Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1891-09-25

roads will in his annual report embody as
suggestion to the Legislature bill providin @
for separate cars on railroads for white and
blacks. The bill is framed on the Alabama
law. which has been in operation for three
wears.
The resolution offered by Commissioner
John T. Harris and adopted by the Worlds
Fair Commission, to ask the modification Of
the Mckinley tar.iHif in the matter of exhibit
toIs from abroad, las been reconsidered by
the Commissioners for, it is said, political
reasons.
Diptheria is epidemic in Shelbyville, Ind.
The public schools have been closed and
general quarantine established. Thirty
deaths have occurred within the past forty
eight hours, and adults are being attacked as
we'll as children.
Joseph Bumgardner of Page Co., Va, on
the 9th inst, celebrated his ninety-fifth birth
day at the home of [. C. Bumgardner, his
youngest son, aged ffty-feur. The father can
still read without spectacles and walk a mile
on a county road with ease.
Mrs. jefferson Davis has brought suit
against Robert Bedford, the publisher, for
81, 0n0 due her on her royalty on publishing
her memoirs Of her deceased husband Elk
W. Hoadley, of Ohio, is her counsel
Col. j. Bernard Peyton, former Clerk of the
West Virginia House of Delegates, has been
appointed Secretary of the Ladies Board of
Managers of the Worlds Fair, and has taken
up his residence in Chicago.
S. H. Baker, chief clerk of the Southwestern
Va Improvement Co., was mortally wounded
~. oF OH III hot n
the Manager Of the company, was exhibiting
to him Friday. and died that night.
Mrs. Melvina Hulvey, aged siXty-nine years,
all of which she had spent in Brooks Gap,
Rockingham county, was in Harrsonburg
last week for the first time in her life. She
had never seen railroad cars but once.
1t has been discovered along the line of the
Seaboard & Roanoke Ry. in Virginia, that
people scatter fodder on the track to draw
their cattle there and after the train kills
them sue the railroad company.
| DR.. Jno. NJ. Myers of Montgomery Co., Va,
was found dead in his room at the Gold Eagle
| HOTEL Washington city, Friday morning, from
an overdose of choral, which drug he was in
the habit of using.
| James e. Gentry of Crozet, Albemarle, this
| week sold 600 barrels of Albemarle pippins
at S2.75 per barrel. 1t only costs 81 barrel to
send apples from Crozet to Europe via New
| port News.
| A patent was granted at Washington this
| week to Ed. A. Quisenberry of Lexington
| Va, for an ice making apparatus and one for
deareating water.
| The machine shops of the Norfolk & Yves
tern Ry., at the new town of Shenandoah
were burned Sunday night Loss S75, 900, full
| ly insured.
| The "Shadwell' farm, five miles East OF
Charlottesville. has been sold by r. 7. Davis
of Loudoun, to V. A. Bunch OF Huntington
W. Va, for $1,000.
| Rev Sam Jones will hold a series of meet
ings at Bristol beginning 10th of October
and tabernacle is to be built there by that
time.
| 1t. Col. G. Percy Halves of Richmond. has
been elected Colonel Of the 1st regiment OF
| Va. Calvary. He is a brother of Rev. DR.. H
II. Halves of Staunton.
| A little Boston girl, who is going to a pri
waite school, wants to go to public school
II am tired" she says, 'of going to school
where the teacher calls US darling
| Mr.. A. S. Pratt of Rock Enon Springs. had
his pocket picked of $1,000 in money while
standing in the B. & 0. depot at Winchester
| Friday.
| Bog gs-"There is one thing the young mai
who goes through college never forgets.
Foggs- sWhat is that?" sTo mention til,
| fact
In the 9th Va. Internal Revenue District
compared with 1890, the cigars made fell off il
1891 $4,000, while the cigarettes increased
1880
Frank Brewer, a white barber of Winston
N. C., was found murdered near there Friday
John johnson, a colored barber, has been al
rested on suspicion.
Col. Wright, of the bureau of the ''Rebel
lion" records, says he can find no evidence
| that the Confederate army contained NOR,
than seven hundred thousand men,
Mr.. G. G. Wood has contributed S125 900 tt
the Dung Women's Christian Association OF
Brooklyn.
Charles Lewis Peyton of Greenbrier county
W. Va, a granddaughter of Thomas Jefferson
died last week in his s5th year.
Nine convicts escaped from the railroad
camp of Gooch & Co. contractors, near
Covington Sunday night.
The Catholic Knights of America will los,
81, 900 by their absconding Treasurer NJ j
OBrien, of Chattanooga.
M. Rouvier, the French Ministerof Finance
was travelling salesman.
Rome has twenty five Protestant churches