Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1892-05-20


Surry, Mann Page of Prince George. Thomas
S. Martin of Albemarle, Speaker r. H. Card
we'll of Hanover, Judge Fitzgerald of Farm
Vile, Holmes Conrad of Winchester, and G.
V. Meredith of Richmond.
THE NEWS OF THE DAY.
In the joint trial of Rosenberger, Spindle
and the other private bankers in Loudoun
county, on indictments charging them with
embezzlement the jury brought in verdict
of mot guilty" under instructions from Judge
Tebbs to the effect that the relationship of
bankers and depositors was that of debtor
and creditor. and that unless it were proven
that deposit was special one the bankers
could not be held criminally guilty, because
under general deposit the money became
theirs. Had the banks been National banks,
the using Of the deposits would have been
felony.
The removal of the county seat of Pocahon-
tas, w. Va. to Marlinton, though carried by
the popular vote. is being resisted in the
courts. A petition presented by MI. Jno. W.
Stephenson of Bath, the attorney for the op-
position, asking the circuit court of Pocahon-
tas for an injunction to restrain the county
authorities from taking any steps towards
changing the county seat, having been refused,
he has carried it to the West Virginia Court
of Appeals.
The late Maj. A. g. Smith of Bethel Acad-
envy, Fauquier, after providing in his will for
his widow and children, left thirty acres of
land in the heart of Atchison, Kansas, to his
grandchildren with the provision that it is
not to be sold until the youngest is q years
old. Maj. Smith refused 81 900 per acre for
it. 1t is probable that it will make each of
his grand children millionaire He bought
it nearly forty years ago at small price.
Drs. Parker of Richmond, McIlwaine of
Petersburg, and Wiley of Salem, the medical
commission to inquire whether or not there
are persons in the State Lunatic Asylums who
are not ''insane'' in the common sense mean
ing of that word, and whether or not the pres
ent laws of admission into said asylums
should not be revised, amended or corrected,
has started on its tour of inspection, and is
now at the Williamsburg Asylum.
The late decision of the Virginia Court of
Appeals about the jurisdiction of magistrates
in petty offences, is filling the jails OF the
State with offenders awaiting trial by jury.
In Shenandoah, Judge Newman has determin-
ed to remedy it and has directed the starting
of chain gang to work on the county roads.
The Allegheny Sentinel calls on the county
Judge of that county to follow suit.
Gen. Malone who is confined to his room in
the Ponce de Leon hotel at Roanoke by erysip-
elias, expressed desire to see Rev. Sam Jones,
| and that minister with Rev. Geo. A. Stewart
and Prof E. o. Excel called on him. Gen.
Malone, lying in bed, entertained the visitors
with some war "reminiscences and promised to
visit the tabernacle when he was able to
get out.
After legal delays and new trials extending
over year and a half, John Myers Phila-
delphia buncoe man who, with his pals, rob.
bed Shenandoah county, Va, farmer of
several hundred dollars, has been convicted
at Woodstock by a Rockingham jury, and
given twenty-three months in the penten-
tiary.
The POstmaster-General has received an
undated letter containing 81, OOO in which the
writer says; "This is the balance of interest
owe on the sum took from the government
in 1865. l have now paid principal and in
terest, in all SIT, 500. No man has suffered
more for his crime than l have. and now
pray the Lords forgiveness for my SIM
Four years ago daughter of Dr. Pendleton
of Louisa county, now living at Iron Gate,
lost her gold watch while crossing the fields
in that county. Last week Miss Pendleton
received it by express. 1t had been turned
down in blowing, remained under the ground
several years. and was recently plowed up
again. 1t is still in fair running order.
An old restaurant bill, printed in Richmond
in January, 1864, gives the following war
time price in Confederate money: Soup,
S1.5O; chicken, $3, SO; roast beef, Sa ham and
eggs; 50; raw oysters, Va; coffee, $2 bread and
butter, $3.50; q bottle of champagne, $50; a
drink of rye whlskey, 81; a bottle of ale, Sl2,
and cigar, 81.
An abstract of the will of the late William
Astor. prepared by the counsel for the execu-
tors, shows that Mr.. Astor left all but about
Sc, 600, 900 OF his estate to his only son, John
Jacob Aston. The estate is valued at from
$50 00O 900 to $5O,0Q0,000. Mrs. Drayton re-
ceives nothing, but her children get 1912, 500
each.
Miss Grace French, a brunette, aged twenty,
of Brooklyn, N. Y, in attempting to save a
Chinaman has lost herself. Lee Tod, laun-
dryman, was her Sunday school scholar for
some time and had been converted Last
Sunday she eloped with him. He has wife
and two children in Canton, China:
After six months courtship, Leo Haag and
Anna Kneborn were married at Cincinnati,
Tuesday night. and next morning they called
on lawyer and asked that their divorce be
secured. Each was willing to be the plain
tiff. The necessary papers will be filed at
once.
In a suit to recover money for liquor sold in
Boston to be retailed in Maine, the Massachuss
etts Supreme Court has decided that the
plaintiff cannot recover the contract being
void, as the seller knew the goods were de-
stined for State where the law prohibits the
sale of liquor.
7. 7. Bradley. Mayor of Paint Rock, n. o.,
who is also depot agent there, ON Thursday |
received letter from a lady refusing to mar
ry him. He burst into tears, and writing his
resignation OF his position. went little dis !
lance into the mountain and shot himself
dead.
Rev. Dr. w. E. Evans, late pastor of the
Granby-street Methodist church at Norfolk,
who left that communion, was confirmed by
Bishop Randolph of the Episcopal church at
Blackstone, Nottoway county, last week. He
will become rector of al Episcopal church at
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