Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1895-09-27
PASSING NEWS OF THE DAY.

Orange (Va) Observer: Troy Cannon
is little boy one year old ; his father
Newton Cannon, is Is years old; his grand
father Sam Lloyd, is 4S years old; his great
grand father, Robert Lloyd. is y years old;
his neutrality-suspicious. is 90 years old.
His name is Sam Hollins. Not often do
we find five generations of the same fam
lily living at the same time. The 9O-year old
boy walks miles to church on Sundays.
All the above named live in Louisa county,
Va, and are all Christians except the one
year-old boy, and he is ''of the kingdom of
heaven. -
By far the wealthiest patient in any Y ir-
ginia Asylum is Miss Marie Marshall of
New ork, now. and for many years past,
a patient at the Eastern Asylum at Will
liamsburg, Va, and for whom las stated last
week, her committee is about to build a
$50, 900 house next to the asylum. Miss
Marshall has an income yearly Of $4,000
under the will of her father, John G. Mar
shall Of New York; an income of $4,000
under the will Of her mother. Eveline c..
Marshall, and sum of 100000 which has
accumulated from unspent income.
At the big barbecue given at Louisville,
KY, to the Grand Army Of the Republic
Encampment. In a tent, there were a hun
dred thousand pounds of meat, twelve thou
sand gallons Of burgoo, and twenty five
thousand loaves of bread were stacked for
ba facet Tun hup
and five hundred walters reported for duty
at daybreak. To prepare the Il, 900 gallons
OF burgoo it required 100 pounds of pepper,
1000 pounds Of beef, $50 bushels tomatoes,
IS dozen chickens, so bushels onions, 1000
ears Of corn and Is bushels Of salt.
The two school buildings set apart by
the School Board at Centralia, ILL.,, for the
use of negro pupils, were empty Friday, as
they were the day before. The buildings
are in every way as well equipped as those
of the white schools and provided with
competent teachers, but the negroes will
not use them. The blacks demand admis
sion to all schools. and threaten suits for
damages fol- interfering with their rights
OF citizenship. The whites threaten retail
iation by refusing employment to black
men.
The large wooden cross, which for about
Is years had done duty on the belfry of
Christ church, Charlottesville, was care
fully taken down when the building was
RACED. 1t was badly weather. beaten, and
near the top wood-pecker had pecked
large hole, and inside the cross had built
its nest and raised its young, perhaps for
several years. The cross will be encaSed
and painted and placed on st. Lukes
chapel.
Mr.. Frank Parks Of Oneonta, N. Y, lost
a wife through cigars. He was helping
Miss Jennie Titus out OF the carriage in
front of the clergyman S house which they
were about to enter to be married, when
she spied cigar in his vest pocket. She
asked an explanation, he stammered and
tried TO give it; but she cut him short and
said: "Drive me home at once and then
go your way. Your have broken your
pledge and have fortunately discovered it
in time"
In various ways the circus of the pres
day differs from that of the past, but the
ring remains unchanged; it is always AZ
feet inches in diameter. Go where you
will, search the world from Cuba to Peru,
with diverging trips to the frosty Caucasus
and the desert of Sahara, and never circus
will you find without a ring of AZ feet 8
inches in diameter.
When she left England for the continent
Mrs. Langtry deposited with the Union
Bank of London, box containing $500, 900
worth OF jewelry. which are now gone.
For when she returned, on applying for her
box, she found that the bank on August
"a, under an order in handwriting resemb-
ling that Of Mrs. Langtry, and bearing a
counterpart of her signature, requiring the
bank to give the jewels to ''bearer," had
delivered them as directed.
Last week at Lawyers Crossing on the
Railway, between Lynchburg and
Danville, a wagon containing Joseph Gala
han OF Campbell county, bis wife, his two