Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1892-01-08

grippe. Ii biz FIFTH year. He WAS appointed TO
West Point from Georgia, his native State.
The pennies in the sub-treasury at New
York have grown to seventy-six tons. caused
by there being SO many penny-in-the-slot ma
chimes in that city whose owners every week
change the pennies to treasury notes.
Mrs. Lizzie Tucker, widow of Henry ST.
George Tucker, for so many years clerk of
the Virginia House of Delegates, died at her
daughters home in Memphis last week. She
wasa daughter of Gov. Gilmer.
Several young ladies of Minden City, Mich
igan, t earn money to buy Christmas pres
-ents f9s the poor, sawed and split five cords
of wood alta druggists door, for which they re-
ceived s..
Mr. Solomon Morris and Miss Mary Mitch
ell were married at Windsor, N. G., Wednes-
day. The groom is five feet four inches high
and weighs 265 pounds. The bride is five
feet five inches high and weighs 2G5 pounds
For the last six years the world has not pro-
duced as much breadstuffs as it has consumed.
There must have been a surplus of 800 900, 900
bushels stored as a reserve.
Col. John s. Mosby. the Guerilla Chialtain,
saws "the sabre is about as useful in actual
warfare as the fifth wheel of a coach-gun-
powder has knocked it out
Septima Barnett. colored woman who
once owned Mountain Top" and other val
able property on the Blue Ridge, died recent
Nv in Charlottesville.
The Infantry company in the U. S. Army,
composed of Indians, Co. L, goth Regiment,
la.
ted to be very satisfactory.
While playing the "Ihree Gua&vmen" at
Montgomery, Ala, Thursday ,,ht, Alex.
Salyini slightly wounded himselfin the side
by the discharge of a pistol.
I 1t is stated that all the women of Poland,
sof all classes, will wear black dresses this
year, it being the Tooth anniversary of the loss
of their countIys independence.
Forty-two States and Territories of the
United States raise 4SS, 255, 1876 pounds of to-
bacco Oh 692 900 acres. The whole average
yield in 1889 was $5023 per acre.
Gen. Thomas Allcock, an Englishman, bre-
vette for gallantry in our civil war, and made
rich after it by inventing the porous
plaster, died in New York last week.
John l.. Nathans, whom all old men will
remember as the first bareback rider they
saw at circus, died in New York Christmas
week, aged 76 years.
The papers all through Virginia are MOTTO
ing the dying of the pine trees. Acres that
were green all summer are now brown and
dead
Col. Charles S. Darlington, a former presi-
dent of the old James River and Kanawha
Canal Company, died at his home in Halifax
county.
Ex-senator John F. Lewis, died in Washing
ton city Wednesday.
A. NJ. McClintic has been appointed post
master at Fincastle, Va, vice j. b. Simpson,
removed.
Mr.. Harry Fleming, president of the First
National Bank at Fairmont, w. Va, died
suddenly there December 29th
There was no county court in Nelson coun-
ty last week, Judge Fitzpatrick being down
with the grippe.
Prof. j. W. Mallet, of the University of
Virginia, has been elected president of the
American Chemical Society.
One merchant at Bedford Springs, Va.
has shipped 1000 rabbits this season, and an
other shipped 1000.
The Hotel Ketochin, built by the Leesburg
Hotel and Improvement Company at cost OF
$40, 900, has beensold for s14, 900.
General James G.. Field has been elected
President Of the Gordon Land Company at
Gordonsyille, vice P. P. Barbour, resigned.
Rev. Edward NJ. Powell, of Amherst coun-
ty, denies the report that his little son, who
was lost November 9th, has been found.
A wealthy citizen of Richmond, Va, gives
away $4,000 every year including $500 to
ten charitable institutions at Christmas.
New Year calls have died out everywhere,
even in New England where they originated.
Charlottesville erected buildings to the
value Of Ssh $50 in the year 1891.
By their local census, Buena Vista has 5.24O
population, and Clifton Forge 1926