Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1892-05-06

ing day OF an institution which | think is
capable Of doing great good to this Valley
of Virginia. H. C. I.
THE NEWS OF THE DAY,
The Hinton, W. Va, Independent saws
go. K. Lapham & Co., of Stanton, will put
loo bark peelers to work, on Grifth's creek
in the next two weeks. and quite number of
our citizens are preparing to turn their chest
nut-oak bark and timber into hard cash this
season. The tan-bark industry distributes
quite a large sum of money in our town and
vicinity during the year.
Commonwealth Attorney j. P. Jeffries of
Fauquier, writes to the Warrenton Index say
ing that he refuses to dismiss the cases
against Rosenberger, Spindle & Co.. the in
dicted bankers, and that the compromising
creditors "can better afford to lose all their
deposits than to violate my oath of Office
The cases will be tried in the Loudoun court
this month.
The Charlottesville Advance says: ga
citizen of Charlottesville on entering a pas
senger coach on the e. & o. road, few days
ago, discovered pocket book lying in one of
the car windows. 1t contained $3.50 and had
been left there by passenger who had gotten
off the train at Covingtor. 1t was given to
Captain Lynn who returned it to the owner. %
The remains of Miss Sarah N Randolph of
edge Hill" Albemarle, who died in Balti-
more, were inferred last Friday in the family
burial ground of Thomas Jefferson, her great
uncle, at Monticello. In her will, which is
witnessed by Miss Annie S. Parran, formerly
of the Virginia Female Institute, Staunton,
she distributes her property among her sisters.
Stockholders in the match factory at Basic
City should find comfort in the fact that the
Diamond Match Trust Co. has Just bought
out the Lebanon, Pa, Match factory COM
pany, giving the stockholders S125 share
for their stock, the par value Of which is only
$50 share The stockholders clear $50, 900
by the transaction.
A mob. assembled around the jail at Nash
vile, Tenn, to hang a negro who had assault
ed Miss Bruce near there, dispersed after
hearing a speech from Governor Buchanan
persuading them to desist. But a few hours
later re-assembled took the man from Jail
and hung him.
The Woodstock Herald says: "Capt. Jas. e.
Baker received on Tuesday the bill Of lading
for 24O lbs, it being U. S. uniforms for the
Anderson Guards, shipped from Philadelphia
to this place. ALL the military companies in
the State, we are informed, are to be uni
formed in this manner"
In suit brought by number of Richmond
stockholders against the Harrisonburg Land
Co., in his court at Harrisonburg, Judge Nc
I in +bo I,o1 +l,o+
number of stockholders could not unite in
such suit Ito recover money paid in by them)
but each one must sue for himself.
In Clarke CO.. Va, Benz. Morgan hit on a
novel device to get chain through the tube
of 24-foot pump stock. He caught a field
mouse, tied string to his leg and put him in
the tube. He soon came out at the other end.
The string was then used to pull the chain
through.
A medical writer commenting on how rare
it is to hear clear ringing laugh from wo-
man, such as is heard from men, says it
arises from from the fact that the respiratory
muscles in women are so confined by steel
and whalebone that free laughter is almost
an impossibiiity.
Ex-Governor William Pinkney Whyte of
Maryland, aged 70. and Mrs. Mary Mcdonald
Thomas, were quietly married in Emmanuel
P. E. Church in Baltimore last week. The
as her guardian, had given the
bride away when she was first married.
DR.. W. E. Hamilton Of Highland Co., Va,
has received intelligence that the body of his
son who was lost in blizzard in Montana
some time ago, has just been found. 1t was
buried on Saturday last.
The election in South River district, Rock
bridge, Thursday was Waterloo for the
Vets. The Drys cast 275 while the whole
Wet vote was only q. At no precinct did the
Vets get more than votes.
The House Committee on the Library has
submitted a favorable report on MI. OFFER
rails bill appropriating $4,000 tor the pur-
chase Of certain letters and other manuscripts
written by Thomas jefferson.
The hotel built by the Lexington Develop
ment Co. has been leased by Gilmore Bros.
of Lewisburg, W. Va, at 81, 800 for the first
year, and 50, 400 year for the succeeding
three years.
Ex-Gov Hugh S. Thompson of South Caro-
lima, has resigned his place on the Civil Ser
vice Commission to take the comptrollership
of the New York Life Insurance Co. May
18th.
In the town of Meran in the Tyrol the au-
thorities have forbidden the ladies wearing
long trains, on the ground that they sweep the
the dust Of the street and spread infectious
diseases.
The twenty-six banks of Baltimore have de-
termined to accept the new Saturday half
holiday law passed by the Maryland legisla-
ture, and hereafter all the banks in that city
will close at - o'clock on Saturdays.
In the room of the Baltimore Chess Asso-
citation, j. W. Showalter OF Georgetown, KY,
played twenty games OF chess at the same
time with twenty gentlemen. He lost two;
had two drawn. and won the other sixteen.
Clara Louise Kellogg's big Maltese cat is
dead. 1t was caught in a neighbours steel
trap at New Hartford, Ct, last week, and
when released was so wild that it bit the
mans hand Its rescuer killed it,
The new Mayor of Fairfax G, H.. Mr..
HaWXhurst, says that all idle persons there
must either 60 to work or stay within doors,
as none such will be allowed to lounge about
the streets any longer.
Bishop Van de Vyver, Bishop of the R. G.
diocese Of Richmond, left for Rome this week
to pay the visit to the Pope that every bishop
is required to make within five years after his
ordination.
Mrs. Sarah Ann Shoemaker of Romney.
Hampshire Co., W. Va, who has been mar
RED over 80 years, is suing her husband, aged
rs, for divorce, on the ground that he loves
another and consequently treats her badly,
A correspondent Of the Charlottesville jeff
ersonian says that post mortem on dog
which had died with every symptom of hydro
phobia, showed that all the muscles of the
jaws were eaten out by trichina.
Postmaster W. s. HammOller and his wife