Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1895-11-22
will now be divided between the heirs-at-

law only.
The editor of the Waynesboro Sentinel
who has visited the ruins of the University
rotunda building says: "We succeeded in
raking from the ashes some large spikes
and bolt which were forged in black
smith shop at Monticello by the slaves of
Thomas Jefferson. These nails were used
in the dome of the great university, and
are quite curiosity as everything now is
made by machinery.
Page County Va. Courier: ''Mr. Carly
Maddox brought to Luray last Friday
morning the largest fish ever taken out of
the Shenandoah, according to the judgment
of all who saw it. 1t was a carp, and it
weighed ISL pounds. and measured "a
inches in length and % inches in circumfer
ence. He captured it the night before i'll
the river near his fathers home in War
rem county,"
Rev. Joseph Speers las ost the posi.io.
of pastor OF the Plesby e.lan church al
Brentwood, Long Island. He appeared j.
The pulpit with u 81, UGH hut, II pair Of blu,
overalls, and a a ldai nv handke chief fol
4 cravat. Being taken TO task, he said thai
on $500 year he could not afford to dres.
like dude. His pastoral relations vert
at once dissolved.
Judge Nic0l of the circuit court of Alex
andria, has granted new trial to Albert
Hawkins, the colored boy sentenced to death
in the county court for an attempted as
sault on 13-year-old Sadie Sheirer. In the
hurry in the lower court the fact Of Haw-
kins having been indicted had been omitted
from the record.
A miniature set Of doll furniture, made
Of the threads travelled from the scraps of
the silk gowns of Mrs. Cleveland and Mrs.
Harrison, while constituting about the
smallest in size Of the curiosities at the
Atlanta Exposition, is not by any means
the smallest in interest.
Rev. DR., Samuel F. Smith, the author
the hymn America" beginning my
Country tits of thee" died suddenly Sat-
urday at the Emergency Hospital in Bos-
ton. He was taken i'll at the depot in that
city while passing through to fill an ap-
pointment to preach.
A superstitious Richmond reporter MOTTO
ing the burning Of the paper box factory
there last week says: 1.-Two singular facts
in connection with it are that Kate Claxton
was playing Two Orphans, the firezfated
piece at the Academy Of Music. and that
the date was the 18th of the month";
At the sale Of the Rockbridge Glasgow
company S real estate, much was taken in,
the bids being too low. The villa near Glas
gov, formerly occupied by Gen. Fitz Lee, the
President of the company, was bought by
Writ A. Chcsterman and John r. Williams
of Richmond, for $4,000.
U. S. Senator Stewart, Of Nevada, has
bought at public sale at ]4eesburg, of the
commissioner in the cause of Janney, ad-
ministrator, VS.. Klein, the farm known as
Ashburn, containing upward of five hun
dred acres and situated near Farmwell
Loudoun county.
The question of the management of the
Episcopal High School at Alexandria, has
been decided by the trustees in favor OF
MI. l.. M. Blackford. for several years its
successful manager. His new contract is
until the year 1900.
The ffty-sixth anniversary of the found.
ing of the Virginia Military Institute was
celebrated last week 10y the suspension of
all duties, firing the usual salute by the
battery and a sumptuous dinner to the
Corps of Cadets at Mess Hall.
The main building of the Randolph
Paper-Box company at Richmond, was
burned on Wednesday night at loss OF
S125, 1000, and throwing some 300 persons
out of work. 1t will be rebuilt at once.
Maggie S. Lyme, a servant girl, has just
gotten verdict for $4,000 against the
Anheuser=Bush Brewing Company fol
injuries sustained by her in an elevator al
their Oriental Hotel at Dallas, Texas.
Next Spring State law goes into effect
in Connecticut requiring all wagons of
over a ton burden to have tires at least foul
inches broad. This is to prevent the wheels
from cutting.
J. Sidney Peters. former member of thu
| Virginia House of Delegates from Campbell
county, is now Methodist minister and il
attending the Virginia Annual Conference
in Richmond.
At Cobbs Island. Thursday, storm
| brought the highest tide known there fol
years. The Richmond Cottage and thu
annex to Cobb Il Spady's hotel were sweep
away.
The roof garden of the new Jefferson
Hotel at Richmond, will accommodate ont
thousand people, and has a stage on it, OF
which free concerts for the guests will bt
given.
Herman Hilyer, the insane man from
| Missouri who was arrested al the Whit
House, Washington, Friday, said he wa
pursued by swordfish and wanted protec
ton from the government.
Glen Wilton furnace blew in last week
the Iron Gate furnace blows in this week
and the Iron Gate nail works are preparin,
to resume.
Rev. J. r. Harrison, tie noted Baptis
Evangelist Of Southwestern Virginia, ha
accepted call to a Baptist church at st
Joseph, Mo.
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