Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1892-06-03


note was handed to candidate 10y thirsty
individual there on election day:
ALEXANDRIA, VA, May &c.
Mr. Please give - % cents for
services not yet rendered, but the same will
surely be attended to, CT dnant0.
P. S.-Fsat justitia ratGt cCglatm. have voted
and all is right. ---.
He got his drink.
The General Conference of the Methodist
Protestant church in session at Westminster,
Nd, has decided by vote OF two to one, that
women are eligible to seats in that body both
as ministers and lay delegates. 1t afterwards
struck out of the marriage service the promise
to obey. One OF the lady lay delegates in
voting for it explained that she thought any
woman who loved her husband would obey
him without any such obligation.
Miss Mary COffman of Shenandoah, seems
to be the only creditor of the bankers Rosen-
berger & Spindle, who came out even, dollar
for dollar. Her agent discovered lot Of
brick at the town OF Shenandoah not included
in the deed OF trust, on which he levied and
which he advertised for sale. An agent of
the bankers paid her claim in full, to get the
brick.
Mr.. Geo. E. Payne, aged SO, from New Or
leans, who has been living in Winchester,
Va, for some years, died last week. He had
such horror of being buried alive that his
dying request was that his heart should be
removed from his corpse and cut into three
pieces, so as to make death assured His wish
was carried out by Dr.. Holiday.
e. N. Doboiserre, wealthy Frenchman, has
decided over 5000 acres of land in Kansas,
highly improved and stocked with 800 head
of fine cattle and horses. to the Odd Fellows
lodges of Kansas for home for orphan chill
dren of Odd Fellows. The gift is worth
100000.
Judge E. I. Lane, presiding Judge of Cass
county, Mo-, who for some months has been
in Jail 1or refusing to obey an order OF the
United States District Court to direct tax
to levy to pay bonds voted Cass county, was
nominated for the Legislature by the Demo-
cratic primaries OF Cass county Saturday
When Hastings Judge VIM. Gordon Robert
son, of Roanoke, resigned this week, the bar
not only passed the customary resolutions,
but added to them the gift of gold watch
and chain and gold headed cane. The bar
has recommended w. Roy Smith as Judge Il. S
successor.
A man went into the Office of City Collector
Hopkins at Baltimore Friday, and handed
Deputy Collector Barnes an envelope con-
tanning 81, 27O.15 in United States notes. He
wonld not say whom the money came from, but
simply remarked that he wished it credited
for friend to the conscience fund.
The pretty country seat of General Passen-
ger Agent II. w. Fuller of the G. & o., near
KesWick Depot, in Albemarle, with its 200
acres of land, has been sold by hlm-the sale
including everything but the furniture-to
MI. Dimmock of Connecticut, for $4,000.
Lynchburg has contracted with Roanoke
firm to lay 1000 square yards of vitrified brick
paving, and the contract requires the contrac-
tors to give $4,000 bond that the pavement
shall not show any signs of wear in five years.
The price paid is .6S per square yard.
A farmer who has used it successfully, says
axle grease put around fruit tree in band
three inches wide will keep off caterpillars.
His experience is that fifty cents worth will
go over large orchard. 1t should be put on
before the warm SPELLS of Spring.
The long pending case in Wheeling, w. Va,
of young DR.. George l. Garrison tried three
times for killing Dr.. George Baird. came to
an end Friday by verdict of involuntary
manslaughter, which is equivalent in that
State to an acquittal.
The locust bloom this season is unusually
large and beautiful, which, in the farmers
book of Interpretation of natural signs, tells
of large corn crop this summer, but the pres
ent cold nights don't give strength to such
probability.
The goose owned by Capt. W. E. Gaines
near Burkeville, Va, which has been in the
habit of flying with the passenger trains on
the Norfolk & Western into Burkville and
returning home, was killed last week. 1t
flew as far as Crewe where it was shot by DR..
Corbin.
The white members of the Grand Army of
the Republic in New Orleans held their Me
mortal Decoration day services in their
churches to avoid the negro members who
held theirs by parades in the streets. The
relations between the two are becoming more
and more strained.
Geo. Demeo of Pottstown, Pa, fell from a
railroad train last Sunday and was killed
He had his marriage license in his pocket and
was returning from Ph@nixville whittier he
had gone to secure music for his wedding.
John Davis, aged over hundred years,
died at Greenbank, Pocahontas county, W.
Va, last week, surviving his aged wife but a
few days. He had outlived all his relatives
and his property will go to the school fund.
The Strasburg, Va, News says: "Mr. j.
S. Findlay, of this place, now in his S4th year,
is cutting three teeth in the lower jaw which
will soon raise out of position an artificial set
in that portion of his mouth
The Charlottesville Wooden Mills have
been awarded government contract for sup
plying 10000 yards of fine dark blue doeskin
cloth for the national homes for disabled sol
diers.
Of Waterloo veterans France has eight left.
There are two who took part in the retreat
from Moscow, and altogether, there are now
living eighteen or twenty of Napoleon's vete-
rams, of whom several are centenarians
A baptizing took place at the Hawksbill
in Page county, Va, Sunday week, at which
So persons were baptized, and the ceremony
was witnessed by 1000 persons standing on the
banks of the creek,
Gen. A. D. Streight of Indiana, who in 1864,
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