Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1895-01-18

naval instruction given to the Japanese army
and navy by German officers.
The Merrimack and Boot cotton manufac-
turing companies of Massachusetts, are MAX
+ ing preparations to follow the example of
the Dwight Company in moving South The
mills are among the largest in New England
This is the most significant change, promising
prosperity to the manufacturers OF the South
that has yet occurred outside of the iron
trade.
AS the result of a clerical error at Fort
Dodge in an election ballot, Iowa will, for
the first time in its history, have female
justice of the peace. The intention was to
nominate her husband, but by mistake his
wife's initials were used and she vas elected
AS there was no legal obstacle to her filling
the place she was sworn in.
Lemonade has been discovered by NJ. Gil
rard. chief of the Paris municipal laboratory
to be a microbe destroyer. The bacilli of
cholera and typhoid fever cannot resist the
acids especially the powerful citric acid of
the lemon. conc grain" declares NJ. Girard
twill destroy ali the microb.s in quart of
water
Mr. Charles E. Whitlock, millionaire
lumber dealer in Richmond, Va, who had
gone to DR.. 5. Weir Mitcheil's hospital for
nervous diseases, in Philadelphia, a few days
before, sent his nurse out on all GRAND, Fri
day, and during her absence, walked out to
the corner of 18th and Spruce streets, and shot
himself dead with pistol.
James e. Fair, the millionaire ex-senator
of California, died in San Francisco last
week of Brights disease. aged 63 years. He
leaves fortune of fifty millions of dollars to
be divided between son, single daughter
and a married daughter. He was one Of the
"big four" Flood, O'Brien, Fair and Mack
aye.
On New Years day at Monticello, KY,
William Cox sat at the head of the table
where his two divorced wives and his present
wife and his sixteen children borne him by
all three, ate their dinner. He is only thirty
eight years of age, but in point of nerve must
be a hundred.
Lady Musgrove, widow of Sir Anthony
Murgrove, of England, and daughter Of the
late Dudley Field, has sent to Washington
& Lee University, the residue of her father
law library, 1900 volumes, in accordance
with her fathers intention expressed during
life.
The Confederate silver half dollar is reck-
oned as one Of the rarest Of American coins.
Only four such coins were struck. 1t has the
Goddess of Liberty on one side, and stalk
of cane, one of cotton and the stars and bars
Of the Confederacy in coat OF arms ON the
other side.
The recent cold spell spread all over Eu-
rope and Asia. Lochlomond, in Scotland,
was frozen over, and had snow drifts
twenty eethigh. The japanese army now ap-
preaching Pekin, lost over one thousand men
bE the cold.
DR. John Newton Waddell. one of the most
prominent educators and theologians in the
South, died in Birmingham, Ala, Wednes-
day, aged eighty-three years. Death was the
direct result of injuries sustained by fail
down flight of stairs two months ago.
Mrs. Thos. Ritenour of Strasburg, Shenan-
doah county, opened can of peas one day
last week and found it badly corroded from
acid action, and thinking the contents unfit
for use, fed it to the hogs about dinner time,
and at night found them dead.
D. Bud Beylor was convicted in the Page
county court, of perjury and sentenced to two
years in the penitentiary, His perjury con-
sisted in having sworn to one set of facts be
fore magistrate, and afterwards, in another
court having made another to contrary set
In Boston last week, just as Charles
Hughes was about to be married to Mrs. Liv
ermore, he dropped dead. An investigation
into his affairs led to the discovery that he
had a wife and two children living in Louis
vile, Ky.
Wife-"The price of the clock was only
&c. but got discount. so it cost me only
S." Husband-''Y but you could have
got the same thing at Beetles Tor So Wife
THAT may be. but then Beetle wouldn't have
taken off anything. '-Boston Transcript.
Rev. w. Il. D. Moncure, son of the late
Judge r. G. l.. Moncure of Stafford, and
brother of DR.. W. P. Moncure, has accepted
call to jefferson county, W. Va, where he
will have charge Of several Baptist churches.
Mrs. Elizabeth Corse, widow of Gen. Corse
of the Confederate army, sister of Col. Robt.
Beverley, of Fauquier, and mother of Capt.
NJ. g. Corse of the V. NJ. l., died in AleXan-
dria last week.
NJ Antoine, jeweler of Antewerp, Belgi-
UNI, has just succeeded, after three years work,
in cutting ring three quarters Of an inch in
diameter oul of a solid block diamond. This
is the second of the kind in the world.
Mrs Amelia j. Bloomer, after whom the
"bloomer'' dress fer women was named, died
at Council Bluffs, Iowa, last week, in her
nth year. She was an active woman suffrage
aad temperance advocate all her life.
Governor Lewelling of Kansas, in his mes
sage to the Legislature, says the only way to
fight the liquor traffic is to take the profit out
of it by establishing State dispensaries to sell
liquor at actual cost.
j. e. Leak, the N. & W. telegraph operator
at Martinsville, Va, who smoked fifteen
packs of cigarettes day, has just been sent
to Johns Hopkins Hospital, physical and
nervous wreck.
Miss Susan ). Anthony. the Woman's SUI
frage agtator, has engaged to deliver lee
ture at Culpeper Va, on her way home from
the National Convention at Atlanta, Ga, in
February.
at very successful olio entertainment
arranged By the Richmond Times last week
for the benefit Of the poor, the police justice
OF TIE city ilelu noch tIlal oll tne stage
The competition in glass manufacture has
brought plate glass, that sold two years ago
at $40 a square foot, down to thirty-six
cents.
Uncle J.. w. Burke, a well known COM
mercial traveller, broke his arm at Edinburg,
Shenandoah comfy, by falling on the icy
streets last week.
Mrs. Amelia Reeves Chanler has returned
from Europe no longer the spirituelle Vir-
ginia authoress, but as intentionally fat as
a German prima donna.
The crusande for cheap bread in Cincinnati
has resulted in twenty-five bakers reducing
the price from ) to 3 cents a loaf. Few are
able to maintain the 5 cent rate.
Jonas NJ. Walker, a brother of Ex-Gov.
Gilbert e. Walker, and once a millionaire,