Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1894-08-10

The two postmasters of Cramer Hill and
North Cramer Hill, Pa, have posted in their
offices the following notice: Ladies desr-
ing their letters dispatched and delivered
promptly will please not give them to their
husbands to mall One of the postmasters
named declared he was moved to post the
notice because OF the large number of COM
plants he had received from married ladies
| In regard to letters when miscarried.
Mrs. Polly Nelson, late of Botetourt, an
aged lady who owned a small farm ne>,r
Natural Bridge, Rockbridge, and was in COM
Portable circumstances, sat down to rest
about ten feet away from the Norfolk &
Western track near Buena Vista. A rapidly
approaching train bewildered her and she rose
from her perfectly safe place and attempted
to cross the track She was struck by the en-
CINE and instantly killed
The American yacht Vigilant, which has
been outsailed by the Prince of Wales yacht
Britannia several times in the last two
weeks, in the trials off Cowes, Eng, rallied
this week and beat the Princes yacht for the
500 gold cup and again on Monday for the
100 guinea purse. The Vigilant's owner,
George Gould, son Of the late Jay Gould, was
dined by the Prince Of Wales.
The extra census bulletin just issued by the
Bureau of Statistics, of farms, homes and
mortgages, shows that January l, 1890, there
were "a, 1872 farms and lots in the State of Vir.
ginia mortgaged in the sum of $2S, SOL. 726. Of
these, 20, 1913 were farms, carrying an indebted
ness of S16 564 ,2S2. and IA 069 building lots on
which the mortgaged Indebtedness was S12,-
127, AL.
A deed of assignment from the Front Royal
and Riverton Improvement Company to II. l..
Cook, trustee, for the benefit of all creditors
pro rata, has been Lodged in the Office Of the
clerk of Warren county The schedule ac-
companying the deed shows liabilities to the
| amount of $50, 900. 1t is believed the COM
pany's assets will pay out.
Miss Lavinia L. Harris, the pretty young
| daughter Of Congressman Harris of Kansas,
was sent to school at Luray, Va, last session,
and this summer has been visiting there. She
ended her visit on Monday by running off
| with Wade ID. Bohannon who keeps livery
stable there; the couple being married at
Hagerstown, Md.
Mr.. M. V. B. Morse, of Marshfield, Mass,
has brought suit i'll Oklahoma for divorce
from his wife Caroline Morse. His petition
alleges "that his wife, Caroline Morse, to
| whom he was married on the 9TH of June,
1861, persisted in pulling the bedclothing Off
his person on cold winter nights. and in sum-
mer she would pour hot water on him.
Each of the Pennsylvania Railroad employ
ees in the transportation department at Pitts
burg, Pa. who remained loyal to the compa-
nv during the Debs strike, have received a
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the road, accompanied by a check as testi-
monial; in some cases the check was for as
high as 500.
Rev. Dr. J. G. Long, of Grocer Theological
Seminary, and who has had charge of several
Baptist churches in Virginia, died Monday
morning in Charlottesville, where he was
visiting the widow of his brother, the late
Gen. A. R. Long. He was siXty-one years
old.
| The sheriff of Brazil, Ind, having appear
ed among the Debs strikers at the shops of the
Chicago & Eastern Illinois Ry. there, wear
ing the strikers white ribbon, and generally
sided with them. the company has now
ordered its shops there to be torn down and
moved to Momence, Ill.
The Withrow Lumber Company, of Clifton
Forge, of which A. f. Withrow is president,
has gotten the contract for building the
Jackson Memorial Hall at Lexington. at
about S15,O 900. 1t will take, says the Review
400, 900 brick and 100 tons of iron.
The Baroness Langenau, of Vienna, who
has been much prosecuted because she is a
Methodist recently spoke at meeting of the
West London Mission and presented it with a
necklace worth $40, 900 to be sold for the ben
eft of the mission.
Though wheat is only 81 cents, the Indiana
farmers are making it bring about 80 cents by
feeding it to hogs. They say one bushel of
,wheatat 81 cents puts more flesh on hog than
! two bushels of corn at forty-fye cents a
busliel
Cereals are cheap the world over. Forty
five pounds of corn are said to be worth only
a cent and half in Russia today, and many
/ farmers are sending their cattle into the
| fields, as the cost of harvesting would ex-
coed the price Of the corn.
Judge ID. NJ. Bernard, of the Petersburg,
| Va, Hastings Court, died suddenly of apo
plexy at his home there, Friday. He had
been in apparently perfect health and was to
leave that morning for his summer trip tc
Virginia Beach,
Mr.. Alexander McNutt Glasgow, who was
a justice of the peace in Rockbridge under the
old constitution, and who graduated at Wash
ington College in the same class with ex-Gov.
kemper, died at his home near Lexington
Saturday, aged 76 years.
During the year ending the 31st of July
there were Ill deaths in Charlottesville, 81 OF
them being white persons. A coincidence is
says the Progress, that during the year pre-
cedins, there was the same number of deaths
divided exactly alike among the races.
Gen. Raleigh Colston, a Virginia Exon
federate soldier, who has been paralyZed
will be taken to the Confederate Soldiers
Home at Richmond. He lately held a
government Office in Washington city.
King William, a 5-year-old Normandy
horse that died in Chicago recently was q
giant of his race. He stood % hands and one
inch high, weighed 1927 pounds and had g
stride of q feet and inches
Miss Ada Rehan. the actress, whose figure
was the model for the solid silver statue al
the Worlds Fair in 1892, has become thin and
gray. She thinks it comes from the hard sea
son in London she has just gone through.
Little Boon, Mich. is in hubbub, all be
cause farmer lass, soon to be married, haf
ordered SlOO dress. The women have pre-
vailed upon the to-be-bride to display the
wonderful garment in store window.
Forty three of the eighty negroes who were
carried from Roanoke, Va, to mine neal
Mercer, Pa, refused to work, claiming tina
they had not been told that there was strike
there. They will be sent home.
Rev. John e. Willis and wife of Orangt
county, Va. who had been married fifty
years, died last week within tWenty-foul
hours of each other.
Mathew Missimer, wealthy, and ninety
years OF age, said ell his death bed at Potts
town, Pa , last week, that the one great mis-
take Of his life was that he never married.
Mr.. r. B. Merchant editor of the Freder
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