Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1896-03-13


largest, and as result leases are at out-of-
sight prices and oil men and zeal estate
owners alike excited. This is the locality
recently described by correspondent of the
VINDICATOR.
A few days ago, some men running a saw
mill at Frank ford, Greenbrier Co.. w.
Va, tied q heavy timber to the safety
valve of the engine to increase the speed.
When the gauge reached 165 pounds the
boiler exploded, killing Samuel Livesy,
Harry Brown, Woodson Ransbarger, Hen
ry Dunbar, Samuel Hodge, Clowney Kersh-
ner, Jas. Freshman and Walter McClintic,
and wounding four or five others.
A Farmville letter in the Richmond
Dispatch says of Solomon Marable who
will be hung for the Lunenburg murder :
Solomon has been suffering very much
taIs week from toothache, and at his re-
quest a dentist went to the Jail to extract
| The tooth. When, however, the cold forceps
were revealed to Solomon, he took fright
| and refused to he operated upon"
blr. A. Sale Watkins, for many years a
noted society man and singer, as well as
hardware merchant of Richmond, commit
ted suicide Saturday by shooting himself
at the Retreat for the Sick, where he had
been for a long time suffering from an in
durable complication Of diseases. He was
fifty-fve years old.
E. H. McCauley of Marshall, Fauquier,
who had appointed several days to marry
Miss Briiewell and gotten on a spree and
disappointed her, married her at last On
Feb. Goth, and on March Sd, after giving
full instructions to a friend abouthis fune-
raj, blew his brains out. He had been
drinking hard for several days.
Charles E. Lamb, a machinist was struck
by a locomotive at New Haven, CT, last
week. When be came to, his mind had gone
back to his boyhood, and heacts and speaks
as a school boy, and asks after his school
mates. When his mother visited him he
recognized her, but could not understand
her hair being gray.
Deacon Jones-"As I was coming
through the room saw Mrs. Smith and
Miss Robinson. They were talking about
the early martyrs" Deacon Brown-''If
there's any scandal a-going, let them wo-
men alone for getting hold of it. But what
WAS it the early martyrs had been doing ?''
Boston Transcript.
Mr.. Archibald w. Archer, proprietor Of
the Exchange and Ballard Hotels at Rich
mond, has made an assignment with liabil-
tiles Of $4,000. It is probable that the two
hotels, one of which, the Exchange, has
been open continuously for over fifty years.
will now be closed.
Owing to errors in the preparation of
the charter for Newport News, just
discovered, yhe people of the city have been
disfranchised. No registration books have
been provided for, and the Legislature
failed to make the city a part of any legis-
lative OF congress ional district.
Frederick L. Greenhalge, Governor Of
Massachusetts, died at Lowell, Mass,
last week, aged fifty-four. He W, native
Of England. His last official act was a
message to the legislature the week before
announcing the death Of Geo. D. Robinson,
a former Governor Of that State.
j. B. Stanley, confined in the Jail of Hal
flax Co., Va, for house burning, hung
himself in his cell last week. Some months
ago he took the last 500 he had in the
world and going to Cincinnati, hired a
hall and delivered an address in opposition
to the views OF Robt. G. Ingersoll.
The Grand Lodge of Odd Fellows will
meet in Charlottesville Oh the 14th of EeXt
April. Extensive preparations to enter
tain the Odd Fellows of the State will be
made by the members Of the order in Chat
lottesville.
The Rev. Balyus Cade, formerly pastor
of the Venable Street Baptist Church in
Richmond, has just been appointed chaplain |
of the federal penitentiary at Leavenworth, |
Kan, with salary Of 81, 500 year. The
appointment is for life.
1t is said that within few days formal
announcement will be made that the reor-
ganization of the Baltimore and Ohio is in
the hands of Morgan 6 Co., and that the
plan for the rehabilitation Of the property
will he drawn by that firm.
The King William Hotel, at King Will
liam G.. H., was burned at an early hour
one morning last week Mr.. H. r. Pollard,
of Richmond, was guest at the hotel and
discovered the fire and gave the alarm in
time to save the inmates
It takes three hundred and thirty-eight
officers and employees. at an annual salary
of S;460,000, to attend upon the ninety |
members who compose the .. S. Senate.
This does not include the S165,0OO coming
under the head Of :'Other expenses"
Rev. Robert Barrett Of Wy theville. a
dean of the Episcopal church, was at
johns Hopkins Hospital last week for
surgical operation. which was postponed |
until he has recovered sufficient strength |
to bear it.
W. D. Voorhees,, General Secretary Of the
7. NJ. g. Association at Norfolk up to
last December, Wien lie entered the manu-
featuring stationery business, died there
Thursday Of consumption. He was only
thirty thre e years old.
The accounts OF Postmaster Ferguson,
Of Neapoiis, North Danville, are said to be
short. n othing has been seen of Nj. Fer
guson since Tuesday night, he having
failed to be present when the Inspector
called Friday.
According to writer on East Central
African Customs (Mac Donald), sewing is
in that region so emphatically regarded as
men S work that wife may obtain
divorce if she can show a neglected rent in
her petticoat."
A New York florist has just paid $4,000
for the sole right to raise the famous double
carnaton known as the "Murella.' The