Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1892-09-16
THE NEWS OF THE DAY.

Sam Jones, the Evangelist, writes: 1.-THE old
negros delusion about the forty acres and the
mule was never more silly and ridiculous
than the claims of the third party and the
foudness with which some look to it for de-
liverance. 1 am in politics a Prohibitionist
first, last and always, but in the hopelessness
of our minority can occasionally pick out
men in the ranks of other parties for whom
would vote if my vote were necessary to their
election Grover Cleveland will be the next
President of the United States, and ought to
be. We never had better President than
Cleveland
Surgeon-General Wyman said in an inter-
view with a reporter recently that he did not
think 1T would be safe to allow immigrants to
come into the United States for a long time
yet, and other high officials Of the Treasury
Department agree with him. 1t is certain
there will be no resumption of immigration
allowed for many months, and it is highly
probable it Will be shnt off for year or per-
haps longer. 1t is quite probable the influx
of immigrants Of the poorer class will never
again be allowed to grow to the proportions
it has attained in the last few years. There
has been growing sentiment for several
years in favor of placing more restrictions
upon immigration, and in view of the cholera
epidemic and the great danger to which the
United States has been exposed it is probable
congress will take the matter up at its next
session and make a revision of the immigra-
ton laws. There is bill now pending in
both houses Of congress that would go far
toward keeping out the least desirable among
the immigrants.
Alexander Bergman, the anarchist who
attempted the life of H. G. Prick, has been
indicted by the grand jury of Allegheny
county on six separate cOuntS-if found guilty
in all his sentence will probably be 80 years
in the State prison. Upon hearing this he
said that if his sentence was more than ten
years he would kill himself. There was not
enough in life to spend twenty or thirty years
in prison with the prospect of few years of
liberty after the sentence had expired Berg
man coolly talks of his crime and expresses
only one regret-that his mission failed. He
does not give Mr.. Prick credit for the cool
ness and nerve used by him when the assault
took place, and says: "There is no use talk
ing to me about Prick not being frightened.
He was the worse scared man l ever saw, and
don't blame him for it,
The British Medical journal says that a
young English physician subjected himself
to incubation with cholera virus. The pro-
cess, it is said, was easy, and the inconveni-
ence scarcely greater than vaccination, and it
is claimed that complete protection was IN.
sured against the disease. A few days later
the physician underwent a second incubation
which NV no hot
ever. The British Medical Journal says tina
the experiment seems to have established the
| immunity of inoculated persons from cholera
At least the physician in question appears to
have enjoyed immunity since the incubation
although he exposed himself to danger. Sew
EN- physicians in all have been inoculated as
volunteers in the cause of humanity.
| The Oldest woman In Georgia died at the
por house in Thomasville, Ca. ON the 4th
inst. It will sound like fiction to state Aunt
Peggy Skaters age, but her old master and
shesherself before her death said that her age
was one hundred and twenty-five. Aunt Peg.
gy did not date events from the civil war, but
from the revolution. She was a grown woman
| then, and in life nothing delighted her more
| than to relate "reminiscences of those stirring
| days. She was great weather prophet. The
many seasons that she had experienced had
left her wise in signs, and she could fOretell
the indications with remarkable accuracy
the negroes looked upon her as great won
der. She has only one child that survives
her, daughter now in her 9th year.
Mrs. August Baldwin, who lives near Plum
Run Station, Ohio, is the lady who has given
birth to the smallest child ever born in that
county. 1t weighs only one pound and nine
ounces, and is now three weeks old and fairly
healthy. The prospects are it will live and
grow to maturity. The mother Of the child
| is strong, healthy woman, weighing 14i
pounds, and the father is of ordinary size. He
is muscular young farmer. The child wears
small doll clothes, and finger ring will go
on its arm to the shoulder with the greatest
ease. 1t lies on the palm of persons hand
without any trouble. The child has a full
head Of dark curly hair, and cries as Justify
as its small size will permit.
Frank Reilly sailor on the United States
cruiser Newark, was killed in Genoa, Italy,
last Thursday during the Columbus celebra-
ton. 1t appears that the murdered man was
one of nine sailors from the Newark who had
gone on shore after the celebration, but stayed
too long, and applied for rooms at the Hotel
Univers at half past two in the morning. A
heated squabble with the landlord over the
price of lodgings ensued and waiter employ
ed in the house, believing that his employer
was threatened with violence, stabbed Reilly
twice. killing him. The waiter has been
arrested,
The State Department has recently received
information that General Crespo, the leader
of the insurgent forces in Venezuela, had been
successful and had established his authority