Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1892-07-22

OF steele 100 feet long will be at the month of
the tunnel. The Valley road will then con-
meet by straight line near the West Virginia
end CT the new bridge. The work is to be
done in six months
State Librarian PoindeXter has just found
in the capitol at Richmond the original draft
OF the ratification by Virginia OF the Federal
constitution. winch document was adopted by
the convention of 1856. lie also found at the
same time a draft Of the form OF government
for Virginia submitted TO the convention of
1l76. All the papers are in good state Of
preservation, and will be bound
Freshly cut flowers may be preserved alive
for long time by placing them in glass OF
vase with fresh water in which little char
coal has been stepped, OF a small piece of
champion dissolved. The vase should be set
! upon plate OF dish and covered with bell
glass, around the edges of which, where it
| comes in contact with the plate, a little water
should be poured to exclude the air
The Strasburg Virginian says the damage
done to farmers by the English sparrows is
almost incalculable Its attention was call
cd by farmer to a number of them ravaging
the heads of wheat in his choice lot They
were light enough to sit on heavy stalk and
| pick the last grain therefrom. AS small as
| their mouths appear, they swallow grains of
corn with ease.
| At meeting Of the stockholders of the
Rockbridge Company at Glasgow Thursday,
presided over by the President, Gen Fitz
| Lee, two propositions from Northern capital
lists to take hold and complete the original
plans, are reported to have been before the
| meeting. The meeting adjourned to August
| 18th, without definite action.
| Rev. }. ID. billiard in the Scottsville Courier,
describes the famous ice mountain in Hamp-
shire county, W. Va, which he visited last
month, June. The ice begins few feet from
| the river on the Western slope, and the remoy-
al of stones showed that from two to three
feet deep there is solid ice. 1t is near North
River Mills and is there all the year round.
In an editorial article i'll the July number
of the Southern Planter ON road making, it is
stated that the actual money expended annu-
ally on the improvement OF the country roads
in Virginia amounts to more than $4,000,
and, owing to the system, nothing to show
for it.
A good many folks worship God as house
hold idol. They serve Him we'll enough so
long as they stay at home, but when they go
abroad they leave Him behind. A little girl
on the eve Of the summer breaking up, said
her prayers as usual and then added: "Dood-
bye bod; Yves dom off to the Swings
The original portrait of Pecahontas, paint
ed in 1912, says the Boston Woman's journal,
has been secured for exhibition at the World's
Fair. 1t is owned by Eustace Neville Rolfe,
of Norfolk, England, a descendant Of John
Rolfe, whom Pocahontas married.
The bulletin Of the census Office shows that
the total coiored population, as returned I'M
der the census OF 1879, is 1858 500. Of this
number 1910, o4o are persons of African de-
scent, lo7, 415 are Chinese, ,03o are japanese
and SO, 500 are civilized Indians.
1t is stated that small singing birds live
from to Is years. Ravens have lived for JOG
years and parrots still longer in captivity
Fowls live from 10 to 20 years, while the wild
goose lives over 100 years.
Cyrus w. Field, who accumulated nearly
thirty million dollars lost it, and then in his
old age went to work and built up another
modest fortune, showing what can be done il
this country when man knows how to do it.
Representative Baily, of Texas, has request
ed the Sergeant-at-Arms to deduct one days
pay from his salary this month, because he
was absent from the House for that time MAX
ing speech in Caroline county, Va.
Returning from court day at Fincastle, Va,
July 18th, William Gray, filled with whiskey,
shot John Barton dead and made widow
and thirteen orphan children.
The summer rise in beef is on hand anG
with it the fact that with the rise Of two cents
pound in the wholesale price, the advance
in the retail price is generally doubled.
Gen. John B. Gordon, commander of the
United Confederate Veterans, has appointed
Thomas A. Brander major-general Of the
Virginia division.
Mrs. Breckenridge, wife of Hon. W. G. P.
Breckenridge, the great Kentucky orator, died
in Washington city last week after a long
illness.
Chas 3. Rouse the Broadway millionaire
of New York, is building a new fre-engine
house in Winchester, Of brick with marble
trimmings.
After woman passes a certain age she
would just as soon get married on Friday as
on any other day-Atc15son Globe
There are more Israelites in three of the
twenty-four wards of New York city than in
the whole of Great Britain and Ireland.
Rev. j. Horace Lacey of Greensboro, N. g.,
has been called to the college church at
IIamnden-Sidney.