Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1895-07-26

| w. A. Wyatt, and who. after making $l1 200,
paid off an old debt in Virginia, and resumed
his right name, committed suicide there Mon
day by morphine. He died very wealthy.
At the Baptist Young Peoples Union in
Baltimore was exhibited the old fashioned
lock and key Of the Culpeper. Va, Jail where
| in colonial and established church times
three Baptist preachers were confined for
preaching. A handsome Baptist church now
occupies the site of the old jail.
| In Virginia in the year 1867, the bill Of DR..
Patrick Napier, for professional services was
so pounds of tobacco. A clutter, so pounds.
A phlebotomy, 90 pounds. A cordial, so
| pounds Stomach powders, 20 pounds.
| PhleDotomy, for we mayd, SO pounds
| Friends OF Mrs. Kate Chase Sprague, in
GLIDING John Wanamaker. Senator Brice and
e. Sorg, who contributed $4,000 each. have
raised $50. 900 and given it to her to save her
'Edgewood'' home at Washington from
! sale.
The "Greenbrier Hunting and Fishing
| Club just organized at Ronceverte, W. Va,
| by some residents, and citizens of New York
and Pennsylvania owns sixty thousand acres
| Of land in POcahontaS and Randolph coun-
ties.
| Lee Jim Nun, treasurer of the Chinese
| lodge of Freemasons, No, 8, Chez Kong Tong,
who died at Perry, Pa, last week; was bur-
+, led at Pittsburg Sunday with all the pomp
and ceremonies of Chinese masonry.
Nine. Dienlafey, of Paris, has worn
| mems clothes since 1870. She goes to balls
in a swallow tail coat, with her hair clipped
close to her>h head, yet she is called exquisite.
ly womanly.''
!. There was such a glut of vegetables, and
they were so low in Richmond last week that
one commission merchant gave away to the
poor on Friday 5000 head of cabbage, a lot OF
potatoes and other vegetables.
A plant for canning horse meat, the first on
the Pacific coast, went into operation at
Linnton, ten miles from Portland, Oregon,
July goth. Several car leads Of horses have
arrived at the cannery for slaughter.
DR.. VIM. II. Gingrich. OF Norfolk ex-
president of the Virginia Dental Association.
amember of the State board of dental exam
liner, died on Saturday evening.
The most beautiful. or, at all events, the
most valuable cat in the world belongs to
Mrs. Vanderbilt, who paid no less than $1,000
to obtain the coveted possession.
The Lexington Gazette says the apple crop
of Rockbridge will surpass any crop for
years. and bring thousands of dollars into
the pockets of the fruit growers next winter.
Capt. Lewis N. Huck, aged 60, lawyer
and former Mayor of Winchester, died there
Monday Of pneumonia.
The full returns of assessment of lands in
Rockbridge show falling off of $685. g.. 72
from the assessment of last year.
One farmer in Page county got check for
$500 from a Luray merchant for the cherries
lie had sent in this season.
The recount in Radford, Va, ordered by
the court. gave it to the Drys by ten MAORI
ty, but the Vets are still fighting it.
W. K. Eckard has been appointed postmas-
ter at Buffalo Mills, Rockbridge, vice M. S.
Poague, resigned.
The Covington, Allegheny, Presbyterians
begin this week to tear down their old
church to put 1000 one in its stead