Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1894-11-30
THE NEWS OF THE DAY.

II Il I'VE tVC OF 1dE IA r.
! Sarah Scott, aged So, living at Oak Grove
Village, Mass. is attracting much attention
from the medical fraternity. In 1898, while
on her way to the Massachusetts, General
Hospital, she broke her thigh in alighting
from Car. Her leg was amputated While
! turning in bed at the hospital her other leg
| was broken. After it had healed she was re-
moved to her home. Two weeks ago, while
chewing, she broke her jawbone, and. last
| Wednesday night, while attempting to put
| her hand behind her, she broke the bones of
| her arm.
From advanced reports of the United States
Agricultural Department the production of
corn in each of the Southern States shows an
aggregate increase in the South in 1894 over
1898 of 4SOO0,OO0 bushels, making total pro-
duction in the South of nearly five hundred
million bushels. There was gain as COM
pared with 1898 of l,OOO,0 900 bushels in Vir-
ginia. The South has this year produced more
than one-third OF the total corn crop of the
United States.
Miss" Belle Boyd celebrated as the ''fa-
nous rebel Spy" lectured at Leesburg, Va,
last week. The Mirror says: 'She was seen
to be a we'll preserved woman of about fifty
years; she was attired in full suit of Con
tederate gray with brass buttons, and the
bars of captain on the collar, while down
the skirt a little forward of the sides were
two broad, gold stripes On her head she
wore soft felt hat decorated with flowing
| black plume
Fairfield letter in ROckbridge County News:
| MIR. Francis j. Clemmer, whose death was
n m a had q of at
after his masters death, refused to eat even
the most tempting food that was placed be-
fore him, and in four days after his master
was buried he died. Persons who know all
of the facts say that it was grief that killed
him. He did nothing but walk around and
howl III the most piteous manner until death
| came to his relief
| While driving to church near Marksville.
Page county, on November 10th, Miss Sudie
Philips Of Goshen, who was visiting friends
there, was thrown from the buggy and kick
| FROM the horse fractured her SKULL breaking
| her nose, and destroyed one OF her eyes. Her
father, W. H. Philips, of Goshen, is with
! her.
| Col "Lige'' White, the we'll known Con-
| federate guerilla, is about to marry Penn
| sylvania lady. The ladys brother when in
formed by her of her intended marriage,
replied that The supposed Col onel White had
| raided Pennsylvania enough during the war,
| and would have been content to let the State
| alone now.'
The statue of DIR. j. Marion Sims of Ala
bama, just unveiled in Bryant Park, New
York, and said to be the first statue ever erect
ed in honor of physician, was built entirely
| by one dollar subscriptions from friends, pa
! tientS and admirers.
| Dr.. A. Il. Aultz, leading physician of
Montgomery, Fayette Co., W. Va, and for
| mer member of the legislature from Kanawha
| county, was summoned from his home about
daybreak on Nov. 10Th, and was found assas-
lsinated on the bank of small stream near
his home. In July last DR. J. w. Davis was
similarly assassinated near Montgomery.
| 1t is estimated that fourteen out Of every
hundred graduates in medicine drop out OF
| the profession. Some never begin to practice,
some are led into other work by better pecu-
mary inducements, and many lose their
health early by exposure incident to country
practice.
When Miss Willard was elected President
of the National w. e. 7. IT,, at Cleveland.
Churchville, N. Y her native to w. present.
cd her with two silver-bound gavels made
from wood OF the house in which she was
born.
A Chicago syndicate has secured two large
contracts in Japan, one being for supply OF
canned corned beef for the Japanese army.
and the other for $4,000 worth of cast iron
pipe for the Toxic water works. These orders
are some of the substantial results OF the
Worlds Fair.
The flashing of Il cablegram over the 10, 900
miles of sea and land that lie between Man
chester, England. and Victoria, British
Colum bia in ninety seconds, is Nineteenth
Century feat that completely eclipses the
fairy dream of Puck, who would gildIe the
earth in forty minutes.
Capt. VIM. Smith of Huntington, W. Va,
who is suing to get from his wife possession
| of their child, last week summoned thirty
ladies OF high social standing to testify to his
wife's unitness to raise the child. Twelve OF
the ladies promptly left town and the Judge
is sending warrants after them.
DR.. J. j. Iafferty, editor of the Richmond
Christian Advocate. Was offered $1,000 to
spend two months on a featuring tour in CAL
ifornia. Neither silver nor gold, however,
was strong enough to draw him from Vir-
giuia.
The ''Sisterhood for Personal Sesvce,'' is
th, title of an organization of Jewish ladies
in St. Louis. whose purpose is the relief OF
distress among the poor of their own denomi-
nation and for educational work among chill
dren.
Virginia has mads one record during the
last year of which her citizens may be Justly
proud. In the numoe of new Dostoffces es-
tablished she leads all the States with 1866
Such an increase in post0tfices may safely be
taken as evidence of increasing prosperity
Mr.. Gilbert Pond, of Milford, Mass, one
of the oldest musicians in the country, has
just celebrated his eighteth birthday He
played with the Milford Brass Band at the
dedication Of the Bunker Hill Monument
The marriage of Hon. Claude A. Swanson,
Congressman from the Danville district, to
Miss Lizzie ID. Lyons, of Richmond is an
nounced to take place in Washington on the
18th of December.
A private monument tbirty-two feet high is
being erected at Viroqua, Wis, over the grave
Of "unole" Jerry Huske, Secretary of Agriculy
ture under Pres dent Harrison.
The railroad. 100 miles long, across the 18th
mus of Tehuantepec, connecting the Atlantic
with tho Pacific ocean has been completed.
Its use will save 5000 miles of ocean sailing.
J. Balda Crenshaw, Police Justice OF
Lynchburg, is dead. He had been Justice
there for fifteen years, as we'll as noted auc-
tioneer.
AS the District of Columbia Medical Asso-
citation will not permit the membership of
colored physicians. the latter last week Or