Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1894-08-24

Quincy interested himself in town affairs.
and in the larger field of politics whenever
called upon, and busted himself al.out his es-
! tate, in tii.ls establishing one of the finest
model fatHlj in Massachusetts, comprising
within its Limits the historic merry Mount
OF colonial days This estate is situated in
what IS now known as Mount Woliaston.
Luthe Chaflls, who has been a prominent
| figure in st. Joseph, Mo-. during the past 20
years, and who was at one time a most daring
Spectator in New York, died at his home in
Atchison, Kansas, last week Several times
during his life he was worth over q million
dollars, but died almost in want AS MEM
Der OF the Territorial Council of Kansas.
ChalIiS secured the charter for the first rail-
road west from Atchison, the Atclison and
Pixies Peak. He originally owned every
dollar of the stock.
At a conference Saturday, between Govern
i OF Brown. Acknowledgement Poe, AMI coun-
t sci for the 100 imprisoned Coxevite.;, it was
agree that the Governor would parton all ex-
ceptng Christopher Columbus Jones and
Marshal Mckee, who will be held for the
purpose OF testing tho right of the State to
take the ''army'' from their encampment and
imprison them without trial. Jones and Nc
kee refused to accept the pardon offered by
the Governor. conditioned upon their leaving
| the State.
| The property Of Loeb Laird estate and Min
erai Company, was sold by commissioners of
the circuit court of Rock bridge last week
| A
nell Bruce, Marquis of Ailesburg, England
one OF the lncorporators of the Loeb Laird
company. The price paid was $1,000, the
property was originally bought by the COM
I pany at $50, 600.
During a thunder storm in Norfolk county,
last week, Miss Mary Harper, the fifteen
year-old daughter of G. w. Harper, of the
Norfolk & Carolina railroad, was struck by
lightning while sitting by all open window
and instantly killed. One side of her body
was burned and blackened by the electric
fluid, and the other side Left bleeding in va.
rious places, as il scratched by a cat.
An idea OF the drought in Iowa can be in
ferred from private letter received ill Lex
ington from j. I. Anderson of Guthrie county
native of Roclbridge. He states what prom
ised to be fine crop of fifty acres of corn, he
is now cutting up to save tie fodder; that
corn has jumped in price from % cents to so
cents, and farmers who sold at 25 cents are
forced to buy at double that figure.
Mrs. Julia Butler, of Hamburg, Michigan
aged b years, killed her father, mother and
husband by poison, and bringing Harry
Whitlock, a hired nan, to his death. ended
her career Of murder by committing suicide
DE-. Charles Smith, the family physician, is
very i'll from the effects OF eating food at the
woman's house.
teirapih was found. in Botetuu county
last week upon which was found this letter
, ing &C. Utz, 1S5l:" Calvin Utz was a
member Of the family that owned the farm
upon which the terrapin was found He was
a student ut Lexington when the war began
He volunteered for the war and was killed at
Manassas.
John Vernon, a convict from Cincinnati,
who dropped dead from heart disease Sunday,
predicted the day and hour of his DEATH
When he was received at the prison he wrote
this prediction Oil Slip Of paper. which was
given to another convict to keep. The paper
was examined and found to be exactly true
James Hess of Russell county, is 1o4 years
old, but manages his farm, and frequently
rides to the county court house, distance Of
twelve miles. His son, DR.. James Hess, is 20
years old, and is frequently assisted in mount
ing his horse by the old gentleman, who is as
hale as the average man at sixty.
Mr.. r. e. Michaels, Secretary Of the rail
road branch Of the Y. NJ G. a. at Richmond,
died in that city last week. He was all earn
est Christian and took deep interest in all
church enterprises. He leaves wife and
five children.
Richard B. Reed has been a letter-carrier at
Salem, Mass. for nearly forty years, having
been appointed in 1855. At the time of enter
the Sai eia flee he covered & district in
which seventeen men are now employed.
French Journalists having been silenced
upon Anarchistic reports, Nj. Rochefort has
impaired to his paper his ideas upon the stu
alton in an editorial written in the deaf and
dumb alphabet.
Col. James Il. Platt. president of the Den
yer Paper Mills Company and formerly re-
publican Congressman from the Petersburg
Va, district, died suddenly ofapoplexy while
fishing in Green Lake, Colorado last week
Inc damage to the corn crop in parts of
Kansas and Nebraska is SO great that the st. |
Joseph and Grand Island Railroad has issued !
orders for the abandonment Of over a dozen
stations on its lines,
A few individuals are said to own third
of Manhattan Island. One hundred and sew
enteen men are said to own realty worth
half billion.
Mrs. Eunice Conrad, the oldest woman west
OF the Alleghanies, died Saturday at her
home in Gilmore county. W. Va, at the age
Of III years
japanese papers say that the Oldest married
couple in the world live in their country
The man is 1iS years and his wife 1s5. The
eldest al ,'srl,hat. s.s,ss
The new Souther Methodist churchn at Twill
la, jefferson county, w. Va, will be dediea
ted next Sunday. Bishop A. w. Wilson will
preach the dedicatory sermon.
Mrs. Belva A. Lockwood has sailed for
Antwerp as delegate to the sixth Universal
Peace Congress
The Cost OF Producing a Bushel