Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1895-03-29

of the Declaration of Independence, and at
present owned by DR.. Charles Gresham, was
burned to the ground on Tuesday. The mother
OF the late Virginius Dabney was born in this
same old house.
At Wise c. II. Va, a farmer, Hop Mullin,
Juror in murcer case, became suddenly
insane, imagining that it was he that was be-
ing tried. lie stood up and demanded from
ahe court show for his life. and being sent
out of the room in charge Of the sheriff, broke
for the mountains where he was found sew
eraI days after, badly frozen and still crazy.
At Lancaster, Pa, Judge Livingston, while
making his annual grant of liquor licenses,
announced to all the saloon keepers that free
lunches NUS be disco ntinued, or they would
not get another liceL se. He said the free
lunch business did a G eat injury to the COM
munity, attracting large crowds and leading
to intoXication and dis order.
Anderson r osS, the first colored man that
ever voted the Democratic ticket in Gambler
land Co., Va, and who, for twenty years,
has been an active member of that party,
died last week. The Democrats who had
cared for hisn through his last sickness gave
lin big fms~ral
fayorite with the Valley people, has beer
sold for sa5.OO) to a Philadelphia company
which viii! spend $4,000 on Il new hotel and
other improvements and run it winter and
summer.
Rev. S. W. Hoover, pastor of the Dunkard
Church, at Dayton, o., expired in his pulpit
Sunday night while delivering sermon.
The pastor had just finished the words cone
by one they are pa ssing over" when he fell
dead in the pulpit.
Woo Jan, a heat hen Chinese laundryman,
of Ashland, KY, went into store and paid
a big bill for groc' Iies to be sent to destitute
family in that city, requesting that his name
should not be ma de known to those whom he
was aiding.
Mrs. GroSsnic' zle, President of the Sisters
Society for Christian Endeavor, spoke at
Quicksburg, She nandos.h county. last week,
and organized a society. 1t was the first
time woman had been seen i'll a pulpit OF
that town.
Clara Louise Kellogg, once fine opera
singer, and who has made and lost two large
fortunes on the stage, is now reduced tC
eating at cheap eating houses in New York
Her name in private life is Mrs Strakosch.
Mrs. DR.. Sarah Haekett Stevei lson suggets
that men wear skirts, and refers to hesuperlol
graeefuiness of all males on the stage who
wear the short skirts of the Roman and
Greek characters.
Holt, Schaefer &c Co., of Lyme hburg, large
exporters OF tobacco, havetailed with S47O,oo
liabilities. A large part of their assets are
boom stocks popular in Virginia four years
ago.
Mrs. Henrietta Stuart OF Washington city
bought in the OIL ,ney Springs, at the sale. fol
Sd 900, just g ,Or % more than she paid for the
property three years ago.
At Salem, th head OF the great Valley OF
Virginia, witi wheat down to sixty cents,
mill is griDgai ug up three car loads of MicEi
gan wheat
When the circuit court of Cabell county me-
at Huntingt on, w. Va, on Monday OF las
week. there were forty-eight cases OF divorce
Oh tire doef et
Gov. Nc Jorkle OF West Virginia, is making
a trip through Florida IN MI. Camden's pr
waite eas '"GauIey" He will return abou
April 1st.
john Garter, aged %, of Summers Co., W
Va, who was to have married Miss Kos
Taylor near Anderson, on Thursday, blew
out his brains ON the Sunday previous.
1t vas only when Eve expected to be invited
| out that she discovered that she had nothing
to wear. 1t mas been the same with the SCI
ever since.-Boston "ionscrllt.
Louis E. Pepper u the Rural Retreat,
Va, Times, is to join the Emma Warren
opera company.
| Walker e. Hammer, the embezzling Lynch
burg bank cashier, has arrived at Albany, N
y, to serve his seven years sentence.
U. S. Senator, Thos S. Martin has just pur
| chased the l ,700-acre farm Scotland, neal
sScottsville.
President Henry W. Wood, of the Virginia
State Agricultural Society has resigned.
The S24 900 ice-making plant at Clifton
Forge was auctioned off l asst week at 50, 500.
Capt. J. II. II. Figgat is critically ill a
his home in Fincastle.