Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1895-12-13

DOu&nb ner wedding OuCuC ZOE ucE. Die
borrowed $500 from him for immediate use,
and while he went to get the license she
disappeared. He is still hanging around
the police stations in Chicago trying to
| find out where she has gone.
A physician in Pocahontas county, w.
Va, called on a patient one day last week
and left two five grain capsules, with ex-
plicit instructions that they be taken dur
ing the night. The sick man arose at the
hour designated, and knowing where
he had put them, thought it unnecessary to
light lamp. By mistake. he got two 80
calibre cartridges instead, and swallowed
them before he discovered his error.
Though somewhat alarmed. the patient
was at last accounts getting along nicely.
Lying OH a plain, unpretentious wire cot
in the sick ward of the Long Island State
Hospital in Flatbush, there died last Thurs
day man once worth millions. His
name was Aneram Livingstone, grandson
to the late Governor Van Ness, and at one
time reputed to be one of the richest men
in New Y ork State. He was II years old.
He had no vices. Unbounded generosity
was bis ruin. He went through three
, fortunes, and at 70 years of age he tried to
get employment and failed.
The old ladies seem to be the favorites
just now. James Wheatland Smith a law
yer of Boston, aged twenty-six, has just
run off with Mrs. Frances L. Higginson.
aged forty, wife of. the famous Boston
banker. Mrs. Lewis, the elderly widow of
DR.. Lewis Of Raleigh Co.. w. Va. has just
eloped with Charles George. youth of
nineteen summers. Both old ladies leave a
number of grown children.
HELEN Keller. the deaf and blind girl, is
in New York attending the Wright Huma-
son School for oral instruction to the deaf,
and has made such progress that she is
looking forward to entering college. Those
who talk to her can now speak to her as
they would to any one else. She hears
them through her fingers, by placing them
on the lips, face and throat of the person
speaking.
In Philadelphia last week apurse of SIC, 900
was presented by the physicians of the
world to Dr.. Johns. Billing, retired sur
of appreciation Of his work in indexing the
library of the surgeon-general Of the United
States Army. Dr.. Billings spent twenty
years on the work and has only recently
completed it.
The firm Of Vanaken, Hayes & Co., con-
tractors on the Chesapeake & Western r.
R., have failed and transferred their con-
tract to Ferguson, another contractor.
Some Rockingham people lose, but not
heavily, by the failure. About 100 Italians
and negroes who had not been paid since
September. are hanging around Harrison
burg, but there is no money to pay them.
Miss Mary A. Scanler and w. w. Smith
were married on the new steel bridge at
Kimberly, W. Va, in view of promise
of the bridge building company to give any
couple so doing housekeeping outfit. The
brother of the bride married them and then
there was dance on the bridge, there being
hundreds gathered to see the wedding.
Wytheville ought to be in the swim this
year, for she furnishes the Congressman
for the 9th Congressional District, the
Lieutenant Governor of Virginia, the
State Senator for the 5th Senatorial district
and the member Of the Legislature from
Wythe county, besides various other
minor positions,
Rev. Dr. Socrates Henkel, Of New Mar
ket after forty five years service has tender
ed his resignation as pastor OF Emanuel
and Mt. Zion Evangelical Lutheran
churches, to take effect January LIST, 1885,
He sewers his connection because of failing
health.
Master John White, twelve-year.old
son of A. Il. White Of Sweet Springs w.
Va, killed a fine buck last Friday morning
He saw it approaching, and giving chase
on horseback, caught up with. jumped
upon the deer and held it until it was kill
| I'd.
Lynchburg letter in Richmond Times ::
"a lady of this city, who has suffered for
years from what was considered an incur
able trouble in one of her limbs, sent a
handkerchief to Schlatter, the healer, while
he was in Denver, and has been entirely
cured.
In the parlor the young preacher charm
ed us all with his easy manners and pleas
ant voice. In the pulpit his attitudes
! illustrated various trigonometrical funct-
nasal whine to saw our nerves in two.
j. Laferty.
Young Baker, a sewing machine agent.
aged twenty-seven, a son of Nash j. Baker
of Botetourt Co., Va, was shot and
then robbed near the depot at Athen. Ga,
by two negroes. On November 26th, and
died December 9TH of his wounds.
Alfred Hawkins the colored boy once
sentenced to death in the Alexandria coun-
ty court for an attempt at assault on Il
white girl, but who got a new trial. has
been sentenced to eighteen years in the
| penitentiary.
| 1t is a hard matter to get into the U. s.
Army now. Out of 46,020 men who offered
for enlistment during the past fiscal year,
only 1870 were accepted. The strict men,
tai, moral and physical examination threw
| the others out.
The Alexandria Business Mems League
has resolved to push before the Virginia
legislature bill making it unlawful for
fire insurance companies in this State to
limit their liability to three-fourths of the
J value OF the property destroyed.
| Col. Thos. f. Goode OF Mecklenburg
proprietor of the Lithia Springs, last week
gave 81 600 to be distributed among the
Confederate veterans in that county now
drawing pensions. This is his third annual
gift of an equal amount.
| In Berkeley Co., W. Va, at o'clock on
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