Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1894-06-29


nesday. June goth. On Wednesday, June
18th, he went with his affianced to her dress
makers and was shown some of her bea utiful
dresses. He said he would wait for her at the
door. He walked to the door and disappear
ed. He has not been seen since. It is believ-
ed the sight of her expensive outfit, and the
reflection that at some day it would be his
| privilege to renew it, unsettled his mind and
caused his flight
| There is a bill before the New Jersey legis-
lature to abolish the fee system Of court clerks
and pay them salaries. All fees will then be
made payable directly to the State. This is
brought about by the inability. of the clerks
to collect their fees from the LAWYERS. When
the clerk of the chancery court went out of
office he had $4,000 of fees due him, of which
he could not collect 81 600; the late clerk of
the Supreme court had $50, 600 due him and
lost it all, and his successor already has S1S,-
| 200 due him.
| At Charleston, W. Va, Gen. e. e. Watts,
| U. S. District Attorney, being caught in a
| thunder storm with three of his children in a
buggy, drove into stable. out of the rain.
One child, Lucy. aged nine, was sitting in the
| buggy, and after a binding flash of light
ming, was found to have been killed. Edith,
the twelve year old daughter of James M.
Brown, circuit clerk of Carroll county, Va,
was killed by lightning Sunday while stand.
ing in front of her home at Hillsville.
One of the curiosities of the market in Bal
timore on June Goth, was the relative price
of wheat and oats. Wheat sold for COZ cts
bushel. Oats sold for 81 cents A bushei
of wheat weighs 60 pounds and oats So pounds
Wheat sold for cent pound and oats for
| about u cents, oats selling for so per cent.
more than wheat. This is perhaps unprece-'
denied
Col. Del. Kemper, the new U. S. Consul at
| Annoy. China, has arrived at his post He
writes to his brother in Alexandria, that he is
much pleased with Annoy where he has been
most courteously treated by the Chinese Off
GERS. He enclosed an official visiting card
which consists OF piece of red paper about 6
inches broad by - long on which was painted
some Chinese hieroglyphics.
At kingman, Kansas, Friday night, when
Editor Brown arrived from the Populist
State Convention, where he bitterly fought
woman suffrage, he was met at the depot.
taken from the side of his wife, clothed in
Mother Hubbard dress and sun bonnet and
| compelled to march through the streets be-
fore brass band. The friends of woman
suffrage did it.
| Ernest Pitch, proprietor of hotel in St,
Augustine. Fla, and another on Coney ISL
and, N. T., got on spree in New York CITY.
Friday night and spent $500 buying silver
dollars and throwing them on the stage to ac-
tressses. His winding up exploit was to Or
der drinks for the whole audience of 600 in
the West End Casino ON the Bowery.
| Rev. l. W. Cutler writes to the Louisa
News, that a man was greatly afflicted with
some stomach trouble; thought that he felt
something crawling in his stomach. Finally,
with medicine, spring-lizzard was dis
lodged and came out of him, 1t is about two
inches long, and appears to have piece of
flesh in its mouth, DR.. Eugene Pendleton
has it preserved In alcohol.
Erastus Wiman, the manager of the firm of
r. e. Dunn & Co., who once received salary
from them as high as $50, 900 a year, and
whose salary with them up to his discharge
was $4,000, has just been sentenced in New
York to five years in the State prison for forg-
ing the firms name. He had been prominent
as promoter in several great works in
and around New York,
At the Johns Hopkins University finals last
week. James Curtis Ballagh of Browns
burg, took A CONFERRED extra ordinem) !;
Jos. Hepdrel Gorrsll, ca of Washington L.
Lee, 1889, took Doctor of Physics, and Alfred
Magill Randolph, Jr., of Richmond, Va, CA
OF Johns Hopkins University. 1880, got a
Certificate of Proficiency in Electrical and
Mechanical Engineering.
The Rev. Stephen II. Beggs of Plainfield,
ILL.,, who is now ninety four years of age. in
1881, delivered the first Protestant sermon
ever heard at Fort Dearborn, where Chicago
stands to-day: His auditors were Dr.
Harmon, the post surgeon, and twenty five
others. Mr.. Beggs, while on a visit to Ghica
go, tried &c Locate the old landmarks recently
but without much success.
/ John Chisholm of Albemarle, a chronic
horse thief who, with fourteen years vet to
serve In the penitentiary. was pardoned out
| by Gov O'Ferrall on account of his health.
has just been sent back from Albemarle for
three years more for stealing another horse.
This will make thirty years of his life spent
| in prison if the Governor will let him STAY
| there.
Judge Wexford of Richmond, has decided
the act OF the legislature making hu..-
band and wife competent witnesses for and
against each other to be unconstitutional, as
it repeats other, laws but has no repeating
clause in the bill. Judge Diggs of Lynch
burg, has decided it to be constitutional.
While digging trench through cellar in
Johnstown, Pa, that had been excavated and
then filled up by the flood of 1890, workmep
unearthed parlor car that was lost from the
illfated day express at Conemaugh that day
1t is believed further search will unearth
bodies Of persons lost on that day.
Atthe Woodstock, Shenandoah, fair grounds
the Fourth of July will-be marked by the as
embling of thirty brass bands of the VALLEY.
which will play in concert. 1t is said there
will also be 200 wheelmen there to ride races.
Mi. q. Il. Hardesty stock dealer OF Clarke
county, Va, has shipped this season 5000
lambs, for which the raisers of this kind of
stock received about $15, 900, There is proba-
ply more profit in this kind of husbandry
than in producing wheat at 50 cents
bushel.
Inc Ferris Wheel now being dismantled at
Chicago, is to be erected in New York CITY.
1t will take five trains of thirty cars each to
carry it there and the whole cost of re.erec-
ton Will be $150, 600. In its new home it will
be lighted with 5000 electric lights.
A ''size'' in coat is an inch: in underwear
two inches; in socks one inch; in collars half
an inch; in shoes one-sixth of an inch: in
trousers one inch, and in hats one-eighth of
an inch.
He-"But couldn't you learn to love me-
Ida ohe-"I don't think could, George
He Qeaching for his hat)-'It is as feared!
Y ou are too old to learn y'-Harlem Life
All the jurors in case at Medina, Pa re-
fused to kiss the bible used by the court as it
was, they held, full of disease-germs. They
were permitted to affirm,
Chicago is the greatest hide market in the
world. Cattle hides are sold to tanners by
the bio IA knrS and daa Of