Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1895-02-08

emmett to convert the field of Appomattdx
into national park. Letters that had been
received by the Dispatch from Congressman
Tucker and Judge Christian, of Apo
mattox, heartily endorsing the scheme, were
read, and resolution was adopted to appoint
committee to take charge of the matter and
inviting all Confederate organizations and
Grand Army posts as we'll, to cooperate in
the undertaking.
A good story, says London paper, is told
OF a lazy and loquacious farmer whose farm
lies just outside of Worcester. He called at
a neighbor's house recently 'St down, sit
down. insisted the neighbor. "Idon't know
as ought. replied the farmer, but he never
less sat down. After some talk about the
crops and the value of an adjoining piece of
ground the farmer said slowly 81 don't
know as I ought to be sitting here. I came
over to see if could get ladder; our house
is afre.''
A Bedford City correspondent of the Rich
mond Times says prominent fruit grower of
that county says that the peaches have
already been killed in Bedford. Some one
who writes with all the positiveness of an
authority says that the buds from the peach
crop always form the previous summer, and
have to run the gauntlet of sleet and ice.
Eight degrees below zero will kill the buds.
The thermometer has been down to ten be-
low this winter.
Mrs. Joseph Studebaker of Anderson, Ind,
who had been in a trance for over three
months, died on February 1st from her pecu-
liar affection, which had attracted the atten-
ton of the public for weeks. She lay over
three months in trance, but often awoke.
Two weeks ago she had a half hour in which
she seemed herself. Shen then passed into
commissions and died Friday. She had not
touched food for 1T days.
The magnificent steamer, Elbe, of the North
German Lloyd line, which left Bremen on
Tuesday for New York via Southampton,
was sunk at daylight Thursday morning in
collision with the British steamphip Cratic,
bound from Rotterdam for Aberdeen, in the
North Sea, about thirty miles from the Hook
of Holland. Only twenty-one persons from
the Elbe are known to have been saved. and
it is thought that 314 persons were drowned.
Miss NJ. A. Nutting, superintendent OF the
Training School for Nurses connected with
the Johns HOPKINS Hospital, has been grant
ed leave of absence for eight months. She
will spend the time principally in Europe
studying nursing. Miss Nutting left Satur-
day for Boston, whence she will 60 to Cana
da, and thence sail for Europe.
Under instructions from Judge Barr, jury
in the United States Court at Owensboro, KY,
on Monday rendered verdict for one cent
damages against the Louisville & Nashville
Railroad Company in case brought by col
ored minister to test the separate coach law
for colored people. The railroad company
will appeal to the Supreme Court Of the Uni
ted States.
Mrs. Chas. P. Edwards is suing the city OF
Norfolk for $50, 900 for the loss of an eye,
caused by the explosion of fireworks on the
street there during the Christmas holidays.
She will also bring suit against J. I. Cannon
merchant there, in front of whose store the
accident occurred, for the same amount.
Ward McAllister the leader of the ''400' in
New York, died there on Friday last in his
64th year. He was born in Savannah, Ga. and
always prided himself on his Southern birth.
An attack of grippe was the immediate cause
of his death.
The Common Council of Norfolk has adopt
ed the liquor ordinance as amended by the
select Council for the early closing of saloons.
1t will go into effect on May 1st. PROPOSE
ton will also be submitted fixing the bar tax
| at 81 900.
| VIM. Burkholder, while walking on the
Pennsylvania Railroad track at Columbia,
Pa, found the dead body Of his son lying Oh
the tracks. 1t is supposed that the boy was
killed while stealing ride.
In criminal court in West Virginia Geo.
Washington, Stonewall jackson and Christie
pher Columbus, have all been sentenced tC
terms in the penitentiary of that State. The
convicts are all colOred.
| Hothouse Strawberries from New Jersey.
now in the New York market, sell at three
dollars basket. The fruit is large, perfect
and beautiful, but the baskets are small;
they run about fourteen berries to the basket.
| 1t is stated that the largest tin-plate works
| in the United States will be erected as an ad-
dition to the Illinois Steel works, at South
Chicago.
The exports from Newport News for Janu-
airy, aggregated s1,s1s,274 in value, an in
crease of nearly 100000 as compared with
the same month last year.
Near Gate City, Va, in a difficulty between
Marion Green and John q. Carter, the for
mer was killed and the latter mortally
wounded.
| W. II. Sprouse of Albemarle, was run over
and killed by a train near Charlottesville
on Saturday.
Mrs. W. q. Lynch of Danville, was taken
| ill on the street there last week and died in
| few hours.
There are are now enrolled $40 students in
the Virginia Agricultural College, at Blacks
burg.