Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1895-11-01


A. Walker of Virginia for the Vice Pres
ident on the next Republican ticket. Walk
Ell is free silverite.
Col. Thomas Whitehead is speaking in
Campbell in the interest of Democracy.
PASSING NEWS OF THE DAY.
The Richmond correspondent Of thu
Peters burg Index-Appeal says: The
Jefferson Hotel will be thrown oper
to the public next Thursday, Oct
a1st. Few people have any idea of The
magnitude of this building. 1t has cost
with the furniture, about 500, 600
There will be two hundred persons connect
ed with the establishment. including u
walters, all colored, and persons of practi-
cal training, twenty bell boys, and twenty
white chambermaids from the north. The
splendor. of the interior is almost past des-
criptlon. l have heard people say they
never saw anything in this country OF
Europe to surpass the splendid appoint
ments and elegant furnishings. Most of
the rooms have been engaged by wealthy
northern people for two months. The
terms ara $5 day and up for the general
public, and $3.50 a day and up for CONNER
cial travellers.
Robert H. Allen, son Of Judge John J.
Allen of Botetourt county, two years age
enlisted as a private in the United States
army. He was soon made corporal and
recently stood examination for commits
stoned officer. He passed the examination
with much credit and has been made sec
ond lieutenant. Mr. Allen was student
at Washington & Lee University from
1888 to 1892.
David G. Thompson, aged sixty-two, a
bachelor, Gied solitary and alone at the
Windsor Hotel, New Y ork, last week. He
was very wealthy, and on the furnishing
and ornamenting of his rooms alone he had
spent $4,000. His bedstead was of pure
marble and much Of his parlor furniture
was of ivory. One statue in his sleeping
room cost $4,000.
The Atlanta people will hereafter have a
rather dubious opinion of their own horses
OF of the Virginia military as riders. On
Virginia day, the horse of Adjutant Gen
eral Anderson fell with him, the General &
head being badly cut. The horse of Col.
John s. HARDWOOD of the Virginia military,
also fell with him and the Colonel had his
wrist badly eprained.
At the Abbott Memorial Presbyterian
church in Highlandtown, near Baltimore,
a space has been made by removal of some
of the pews, and furnished with comforta-
ble rocking chairs for mothers who cannot
20 to church without bringing their babies.
Every Sunday this space is filled with
mothers rocking their little ones while
worship is going on.
The worlds record for railroad speed
over long distances was broken last Thurs
day by train on the Lake Shore and Mich
igan Southern railroad running from Chi
cago to Buffalo. a distance of five hundred
and ten miles in four hundred and eighty
one minutes and seven seconds-or all
average speed of sixty and ninety eight
one-hundredths miles an hour.
At the last who lesale auction sales of
American apples in Liverpool the prices
were as follows: Baldwins, large, from
50 &C to 81 81, and small from $2.68 to
Ss.4 u barrel; greetings, s. 45 to $500:
choice Newton pippins S537 to 1874, and
ordinary, 81 81 to S4.65.
A number of furnaces and brick works in
Sciot;. Lawrence and Jackson counties,
Ohio, have been compelled to shut down
for want of water. At Winchester, Ohio,
water is selling at forty cents at barrel,
and at Wellston at twenty-five cents. Cat
tie are being sold off as fast as possible.
The Georgia House of Delegates on Fri
day, by a vote Of 127 to 7, passed a law for
bidding the HoocheeC oochee dance at the
Exposition. This is the dance exhibited
on the county fair grounds i'll Staunton by
number of ancient females a few day
ago.
Near Stuart, in Patrick Co.. Va, G. Z.
Martin has a 5O-year- old appls tree, seven
feet nine inches round, which spreads over
a circle fifty-two feet in diameter. It has
been known to bear eighty five bushels, and
was SO full OF apples this year that one
limb broke.
Landlady-That new lodger needn't try
to make me think he's bachelor. He Is
either married OF a widower. Millings-
How can you tell? Landlady-He always
turns his back to me when he opens his
pocketbook to pay his board.-Pearson 3
Weekly.
Two hundred and fifty members of the
New England Manufacturers Association
met at the Auditorium at the Atlanta Ex-
position Thursday morning. This is the
organizations fifty first session, and it was
the first that had ever been held outside the
New England States.
Sir Robert Peel has compromised with
his creditors at so per cent. Mrs. Langtry,
who, it was irumored was contemplating
marriage with Sir Robert, was among the
persons to whom he was indebted. HeOwes
her about "a, 500.
The distDleries in Rockbridge county are
practically shut down for want of water,
and as result thousands Of bushels of
apples are rotting and cannot be used by the
brandy distillers. who have bought and
stored large quantities.
General Malone made will in Washing
ton city in 1891. leaving the whole of his
estate to his three children, in equal parts,
subject to his widows dover, and provid-
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