Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1892-07-08
THE NEWS OF THE DAY.

pneumonia, her mother telegraphed for DR.
VIM. NJ Polk Of New York, to consult with
the local doctor. DR.. Polk sent his assistant,
DR.. G. G. Barrows, who staid ten days. The
child recovered, and Dr.. Polk sent bill for
81, 500, and payment being refused he is suing
for it, In the trial, DR.. LOOMS of N. Y. tes-
titled that he would have charged $40 an hour
for every hour he was away. DR.. Wyeth
testified that he would have charged $500
day. and DR.. Gidney that he would have
charged S25 an hour for the service. The At
lanta doctor, Dr.. Anthony, said he got $500
for his whole attention and he thought $50
day for the New Y ork doctor was enough. AT
this the New York doctors smiled. The case
is not yet decided.
Mr. George R. Vending, while in Kansas
City lecturing on Stonewall Jackson, says
that when he reached the point where Bee,
driven back by tine Union advance, called to
his men, Orally behind the Virginians; there
stands Jackson like stone wallH' man in
the gallery rose up, his face OH fire with en-
thusiasm, and shouted, =" Glory to God - As
he shouted, he seized his hat and sent it sail
ing over the audience. and in an instant. to
quote the time-honored phrase, pandemonium
reigned For five minutes the audience cheer
ed and yelled with vigor that ratified both
Vending and the windows.
There are twenty well-built 'boom' towns
in Kansas without single inhabitant to
waken the echoes of their deserted streets
Saratoga has a thirty thousand dollar opera
house, large brick hotel, twenty thousand
dollar school house and a number of fine
business houses, and yet there is nobody to
even claim a place to sleep. At Fargo
twenty thousand dollar school house stands
on the side of the hill, a monument to the
bond-voting craze A herder and his family
are the sole population of what was once an
incorporated city.
Mary Concklin, aged sixteen, and Gilbert
Palmer, aged 26, of jamestown, Ohio, had
been refused permission to marry. Saturday
a horse was seen hitched to buggy and stand
ing long time at fence. A farmer who
went to inquire the reason. found the two
lovers laying dead on the buggy robe which
they had spread on the other side of the fence
Near them were two glasses and two empty
strychnine papers. On one of the papers was
written: Bury us as close together as posi-
BILE. Good bye"
An evidence of ruling passion strong in
death was manifested in Richmond the other
night. There was marriage on Church Hill,
and he who figured as groom reJoices III re
ceiving an income of 80 cents per day as the
employee of manufacturing establishment
Notwithstanding the immensely of her lords
revenue, the fair bride was welded in a cos
tune Of white satin with slippers to match,
full length veil, bridal wreath and other
accessories.
Ten years ago, John Heintzig, a Hungarian.
who knew nothing about banks, concealed
5000 in the mattress at his boarding house III
Shamokin, Pa, and went to Hungary to see his
people. He was arrested there for desertion
and had to serve six years in the army, not
getting back to Shamokin till last Thursday.
He went straight to his old boarding house
and found his money where he had left it.
He had been afraid to write to the landlord
about it fearing he might keep the money.
The 'tAdlai'' in the name of the Democratic
candidate for Vice President is Hebrew, and
NAV be found in the 10Th verse OF the 9th
chapter OF the First Book of Chronicles:
''And over the herds that fed in Sharon was
Shitrai the Sharonite; and over the herds that
were in the valleys was Shaphat, the son of
Aulal. Ibis Auldl IlNGu dUOuO l,U1t yCalo
before Christ.
Rev. W. l.. NJ. Palmer, colored, pastor of
Roberts Chapel, Alexandria, refused to
preach the funeral of John II. Sims, on the
ground that he had received no written request,
and that though he had been orally asked to
do it, it was beneath the dignity Of the minis
terlal Office to accept any save a written re-
quest, no matter how important the matter
| may be.
| VIM. Early of Madison county, has gold
| watch that away back in 1880, Extra Billy
Smith (who was running stages from Wash
ington city, but afterwards became Governor
of Virginia, Congressman and Major General
in the Confederate army handed to a credi-
tor saying: "Take this, it is the only proper
ty l have in the world" The watch has been
running GO years and still keeps good time.
Some years ago VIM. Shackleford, an &C.
centric citizen Of Rappahannock county, Va,
then in his esd year, had his funeral sermon
preached by Rev. Aldridge Grimsley. He
was sick at the time and, not expecting to re
cover, thought he would like to hear his flu
neral sermon. A few weeks ago, being now
| in his Goth year, the same minister married
| him
Two colored delegates from Florida, while
returning from the Minneapolis convention,
made murderous assault on a railroad con-
ductor IN Indiana. They were taken off the
train, tried, and sentenced to two years in the
penitentiary, to which institution they were
carried on June 21st. John Rogers and John
Craig were the names they gave.
MI. J. D. Rogers the author of "The Man
from Texas" died at Middleburg, Loudoun
Co., Va, last week. He willed what person.
al property he had to a colored woman named
Jennie Washington, who waited on him dur
ing his last illness.
| An Austrian provincial paper lately con-
| tanned the following advertisements: ga widow.
who still possesses the entire wardrobe of her
deceased husband, is disposed to enter into
correspondence with suitable gentleman. if
such can be found, with view to matrimony.'
| While five young men were bathing in the
creek near Luray last week, Lightning struck
tree On the bank, SO panicking the bathers
| that they scrambled out and fled to town in
costumes that nothing but lightning could
have induced them to appear in.
| The wife of Hon. Adlai E. Stevenson of IL
linois, the Democratic nominee for Vice Pres
ident, was Miss Green, daughter Of Rev. DR..
Lewis E. Green of Virginia, who about the
year 1850, became President Of Hampden Sid
ney College.
Six hospitals, including the one in Chicago,
have been founded for women by women
physicians. The other five are located at
Philadelphia, New York. Boston, San Fran
cisco and Minneapolis.
Miss Matte Martin, daughter of Rev. S.
| Taylor Martin, whose home is near Dublin,
Pulaski Co., Va, grew strawberry this sea-
son that measured seven and three quarter
inches in circumference
William NJ. Fishback. the Democratic can
didate for governor of Arkansas, is a native
of Culpeper county. Va, and sixty-one years