Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1895-01-25
THE NEWS OF THE DAY,


THE NEWS OF THE DAY,
At the suit of her son, Commissioner Of
Chancery is now examining into the sanity Of
Mrs. Diamond" johnson, thus nicknamed
because of her fondness for diamonds and her
proflse use of them. She has in her own right
fortune of half million, and from her late
husbands estate she gets an income of a
hundred dollars day. In court it was brought
out that Mrs. johnson wore diamond garter
fastenings and owned S15 900 ruby; that she
had given her younger son $4,000 with which
to Ego see Europe" that she had spent s., 900
on reception in his honor upon his return,
and that she had presented $40, 900 in bonds to
her coachman, Alfred Hid.
1t is not generally known that for over
hundred years there has been hanging over
the base of the dome in the Massachusetts,
State-house an immense Goldfish. 1t was
placed there by resolution of John Rowe a
member from Boston, on March Z, 1874. "as
memorial Of the Importance of the codfishery
to the welfare of the State" 1t has been
once reprinted since that time, but never
taken down from the iron rod on which it is
suspended. 1t is now about to disappear in
the rebuilding of the interior Of the State
house.
The Central Presbyterian says: "The col
ored Presbyterians of Roanoke, our CORES
pondent writes, are completing very neat
church building. in which there will be a
memorial window dedicated to Stonewall
Jackson, and one to Colonel ]. L. L. Preston
Of Lexington. The pastor, Mr.. Downing, was
once scholar Of the Sunday School for col
ored youth, conducted by General jackson,
and afterwards by Colonel Preston"
Horace d. Baker, alias Harvey Blair, and
many other aliases, who passed a number of
forged checks in Richmond, Va, is now on
trial at Baltimore, charged with passing
forged paper upon the Hartford National
Bank, of Belair. Md, last May, over the
name Of George P. Sage, was begun in the
Criminal Court Tuesday. An enormous
crowd collected to see the man who, it is al
lodged, has piled his swindling operations in
several States.
Burglars broke into the Clerks Office of the
county court of Rockbridge, at Lexington, Oh
Tuesday night. The only thing carried off
was Deed Book No. 80, of the records. The
safe contained county bonds, etc., but moth
ing else was touched. No cause can be as
signed for the theft.
A man giving the name of Warren Knowles
of Virginia, was assaulted at the depot Oh
Monday night, at Logansport, Ind, and fatal
ly shot. He was set upon by two local toughs
named Henry Worden and Riley Ellis, who
have been arrested. There are threats of
Iynchlng them, as their previous record is
very bad,
Miss Mary L. Stevenson, eldest daughter of
Vice. President Adlai E. Stevenson, died on
Tuesday last at Asheville. N. Z. She caught
cold last summer while in Maine, which turn
ell to pneumonia, from which she died. Her
funeral took place at Bloomington, ILL.,, her
home.
An Atlanta Ca, man is so fond of check
ers that he plays the game three hours
night, six nights in the week. He has kept
this up for years, sometimes paying partner,
whose time is valuable, to play with him.
The habit has probably kept the man from
mischief.
Miss Minnie James, of Botetonrt county,
has gone to Montreal, Canada, having accep-
ted position as head nurse in the Royal Vic
toria Hospital, in that city. She spent five
years as a nurse in the Johns Hopkins Hos
pital, Baltimore.
The greatest snow storm in five years Oc-
CURED in the Rocky Mountains this week.
Snow was twenty-five feet deep on the level,
and in railroad cuts had drifted to the depth
of over forty feet. The storm reached Iowa,
Illinois. Indiana and Wisconsin.
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University, who has been president of the
Bank of Lexington for twenty-five years, has
rendered his resignation.
A new city park is to be made in Balti-
more without dollar of cost to the taXpay
erS. A street car company which was grant
ed franchise in 1858, in the face of great OPP
position, agreed to pay 90 per cent. of its rev.
enue for park purposes and from this accu-
mulated fund the grounds and their adorn-
ment will be paid for.
Strasburg, Va, Free Lance: ''For genuine
business dispatch we recommend the conduct
of a couple recently married, and now living
in this city. The young man went for the
license in early morning; was married at
noon; rented house, moved and settled that
evening. Who can beat it?'
In Rockbridge county last week, MI and
Mrs. Abram Fulwider celebrated the 5Oth
anniversary of their wedding day. At the
celebration there were nine Of their children
present, and some forty of the childrens
children.
Probably the highest price ever asked for
new book is the $500 demanded for the vellum
edition of the Chaucer in folio, with wood
ouf hy1 nd 1ar 81
borders by William Morris, issued by the
Kelmscott Press.
The most precious walking-stick in the
world is owned by DR.. Hailes, OF New
York. The handle is made of a nugget of
virgin gold, weighing nearly three pounds,
and joined to the stem by ring studded with
Is diamonds. 1t is valued at $1,000.
Horace Chiffon. of Tyler, Texas, who is to
succeed Senator Coke, is not yet 40 years of
age. He is a well-built man. with bearing
at once dignified and kindly. Though not an
orator, he is master of a simple and lucid
style.
The Hotel Scott, at Clifton Forge, owned
by Edmund F. Scott, colored, one of the
wealthiest men in that town, was destroyed
by fire with its furniture, on Friday, before
dawn-loss $1,000
Mr.. V. Z. Saunders one of the first gradu-
ates of the V. M. |, at Lexington and after
wards teacher there and at the Episcopal
High School at Alexandria, has just died at
at Leesburg, aged seventy
Capt. Jno. R. Mesmer for nearly quarter
of a century Chief of Police at Winchester,
Va, died Oh the 10th of January. He was
Confederate veteran of Co X 9Th Va infau,
try. Stonewall Brigade
The State Senate of South Dakota, has
passed the re-submission bill. 1t is thought
this will wipe ont Prohibition In that State.
The control of the Peoples National Bank
at Charlottesville, has passed out of the