Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1892-07-15


Julia Ward and Lily Wood, with whom he
| got to drinking, and one of whom snatched
his pocket book with $3.50 and ran off. They
were arrested and held in $1,000 bail, while'
the unlucky prosecuting attorney was sent to
the House of Detention to be held as a witness.
| A striking fact about the Chinese use Of tea,
which is told on the authority of Chinese
officer. is that it is employed for preserving
the bodies Of the dead. A corpse placed in the
centre OF box OF tea, he says, will tkeep' for
years. He further asserts that tea which has
been employed in this capacity is often ex
ported for foreign consumption, the boxes
being marked in way known only to the
natives.-L0nd0n Court Journal.
Miss Ella l.. Knowles, whom the Peoples
party of Montana has nominated for Attorney
General of the State, is a successful practicing
lawyer in Helena. She was born in New
Hampshire, and was graduated from Bates
College, Maine, in 1884. She has an extensive
practice among miners and workingmen, and
| it is thought that they were influential in Sc
curing her the nomination.
The Virginia Court of Appeals has refused
new hearing in the Thomas will case and
the fortune of Thomas will now be turned
over to Bette Thomas, his colored daughter,
to whom he intended to leave it. After pay
ing all ext enses of costs and counsel she will
have about $780, 600 and be the richest colored
woman In Virginia
MI. w. IL. Venable of Hampden-S Sidney
College, was the successful competitor in the
State collegiate oratorical contest at Rich
mond College. All the leading colleges IN
the State were represented Hampden Sidney
orators have carried off the prize at every
inter collegiate contest since they were begun
The Winchester Times says that Mr.. w. r.
Alexander, one Of Col. O'Ferrall's competi-
tors for the nomination in the 7th district,
while canvassing in Frederick county last
week, took a hand in the harvesting, and as a
GRADER led the harvesterS in one field for
several hours.
A railroad is being surveyed to run from
Acre in Palestine. along the Eastern side Of
Mt Carmel, past Nazareth to the river Jord-
an, along the shore of the sea OF Galilee and
thence across the plain to Damascus. The
railroad from the Mediterranean to Jerusalem
is nearly completed.
II. A. Forbes, county jailor of Appropriations
who Shot and painfully wounded Maj. r. B..
PooEe, a lawyer. with whom he got into an
alteration at the jail about visiting client,
has been fined S1OO and sentenced to % days
Imprisonment.
An American Corn Harvester Trust has
been organized. 1t embraces the Mcdonald
Manufacturing Company, OF Bellefontaine
the VIM. N. Whitley Company, the Foos Man
ufacturing Company and the Springfield I'M
plement Company, of Troy.
Judge Paul, on the application Of creditors
of the Glasgow Investment Company has put
it in the hands of a receiver and appointed
Mr.. Burdette of Boston. to that position. This
is the company that owns the Natural Bridge
property.
Daniel Balderson, aged 81, who lives in
Lancaster county, Va, has wooden noggin
made by his wife's grandfather in 1777, and
has used it for forty years. 1t has been occa-
sionally re-hooped, but the wood has stood
over century of wear unhurt.
Hon. Franklin b. Maxwell, Of Dodridge
county. W. Va, died Monday, aged seventy
eight years. He was said to be worth half a
million dollars, and he started out in life to
work by the day.
A "World's Fair Concert is TO be given at
the hotel in Buchanan on the Goth inst. in
aid of Virginia's proper representation at the
Worlds Fair. Similar fairs are to be given
at all the watering places in Virginia.
i A party of ten clergymen, including four
Lutherans and one Methodist, left Cincinnati
on Saturday on bicycles to ride several hun
dred miles. They will visit indianapolis
Dayton and Columbus OH their summer tour
Edwin l. Hand Of Baltimore, has been
arrested and carried to Washington, charged
with having, while agent for the U. S. Elk
press Co., stolen $4,000 from the safe on the
car between Grafton, W. Va, and Baltimore.
u 1t is said that more persons were killed by
Il lightning in Virginia during June than ever
before during one month. The total number
was not less than twenty, and probably
twenty-five.
Marshall Mccormick has just harvested
one OF the finest wheat crops ever grown in
Clarke county, and if it Yields in proportion
to the straw, it must make at least 45 bushels
per acre.
Burglars entered the post Office at Coving-
ton, Allegheny, Oh the night of the 4th inst,
and breaking open tile safe stole property ag-
gregating $500. AS usual, they had tools
stolen from neighboring shop.
The first car load of new No. 2 red winter
wheat from the West arrived at Baltimore
Friday. 1t was from Indiana. and sold at 80
cents. The first car load last year sold at 1OG
cents bushel.
The first grain binder ever run in Bland
county, Va. was put in operation last week
large number of people visited the wheat
field to see it work.
Mr.. L. T. Summers, the postmaster of All.
ingdon, has gone to the University of Virginia
to pursue his studies in Prof. Minors law
school.
!, Prof D. 4. Sterrett of the University OF
Texas, native Of Highland Co., Va, has
l.. just been elected to the char Of Greek in Am
!, herst College, Massachusetts,.
}, Mr. Thomas b. Ballentine. millionaire
trucker near Norfolk, Va, has bought an en-
tire block of ground in that city and intends
erecting $500 "Widows Home on it,
Homer Stinespring of Harrisonburg, who
has been living at Orange g. II. for wear,
was drowned while bathing in the Rapidan
river Thursday afternoon.
!, The Southern Churchman says, "The news
from Bishop Whittle is encouraging. lie
walked on one occasion mile and the ulcer
on his eye seems to be Welding to treatment. ~
The house of Thomas B. Hcnsley, near
Swift Run, Rockingham was bnrned Friday
night and his little eght-year-old son Fred,
persisted in the flames.
4 mink which was being tanned in Newman
ket, escaped last week, and raided four chick
ell roosts, killing "a chickens, before it was
captured and killed
Robert Lincoln O'Brien of the Boston
''Transcript' has been appointed private
Secretary to ex-President Cleveland. He is
graduate Of Harvard.
Miss Lottie Collins, the famous London
music hall singer who first sung the '"ra ia
ra boom de ay' Song, died i'll Paris, Monday.
Bishop Alpheus w. Wilson of the M. T..
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