Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1894-09-07
THE NEWS OF THE DAY.

| At fete in Cincinnati one of the nightly
features is reproduction of the battle OF the
crater at Petersburg. A mine is exploded,
and there is charge and repulse of the Fed
eral troops. One of the officers of the mimic
| Confederate force is a Confederate officer who
was in the actual engagement thirty years
ago.
The steamer Perthshire recently delivered
in London the largest single cargo Of refrig-
Grated meat ever handled. 1t consisted of
70, 900 carcases Of sheep, 5000 launches and
the same number of legs of mutton, $50 tons
of beef $50 bags of bullocks' hearts, $50 bags
of entails and kidneys, cases of oysters and
$50 cases of butter.
Near Memphis, Tenn, recently, lightning
struck tree under which two men had sought
refuge from the storm. Both men were
stunned, and upon regaining consciousness
it was found that the skin of one of them had
been changed to an ebony black. All effort
to restore the original color has been unsuc-
cessful.
The regulations Of the British postoffice re
quire that every unsound tooth shall be taken
ont of a mans head before he can be employ :
ed An unfortunate girl who recently was
examined for promotion had fourteen eth
taken out at one sitting by order of the official
dentist, who explained that 1--WE can't have
girls laid up with toothache.''
Rev. Robert A. Cutler, only twenty. light
years old, a minister CT the Christian church
at Day ton, Ohio, died there last week under a
surgical operation. He was buried in his
native place, Louisa e. ii Va. He was a son
Of Rev. l.. A. Cutler.
The Able Brunei former pastor of the
Catholic church at Entrammes, was gnillo-
| tined at Laval, France, Friday, for the muir
der of the Able Fricot. About 5000 people
| witnessed the execution. and SO strong was
the feeling against the priest that when the
knife fell there were loud cries of BRA vo. %
The laces of the Astor family are valued at
$500, 900, and those of the Vanderbilts at $780,
600. The Pope's lace treasures are said to be
worth $780, those of the Queen of England
$750OO and those of the Princess of Wales
$3.50, 900.
One in twenty mine million in England; one
III twenty millions in France, and one in three
millions in the United States, is the proper
ton of passengers killed by accidents on
railroads in these countries last year.
The worst mail route in Connecticut,
thirty-siX miles long, from Ashford to Bos-
ton, is carried by a woman, Charlotte Waldo
for $3.50 year. Last winter she had to shovel
off the snow drifts
Rev. Dr.. j. M. Rawlings of Greenbrier
w. Va, has bought half interest in the
''North Carolina Presbyterian at Whining
ton, N. c., and will remove there to edit it.
Mrs. VIM. Waldorf Astor owns the celebra-
ted diamond comb which was present to
Nine. de Montespan from Louis XIV. 1t is
worth 100000.
L. ID. McNitt, a legless and one armed
man. killed Mrs. Martin in Bonham, Texas,
Friday, and then cut his own throat The
woman had refused to marry him.
Fishing won't be so popular under the
new tariff law" "Why not?' "Whiskey
will be mole expensive. New York Herald.
Mrs. Jestin Pool, of Fallville, Mo-, is one
hundl ed years old and still walks one mile
to church.