Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1894-12-28

Springs for rheumatism which he feared
might involve his heart
Whatever other beet-sugar manufacturers
may think of the prospects of that industry
under the rule of the Democratic party, Claus
Spreckles, the sugar king, seems to think it is
a good one to invest in. A few days ago he
drew check for One Million and a Half
Dollars to pay for the 10000 acres on which
is located the Chino beet sugar industry,
which includes the town of Chino, ten mile
railroad, the water system and the contract
with the Chino Valley Beet. Sugar Company
1t begins to look as if men were about t.
assert themselves in breach If promise cases
Robert Edger, aged fifty-four, a widoWer witt
several children, paid the passage over from
Ireland of his cousin, Sarah Edger, aged
twenty-seven, who promised to marry him
When he got the license at New Haven, O.
Dec. 10Th, she dec ned. He It nee brougl
suit against her for s., 900 for breach of prom
Use Of marriage.
An old jest about a lawyer charging his
client fee for lying awake and thinking
over his case, has just been verified in Brook
Ign, N. Y. Mrs. Edward Pierrepoint, wild
wv, 10 dPPlyAAS w GuO ouplCulC SOult lOl
Lower to substitute another attorney in her
suit. He has, she alleges, received $500 and
wants 5000 more, and that one Of the items
in his fee bill is large one for Lying awake
nights and thinking over the case.''
Mr.. R. W. Herbert of Pittsburg, is hunting
in the neighborhood of the White Sulphur,
W. Va, Springs, for the grave of Baron Won
Koenig OF Germany, who was with Gen. Az
GRILL in his raid and was killed in battle at
Rocky Gap near there The hunt is made at
the request of the German Government, but
though the spot near which ,Koenig fell, has
been identified, nothing could be found of his
body.
Governor Mckinley of Ohio, has written to
Virginia election laws and for specimens of
Virginia ballots. Governor O'Ferrall Will
send copy Of the law, but cannot comply
with the request as to ballots, as, under the
Walton law, the quantity of ballots is limit
ed to the exact demand all others being
destroyed.
Judge Golf, of the United States Court at
Charleston, c., has decided that the Wash
ington Light Infantry has not forfeited its
arms by INSTRUMENTATION in refusing to obey
Governor Tillman when he ordered it out to
support the liquor dispensary law. This
decision about releases State troops from
obeying the State authorities when it does not
suit them to obey.
jeremiah HARRISON, mulatto, member of
the 44tl congress from Alabama. was last
week sentenced by the U. S. Court at Little
Rock, Ark. to two years in the penitentary
for pension frauds. Ii. L. Weller. white, a
member of the 4Sth congress from Iowa, was
convicted at Independence, in that State, last
week of obtaining pair of trousers on false
pretenses.
Mr. Delbruck, Principal of the Brewers
School of Berlin, who was sent by the German
government to the Chicago Exhibition to
study beer and brewing, and who visited most
of the great breweries IN this country, was so
pleased with the beer made exclusively of
corn that after his return to Berlin he insti-
tuted a series of experiments in the brewing
of corn beer.
On December 9th the English steamer Don
Juan, was wrecked on the coast of Denmark,
and Captain Overgard, her commander. was
drowned On December 10Th, his body was
washed ashore near the spot and on it was
$3.50 600 in bank notes and American securities
which he had hoped to save by swimming
ashore when the ship went to pieces.
Mr. Thomas II. Wilcox who was recon-
NEEDED by the bar of Norfolk for appointment
as Judge of the Corporation Court OF that
city, has written a letter to Gov. O'Ferrall
declining the appointment. Hesays that now
that his health is restored and he can engage
in active practice, he cannot make the finan-
c1al sacrifice of accepting the position.
Dnring the recent revival conducted by
Evangelist Schofeld, at Huntington, W. Va.
telephones were put in the theatre where the
services were held, and the preaching was
listened to nightly by people in three States
Ohio, Kentucky and West Virginia. Tele-
phone wires were run to Ashland, Ky IRON
ton, Ohio, and Guyandotte, W. Va.
Besides the expected address of Hon. John
Randolph Tucke before the Richmond Bar
Association at its banquet in January, in hon
or of the new Court OF Appeals, efforts are
being made to get Senator John W. Daniel to
deliver an address on his "reminiscences of
the bench and bar of the State.
James Anthony Froude, the historian, Just
dead, had an idea that he often suggested to
11HS1lSll S1CA Sy ihSI, ohoo why SiiOuAN SiNS up
one day in the week to laymen to ask ques-
lions concerning the clergy's sermons. The
Deau of Westminster thought it a good idea,
but other clergymen did not agree with him.
The lady was making some remarks about
the kind of clothes some other ladies at church
had or. 1.-The finest garment a woman can
wear" said her husband, sis the mantle of
charity" Yes she snapped, ''and it's
about the only one some husbands want their
wives to wear. "-DetroH Free Press
The Railway Age, in its computation of the
railway construction for 1891, says The new
mileage of 1891 is less than in any other one
last 30 years, with the exceptions OF 1875 1866
and 1865. The total mileage constructed dur
ing the year was .9l3l3.
Two years ago Wan. IIaring lost both legs
in railroad accident near Brooklyn n. Y.
Mrs. Annie e. Parsell nursed him, and last
week they were married. The railroad com
pany had settled with Hafing by paying him
5000 damages.
In Rockingham county one family alone
residing near Port Republic, is under charges
of attempted rape, petit larceny, assault with
a shot gun, and the extraordinary charge Of
maliciously feeding fish hooks" to a horse.
r. L. Jordan, assistant cashier Of the Plan,
ters and Merchants Bank, at South Boston,
Halifax county, died Monday. He was the
first man to establish bank at South Boston,
more than twenty years ago.
Bishop Joseph p. Thompson, Of the African
Methodist Episcopal Zion church. died at his
residence in Newburg. N. Y, on Friday last,
aged 7G years. He was born at Winchester
Va.
DR.. T. }. McKeam Of New York, suffering
from schirrosi5 of the liver. started for the
Virginia Hot Springs, not knowing that they
were not open. Finding them closed he 6
turned to Covington where he died.
Out of the 298977 people who inhabit Gin
cinnati, 233, 667 Cover seventy-eight per cent?
are of foreign born parentage. OF the inhab-