Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1895-10-04

IA, last week u tie age Of eighty ono, had
never worked q day in his life. At eleven
years. he ran away from home ana had been
atramp and loafer ever since. He died in
a stones throw OF where he was born, and
had never been outside of Pennsylvania
and Maryland.
The Rev. Sam Small's paper at Norfolk,
the Evening News, !" was sold under deed
of trust on Monday and bought by its for
mer owners. Mr.. Small and wife, now in
Georgia, made deed of assignment on
Sept. 9th. Mr.. Small has been absent
from Norfolk about two months.
The engagement of the young Duke of
Marlborough to Miss Consuelo Wander
bilt, daughter of VIM. K. Vanderbilt of
New York, is formally announced. The
brides dot is $50, 100000. They marry at
Grace Episcopal church, New York, Nov.
18th.
Mr.. w. II. Ruffner of Lexington,
publishes this week s'1'he Dutch
mans preventive of Texas cattle iever'
as follows "For 100 cattle one bushel and
half of salt, one qnarI of flour of sulphur,
and a half gallon spirits of turpentine;
mixed in a tub.
The Confederate reunion in Accomac
Thursday, at which Fitz Lee and Senator
Daniel were present, was held at the 1.-TWO
Ponds'' the scene of the only actual en-
gagement on the Eastern shore Of Virginia
during the war. The old Confederate
breastworks were still there.
VIM. Lindsay, a lupatic, was arrested in
Norfolk last week and committed to jail.
He turned out to be the former Superinten-
dent of Public Education of Pennsylvania,
who had escaped from the Harrisburg
asylum, to which he was committed some
years ago when his mind gave way.
DR.. Theophilus A. Hall. a well known
physician of Prince George Co., Va, COM
mitted suicide last week at the home OF
Mr.. j. Il. Harrison by cutting an artery
in his arm with a razor. No cause
can be assigned for the rash act, except
continued ill health.
r. w. Cardwell, the former book-keeper
of the State Bank of Richmond, who is
charged with permitting Samuel B. Nelson
a liveryman to overdraw his account with
that institution to the ammOunt of about
1923, 900, has been indicted for making false
entries.
During my observation, extending over
many years, y remarked Judge Pryor, from
the bench in New York Friday, II have
found that next to rum, mischievous moth
ers-in-law are the chief source of nearly all
the matrimonial broils that come before
the courts.'
Mrs. Violet Haskell of Deer Isle, Me i,
who ran off three weeks ago with j. H.
Brister. the colored leader of the Cincin-
natl ''Pickaninnie Band" returned home
on Thursday last, went out into the woods,
and blew her brains out. ...
The big apple crop has already caused $50
farmers in the East Virginia internal rev.
enue district to register as distillers. The
tax is $1.1O gallon. In Gen. Lees dis
trict there are 1925 brandy distiller-
les in operation.
The engagement of Miss Sallie C. Dam
gerfield of Alexandria, who was one of the
beauties who was asked to represent Vir-
ginia at the Columbian Exposition, to
Chas. H. Carter a prominent society man
in Baltimore, is announced.
A four-yearold son of Mr.. A. D.
Wright. lessee Of the Elkton Hotel at Elk
ton, in Rockingham, fell from the balcony
of the hotel last Thursday distance of fif-
teen feet and broke his left leg, his right
arm, and sprained his left wrist.
Warrenton Virginian: IA woman
eighty yesrs and another sixtY-nine skip
ping a rope in the Free State a few days
ago, will set the girls with thew women"
ideas to thinking how to hold up their end
of the athletic craze.''
Frank E. Wissler, owner of the famous
.'Strathmore'' estate in Shenandoah coun-
ty, has just been married to Miss Carrie
Hickman, daughter of DR.. Jos. T. Hick
man Of Mt. Jackson in that county.
Samuel Gwinn of Summers Co., w. Va :,
aged eighty-one, who has a dread of rail.
roads, has just returned from trip he
made to Illinois on horseback, the entire
distance being 1900 miles.
Harry I. Spellman. aged twenty-three,
killed himself at Harrisonburg last week.
He had been drinking and went into a
drug store and brought some trough on
RATS" which be swallowed.
Gen. James Longstreet was at Orange
G. H. last week visiting Maj. Erasmus
Taylor the old Quartermaster of Long
streets corps.
At the election on Sept. 10Th, Botetourt
county went ''wet" by 113 majority, in
total vote of 1495. The ''drys" showed a
marked increase of strength in Buchanan.
Rev. Samuel Gilmore. formerly a pastor
in Highland county. died in Pendleton, w.
Va, few days ago.
No man was ever go mnoh in love that he
WAS unable to sleep on Sunday morning.
Texas Siftings.
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