Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1892-08-05

IAN get the boy TO go into the orchard.
The city OF New Orleans has Just closed up
IS debt 10 the Myra Clarke Gaines estate by
giving its Gil eek to w. w. Whitney, the ad-
ministrator, for S923,7 Out of this the es.
tate has to pay $780,, 900, a good part of it for
the services of lawyers long since dead, one
Of whom is ex-Justice Campbell Of the u. S.
Supreme Court, an uncle of Mr.. j. G. scott
and of Mrs A. g. Scott Of Staunton. whose
estate gets $4,000.
Mary Pleasants, colored, weighing 200
pounds, was discharged from the service of L.
A. Wood living on the edge of Charlottesville,
and refused to leave. Wood then put her in a
wheelbarrOw and rolled her into town. The
heat made her ill, and by the time she was
taken home she died. Some colored people
claimed that he struck her, and had him ar
rested for causing her death.
Sixty-one veterans at the Soldiers Home at
Richmond, have signed paper ALLEGING that
their food is often unwholesome, that the
physician OF the place, DR.. Jeryey, neglects
the sick, and that whenever they carry these
Or any other complaints to Gen. W r. Terry.
the superintendent, he gets in passion anu
like the place they can go. The Board Of Di-
rectors is investigating the matter.
The English nobility gets, now and then,
some queer recruits. Connie Gilchrist, a
skipping rope dancer in London music halls
and afterward burlesque actress in The Gaiety
Company, was married in London last week
to the Earl of Orkney. She was given away
by the Duke of Beaufort an old roue of whom
she had been the kept mistress for some years.
five mile tunnel being dug under Mt.
KelsO and Gray'S Peak, "a miles west of Den
yer, Col, which Will be completed in three
years, will shorten the route across the conti-
nent by 225 miles. The contractors in digging
out the tunnel are taking out ore every car
load of which is assayed at $50 in gold, silver
and led.
On the Valley turnpike between Winches-
ter and MiddletoWn, there are three veteran
toll gate keepers-Mrs. Lottie Hillman, aged
80; David Watson, aged 80, and Daniel Huff,
aged S5, and on the top of Massanutten noun
lain on the Newmarket turnpike, lives Mrs.
w. F. Grayson, a toll gate keeper, aged So
years.
1t was queer and unusual sight to see a
man, who is nearly 50 years old, wheeling
his own infant in a baby carriage, on Main
ST., Monday. and another child only four or
five years old following behind. We refer to
our old friend, Rev James A. Brown
Wytheoille Va.) Dispatch.
Bed bugs will not be taken as things to be
be jested about hereafter. The German med
ical scientists have discovered that after biting
a person having pulmonary tuberculosis they
communicate that disease to the next person
they bite. The bugs become infected directly
from human beings.
The Baltimore Society for the Protection OF
Children from Cruelty and immortality has
refused bequest Of $500, 900 because cond :
ton OF its acceptance was that the society
should change its name to the William G.
Conine Society and extend it's work to the
protection of animals.
Col. Amos A. Parkerof Fitzwilliam, N. II :,
who took his diploma from the University OF
Virginia in 1918, and is probably the oldest
living college graduate in the country, is in
vigorous health at the age OF nearly one hun
dred and one years. For seventy-nine years
he has been member of the bar.
The Village PASTOR Johnny, you tell me
you have been to Sunday -school?" The Bad
Boy-"Yes, sir" The Village Pastor-"B
Johnny, your hair IS wet" The Bad Boy
:. Ye s, sir; it's Baptist Sunday school p
lester.
The widow of Senator Plumb of Kansas, is
the second one who declined to accept the
the wives of deceased senators. The widow
of lack Chandler was the first who declined
to receive the senatorial gratuity.
President Harrison receives his salary in
monthly stallment5. GA or about the 26th
day Of every month the treasurer OF the Uni
t I'd States sends to the White House, some
times by messenger and on other occasions by
mail, u check for St.1G6G6.
Tie Dismal Swailp canal, to which the
Virgin legislature beginning ia 1887 had
,,;hscthcd S2o0, eco, and TO which the United
States subscribed $4,000, and which has cost
81. 800, 900 since it was begun, was sold at auc-
ton last week and brought only $4,000.
A test block OF the Hale pavement is to be
laid in Charlottesville, and if the cost is found
to come to more than 81 400 block it will be
abandoned. The contractor who laid all the
Hale pavement in Charleston, w. Va, will
be employedsto superintend the work.
Eddie Risby, the sole support Of his mother,
was removed from Prince George county Jail
on Saturday, to the Western State Hospital at
Staunton. He had been in Jail four weeks,
having become insane through unrequited
love.
Rev. Sam Small, who sued Tom Minor, an
Atlanta, Ca, bar keeper for damages for as
saulting him in barber shop, has recovered a
verdict for $500. Minor did not defend the
case.
Rev Dewitt Talmage will soon be in clov-
er. Hewent to Russia with ship carrying pro-
visions-to the starving Russians, and the Czal
has invited him to his palace and arranged a
suite of rooms for his special use. ~
At the great session of the Supreme Lodge
of the World of Knights Of Pythias at Kansas
City, Mo-, August 23d, there will be 40 600
mounted regiment.
During the heated term in Philadelphia last
week, Gottlieb Eckstein, aged 80, drowned
himself in the Schuylkill river. On his per-
son was found a note directed to the under
taker saying, BURY me in cool place"
A burglar robbed bureau drawer in the
home of Geo. II. Snyder at Kemp's Mill, Md,
of several hundred dollars in Confederate
money, without knowing that in the drawer
there lay $3.50 in good money.
Colonel Robert H. Crockett, Democratic cam
didate for congress in the sixth Arkansas dis
trict, is a grandson of the famous Davy
Crockett.
The workmen Of the rolling mill at Iron
Gate, are out on strike against proposed
OF % per cent. on their wages, and
the mill has closed down.
The State of Mississippi raises this year for
the support OF common schools just double
the amount appropriated by Massachusetts
for the same purpose this year.
DR.. Shaver of Maurertown, Shenandoah,
while putting his horse up was stunned by
and lay insensible in the stable for
some time.
The fair held last week at Buchanan, Bote-