Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1895-03-22
THE NEWS OF THE DAY.

THE NEWS Or THE DAY.
Miss Anna human of Winstead, CT, now
aged thirty-four, has been thrice called to
the altar and thrice disappointed. Twelve
years ago she was eng tged to a TOrringtOn
man, who, a few days before the date re fused
Seven years later she was engaged to T lomas
Myers of Hartford, who. Oh the wedding day.
failed to appear. She made him pay $500
for breach of promise. A few months ago she
loaned Burke, a livery keeper at Winstead,
money to save his business from ruin, and
afterwards nursed him through spell OF
illness. They were to be married Feb Dist,
and at the hour the church was filled with her
friends. She and her parents arrived at the
church at the hour, but Burke did not, hav-
ing run off to Philadelphia during the night.
Miss human returned home from the church
and attached Burke's livery stable for debt.
Some unusual incidents of the severe winter
are related. The Pocahontas, w. Va. Times
says Mr.. NJ. A. Dunlap found twenty rats in
his granary frozen to death, and there have
been fifteen gray squirrels found between j.
l.. Kinnison'S and the river frozen to death.
One OF the squirrels had been digging in the
ground for nut it had buried, and succumb
grasp. Thirty-fiye peacocks were frozen to
death in a single night at Mr.. S. I'll. Higin-
botham's "Wheatland Farm" near Shop
herdstown, w. Va. A farmer in Bland coun-
ty, Va, found his hogs under cliff on Wal
ker Mountain. The cold being far below
zero, they were packed for warmth as close
as Armour could have packed Them and lying
OH top OF them, enjoying their heat, was a
full grown wildcat.
The Confederate and Grand Army of the
Republic men of Tampa. Fla, rendered Mrs.
U. S. Grant reception Saturday night. 1t
was Mis-. Grants Sixty-ninth birthday, and
the reception was made the occasion of cele-
brating that event. Speaking of the South,
was raised in Southern State-Missouri-
and hardly knew which side to 60 with.
But the General went with the North and l
went with him.
Gentlemen, can't lie about the horse; he
is blind in one eye,' said the auctioneer. The
horse was soon knocked down to citizen
who had been greatly struck by the auction
GERS honesty, and after paying for the horse,
he said: "You were honest enough to tell
me that this animal was blind in one eye. Is
there any other defect?' Eyes, sir; there is.
He is also blind in the other eye," was the
prompt reply.-Tid-Bits.
Mrs. VIM. K. Vanderbilt of New York,
who recently secured divorce from her one
hundred milliOnaire husband who had be-
come infatuated in Paris with an adventur-
ess, the daughter of a Nevada shoemaker,
has, under the decree of the court, an income
of $500, 900 year and the right to marry
again. She is thirty-four years old.
Bridegroom (about to marry the youngest
of three sisters) -"My dear FRIEND l want
you to stand right behind me during the cere-
mony and keep your eyes open. am very
near sighted and L am afraid they might sub
stitute the oldest sister at the critical mo-
ment. "-Fliegende Blatter.
After one elopement. in which they were
caught, little 15-year-old Minnie Wood,
daughter of DR.. Geo. A. Wood of Albemarle,
and 19-year-old VIM. Birckhead, Of the same
county. got off to Washington city last week
and were married.
1T. Rev j. A. Watterson, Roman Catholic
Bishop of the Diocese of Columbus, Ohio, de-
livered lecture before the Y. M. e. Asso-
citation of Columbus on Sunday, Feb. oath,
on ''Christian Citizenship
Hon. Basil B. Gordon has again sent to the
editor of the Blue Ridge Guide check
for $50 to pay for that paper being sent to
parties in Rappahannock county that are not
able to subscribe to it.
Mrs. Taylor Ellyson of Richmond, has re-
ceiyed from Captain L. 7, Christian for the
Confederate Museum, a wreath of evergreen
which was on the casket that contained
''Stonewall'' yackson's rem ains.
Miss Susan B. Anthony, the famous cham
pion of woman suffrage, lectured to large
audience in the Friends meeting house at
LINCOLN, Loudeun county, Va, few days
ago.
W. e. Coup the veteran circus Snowman,
died, after weeks illness of pneumonia,
at Jacksonville, Fla, few days ago. He
was on tour of Florida with show under
the title of Coup, Cooper & Co.
Helen Albright, school girl of Thomas.
W. Va, had two fingers and the thumb of her
left hand blown off by a dynamite cap which
she had placed on pencil as an ornament
At sale in Warren county, Va, a week
OF two ago, sixty horses were offered, and Sis
was the highest bid for any one OF them.
Last Monday, March 18th. was President
Cleveland's fifty eighth birth day.