Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1895-09-06

LIE Mig w 1llauI County, DeLlOcfdGlC
Convention endorsed free silver, but declin-
ed to endorse Senator Daniel.
MI. Charles F. Nelson has withdrawn
from his candidacy for the House in Fred
erick.
State Senator Hal. u. Flood has been re-
nominated in the buckingham district.
THE NEWS OF THE DAY.
William Harrison, handsome young
Missouri farmer, will doubtless be regular
visitor in the city of st. Joseph hereafter
Last week while ON the street there, Miss
Eva Dunbar, fashionable young lady, Of
wealthy parents, rushed out from group
of girls and kissed him. She then ran into
millinery store and began crying and
laughing Historically. She explained, be-
tween sobs, to her friends, that he looked
$50 good, so noble and so true, so like a
real man" that she was obliged to kiss him.
Col. Francisco Romero, who killed Col.
Verastezui in Mexico year ago in a duel,
has been sentenced to serve three years and
four months in prison; to pay a fine Of
81 800 to the State; to pay the funeral ex-
penses Of the dead man, $3.50; and to pay
annually for eighteen years the sum OF
$4,000 to the widow of Verastezui. In
Mexico the anti-duelling law is very severe.
and the juries Of Mexico give their verdicts
by majority vote.
Thomas Wickersham, young business
man of Salina, Kansas, has brought suit
for SIS 900 damages against Miss Cora Ahart
for breach Of promise. Wickersham in his
petition alleges that Miss Ahart in Febru-
airy, 1894, promised to marry him, but later
spurned his attentions. She has, the petit
ton further alleges, given him up for ''a
handsome stranger, supposed to be a ranch
owner from Colorado"
The Republican convention to nominate
a State Senator from Adair and Madison
counties, Iowa. has taken three thousand
ballots, without a choice. Neither county
would permit the convention to be held at
the court house of the other county. SO it il
being held in the woods, where the delegates
and their friends are camping.
Parker valentine, Of Minnesota, is q
fugitive from justice for having committed
murder. His mother died in San Fran
cisco last week, leaving him 100000. II
he appears as claimant, he will be sent t.
Minnesota to be tried for his life; if h.
does not appear, the estate goes to the ST.
John Home, at Milwaukee.
At the Methodist church in Orangeville
Pa, the pews of which had been recently
vanished, large crowd assembled at :;
medal contest. At it's conclusion the au
dience was unable to go home, the varnisL
holding them down. About thousand
dollars worth of clothing was ruined.
The system OF government detectives
watching letter carriers, seems to pay. Al
Peekskiil, n. Y, it was found that the car
riers did not have enough work, and an
extra letter delivery was added to their la
Dor, for which the citizens thanked the post
Office department.
MI. r. O. Eddins. who lives near Somer.
set, Orange county, recently shipped the
wool of ten sheep (ninety-four pounds) to
Baltimore, which sold for III cents De,
pound. Sheep-raising in Orange, Madison
and Greene counties is becoming leading
industry.
The barn of Henry Stuart, in Russell
county, Va, which contained hay, grain. a
car load Of fertilizer and sixteen horses.
was struck by lightning last week, set OF
fire and together with it's contents was en-
tirely consumed. The loss is estimated al
10000.
At the sale of property at Glasgow, Rock
bridge county, recently, number of goot.
houses built in boom times were sold a,
ridiculously low prices. Many houses sole
for less than 500 and houses which cost
$4,000 were Knocked out at $35O-lot in
cluded.
The machinery, castings and buildings
and all the movable personality of the elias
gov Rolling Mill property. at Glasgow ),
Rockbrldge county, was sold at private sale
last week to G. R. Baird & Co., of Phila-
delphia. The price paid was $4,000.
About $3.50 has been collected by the COL
ored societies and lodges of Richmond, a
good part of which was contributed by the
white people, to aid in getting new trial
for the women convicted Of the Lunenburg
The breeding stables of Jas. r. and F. P.
Keene, in Culpeper county, Va, with sew
eral valuable horses, including the import
ed stallion, ''Kailecrates. which cost s36..
OC0, were burnt. The total loss was 81. 900.
Blobbs-'' What nonsense it is for the
in their accounts of weddings to
describe the bride as being led to the altar .
Slobbs How so?" Blobbs-" most
girls could find their way there in the dark. ,,
Monterey, Highland, had it's first fire in
twelve years, on Thursday last-the house
occupied by Mrs. s. H. Carrier, which was
entirely consumed. The ''bucket brigadenl
prevented the spread of the fire,