Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1892-03-11
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Mrs. Amanda Bentley of Ridee.own, Cana
da, is seventy Years old, and has a favorite
and only son cripple. When her husband
died many years ago he provided in his will
that the instant she married again, if she did
So after his death, the property should re-
vert to their cripple son. Fearing that some
thing would happen after her death to deprive
the young man of the property, she went to
jackson, Mich, last Friday, and offered any
man SlOo to marry her, saying she would not
ask him to live with her. VIM. H. Plumb, a
day laborer, took the offer and in few min
utes earned the money Mrs. Bentley took the
train directly after the ceremony and returned
home. The estate, amounting to S1SO, 900, is
now the property of her son.
Last week we'll dressed, polite young man
called on Jacob Prinkey OF Wharton Town
ship, Pa, and told him he had dreamed of
1000 silver dollars in tree on his farm
half OF which he would give him if he let
him cut the tree down. Prinkey agreed and
went with him. On cutting down the tree 4, 900
silver dollars rolled out and were divided
half and half. As the stranger lived a long
distance OFF he got Prinkey to give him 50 600
in paper money for his half, which, as Prinkev
was wealthy and didn't believe in banks. he
was able to do and did. The next evening
seeing his silver, as he thought, changing
color, Prinkey got an experts aid and found
all his $4,000 was of tin and lead.
| AS Nick Brown, merchant of Mill Point.
Pocahontas county, W. Va, sat in his store
last week reading paper and smoking a
cigar, his front shutters were closed and two
| disguised men entered and demanded money.
He thought it was joke and asked them to
be seated, but after they had beaten him near
ly senseless with clubs and robbed him of
500, he was convinced that ir was no Joke
They stole two horses from farmer nearby
and rode to Ronceyerte, where they got away
on the train. MI. Brown thinks he recognized
them.
Secretary Rusk of the Agricultural Depart
ment at Washington, has received the follow
ing letter from Western farmer whose wife
died last summer from eating cucumbers
raised from the seed sent out by the Depart
ment: Your blamed cucumbers robbed me
of my wife, so instead of sending me cucum-
Der seed this spring send me another wife. I
hear there are a number of likely women in
your department.
The presiding officers of the two houses of the
Virginia legislature have named the members
of the committee appointed under a resolution
adopted providing for the investigation of the
question of the value of the mineral lands of
the State, with view of their reassessment,
as follows: From the Senate-Messrs. Fair
fax, Marshall and Sands. House-Messrs.
Withrow, Mason, of King George; jackson,
| of Wise; Anderson and Fentress
John l.. Sullivan is out in a challenge to
the pugilists of the world to fight him in New
Orleans in August OF September for purse
of $4,000, with an outside bet of $1O, 900. CIV
ing them preference in the following order
1st Slavin of Australia, I'd. Charlie Mitchell
of England, (who made draw fight with
Sullivan in France, and Sd. James Corbett
of California.
Fernleigh W. Montague the Washington
artist, an invalid, long in i'll health, agreed
with his devoted wife, thirty-two years of
age, to commit suicide at their apartments No
51S 4th st. N. W. in that city, Sunday. She
washed and dressed him for the occasion, and
arrayed herself in white and laid beside him
on the bed. Both were found dead with pis-
toll shots in their mouths
Rev. II. G. Cheathanl, pastor of tlfe NJ. E.
IT,,
in his sermon, denounced the Petersburg Club
house, swell social organization, as ''an
unlicensed rum mill and the gate to hell
He asked all in the congregation who were
with him in this fight against intemperance, to
stand, and three-fOurths of the congregation
stood up.
George Berry left Harrisonburg Feb. 10Th
for his home at the foot of the Blue Ridge
having in one pocket bottle of whiskey, and
in the other bottle of ammonia of which he
was to make liniment. Nearing McGaheys-
vile after dark, he took out the bottle of
whiskey and took large swallow. 1t proved
to be ammonia and he died in great agony on
the evening of the Goth.
| The constitution of the Farmers Alliance
provides for arbitration between members in
stead of law suits. A case came up before the
Farmers Alliance judiciary Committee at Ivy
Depot. Albemarle, last week, in which 1925
was demanded for horse loaned out and
which died of distemper in the hands of the
borrower. The committee awarded the owner
Of the horse $50.
| The marriage of Miss Josephine Fairfax,
daughter Of John Carter Fairfax of Prince
Georges county, Nd, the present Lord Fair
fax, eighteenth Baron Cameron, and head of
the Virginia family of that name, to MI
Tunstall Smith of Baltimore, took place last
week at st. Paul's Episcopal Church in
Washington.
At Lynchburg Friday night, a reception was
given at the lodge room of Hill City lodge A.
f. d A. M. to Mrs. j. II. Capers of Richmond,
President of the Ladies Auxiliary Association
of the Masonic Home of Virginia. After
music, addresses and refreshme nts, the degree
of Master Mason's Daughter was conferred
upon about four hundred ladies.
The census enumerator at Warrensburg,
N. Y, found a child months old. the mother.
Mrs. Fred Chaniler, one month less than Is
years, grandmother Mrs, John Allen, aged SO
years, and great grandmother Mrs. Oscar
Greene, aged 81 years. all residing in close
proximity about six miles South of Warrens-
burg village.
Congress will be asked for an appropria-
ton approximating in the aggregate Sc, 200, 900
for the Worlds Fair. Five million dollars
of this amount is desired to carry on the work
already begun at Chicago, and something less
than S1,2OO,OOO is wanted by the Worlds
Columbian commission to meet future de-
mands.
The House of Representatives Committee
on War claims has reported favorably bill
to refund to Frederick City. Nd, the 100000
exacted from it in 1864 by Gen. Jubal A.
Farley. There are two other cities with sim
liar claims Chambersburg, Pa, and Law
| renee, Kansas-on both Of which Confederate
commanders levied contributions.
DR.. Thomas Conrad formerly Of Blacks
burg College, Va, more recently of the Mary
land Agricultural College, and still more re-
Gently of the Census Bureau, has been tempo
rarily appointed a sanitary inspector in
Washington city
The Frankfurter Zeitung newspaper having
said EmDerOr William had hallucinatiOnS