Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1892-09-30
THE NEWS OF THE DAY.

THE NEWS OF THE DAY,
On Wednesday of last week while Mrs.
Philip Bly,, of Shenandoah, was doing her
family washing, her little three-year old
daughter fell into pot Of boiling water that
she had lifted from the fire and put near the
child. At the time of the accident Mrs. Bly,
had her back turned and being deaf did not
hear the child's screams. When she finally
discovered the child's condition it had been
SO bodily scalded that death soon relieved it
of pain.
Fifty beeVes were roasted at a tremendous
Democratic barbecue at Shelbyville, Ind, at
which Bourke Cochran was the principal
speaker. and in which he had the assistance
OF twenty eight subordinate orators. The po-
litical situation was explained to $4,000 peo-
pie. The great event came off September %,
The Charlottesville Land Company has
elected new officers. George A. Moore was
elected president, vice, Thos. S. Martin, re-
signed,
William Reese, the Oldest iron worker in
Bolivar. Penn, aged 1O4 years. lie was a
native of Wales and came to this country in
1882.
Dr.. Pierson OF Philadelphia, who oliiciated
in Nj. Spurgeons pulpit at the Metropolitan
Tabernacle, London, during the latter's final
Illness and who later acted in the same Ca
pacity, has been finally accepted as the per-
manent successor to Mr.. Spurgeon DR..
Person will assume his duties on the first of
January.
Mary May, aged II, an inmate of the Miller
Female Orphan Asylum at Lynchburg, was
caught talking to young man by the name
of Campbell, while at church. This being
violation of the rules the young girl was pub
licly reprimanded. Monday night last she
escaped from the house, and meeting her
sweetheart by appointment, they walked to
station about twenty miles from Lynchburg
where they took the train for Pelham, N. e.,
ami were married. They returned to Lynch
burg the next day.
Last Thursday, at Washington, the Grand
Army elected General A. q. Weissert of Wis
consin, Commander-in-chief The first Off
cial order Of the new chief is that headquar-
tiers shall be at Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
The hardware store of Nelson & Myers, of
Roanoke, was recently broken into by thieves
who stole a number of fine pistols, razors and
cutlery valued at about 500, but got no
money. The thieves disturbed the goods but
little and seemed familiar with the To-
cation of the articles stolen.
Mr.. Lawrence Lottier, a we'll known toba c
co merchant of Richmond, died in that city
last week after long illness.
Last week, Mary Green, colored, of Wythe-
vile, who has been staying at Mr. James
Snavely's, enticed little orphan that Mr. S.
had taken to raise, away from home, and
poisoned a pot of coffee. Mr.. Snavely drank
a cup of it and is now in Il dangerous condi-
tton. The girl has not yet been unprecedented.
A fire at Culpeper last week destroyed
five buildings, including the hall of the col
ored Odd Fellows and the town hall. Dur
ing the fire keg of powder exploded, injur-
ing one man severely and knocking down sew
eral others.
In an ARRAY at Houston, Botetourt county,
Charles Epps was seriously shot and Broad
Power was also wounded. Joseph Spencer
and Reuben Cumbia are charged with the
shooting.
A young negro who has spent four years at
the Central Tennessee College, has been calf
ed to throne in Africa. His name is Mono
lu Massaquai, and he came from the Vef
country, aregion of interior Africa adjoining
Liberia. He was converted some years ago to
Christianity by Mrs. Mary Briefly, an En-
glish missionary, and through her influence
and that Of Bishop Penick, of Louisville,
was brought to this country and put at school.
He received the news last week that his faith
Ell, King Balah, had been killed in war and
h.; , loJ h;
There will be partial eclipse of the sun
October Goth, visible throughout the United
States. The eclipse will begin at about 10
minutes past II o'clock on the morning of Oc-
tober Goth and will continue nearly five hours.
The eclipse will be the greatest at half-past
one o'clock. If the day be clear this eclipse
will prove quite interesting, and will be OBJ
served by numbers of people.
Charley Mitchell, the English pugilist, has
deposited forfeit of $500 and renewed his
cha lenge to fight Corbett for $4,000 side
the world championship and the purse o
1000 offered by the Olympic Club.
Mrs. Elizabeth Stanton, of Centre county,
Pa, died last Friday in her 117tn year. She
was direct descendant of American Indian
stock and the feats of strength and endurance
performed by her in her old age are famous
all over the western part of the State. She
was, so far as is known, the Oldest woman in
Pennsylvania. She was born at Big Chick
les, Lancaster county, in 1775.
Edward Parker Deacon, of Boston, Mass,
who killed Emile Abeille, an attache to the
French consular service, who he caught in his
wife's bedroom. has been pardoned by the
French government and released from prison.
Mr.. Deacon will apply for a divorce at Gras-
Sc, France. and if compelled, will carry the
case to the courts of the United States.
Isaac Spinner and William Evans, two col
ored boys of Charlottesville, had difficulty
on Wednesday last which terminated in Ev-
ans striking Spinner with rock. crushing his
skull, from which he died in few minutes.
Patrick Sansfeld Gilmore. the great band
leader, died suddenly at ST. Louis, Mo-, last
Saturday. Mr. Gilmore was born IN Ireland
in 1929, and came to America at the age Of Is.
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