Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1894-09-21

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! admitted to the bar. and soon took high rank
as jury lawyer.
| The Executive Comm ittee of the Richm ond,
/ Va, Fair at a recent meeting decided to offer
| $500 in premiums for the three best companies
competing, only the volunteer companies of
Virginia and North Carolina being eligible.
Later the committee decided to offer S4O0 to
+ the cavalry.
In the mosquito season:-Flossie-''I'm
afraid to go to sleep all alone in the dark %
Mamma-"You go light to bed like a good
little girl, and remember that Gods little
angels are with you.' Flossie (ten minutes
later)-"I can't go to sleep, mamma, one of
Gods little angels is biting me-
j. Rupely we'll known saloon keeper,
at Hinton W. Va, gave his money and watch
to his wife, kissed her good bye, and was
round thirty six hours afterwards, shot
/ through the heart, near the railroad round
house. No cause is given for the suicide.
| At Lexington, Va, court day, d young
white rutlian named Geo. IIayslott, filled with
liquor, deliberately fired into crowd in the
alley adjoining the court yard. The ball
struck jim Scott, Il colored man, in the neck
aud came near proving fatal.
The Charlottesville Chronicle says: "If
: Confederate securities were saleable at face
value, MIR, j. W. Goodwin would be very
wealthy man. He has in his possession $780,
600 in Confederate bonds and a draft on the
Confederate States for S125,OOO.
A curious will was left by a physician of
Glasgow, Scotland, who died the other day.
He bequeathed his entire fortune to his wife
out of gratitude for the fact that she had left
! him after marriage of three months, and
since then had allowed him peace and quiet
First Lawyer-"What are you going to dc
now that your client has confessed?" Sc
cond Lawyer-Put in plea Of insanity. A
man who will make confession when he has
me to defend him must surely be insane. y
indianapolis Journal.
James 6. Blaine, Jr., son of the late Sec
rotary James Il. Blaine, has been studying
law in Prof. Minors class at the University
of Virginia all the summer. He is an app1i
cant for the place of centre-rush on the Var
sty football team.
Last week, Rev. DR.. Sunderland of Wash
ington city, made his return to the clerk OF
| the court, of all the marriage licenses whose
owners he had married since 1871. There
were SOUlG zVU, iuCluulilS uIlub VI OlOfc1 OlCfC
land to Frances Folsom.
G. L. Brock. prominent white man of Sur
~ county, Va, is fugitive from that county
having deliberately shot dead Alice Bates. a
colored woman who had threatened to have
him arrested for indecent proposals to her ten
year-old niece.
Every year Jewish girl in Frankfurt Ger
many, receives a dowry of s., 5oo the income
of bequest by Baron Rothchild. Any res
pectable jewess not younger than II, nor oldel
than Sc, may apply, and lots are drawn fol
the prize.
Jacob Bright Nicholas, Jr., the 14-year-old
son OF j. b. Nicholas OF Port Republic, was
killed by lightning last week while in an old
granary with some boys OH the place of Mr..
Andrew Miller. He was buried at Mt. Ho
reb church. Augusta county.
Constable s. II. Nuchols' daughter Rena
eloped from her fathers home in Buena Vista
last week. with Joshua O'Connell, in the old
fashioned way. She got out of her window,
descended on ladder, Joined her lover, and
they were married at Bristol, Tenn.
There is in shop in London, England, a
living lemon colored snake on whose skin the
whole of the third chapter of Genesis has
been tattood. sailor captured it in South
America tattooed it on the home voyage and
sold it for good price.
Ex-Sherif Horace A. Jones of King George
Co., Va, has eloped with Mary Pratt wo
man living in that county, leaving behind him
a wife and seven children totally unproyid-
ed for.
Twelve years ago Japan contained only one
spinning mill. The latest statistics from that
country tell Of no less than thirty eight now
in operation, with over $4,000 spindles and
representing capital of over $40, 100000
Miss Russell Hope, the 10 year old daugh
ter OF Rev. NJ. Hope, of Petersburg, Va, whs
died last week, was to have been married tt
Assistant U. s. District Atsorny w. II. Mann
in November.
The famous Coxey, who is the Fopulis
candidate for Congress in the Massilon, Ohio
district, is making his canvass with tent
and at the same time selling peanuts, lem
onade and reform literature.
While making some plumbing repairs in {
saloon at New Port News, Andrew Hume
set his gasoline stove OH whskey barrel
The whiskey exploded burning him so that HI
died next day.
Michael Daley, one of the crew of the U
S. Ship Atlantic, was badly bitten by sharl
while bathing opposite the navy yard, Nor
folk. His leg was badly lacerated and look
ed as if it had been cut by a saw.
u S. Marshal Vinson and three of hi
deputies have been bailed to answer TIL
charge of killing Jas. Frizzell at the Elk
Gov. Wilson Democratic meeting in Wayn
county, w. Va.
II IL. tJo 1o;. nj; ,a,,
to supply brandy and water to every member
during the time he is addressing the assem-
biaga and after he has concluded his speech
Lieutenant $. D. Iioelenhach of the 10tl
| Z. ). cavalry, has arrived in Lexington, ant
entered upon his duties as commandment of thu
corps of cadets at the V. NJ.
Out OF 900 men who marry in London, 81
wed women about the same age, 332 have
wives younger than themselves and 80 MARI!
older women.
, John A. Howard, Democratic candidate fol
congress in the Wheeling, w. Va, district
began his life as glass-bloWer and devoted
his evenings to study in commercial college
The Viking ship which weathered tn
stormy Atlantic to he exhibited at the Chicago
, Fair, sank at her wharf the other night in {
blow.
Near Gethsemane Christian Church, Able
marie, Saturday night Rev. E. L. Waldrol
baptised six converts by the light of Lantern
and the moon.
A comedy young French woman has beel
jailed in Brussels for kissing every man sh
met on the street. The mean things got gu
warrants for her and had her arrested.
A pet robin fifteen years and four month
old, and which W. g. Poindexter of Char
lottesville had had ever since it was a week 0
} two old, died last week.
The contract for the new Electric Street
Car line at Charlottesville has been awarded
to j. NJ. Moore.
Ex-Governor Sprague, of Rhode Island, il
di Scha reino the dutips of cliaf of nnlica q