Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1895-11-08

Sadie Sherrler. daughter OF German
farmer Of Falls Church, as she was return
ing from school along the county road.
Her screams brought two of her little
school mates, and the boy fled. He was
tried on the 30th ult., under the law passed
by the last legislature of Virginia making
an attempt at assault punishable by death,
was convicted and sentenced to be hung on
December 9th.
Near Monticello, Nelson Co., Va. on
the 26th ult., Stuart Campbell (son of
Thomas Campbell) who had filled up with
apple brandy, became very boisterous.
Henry Fitzgerald, a local Baptist preacher
tried to quiet him, whereupon he shot
Fitzgerald inflictiEg probably fatal wounds.
A brother OF Campbell got the gun, which
he had reloaded, from him and took it to
the house where, in taking the load out, it
exploded killing his sister, Miss Campbell,
instantly. The poor girl had often acted
as peacemaker between the two Campbells,
father and son, who are heavy drinkers.
| At q meeting at Fort Wayne, last week.
! OF the Protestant Episcopal clergy of
Northern Indiana, Rev. VIM. Galping
created stir in religious circles by an at
tack on the Christian Endeavor organiza-
tions. He said "They are the means of
Sinking church work for our young peo-
pie. The notion that religion is Sunday
evening pastime is a notion to be gotten
rid OF. The Christian Endeavor is fad.
and it seems to Inc must be placed on
level with concert hall and opera house,"
Christian Schleehle, a trimmer of the
Wheeling w. Va, city electric light
works, was instantly killed Friday morn
ing. He had recently gotten the job and
that morning started to work. A light
hangs in front Of his house and he asked
his wife to come to the door and watch him
trim his first lamp. The light was lowered
and Schleehle took hold of both carbons
The current ran through his body killing
him instantly before his Mortified wife.
In Clifton Forge last Monday. W. M.
Metcalf, a locomotive fireman on the G. &
| o., was arrested on suspicion OF setting
fire to the Moody Carpenter building Sun
day morning about 2 o'clock. He, with
his wife, children and widowed mother,
lives in the building which he was charged
with attempting to burn. The evidence
against him was not strong and he has
been man of good character heretofore.
The Norfolk and w estern officials report
that that road is now handling ali enor-
nous amount of freight of every kind,
and that the demand for cars is greater
than the supply. The company will short
ly give out contracts for building 1000
hopper gondola cars of CO. pounds capac-
| ity, to be equipped with every modern ap-
pliance.
The report of Col. Whitehead, Commits
sioner of Agriculture, shows that during
the year ending September 80, 1895, the sale
of fertilizers in the State of Virginia, ag-
gregated $40, 100000. In this connection,
the report states that the amount of money
| recovered in taxes Oh bonds of fertilizers
found on the market unregistered, was
more than sufficient to pay the cost of in
spection.
| John Pursenior Gray who had never had
fight nor law suit in his life died in
Pittsylvania Co., Va, last week. He was
never at the county court house but once
and that was seventy years ago when he
went to get his marriage license. He was
in his ninety fifth year, and is survived by
a wife, eleven children, eighty-four grand
children and two hundred and sixty-two
great-grandchildren
Judge Mclaughlin has set aside the vtr-
dict Of 81 800 recently given in his court
against the Norfolk & Western Ry. Co.
for the killing of Sites, the deaf mute, and
the case went out of court. This was the
| third trial of the case, and in each instance
| the jury found for the plaintiff, but judg-
ment was reversed by the Court of APP
peals.
The low water of the drought puts the
fish in a hard place. The stream running
through w. b. Claggett's farm in Clarke
Co., Va, was so low that he ran spring
tooth harrow through it to clean out the
weeds that had grown in it. The first haul
brought out an eel a yard long, and fifty six
suckers from ten to twenty inches long,
mixed up with the weeds and grass.
Lieut.. Hine of Fairfax county, Va,
who resigned his commission in the U. S.
army short time ago in order to go into
the railroad business, and commenced as a
brakeman on a freight train, has already
been promoted to the position Of yard mas
| ter at an important RAILROAD centre in In
diana,
Last. week caisson load of shell and
| shrapnel was unearthed at the South end of
| Main street in Woodstock. Va. 1t had
been thrown out Of one of the caissons of
Gen. Banks army when the vehicle was
stalled in the wet Spring of 1862.
One of the defendants in suit in the
Wythe Co., Va. court last week, was Mrs.
Mary Jones, a daughter of one of the IA
nous Siamese' twins. Except having a
very dark complexion, there is nothing pecu-
liar in her looks.
At O'Clock last Thursday morning, a
| slight tremOr Of an earthquake was felt in
Washington city, but it was much more
distinctly felt through PENNSYLVANIA and
the Western States as far as Kansas and
| Wisconsin,
Cancer is increasing iii the United States
with alarming rapidity. In the year 1850
one death out Of every forty one was caused
10y this terrible disease. In 1850 the deaths
from cancer were only 2O5S, in 1890 they
were 2O,9S4.
j. Howard Humphreys, while blasting
piece OF new road with dynamite near the
Cyrus Fl. Mccormick dwelling in Rock
bridge, on the 2Sth ult., was instantly kill
ed 10y its explosion. While he was tamping
it.
| MI. Abe Miller on Narrow Passapa