Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1892-09-09

throughout the country so discuss his theories
as to make an organ unnecessary. The single
tax theory has been put in active practice in
Hyattsville, Md, a suburban town just out
side of Washington.
The situation in the Carnegie strike districts
shows some radical changes. Although the
Amalgamated AssociatiolHfN declares the
strike on, some of the strikers have yielded
to the strain upon them and have applied for
positions in the mill. The strikers were much
surprised last week to ascertain that a color
ed puddler had entered the Twenty-ninth
street Carnegie mill. Last week forty colorel
laborers left Roanoke for Pittsburg, where
they have been engaged to work in the iron
mills. 1t is feared that the introduction Of
colored men in the place of the locked-out
men will soon cause hostilities.
1t is reported on good authority that Bill
Redd, a 1oud-mouthed colored politician and
agitator, who has always been credited with
being responsible for the riot in Danville, pre-.
ceding the election in 1888, had been killed in
Pocahontas. Last year he narrowly escaped
lynchng at Roanoke, and was driven from
the city by the people who regarded him as
the instigator of the threatened negro riot
From the reports it seems that Redd became
involved in difficulty With colored miners
in which pistols were drawn and that his body
3ecame the receptacle of nearly 100 bullets.
The preliminary trial of Miss Lizzie Dor
den Of Fall River, Mass, charged with the
murder of her father and step-mother was
concluded last Saturday. The trial created
wide spread interest both from the prominence
of the parties implicated and the mystery thai
seemed to surround the case. In many PEG
pies minds who heard and read the testimo
ny there were doubts whether the Common
wealth had sufficient evidence to detain Miss
Borden. but the judge thought differently and
sent the case on to the grand jury.
1t has at last been decided that the interest
and penalties shall be refunded to the States
as we'll as the amount of direct tax. The
amount of interest Virginia will receive or
| the direct tax is $2,84S.4O. The penalties
amounting to S393.19. AS soon as officially
notified Of the action of the comptroller al
Washington, Mr.. Moon OF his assistant, Col
W. P. Smith will 60 to Washington and gel
| the balance of the money coming to this State
The amount already refunded is $442, O27.72.
The present quarrel between Richmond
Terminal stockholders is productive of mucl
inside information about Terminal deals Of
which the public have heretofore been igno
rant. The other day it was discovered thai
certain of the trustees had proited to the tune
of between So, 900 and 81 ,OOO,OO in the pur
chase of the Georgia Central by the Rich
mond Terminal. 1t is announced that steps
xxys1 +o1v to
money.
Maj j. Ogden hurry has suspended the
publication Of the Goshen Blade, one of the
Invest of the boom newspapers. The Blade
, said in its last issue: ITO trust is to bust
To bust is h. We havet trusted the Goshen
Land and Improvement Company and we
have busted and we are glad Of it, for it gives
us something to talk about in our seven hun.
dred acre field. Our bust will give the othe,
fellows something to talk about"
The U. S. mails received at the N. Y. post
office from cholera infected points, are put
through pro cess of desteritizatiOn before
being sorted by the clerks. These postal
officials have been very chary about handling
| the mails arriving on the plague stricken
vessels of the Hamburg American line coming
from Antwerp and Hamburg. All the big
ocean liners are now stopped and held il
| quarantine down below Coney Island
General Joseph K. Anderson, one of the
leaders of the Confederacy and since the wal
| President of the Tredegar Company of Rich
mond, died Wednesday morning at Isle Of
Shoals, N H., where he was spending the
summer. General Anderson was brother
of the late Judge Anderson of Lexington He
leaves widow and three sons and one
daughter.
Under the auspices of the Farmers Alliance
an exchange company has been organized il
Rockingham county. The company is t.
conduct general mercantile business a
Harrisonburg. and will be under the man
agement Of Mr.. e. j. Brock the bushes.
agent Of the county. A charter has been oh
tanned from the circuit court and larg,
amount Of stock subscribed
| Jules Dufour and E. Madard. two negroes O
New Orleans. having undergone term O.
probation there, under Archbishop Janssens
have entered the college of the Epiphany a
Baltimore, and upon ordination will labor il
| the interest Of the Roman Catholic churcl
| among the negroes of louisiana
DR.. VIM. A. Thorn, Quarantine Medica
officer for Norfolk, has notified the steam
ship agents there that in view Of the refusa
of DR.. Jenkins, the health officer of New
York, to obey President Harrison's quaran
tine order, no immigrants will be permitted
now to pass through Norfolk city or county.
A powerful combination to be known as thu
Leaf Tobacco Company, was formed in Louis
Vile, KY, Aug. 31st, whose object is to com
pete with the newly organized tobacco comb
nation in Cincinnati. The capital stock il
81, 100000.
Avery important discovery of mosaic and
black marble and of fossil iron ore has beer
made in Allegheny county adjacentto Clifton
Forge, Cincinnati capitalists have an option
on the property at $40. 600.
George William Curtis, the distinguished
editor, author and reformer died at his home
on Staten Island, Wednesday, August 31st, ii
his 18th year.
Daniel Dougherty the Philadelphia orator
who electrified the country when he nominal
ed Hancock at Cincinnati, died at his home
Monday.
VIM. Cabell Bruce Of Baltimore, young