Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1892-02-12

COMMISSION IT'LL VI Olctll ~ w MllllcIy, Liver
pool, reports compromise by which the APP
pie men will receive forty cents on the dollar
for their fruit.
The fact that in church fair at Burns,
Mich. sin a row, stood six of the prettlest
girls in the congregation, blushing and gig
Cling, each having on her bosom placard on
which were the words you may kiss me for 25
cents, >" and that they were kissed early and
often by the men, young and old, has led to a
trouble that bids fair to break up the church.
John w. Wise Of Conway Springs, Kansas,
last Saturday found IN an old nail key, buried
in an out of the way place, his grandfather's
will and $50, 900 in gold. The old man died
suddenly ten years ago and was unable to
tell about his property. The discovery of the
keg was made while digging the foundation
for house.
Ithien Silsby Richardson, well-known in
ventor, died Monday night at his home in
Woodlawn, ILL.,, aged eighty-six years.
Among his inventions were the machine now
used in placing pins in paper, machine to
handle hooks and eyes in the same way, an
apparatus to roll sugar pills, and the pneu-
matte tube.
j. H. Weindrim, Director of the Depart
mentOf Public Works of Philadelphia, says
, that city has thirty miles of vitrifed brick
pavement laid on streets not heavily travelled,
the first being laid in 1887, and the bulk Of
them care wearing fairly we'll" They make
pretty pavement and cost 20 per cent. less
than Belgian block or asphalt.
Hon. Jno. E. Massey has resigned the post
of associate editor of CAN'T Liquor" the tenn
perance journal published at Danville, as his
duties as State Superintendent of Schools do
not give him time to attend to it. In his letter
of resignation he pronounces himself an Gun
| wavering friend Of the cause the paper adj
vocates.
Judge Manning F. Knapp of the New Jersey
| Supreme Court and presiding judge of the
Hudson county Circuit Court, while charging
grand jury. Thursday, on the violation of
the Sabbath by the theatre proprietors, sud
denly fell back in his chair and died without
1egaining consciousness.
"Six feet tall, and thickset, with small,
reddish side whiskers, and stubby moustache
and hooked nose," is the description Of a
man who has been Swindling the ladies of
Lynchburg and Charlottesville, protesting
| to represent Peter Henderson & Son seedsmen
He has an accomplice with him.
The baggage of Baron Raymond Marie
Nicholas Sellere who arrived at New York
from France, Friday, to marry the rich and
pretty widow of Chas. F. LivermOre, was at
tached on the wharf for debt of $780, and
other attachments amounting to Sill, 1852 are
out for him.
The coming report of the Illinois State
board OF agriculture will show that the farm
ers of the State have realized an aggregate
profit of S3l. 1O8 $50 ON their wheat and corn
crops of 1891, gain Of nearly S14, 1000, 900 over
that in 1890.
An assignment by the great Alexander K.
Rarig works of Buena Vista, was recorded in
the Rockbridge county clerks Office, We'd
nesday, with j. E. Mullen of Buena Vista,
trustee. Liabilities $780, 900, of which S32, 500
are on notes. No preferred creditors are
named.
Marie Decca, the prima donna. who was to
have been married to Augustus Milhiser Of
Richmond, Va. this month, walked into
Calvary Baptist church in Washington city
last Friday, and married F. L. Chrisman, her
business agent.
Emmett Gibbons, living near Yancey's in
Rockingham Co., Va, refused food for fifty
six days and for the last nine of that number
refused water also. On the 57th day he COM
menced eating again and is now, except an
attack of pneumonia, doing very we'll.
The Richmond correspondent of the Balti-
more News says the Woman Physician bill
was defeated in the Senate by ga lobby of
male doctors, and that there is "much indig
nation among the masses at its defeat, as it
was very generally demanded"
Rockingham land keeps up to good figure.
Geo. W. Showalter has just sold the "P. S.
Roller 24O-acre farm near Mt. Crawford, to
Ephraim Bowman for $4,000 OF 5000 an
acre, and J. Helsley has sold his 7O-acre farm
near Pleasant Valley for $75 an acre.
A meeting of citizens of Leesburg, Loudoun
has resolved not to ask for another local op-
ton election, but to petition the legislature for
law forbidding the sale of liquor to be
drunk where sold, except where regular
hotel gets license.
Mr., Franklin H. Whistler of Winchester,
who purchased "Strathmore" Gen. e. S.
Mems 1,24O-acre farm in Shenandoah for
$50, 900 cash, is about removing his family
there and will erect handsome dwelling
there.
The Supreme Court of Appeals of Virginia
has decided, on the ground of usurious inter-
est, that Dulany must lose the whole S35, 900
interest that e. S. Meem of Shenandoah, con-
tracted to pay him.
Harry Shoots who murdered Miss Susie
Ferroll at Shepherdstown, W. Va, has been
taken from the Jail at Charleston, Kanawha,
the capital of the State, back to Shepherds
town for trial.
Since the suicides of Miss Nicholas and her
lover, Mr.. Pinkard, in Franklin Co., Va,
two weeks ago, three more suicides have
taken place in that county-Mrs. Ike Nowlin,
Mrs. VIM. Hodge and Mrs. Jos. Austin.
MI. Henry Mach of Washington Co., Va,
is still living, and is 90 years old. He has
been married three times and has thirty
children. His youngest is nineteen years
old.
Rev. Sam Jones delivered his two lectures
on sect there and ''Stay there" in Ports
mouth, Va, last week. The lecturer receiv-
ed $3.50, and the lectures realized for the
Methodist church there about 81 900 net.
DR.. Robt. Watts of Belfast, Ireland, who
graduated at Washington College, Lexington,
Va, in 1919, has published an exhaustive re-
view of the DR.. Briggs heresy trial in the
Northern Presbyterian General Assembly.
Judges Knowles, U. S. District judge of
Montana, decided last week that beer is not
'spirituous liquor" and under the U. S. laws
| may be sold to the Indians on their reserva-
| tions.
The Standard Oil Company has bill before
the Virginia legislature for pipe line, which
will extend from their Oil fields in West Vir'
ginia to Newport News.
| The statistics of France show that the peo-
pie who live longest are priests, butter mer-
chants and cheese factors. The shortest
lived are bakers, musicians and cabmen.