Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1892-02-19
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| sent to the penltentlary ana myers case mas
been delayed beyond three terms of the county
court. His counsel, Holmes Conrad and W.
Il. Alexander of Winchester, demanded his
release on the ground that when, from no
fault of the defence, three terms pass without
trial, the prisoner under Virginia law goes
free. County Judge Newman decided against
them and they have taken an appeal to Judge
Turner of the Circuit Court. The Strasburg
Virginian says that in the case of Salmons,
convicted of numbering his mother and broth
Ell in Albemarle, and for whom the Supreme
court ordered a new trial, three terms were
permitted to pass. without fault of the defense,
and the prisoner was turned loose in the
streets Of Charlottesville by the authorities.
Whiskey may be said to have saved the life
of Mrs. Wilson living near Warsaw, Ill, last
Thursday. Having fallen into trance she
was thought to be dead, and arrangements
were made for her burial. While attendants
were sitting up with her corpse, she, having
known everything that was going on, made a
powerful effort and threw out her hand and
clutched woman who stood near the coffin.
Restoratives were given her and she revived.
If the man sent to Warsaw for the coffin had
gotten back Wednesday, ms tead of getting
drunk and delaying his return day, Mrs
| Wilson would have been buried on Wednes-
day, while alive,
Col. Chas G. Eddy, Vice President of the
Norfolk & Western Ry., who served Oh Gen.
Sherman s stat i'll the Union army, has writ
ten letter to Gen. H. V. Berrinton, urging
the repeal OF the statute against eX-Confeder-
ates being appointed to the U. s. Army. He
says: "For more than six years have lived
among the Southern people here at Roanoke
and can count among my warmest business
| and personal friends ex-Confederate officers,
and without exception none in this broad land
can outve them i'll loyalty to our country and
| flag"
| Mrs. Lizzie FaXon Graves, who has been
assistant in the post-ofice at East Weymouth,
Mass, for the past seven years, under three
| postmasters, has just been appointed post
mistress. She was the choice of the citizens,
and the other candidates for the position
withdrew in her favor as soon as they learned
that she was an applicant. The salary is
LOO.
| Mrs. A. M. Longshore Potts of Philadel-
phia, graduate Of the Woman's Medical
College of Pennsylvania, a Quakeress of
middle age, lectured at the Lyceum Theatre
in Baltimore, Monday afternoon, on "Health
and Disease-the value of self knowledge %
The house was SO full of ladies that there was
barely standing room.
Kid gloves will rip despite our best efforts
to keep them in good condition. Instead OF
sewing them, take a small piece of court plas-
ter OF surgeons plaster (the latter is the bet
| ter), turn the glove wrong side out, and neat
ly apply the plaster over the rent or rip, first
having drawn the rent part of the glove nicely
together
Under an order Of Pope Leo XIII, giving
Roman Catholic clergy where influenza pre-
walls authority to absolve the faithful from
fasting and abstinence On certain days, Arch
bishop Elder of Illinois has promulgated an
order abolishing the fast, not only ON Friday,
but other church fast days.
John Register, colored, who assassinated
John Epes, telegraph operator at Suffolk
Va, last summer, by shooting him from be-
hind tree, was arrested in Martin Co., N. G..
last week. He had been hiding in the woods
until about all the clothing he had on was a
blanket tied at his neck.
Hotel rivalry is SO warm at Woodstock
| Va, that the rival landlords of the 'Virginia
Hotel" and Valley Inn" fought over pas.
senger at the depot, and Mayor Grabill fined
the latter $40. While the two were fighting
the landlord of the ''Shockey House" took the
traveller and carried him to his own hotel.
Rev. Geo. W. Kildow, a theological stu.
dent at the Southern Presbyterian Seminary
at Columbia, S. g., who last year went insane
at the Kimball House in Atlanta, where he
took his bride ON their wedding night and
afterwards recovered, cut his throat at theil
boarding house in Columbia on February Sth
The vagaries of bridesmaids favors grow
Recently in London the eight attendants upon
the bride carried walking sticks of the Alpine
sort with Dresden china heads, gifts of the
bride, and at another wedding little silver
whistles were worn by the maids because the
bride bestowed them.
| The legislature having left it to the people
of Botetourt to vote whether they will re-
move the court house from Fincastle to Buc-
hanan, the people of the former place are
preparing for the fight and have appointed a
committee OF 10 to conduct the campaign in
behalf of Fincastle.
The twenty-four drunken sailors of the U.
S. warship Baltimore, who got into the fight
at Valparaiso, estimate their claims for DANA
ges to be demanded of Chill by the U s. Gov
eminent at the modest sum of 81, 3O5, OOO The
claims of two amount to S150.00O.
Col. John q. Watts, United States Marshal
of the Western district of Virginia, and Mrs
F. G. Smith of Russell county, were quietly
married Monday by Rev. George W. Corey,
at the metropolitan Methodist church in
Washington.
President VIM. II. Beers of the New York
Life Insurance Co., the builder up of that
company, who resigned last week, was given
a pension OF S25, 900 year for life. His sue
cessor, John r. Mccall, gets a salary of
$4,000 year.
BY law just passed by the Mississippi
legislature, all servants who followed their
masters into the Confederate army and were
disabled by work or wounds received therein,
shall receive pension, OF if dead their wild
Ows will get it.
| At the funeral of the great preacher, Spur
geon, in London, thousands gathered at the
church and the flags of the city were put at
half mast. Each side of the hearse bore the
text: 81 have fought good fight; have fin
ished my course; have kept the faith"
Richmond is having gay winter, and one
of the marked events of it was children's
fancy ball given Friday evening by Col G. 0.
b. Cowardin, one of the owners of the Rich
mond Dispatch, at which there were over
three hundred children present.
| The Warrenton Index says the COMMITTEES
appointed by the creditors of Rosenberger
| Spindle u Co., owners of the broken bank
of Warrenton, determined at its last MEETING
to prosecute criminally all the members of
the firm
1t is now the intention to have in the Fish
cries Building at the Worlds Fair at Chica-
go, restaurant devoted as far as possible to
the exclusive serving of fish. Fish dinners.
and fish, fresh and sailed, will be served in
| every edible style