Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1892-03-18
THE NEWS OF THE DAY.


TIE NEWS OF THE DAY,
Col Edward Magruder, a v NJ l. gradu-
ate, and Colonel OF the Sth Ga. regiment dur
ing the war, whose death in Georgia was men,
toned last week, was the last of Virginia
family that lost five members during the war;
The Magruder family lived in Orange county
four miles from GordonsviIle. Five sons and
a son-in-law entered the Confederate army
Edward was teaching a military school in
Georgia when the war broke out and as Col
onel of the 9Th Ca infantry was wounded
seven times in battle; David of the ''Gordons-
vile Grays," was wounded in the fight at
MunsonS Hill in 1861, and eventually died Of
his wound; George of the same company, was
killed in the battle of New Market in 1868;
Hilleary was captain in Turner Ashby' s
regiment of cavalry, and was killed in a
charge almost in sight of his own home;
James who was a lieutenant in the Albemarle
Light Horse, was killed at Meadow Bridges,
in Sheridans raid around Richmond, and
Col. Edward Warren, the son-in-law, Colonel
of the 10th Virginia infantry, was also killed
in battle. He was the father of Mrs. z. b.
Lipscomb of Staunton, and his widow died
mere noI lOUn d.
1t. j. H. IIetherngton, y. S. n. whose wife
seems to be as silly as she is indiscreet, last
week. with good reason found in his wife's
letters, shot and killed George Cover Robin
son, an English banker, at Yokohoma, Japan,
after having warned him to keep away from
the woman The day after the shooting and
while her husband was in Jail, dining par
Nv In PnnCu1'c n WhipI, ho Wi 70
had been invited before the tragedy, was hor-
rified to see her come tripping in, clad in white
tulle and diamonds, greeting every one with
smiles and pretty speeches. To the wife of
Admiral Belknap, who took her aside to rem
onstrate, she replied: "Why should 1 stay
away, the Judge Ga name she always called
her husband by) killed George I didn't"
She staid till late, and nothing that happened
could move her tranquility.
In the county court of Allegheny last week
JudgeC. r. McDannald Of Bath court, pre-
siding in Judge Chalkley's absence, Robert
Sawyers was arraigned for felony. The court
sustained demurrer of the defence to the in
dictment and the Commonwealth Attorney
Immediately entered a nolle prosequi in the
case and prepared to re-indict. Sawyer, the &C.
cused before bench warrant could be issued
gotup and walked out of court his attorneys
intervening to stop an attempt to arrest him
and before he could be arrested he mounted
his horse and disappeared in the direction of
West Virginia. The Allegheny Sentinel says
''tlie action of the court and the disappearance
OF the prisoner was the talk of the town Wed
nesday."
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daughter of Rev. NJ. S. Moore, Of West Vir-
ginia. was fallen in love with by Lewis
Elsewick, workman on her fathers farm,
and the report that she would marry him got
out. Hearing of it, the divorced wife of Else
wick dressed herself in male apparel on
March 9th, went to the house during Mr..
Moore's absence, and cut the girls throat
from ear to ear. She has been lodged in Jail
at Charleston Kanawha.
The Farmers Alliance Judiciary Commit
tee seems to do good deal of business IN AL
bemarle. A professor OF the University Of
Va. hired man to work his farm for year,
with the understanding that any business
disputes were to be submitted to the ALI
ance. The man was ischarged before the
year expired. He had the case before the
Judiciary Committee which decided that the
employer must pay the penalty that had been
agreed upon in case of breach of contract.
The family Bible of George Washington's
mother, now owned by Mrs. Lewis Washing
ton of Charles Town, w. Va, has been loaned
for exhibition at Mount Vernon. 1t has a
cover OF home spun cloth put on by its origi-
nal owner. The book is wonderfully preserv
-
intact, except the first five OF six that were
torn out and placed in the cornerstone of the
Mary Washington monument, at Fredericks-
burg, Va.
Second Auditor Frank G. Ruffin, than whom
no man is better informed on the subject,
states the account between the State of Vir-
ginia and the U. S. government this way
Due Virginia as ascertained and authenticated
by the U. S. Secretary of the Treasury, prin-
cipal $4S3, 1880, interest from Dec. 81, 1882,
81 IA 52S. SO-total s., 225, 2s6.SO. Due the U.
S. government by Virginia. principal, 1851 900,
interest 1891 .:332-total 81 .513 1920. Balance
in favor of the State of Virginia s712.l54.sO.
The Commonwealth Attorney of Loudoun
having announced that under the opinion of
the Attorney-General no distiller could sell
and deliver liquor in any quantity in the dis
tricts that had voted mo license" under the
special Loudoun local option law, the dis
tillers of Jefferson district have already begun
circulating petitions, and will endeavor to
have another vote On the question in that dis
trict.
The ladies of Western church who had
sold old clothes and made other sacrifices for
70 NOR 70 a6u ia
promising young man of the congregation for
the ministry. were little astonished when
he returned to their town to preach his first
sermon and took for his text ''Let your women
keep silence in the churches"
Joseph McGavock of Wythe Co.. Va. has
lost fully one hundred lambs (ifty in one
day. in the last few days, by eagles. In some
cases the eagle was not strong enough to
carry off the lamb and would eat part of it
where he had killed it, Many Of the lambs
died from the wounds made in their backs,
torn open by the birds claws.
The Senate has passed bill to give every
post-of1ice public building, whose receipts
shall have exceeded $4,000 for three success
sive years. If it passes the House, Culpeper,
Farmville, Fredericksburg, Hampton, Lees
burg, Lexington, Newport News, Suffolk,
Warrenton and Wytheville will get public
buildings.