanaee Of
| Virginia, says he ''feels that he cannot RESIGN
the pastoral Office to undertake any other
form of work.