Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1892-03-04
the lady teacher,

the lady teacher.
Rev. Sam 2. Jones is to give two lectures
in Richmond next month to aid $50, 900 hall
the Good Templars are going to build there
At his lectures i'll Suffolk, Rev. Mr.. Wander
slice introduced him to the audience as the
''original and only Sam Jones'"
! The House OF Representatives at Washing
ton has passed. bill making it $50 fine or 80
days in prison, or both, against any one who
shall use the national flag by printing, paint
ing OF fixing on it any advertisement for pub
lie purposes or private gain.
John Il. Thweatt of Goshen, the repairman
of the W. U. Telegraph Company who was
killed by an explosion Of dynamite at Low.
Moor, had been in the uninterrupted employ.
ment OF the telegraph company for thirty -one
years.
The mortality from measles in England /.
said to exceed anything that can thus far be
attributed to the influenza. There are $4,000
deaths from measles annually in England ane
Wales, and the mortality has increased great
| ly during the last decade.
David Merriwether of Kentucky, native
of Louisa Co., Va, who was appointed to the
q S. Senate when Henry Clay died, is still
living on farm near Louisville at the age OF
| ninety-twO.
| State Senator B. b. Gordon of Rappahan
mock, has Just sent his check for $50 to the
editor of the Blue Ridge Guide for that
paper to be sent to persons unable to sub
scribe.
Commander Evans of tie U. S. warshil
Yorktown, who has figured in the CHILEAN
affair, is son of the late Dr. S. A. j. Evans
of Floyd G. H., Va, and was born in that
county.
Thomas Dougherty died at Marinsville
Wetzel county, w. Va. last week. at so years
of age He was once worth 100000, but he
killed man and became pauper in getting
clear. 49,,
At Pittsburg, Pa, Friday, eggs sold at 4(
to 80 cents dozen at retail. The next day
four steamboats, laden with eggs arrived from
the Kanawha Valley and they dropped to IL
to 20 cents.
President Harrison with his family went tC
Virginia leach, Saturday. They had a hand
some reception at Norfolk, and there as well
as at two OF three stations on the road, there
were cheers for ''Baby McKee,
1t is practically fixed that there will be
another Exposition in Richmond in October
this year. to last three weeks and excel tina
of 1885,
The Buena Vista cashmere mills have
another big order for military goods-thi:
time 10000 yards of army blue for the Penn
sylvania State troops. 2
Maj. James II. Dooley has sold his elegan
Franklin-street house in Richmond to Mrs
John Harrison for $3.50 He has a still
more elegant stone mansion nearly completed
George Smiley of Harrisburg. Pa, aged 60
has just married Miss Annie Cannon, aged
II, the Youngest sister of his son Georges
wife.
1.-The ''black tongue" has appeared in thi
country for the first time since 1S49. Their
were five deaths from it in the village of Cleo
ma, Pa, last week.
The Broadway News says measles are rag
ing in different parts of Rockingham count.
so severely as in many places to almost breal
up the schools.
The Glamorgan Works of Lynchburg hav
gotten an order for l 900 tons of iron gas pip
from the Brooklyn, N. Y, Gas Works.
Abraham jefferson Seay. the new Governo
of Oklahoma territory, was born in Amhers
Co., Va, in 1882.
A cheese factory on the Midland road 81!
miles from Gordonsville, was burned las
week.
A Shendun letter says the Plumbers Suppl!
Works there are about to add 100000 to thei
capital and employ 200 more workmen.
Rev. e. W. Hundley, of Luray, has accept
ed call to the pastorate of the Baptist churcl
at Martinsburg, W. Va.
President Julius d. Dreher of Roanoke
College, is visiting the North in an effort tt
raise an additional endowment fund of 500
900 for the college.
Gov. Fleming of W. Va, has appointed E
Boyd Faulkner, Judge of the jefferson Cmcui
to take the place OF the late Judge Duckwall
The Norfolk & Western Ry. has leased tn
Roanoke Southern RY.. 2Ol miles long.