Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1895-11-15

est $50, 600. Six Of the brides wefe widows,
and one became Princess (Italian) and
two became Duchesses.
j DR.. VIM E. Hatcher a prominent Bap-
fist pastor Of Richmond, had his shoulder
dislOcated and came near 1oOsing his life
Saturday by leaping from moving train
at Manchester. opposite Richmond. He
was trying to catch another train so as to
| fill an appointment to preach on the next
day in PowEatan county.
Rev. DR.. T. S. Dunaway, pastor of the
Fredericksburg Baptist church, celebrated
his Goth birthday on Tuesday, Nov. 5th, by
going to the polls and voting the Democrat
ic ticket and preaching strong and i'm
pressive sermon at Salem Baptist church,
Spottsylvania Co.. in the afternoon.
A bell was cast in Cincinnati Friday
which will weigh fifteen tons and will be
seven feet high, nine feet in diameter across
the rim and live feet across the crown. The
clapper weighs seven hundred pounds. 1t
is for a Roman Catholic church in that
city.
VIM. P. Snead, aged twenty-four, son Of
Mr.. Luther II. Snead of the Peoples Bank
ut Charlottesville, who had been in the
habit of using chloroform for pain, was
found dead in his room on the 18th inst.
from an overdose. 1t is supposed disease
Of the heart made the chloroform fatal.
The following unusual remedy for nerv-
GUS headache is copied from the Medical
Record: "An excellent and never failing
cure for nervous headache is the simple
act of slowly walking backward. Ten
minutes is as long as is usually necessary
to promenade.
Samuel b. Nelson. liveryman, has been
indicted at Richmond for overdrawing his
account in the State Bank of Virginia
So, l36.23, in collision with ookkeepe /
Cardwell of the bank, who is now in the
penitentiary for his share in the transac-
ton.
Mrs. NOuveau-s'When we We're in Rome
we" Miss Nouveau-"But, mother,
dear, we were not in Rome" Mrs Nou-
veau-"Why, darling child, we were in
Rome. Don't you remember that is
where we bought silk stockings SO cheap?"
Il brooklyn Life
A robbery of startling boldness took
place in New York last week. At 11:30 at
night four men with faces enveoped in
handkerhiefs, entered a saloon, opened fire on
the customers and bar tenders, killing one
of the former, and after robbing the till of
$42 got safely off.
Six months ago F. M. Threadgill of
Lynchburg, won a suit against the United
States Express Company. involving over
$4,000. The time for taking an appeal has
expired, and as no appeal has been taken,
the judgment is irreversible. Mr.. Thread
gill will get between $55 900 and 100000.
E. B. Whitehouse, prominent i'll political,
social and church matters in King George
Co., Va, was arrested last week charged
with embezzling $500 of the public money
while acting as deputy treasurer for the
county treasurer DR.. Ninde.
The Lexington County News has a
strong protest against apetition now being
circulated for the pardon of r. X. Goodwin,
book-keeper Of the wrecked Lexington
! bank, and who aided and shielded G.. M.
Figgatt, his brother-in-law, in his crime.
Receivers for the Maryland portion of
the Maryland & W ashington Division of
the Norfolk & Western Rrailroad were APP
piled for last, week by the Mercantile Trust
Company of New Y ork.
w. E. G. Gillison, aged sixty eight,
lawyer, and for several years clerk of the
circuit court of Kanawha county, COM
mitted suicide at Charleston. w. Va,
Friday by leaping into the river.
A Last Hope-First Lawyer-"Bot the
law and the facts are clearly against us.
Second Lawyer-"Ye-es. Well have to
use great care in selecting the jury."-
Puck.
Rev. d. G.. Armstrong of Salem, has
accepted call to the Presbyterian church
at Albany, Ga.
1t is said that the apple crop in Kappa
hammock county will amount to seventy
five thousand dollars this year.
The plant Of the Wood-J ohnson Co. fur.
niture factory at Lyuchburg, was burned
last week at a loss of 100000. g.,
Rev. F. T. McFaden Of Marion, Va.
has accepted call to the First Presbyte
rian church of Lynchburg.