Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1895-07-05

year. and will be a million and quarter by
the time she comes of age.
A car loaded with water melons was wreck
ed Sunday within a few yards of negro
church in Hanover Co.. Va. where the con-
gregation was holding service. The unex-
pected providence broke up the meeting,
which adjourned to feast on the broken mel
ons.
+ DR.. Chas. N. Shepherd on farm few
miles from Charleston. s. g., has twenty
arces of it planted in tea plants. Last year
he sold 800 pounds of black tea in Charleston
and Summerville at 81. 20 pound, and about
300 pounds of green tea at 81. so a pound-alI
raised on his farm.
Mr. Robert Bass, Mexican war and Con.
federate war veteran, aged seventy-four. who
lived near Ivy, Albemarle, went to Char
. lOttesvill two weeks ago and ordered coffin,
saying there was no one to attend to this for
him and he wanted it ready. He died on the
Goth ult.
, Alexander Armstrong and Frank Cumber-
land of Marietta, Ohio. were sentenced in the
Pocahontas Co., w. Va, circnit court last
| week to eighteen and fifteen years respective
ly in the pententiary for assaulting and rob.
bling j. N. Brown at Mill Point, w. Va, a
year ago.
Near boswell, Caroline, Co.. Va, last
Tuesday morning, Edgar Phillips, "a trifling
white man, supported by his wife, stabbed
her to DEATH mortally wounded their 1O-year
old son. who tried to defend her, and then
stabbed himself, but not fatally.
Hon. Lewis Mckenzie who, during his life
time, was the postmaster Of Alexandria, and
represented that district in congress. died
there Friday in his 85th year. 1t was chiefly
through his influence that the Loudoun &
Hampshire railroad was built.
The venerable Bishop Hargrove, of the NJ
E. Church, South, was married in Kansas
City last week to Mrs. Ruth Scarratt, mother
in-law of Bishop Hendrix, who officihted.
Bishop Hargrove is 66 years of age and his
bride 80.
Joel NJ. Harris, Mayor of Lewisburg, W.
Va, had an operation performed for appen-
dicitis last week at the White Sulphur
Springs, by DR.. Hunter Mcclure of Rich
mond. He died two days after the operation.
Mr.. Ii. H. Houston one OF the most promi-
nent citizens of Philadelphia, and member
of the Board of Trustees of Washington &
Lee University at Lexington. died on the 21st
ult., in his 10Th year.
Hon. j. S. Eggborn, of Culpeper, has the
heaviest crop of wheat ever raised in that
county. 1t is estimated at forty bushels to
the acre.
John L. Sullivan was given benefit in
New York Friday night, which closed with
sparring match between Sullivan and Corbett
the prize fighter who had vanquished him.
Among the appointments to enter the mil
itary academy at West Point, in June, 1896.
are Geo. NJ. Lee. Glasgow, Rockbridge. and
John P. Walker. alternate. Walkers Ford.
A corps of the Chesapeake & Western engi-
neers is at work surveying in Greene county.
This is the road that is being built through
Rockingham.
Allen Walker of Wytheville, a son of Gen.
James A. Walker, who was accidentally
shot, has had his leg amputated above the
knee.
Rev. DIR. A. T. Grabill of the Southern
Presbyterian Mexican mission, was married
on June 18th to Miss Annie E. Ottoway OF
New York, also missionary to Mexico.
Rev. Mr.. Magruder rode a bicycle from
Lost City, W. Va, across the mountains to
Woodstock, the first bike that has been rid
den over that route.
The Woodstock, Shenandoah. Herald says
hundreds of bushels Of cherries will go to
waste on the trees in that county; it being i'm
possible to save all of such a large crop.
Rev. DR.. 7. e. Jones, for many years a
Baptist pastor at Norfolk, and once the Pres
ident of Richmond College, died in Richmond
mod
The 'Wickham House at Clifton Forge,
has been sold for 81 200 to. Jos. Z. Fudge of
Covington, County Treasurer of Allegheny.
The new assessment in Highland county
shows decrease of Sill 900.