Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1894-12-14

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| Ten gentlemen in Charlottesville. Va. who
are in the habit of sometimes imbibing toe
freely, have formed SO-days total abstinence
society with this pledge: 'To this society
and to my God, | solemnly swear or affirm
in the presence OF these witnesses, that will
not drink any Intoxicating liquor Of any
kind. wine, beer or cider, for the next thirty
days, nor will !. in any way, encourage my
fellow man to drink, and when l can I will
use my influence to get him to stop the use OF
all intoXicants.'
The collection of souvenirs of A braham
Lincoln which was exhibited at the Worlds
Fair, was sold at auction in Philadelphia
Friday. The sum of S14O was paid for the old
hickory chair in which Mr.. Lincoln was seat
ed in his Office at Springfield when he got the
telegram announcing his nomination to the
Presidency. The mahogany sofa of the SAM
office, made unusually long OH account OF
! Mr.. Lincoln's height, brought Sl9O-tlle high
! est sum brought by any single article
Chief Justice Howe of Wyoming, is doins
I what he can to endear himself to woman
kind. Not only has he appointed them as
jurors. but he says of them; '"Ihey were
careful, painstaking, intelligent and consci-
entious They were firm and resolute for The
right as established by the law and the testi.
mony. In fact, have never in my twenty five
years of constant experience in the courts of
the country seen more faithful, intelligent
andresolutely honest jurors than these"
The Woman's Christian Temperance Union,
which has just closed its session at Birming-
/ ham. decided to pay the expenses of woman
to 60 to Montgomery to remain during the
entire session of the legislature, and lobby for
the passage of general prohibition bill in
the State. Only five counties have prohibition
now and fund is being raised by the women
to begin an organized fight to make Alabama
a prohibition State.
special report on the feeding of wheat to
cattle has just been issued from the Agricul-
tural Department., which says that the returns
from the correspondents of the statistical
division estimate the quantity of wheat al
ready fed to stock, that is to say, up to Octo-
Der 80, at as $50. 900 bushels; and the estimated
amount to be fed. 29,273,O0O bushels, making
total of 70, 1903, 900 bushels.
At Clifton Forge, Sunday night, Rev. r.
Brett, pastor of the Baptist church, as he
concluded the services, asked the congrega-
ton to wait few moments. Whereupon
Darwin Hamilton Scott, widower, formerly
OF Port Republic, and now railroad ticket
agent at Clifton Forge, and Mrs. Connie F.
Johnson, widow, left their seats and walk.
ing up to the altar were married.
The new judge of the Shenandoah county
Circuit Court will have at his first term five
divorce tn hpar. thnxr nr Inr u
Strayer against Fannie e. Strayer, now living
in Albemarle, for desertion; Charles E.
Moore against Mollie Moore; Alfred Rite
nour against Lydia Ritenour; Ida Funkhou-
ser against Albert Funkhouser and Sarah E.
Bauserman against Charles NJ. Bauserman.
The sight of old man Simons, his fifteen
year-old daughter and twenty one-year-old
Pot Wines, Logging it at railroad speed down
the village street, gave the people of Della
plane, Va, surprise last week. But the old
man was the fastest runner and captured the
girl, though her lover had expended his
months wages for railroad tickets to Wash
ington, where they were to have been married.
The finest electric trolley road in the
world will be that about thirty-two miles long,
between Baltimore and Washington, which
will be let to contract in few days. The rails
will be S0-pound steel, and the trains will
make sixty miles an hour 1t will be finished
by July of next year.
1t has been calculated by Genoese journal
that the discovery Of America cost about
$780, Columbus had an annual salary of
1888. The captains of the Nina and Pinta got
$3.50 each. The tailors received $3.50 each
per month. The outfit of the expedition
amounted to $780,
Armed detectives guarded the Ada Rehan
silver statue at a Chicago dry goods house
Friday night, plot having been discovered
to steal the statue or at least the base, which
is partly Of gold; it weighs 900 pounds and is
valued at $4,000.
The Common Council, one of the two
branches Of the Richmond, Va, city council,
has revoked the ordinance giving the Southern
Bell Telephone Company permission to run
Its poles and wires along the streets of Rich
mond.
MI H. Walkup. of Monroe county, W. Va,
has copy of the Virginia Telephone pub
lished in Lexington. Va, in 1907, when the
congressional district was composed of Green
brier, Rockbridge, Botetourt, Monroe and
AdnaWna counties, virginia.
Harry Die married man of Central City,
W. Va, went to Cincinnati last week and
became SO infatuated with the giantess eX-
hibiting at a museum that he married her.
He was arrested for bigamy soon after.
Congressman-elect Andrew j. Campbell,
the Republican who defeated Gen. Daniel E
Sickels at the last election in the Tenth dis
trict, New York city, died on Saturday of
Bright's disease. after an illness of two days.
Miss Essie West, an actress. whose beauty
and stage presence were spoiled, she says, on
account Of an injury to her jaw. sustained in
the dental chair, is suing a dentist in New
York for So, 900 damages.
Prof. W. e. Brown, Phi. d., late of the
chair of chemistry, Washington and Lee Uni
verSity, has been appointed assistant chemist
to the United States Agricultural Department,
at Washington.
Jacob A. Tharp, constable of Webster
county, w. Va, who ran off last pril with
$1,000 OF the county funds, was captured at
WILLIAMSBURG, Bath county, Va, on Friday
last and taken back
DR.. J. W. Southall, State Senator from
Amelia, who was defeated for State Superin-
tendent of Education last winter by Rev.
Jno. E. Masse is now a candidate for assis-
tant physician at the Williamsburg Asylum.
VIM. VAIL, a brewer in New York, has
gotten verdict of 5000 against his cousin
Herman VAIL, for pulling his whiskers out
in a fight
Miss Sadie Philips of Goshen, who was so
dreadfully injured in runaway near Marks
Vile, Page Co., died on Saturday last
There were thirteen million gallons of
liquor less consumed in the United States
than there were last year-about one gallon
to voter.
Rev. A. j. Gilmore, aged S3. minister of
the Disciples church, and the father of Re
publlcanism at Newcastle, Craig county
died there last week.