Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1895-12-27
PASSING NEWS OF THE DAY.

papers that the Duke of Norfolk, the Post
master-G eneral, and recognized head OF the
Roman Catholics of England, in suppress
ing the Italian postal cards received in
coinmemoration Of the liberation of Rome,
stated that the cards were so Objectionable
to the Vatican that the Pope excommuni-
Gated ali who receive them or aid in their
| circulation.
Last week Mrs. Malcolm Guy of Lynch
burg, who had only been married year,
and who had just finished nursing her two
months-od baby and laid it down, found
her clothing had taken fire. Her young
husband driving up to the house saw her
rush into the porch in flames. He soon
extinguished them, but she died in few
hours.
| In the county court of Botetourt, last
week, in the case of Ed. Decl VS.. E. j. Nc
Cnlloch, the defendant Directing to some
language used by Mr.. Benz. Haden, coun-
sci for Deel, as rejecting on him, and being
, near him struck Mr.. Uaden a tremendous
blow knocking him some distance and
! backing one Of his eyes. The assailant
| was fined IS for contempt Of court.
In Bath county court, Va. last week, T.
J. Ellinger and J. Loan, white, were tned
$40 for stealing turkeys from Anthony
Jones, colored. In prosecuting the case
| Commonwealth Attorney J. w. Stephen
| son laid stress on the fact that in so doing
the accused had invaded the recognized
right Of the colored race.
| George Beeton, son of John Fl. Beeton
of Lexington, Va, who left Lexington last
summer to sell sewing machines, was kill
ed at Big Stone Gap, where he was work
ing as quarryman, by the failing of a
stone. Three other workmen who were
eating their dinner with him were also
killed.
The Arlington estate. in Northampton,
| Co. Va, the original home Of the Custis
family, was sold several days ago to MI.
John Creth, Of Philadelphia, for $3.50.
The old Custis burying ground is on the
farm, but it is in very neglected condit-
ion, many of the old tombstoEes being
broken and scattered about the place.
Property valued at $4,000 burned at
Edinburg, Shenandoah county, early Sat
urday morning, including stores, Murray 8
Hotel, livery stables, Edinburg Sentinel
office, several residences and other property
eleven buildings in all. The Woodstock
late for service.
DR.. Alex. Henry, Of Decatur county,
Iowa, arrived in Portsmouth Va, Friday,
accompanied by seven male members Of
his family. The trip over 200 miles was
made in wagons, and their destination was
Accomac county, where they will locate
on farm lands.
Rev. W. H. Marsh of Goshen, circuit
rider Of the Methodist church, was cruelty
beaten last week by Alex. Calvert, an OK
penitentiary convict, who mistook him tor
a public school teacher who had whipped
his boy. Calvert was arrested.
A Kansas school district has written
contract with its teacher, by which she is
bound to teach the school, make and attend
to the fires, do the sweeping and find the
matches. She gets $50 month.
: General John B. Gordon. OF Georgia, has
accepted an invitation to deliver the ora
tion in Richmond next une. Oh the OCCASION
of the laying Of the cornerstone OF the
Davis monument.
1t seems to be conceded that ex-Presi-
dent Benz. Harrison, aged IS, and Mrs.
; Mary Scott Dimmock Of N. Y, aged So
niece of his deceased wife, are to be mar
ried.
Paris is a para lise for bieyclers. At the
foot Of every hill in that city wheelmen
will find members of the "Wheel-pushers
Guild, ''ready to push their machines to the
top.
The Illinois Steel Company, of Chicago
has just closed contract with the Poca.
hontas Company for the purchase Of
: 100000 tons Of coke during 1896. The
supply is torun from 5000 to $4,000 tons
per month, Oh about so cars per day.
; The Virginia Military Institute has just
received from the War Department at
Washington 200 improved Springfield
rifles and sixty cavalry sabres, belts and
equipments to take the place of old arms
: now in use.
VIM. S. Peyton, the depot agent of the
Southern Ry. at Rapidan, Va. is seventy
nine years old, and has held the same place
for forty-three years. His mother, Mrs.
Lydia Peyton, is now in her one-hundredth
year.
Mrs. Eliza Benton Jones. the Oldest
Hart Benton of Missouri. died In Balti-
more last week in her seventy-third year.
Her only sister now living is Mrs. Jessie
Benton Fremont of California.
At Stroudsburg, Pa, is buried J. Sum-
merfeld, whom President Lincoln put In
the I'd regiment District of Columbia
! volunteers as his substitute. Nearly all
the prominent men in the government at
Washington put in substitutes for the war.
See the young woman. Is the young
woman being suddenly and unexpectedly
kissed?" "Ah, yes.' "And does the young
woman raise hue and cry?" ''The young
woman raises slight hue, but no cry. %
| Detroit Tribune.
Miss Helen Culver of Chicago, aged
sixty, has just given the Chicago Univer-
sity 81 100000. She inherited from seven
to ten millions from an uncle who made it
in real estate largely with the assistance of
her good business head.
A few days ago daughter of G. w. Sal
isbury, riding along III Bath county, got off
her horse to open satchel strapped behind
her. AS she was looking into the satchel
tree fell across the saddle killing the
horse and narrowly missing the girl
There were over forty applicants for the