Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1892-08-12

from San Francisuo, bringing $50. ooo,00o of
government gold from the sub-treasnry there.
Each of the five cars carried $4,000 600, aid
was filled with soldiers. At the stopping
places no citizens were allowed to approach
the train, SO there was no chance for s.hold
up" by train robbers.
g. 2. Huntington is the only railroad king
who can load freight on his own cars on the
Pacific coast and put it in New York without
dividing the revenue with other lines. He
can send his cars into New Orleans and there
reload the freight OH his steamships and car
ry it to New York.
Miss Harris. the nineteen ear-old daughter
Of Nathan Harris of Rich Valley, in South
western Va, has form as perfect as Venus,
but is only thirty-fve inches in height and
weighs but thirty-nine and half pounds
Her hair is very long and sweeps the floor as
the train of a lady's dress does.
Miss Amy johnson, described as "a very
beautiful and popular school teacher of
Yellow Springs, Ohio, expects soon to make
trip from her home to Davenport, Iowa, on a
bicycle. The distance is 800 miles, and Miss
johnson hopes to make the journey within
tWenty-, days.
The property of the defunct private bank.
called the Piedmont bank, at Gordonsville.
was sold Saturday. The Gordonsville Gazette
Office, which was its property, was bought by
Richard Rawlings of Charlottesville. The
total sale realized S. O0O the real estate bring
ing good prices.
Four members of a family named Mcintyre,
and the colored cook, living at Buena Vista,
Sofr1 off of mi oI
cabbage. 1t was found later that viper
snake had gotten among the cabbage and been
boiled with them.
1t is said that an everage waltz takes one
about q of mile. A square dance makes
you cover half mile. Twenty dances is the
average of an evening, and it is moderate es-
innate to say that in one evening girl dances
twelve and half miles. This accounts for
the tagged out society girls girls with backs,
so often seen.
The creamery at Berryville, Clarke county,
which paid 70 cents per 100 pounds for milk
in 1888, and the following year paid So cents,
or just one-half, closed last week. finding it
impossible to make the manufacture pay.
r. M. Duffield, aged seventy, the mail car
rier between jackson, W. Va, and Buffalo,
walks 21o miles week, supplying the twelve
Offices on his route.
A postoffice has been established at Kin
caid, Highland county, with Annie B. Hup-
man as postmaster. J. J. Moore has been APP
pointed postmaster at Natural Bridge, Rock
bridge county.
Gen. u. L. Beauregard, in answer to an in
vitation to visit an old comrade at Front
Royal, writes from Yellow Sulphur Springs,
Va, that he is not we'll enough to do so, and
II travel now for health not pleasure
HHawks have no giZzards. but Jim Wright
of Buckingham county, the victim of prac-
teal joke, killed and opened 26 of them before
lie found out that the reward of S. each offer
ed by Gov. Mckinney for hawks gizzards,
was a hoax.
In "Kettle cannon" in the Blue Ridge in
Page county, in gorge where the sun only
shines few minutes atnoon, there is a bed Of
ice two feet wide and of unknown depth, all
the year around.
The Withrow committee appointed by the
last legislature to ascertain the real and the
assessed value of mineral lands, meets at
Luray next Monday.
John Allen of Pittsburg, was bitten fifteen
years ago this month by a rabid dog, and this
month every year since he has had terrible
spasms, barking like a dog, and requiring
several men to hold him.
Congress adjourned sine die last Thursday
night. 1t appropriated S2,5oO,OOO to the
Worlds Fair, and it will be in souvenir half
dollars which will be coined with head of
Columbus on them.
Several companies of the I'd Va State troops
will 60 into ten days camp at Island Park
Harper's Ferry, August 22d.
There were 10000 persons at the Lutheran
annual reunion at Pen-Mar, Sunday. OF whom
500 were from the Valley of Virginia.
The Studebaker Wagon Works at South
Bend, Ind, have been forced to close down, by
the workmen refusing to use Carnegie ma
terial.
The Secretary of the Georgia State Alliance
says in his annual report that the membership
has fallen off Il, 900 in the year.