Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1895-07-19

sumes a cone shape and is Drowned with q
large granite shamrock.
The Jewels that Mrs. Leland Stanford will
sell to keep the Stanford University going,
comprise the Queen Isabella diamonds, sixty
diamond rings and other jewels, valued in all
at from 81 600 900 to 81, 0OO, 900. She has never
worn them since her son, to whom she was
devoted, died, though on one occasion before
that, at dinner in New York, she appeared
with all of them on.
Major 3. W Lynn, the superintendent of
the penitentiary, has turned over to the au-
thorities OF Russell county twenty convicts in
addition to twelve sent there some time ago,
and who are employed in working on the
county roads, Recently .he supplied the au-
thorities of Bedford county with batch of
twenty convicts. in addition to the fourteen
already engaged there in similar work.
Howard Trusty, colored newsboy in Phil
adelphia, makes sometimes as high as $50 a
week, and always $50 in the seven days. He
owns fast horse and wagon to rush his
/ papers around IN quick time, and though he
| mas been fined W.. so time and again for fast
driving his profits are so large that he pays it
without complaint and repeats the offense.
At Plainfield, N. j., just before the hail
storm Saturday Miss Susan Il. Van Wrinkle
and Mr. Leonard Smith. Of New York were
addressing invitations to their wedding,
which was to take place yesterday. Miss Van
Winkle at the approach of the storm, was
seized with Mysteries and, Notwithstanding
prompt medical aid, died Sunday.
During the low price of wheat a kimball.
Page Co., Va, farmer used large part Of
his crop in fattening poultry. and by this
method realized $lO5 per bushel for his
wheat. lie found it SO profitable that he not
only fatteHed and sold the poultry raised on
his own farm. but bought fowls to feed and
fatten. realizing q good profit onthem. ,sl-
Gen. VIM. Malone and Col. Jn0. Il. Watts
settled their business suit in Petersburg this
week by an agreement that Gen. Malone Is
to pay Col. Watts $4,000 AND is 70 bp released
from all judgments and contracts made by
them for purchases of mineral lands In Nc.
Dowell Co., w. Va.
The last night of Rev. e.. M. Towards
meetings at Mcdowell, Highland. some one
pullea Up -FOUR pr ave planks OF the roadway
of the bridge over Bull PASTURE river. The
obstinate refusal of a horse to 60 on, saved
the lives of those in his vehicle and led to the
discovery of the tFaR.
CATHOLIC members Of the knights of Pythias,
ODD Fellows apa Sons of Temperance at
Chicago, W6re placed under the han OF the
Roman Catholic ehuroh~by published Or
der which went into effect last Sunday and
was read from all the pulpits OF that church
in that diocese.
Plymouth Church, of Brooklyn. by I'M
anims44s gate, the other night declined te &C.
eept the proposition looking toward recon
citation between the Congregational church
ss of New York and Brooklyn. The breach
has existed ever since the BeecherTilton
trial.
Young Lady (out yachting)- is the
matter, Captain Quarterdeck?' Captain
"The fact is, nv dear yoEEng LADY, we've
broken our rndder." Young Lady
wouldn't worry about that. The rudder is
mostly Hnder water, yon know, and it ISM
likely people Will notice is.'
, The Drys carried Radford, Va, by ten MAJ
, jority, but the Vets have gotten the question
in the courts on the ground that the election
was not held in conformity with law. Gen
Jas. A. Walker is counsel for the Vets, and
Col. J. Hampton Hoge for the Drys.
i. II. Bliss at Chicago, sig feet three and I
half inches in height, and weighing foul
hundred and eighty-seven pounds, rides 8
l twenty-five pound bicycle with safety ani
with good speed.
The white and cOlored citizens Of Lake
, City, Fla, held an indignation meeting Satur
day and denounced the mob that lynchet
Robert Bennett young eslared preaeher OF
July 4.
Maj. Richard F. Walker, to whom John NJ
Daniel at his death. baqueathea the Hich
mond Examiner. is ow holding position OF
e The State, new Republican paper in Alba
S ny, N. Y.
1t is estimated by the Chicago Chronicle
thai the bicycle far WHICH the buyers pa
500, cost thirty dollars to make them. am
forty dollars would give the maker a fai
profit.
The Board of Home Missions of the North
erp Presbyterian church is in debt to the ex
tent Of 1854 .0ga, and NC prospect for It's pay
ment One member OF the Board is carving
5000, 900 of this debt.
l. The furniture of Mrs. Katharine Chase
daughter of the late Chief Justice and former
wife Of the late Senator Sprague, Of Rhod'
Island, has been seized for aebts AND is abQp
to be disposed of at auction.
The Minneapolis Tribune figures that in 1888.
it required 324 bushels of wheat to pay for a
self binding reaper, while the same reaper
ara better one can be bought this year for Is
bushels.
Capt. s. f. Simmons aged rs, and Bernard
} Pitzer aged Sc, two of the Oldest citizens Of
Salem, died there within an hour of eacl
other last Thursday night.
Col. Tbos. +. Marshall, Of Norfolk, hal
been requested to accept the position at ths
Virginia Military Institute made vacant by
the resignation OF Lieutenant RockenbacA.
Miss Kate Field of Washington, has nn
dertaken the work of bringing back from
Chicago John Browns fort and rebuilding i
at Harper's Ferry.
Mr.. Alfred T. Forbes, member of thu
Warrenton. Va, bar, died there very sud
denly Sunday afternoon after attending
0 church in the morning.
) Mrs. katharine Billiard. widow of Rev
Henry L. billiard, died last Wesk at the lloml
t of her nephew, U. S. Senator Martin in AL
: bemarle.
e The first woman U. S. Commissioner to b
appointed by the government is Miss Lelis
Gray of Guthrie, Oklahoma, we'll know
business woman.
S DR.. Edward H. Palmer of Louisville. Ky.
l going at high speed on his bicycle, ran intl
e another bicycle, and was SO injured that hi
] died the next morning.
Teacher-sWho were our first parents 2
! New Boy-"Eve and Adam" Teacher You
; must say adam and Eve Have l not TOLD
you they were created in alpha betical order?'
The Director of the West Virginia Agricuf
tural Experiment Station at Morganton, say'
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