Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1892-08-26
THE NEWS OF THE DAY,

On the afternoon of August 18th, Samuel
Wagner of Port Pepublic, while riding near
the Three Springs in Rockingham, was struck
by lightning. The crown was torn from his
hat, his hair singed from his forehead,
broad burn made across his breast and the
strings of his shoes torn out. Mrs. Almond
passed on the road after the storm was over
and saw the mare sitting back on her launches
stone dead. and Wagner still in the saddle in
dazed condition. He asked her to get him
loose, which she did, and got some neighbors
to carry him to Mr.. Kygers house. The next
day he was walking about well. He said he
remembered nothing after lighting his pipe,
which was found near the mare half full of
tobacco, until he regained his senses in Mr..
Kygers house. 1t is the first instance recorded
where horse was killed by lightning and
the man riding it escaped.
The State Farmers Alliance at Richmond
before closing its session last week, elected
the following officers for the ensuing year:
President, Mann Page; Vice President, DR..
W. d. Quesenbury of Caroline; Secretary and
Treasurer, j. j. Silvey of Richmond; State
Lecturer, Haskins Hobson of Powhatan, with
F. P. Spengler Of Patrick, E. E. Newberry of
Bland, and e. b. Bloxton of Appomattox, as
assistants; Judiciary Committee, w. NJ. Ellis
of Montgomery, A. o. Baum of Princess
Anne, and ]. r. Wingfeld of Albemarle;
Delegates to National Alliance, j. Brad.
Beverley of Fauquier, Mann Page and Col.
Randolph Harrison. No Valley man was
chosen for any position whatever, though the
Valley is the great farming district of Vir-
ginia.
When Col John S. Mosby was q. S. Consul
at Hong Kong, there was an tunreconstruct-
ed rebel there named DR.. LOckhead Of
Petersburg, Va, who had gone there before
the civil war. When Gen. Grant visited
Hong Kong on his tour, Col. Mosby took DR..
L. on board the ship to receive him. They
met Grant and his wife standing on the deck
and Gel. Mosby walked up saying: General
I want to introduce you to the last rebel, DIR.
Lockhead of Petersburg, Va. He says he is
willing to surrender to the man that General
Lee surrendered to- Mrs. Grant spoke up:
81 bespeak liberal terms for the DOCTOR
Grant said: "Well, doctor. now parole you,
and hope you may be loyal citizen
Rev. Asbury Christian told touching story
in the pulpit at Lynchburg Sunday night. A
poor student at Emory Il Henry College, Vir-
ginia, was working his way and going to the
college while his mother did washing for the
students. He graduated high on the list and
when commencement day came was candi-
date for the Orators medal. His mother, on
whose coming he had insisted, sat in the audi
ence in a sun bonnet and calico dress. When
the verdict Of the judges was announced and
the gold medal handed to him, the young fell
low marched off the platform, straight
through the big audience to his old mother
and pinned the medal Oh her calico dress.
In Washington, Rappahannock CO., Va, a
colored member of Rev. Ely Robertson's
congregation got the idea that the pastor had
'sconjured'' him and caused Lizards to run
over his body at night The effect Of his i'm
agination had weakened him SO that he had
to walk on crutches. He was told by some
one that if he could draw blood from the pas
tor it would end his suffering. At church
fair last week he accordingly struck the col
ored minister violent blow over the head