Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1894-12-21
THE NEWS OF THE DAY.

A strlkingly handsome young man, about
six feet five inches in height, and weighing
| quite 200 pounds, inscribed the name Robert
E. Lee on tine register of the Ebbitt House
in Washington, Saturday evening. The grand
son Of the illustrious southern chieftain, and
son of the late Congressman, W. H. f. Lee,
| has face and figure that would attract at
| tention in any assemblage. He is under thir.
ty, and has genial ways and plenty of good
humor. MI. Lee lives on his fathers estate
in Fairfax county, Va, but goes to Washing
ton every day to practice law.
At Windsor Castle, eng last week, Sir
| John Thompson, the premier OF Canada who
had just been sworn IN as a member of the
Queens Privy Council, and who in few
moments was to dine with Queen Victoria,
dropped dead. His body was taken to the
Clarence Tower and embalmed prior to be-
ing sent to Canada. The Queen was much
affected at his death and went to the tower
and with her own hands put a wreath on the
| coffin.
Leesburg magisterial district, the only Wet
district in Loudoun county, held local OPP
ton election on December 18th, and went
| "Dry" by SO majority No liquor will be sold
there after May 1st, next. When the result
of the election was learned Thursday even
ing, prayer and praise meeting was held in
the Methodist church at which all the minis
tiers of the town and large audience were
| gathered.
| Mrs. Kate Chase Sprague, the once brilliant
and beautiful daughter of Salmon 2. Chase,
and wife of Governor Sprague, Of Rhode Is
| land is in financial straights, through the
msmanagement OF her estate. Her home in
the suburbs OF Washington, s'Edgewood, -
| and other real estate, was advertised for sale
| last week, and now the sale of her person al
| property to satisfy creditors is also an
noulced.
Z. s. Brown, reputable farmer of Page
county, Va, is i'll a deplorable situation. He
was a WidoWer and married q very nice young
lady to whom his son William took an in
tense hatred. On last Thanksgiving day the
boy taoif4od his step-mother and the father
| in defending her, shot him. He died of the
wound last Tuesday. The father was bailed
| in s., 800 to appear for trial for the murder of
his son.
On last Thursday the fiftieth anniversary Of
the discovery-or rather the practical applica-
tion-of anesthesIa in this country, was cele-
audience was Dr.. u. Q. Cotton, of N. Y, who
witnessed on December 18th, 1874, its first
trial in Hartford, Ct Charles Wells OF Hart
ford a son Of DR.. Horace Wells, the Ameri
can who first applied the Laughing gas to
surgical operations was also present.
The company that purchased the house at
Appamattox G. H., in which Grant and Lee
met, which had been pulled down in order to
be shipped to Washington, is now being sued
by Joe Smith who had acted as Waterman
/ over the building for months and received no
pay. The suit was brought in the Appomat
tux court in which county the building still
is.
Richmond College has for some years had
no President, but last week good deal of
excitement wa, caused among the faculty and
students by the election to that position OF
Prof. F. W. Boatwright, young professor
only twenty-seven years of age, over the
heads of the older men. Some of the students
held an Indignation meeting.
Mrs. Helen Campbell, the food expert, says
eating apples will give clear complexion
She says ripe, raw apple at its best is diges-
ted in eightyfive minutes, and the malic acid
which gives it it's distinctive character, slim
uldLCS JIG 1kfcI, dSSio1S uifSCSUiOll, dllu uGu-
tralizes much noxious matter which, il not
eliminated, produces eruptions of the skin.
Miss Grace French, a Sunday-school
teacher and social favorite in Brooklyn, \.
Y, who married a Chinese laundryman a
couple of years ago against the wishes of her
parents, has returned to the latter, and her
husband, Mr.. Lee, advertises that he will not
be responsible Tor her debts, &C.
Miss Virginia Stuart Mosby daughter of
Col. John s. Mosby, the celebrated Confede-
crate raider, was married at Fairfax G. ii ;.
to Watson E. Coleman, private Secretary Of
Congressman LATE Pence. She is journal
ist and has worked on several leading papers
of the country.
If there is electricity in use in your town
and you will carry a tack hammer to the
works and lay it against the dynamo awhile,
it will thereafter take up tacks and, more,
you can lay the tack against the face of the
hammer and drive it that way, SO thoroughly
magnetised has the hammer become.
Modest Youth-'I have only 5000 year, |