Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1892-05-20

Of last week and said it was forty years ago
that day, since he was graduated there. He
has a son student there.
The Rockbridge News says John 7. Su1li-
van. a begger tramp, armed with physicians
certificates, who has been makinga six weeks
campaign in that county to get money to ''get
to his brothers in Botetourt,' has crossed in
to Augusta county and is conducting his can
vass there.
In the debate in the Senate last week on the
silk culture in this country. Senator George
Of Mississippi showed that in the early Colo
NAL days silk was produced in this country,
and that silk produced in Virginia was expor-
ted to England and there woven and made in
to the coronation gown for Queen Anne.
Sir James Paget says that he once heard
Mile Janouha render a presto by Mendels-
sohn in which she had to play 5,595 notes, in
four minutes and three seconds Every one
of these notes involved certain movements OF
the fingers, and in many there were move
ments laterally as we'll as those up and down.
Dr. Weiderhold. director of the hospital for
nervous diseases at Cassel, se-Nassau, has
been sentenced to three months Imprisonment
for whipping patient, the wife Of consul
general, who was suffering from hysteria. His
defense was that the punishment was the best
treatment for her ailment.
Mary Kaiser, daughter of Rev. James Kai-
ser, of Dinwiddie county, while out playing
with some companions few days ago, was
attacked and bitten by mad dog. Friday
she was taken with hydrophobia in its worst
and most violent form, and no hopes are en-
tertained for her recovery.
A bill has been reported favorably in the
House of Representatives to pay Sarah W.
Brown of Allegheny county, Va. war claim
of S692.
Lieut.-Gov. J. Hoge Tyler has been elected
president of the Association of elders of the
Presbyterian church Of the Synod of Virginia,
which embraces the churches Of Virginia.
West Virginia and Maryland. He has also
been elected president of the State Young
Mems Christian Association.
The Strasburg. Va, News says e. H. Sour
aged 80, with light moustache, protesting to
represent Washington house, has taken in
the people there on hotel register advertise
ments and other frauds A 'chipper female
book agent it says also got away with soma
of the Strasburgers.
Messrs. W. H iNaddell and T. w. Shelton
of Lexington, have contracted with the coun-
Gil of that town to put in 81 arc lights at 81 800
per year, in case enough private citizens sub
scribe for electric lights to warrant their
undertaking the work.
Charles W. Meyer of Philadelphia, to whom
the Goshen Land and Improvement Co. has
sold its uncompleted Palace Hotel and the
al S,1Y, fbof
hotel in time to open it July 18th next, and
will lay off its grounds into park.
The Norfolk & Western Ry. has placed or
ders with the Pullman Car Company for / ,525
cars, including 100 ventilated fruit cars, %
vestibuled passenger cars, and 20 express-nail
and baggage cars.
Miss Rhett for so many years the Matron at
the Theological Seminary at Alexandria, has
resigned, and Miss Mamie Jacobs of Rich
mond will take the opposition at the close of the
present session.
j. D. Blair, we'll known business man of
DanvilIe, Va, and President Of the CONNER
cial Bank there, has been forced by his en-
dorsement of accommodation paper, to make
an assignment.
Patti closed her annual tour last Saturday
ulEu az UllO Ia duloOu hIudI 0dluCl Ill NCW
York, having netted over S10O, 900 by her TWEEN.
ty concerts in the towns outside Of that city.
There is an apple orchard near Winchester
the trees in which were planted 116years ago
The survivors of the original plant yet con,
tinue to bear fruit abundantly.
Hassan Ben Ali, commissioner from Mo-
rocco to the Worlds Fair, is, with his reti-
nue.. adding to his income by travelling with
the side show of circus for exhibition.
Rev. G. G. Jones pastor of the College Hill
Baptist church at Lynchburg, has accepted a
call to Chattanooga, Tenn, at a salary OF
50, 500.
The Supreme Lodge of the United States and
Canada of Knights of Honor, in session at
Charleston, S. G., last week, elected Samuel
KlOtz of N. j. Supreme Dictator.
The Federal court of Switzerland has con-
demned the canton of Berne to pay party of
five American travellers the sum of $12O each
for illegal arrest, in addition to a fine of $780,
"Uncle jerry Rusk, Secretary of Agricul.
ture, never misses game of baseball that
comes his way. He was one of the best play
ers in Wisconsin in his day.
Both the Wyoming women alternates to the
Minneapolis Republican National Conven-
ton are married, and one is so years old
There are 10000 members of the Order of
Red Men in the United States, of whom ., zoo
are in Virginia.
The talk about Third party has caused
many members of the Farmers Alliance in
Fauquier to withdraw.
Twenty thousand members were added to
the Lutheran church of this country at the
Easter confirmation.
Two more daily papers will be started in
Roanoke next month, making five in all