Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1894-05-11

tally in teaching languages, drawing and
modelling"
At Bridgewater, Rockingham, last week, a
fond mother had reluctantly to spank her
little daughter. All being over, the little
philosopher took her seat and seemed fully
absorbed in deep and profound thought. Pres
emily she arose, and going to her mother, she
said: "Mamma, think you are the fightinest
girl l ever saw
The visiting card of the German Emperor
is four times as large as an ordinary card for
gentlemen. and on it is engraved ''Wi1helm,
Deutscher Kaiser and KONG Won Preussen.'
A Kansas school teacher who changed her
name from Mary to Mae was discharged by
the school board. One has to be very careful
in putting on style in Kansas.
The Hotel Albemarle, near Charlottesville,
built in the boom days. for $4,000, was sold
with its dummy railroad, club house and 70
acres of land, last week, for S12, 900.
The farmers of Carol county, Md, have
announced scale Of farm wages as follows
For haymaking and harvesting, 81 per day;
for corn cutting and steam threshing 50 cts.
for all other classes of work from April LIST
to December 1st, 1894, IS cents; for the Win
1t took effect April 1st.
Anne Henderson alias Carradice, a woman
claiming to be a doctor, has been sentenced
to two years in the penitentiary, at Waverly.
Sussex county, Va. for dragging and then
robbing the wife of the hotel keeper there.
Judge Blair of the Roanoke circuit court.
has reversed the county court decision, aud
granted e. NJ. Weber druggist the right to
sell liquor under his license, in Salem, a
'dry' town.
st. Georges Protestant Episcopal church
vested choir has just had added to it. ii. T..
Burleigh, a negro baritone soloist. He is the
first negro admitted to white vested choir in
this country.
The salary of Dr. E. n Calisch rabbi of
Beth Ahaba synagogue Richmond has been
advanced to 81, 500, the largest salary paid
any minister there except DR.. Hoge.
Notwithstanding the scarcity OF work, the
Bricklayers Union No. Z of New York city,
refuses to allow its members to work eight
hours day for $3.50 on work provided by the
city for the unemployed, claiming that 80
cents an hour is the Union rate.
Lady singers in the Catholic churches of
London had almost entirely disappeared; it
was Cardinal Manning who objected to them.
and he did so most strenuously. Cardinal
Vaughan. however, has other ideas, and lat
terly the choirs have been most agreeably re-
plenished by female voices.
Ont of 2S6 psychological examinations of
cases of so-called mcmbranous Group made
under the supervision of the New FORK Board
OF Health, 229 cases proved to be true diph-
liberia.
On Saturday afternoon, near Eagle Rock,
Botetourt, Miss Mary Pierson, who was going
to the pasture few hundred yards from her
home, was met by George Dodson of Lewis
burg, w. Va, terrorized with drawn pistol,
and outraged. He also made her swallow a
pill supposed to he poison. He was captured
near Gala Water on Monday, and lodged in
jail at Roanoke. The young girl is still in
a critical condition.
The Supreme Court of South Carolina has
decided that the Dispensary law being nc
longer law, the State is now under Prohibit
ton.
Coxey, Brown and Jones were all convicted
in Washington by a jury Monday of being
/. tresspassers-in short nuisances. They will
appeal and have given bail.