Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1896-04-10

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George J. Hundley, of Amelia county.
PASSING NEWS OF THE DAY.
The new cattle quarantine laws went
into effect in Richmond April LIST, under
the supervision of government inspectors.
Cattle will not be allowed to enter that city
from the infected district south of James
river except by train, and they will then go
to the regular quarantine pens for rigid
examination before being released. The
following counties in Virginia are now
within the quarantine district: Chester
field, Powhatan. Cumberland, Buckingham,
Appomattox, Campbell. Patrick, Franklin,
Henry, Pittsylvania, Halifax, Charlotte,
Prince Edward, Lunenburg. Mecklenburg.
Amelia. Nottoway, Dinwiddie. Brunswick,
Greenesville, Prince George, Sussex. Surry,
Southampton, Isle of Wight, Nansemond,
Norfolk, Princess Anne, James City. Y ork,
Warwick, Elizabeth City, Gloucester,
Mathews, Accomac, Northampton, also
that part Of Carroll county which lies
southeast of the Blue Ridge.
Ex-President Benz. Harrison was mar
ried at st. Thomas church. New York,
Monday afternoon, at 5 O'Clock, to Mrs
Mary Lord Dimmick, the niece Of his late
wife. The wedding was quiet and the pair
left at once for the ex-President's home in
indianapolis. The groom is sixty-three
and the bride thirty=seven. A painful
incident of the wedding was that MI.
Harrisons daughter, Mrs. Mckee, and her
brother, Russell Harrison, both refused to
be present at it, both being opposed to the
marriage. The wedding present of the
groom to the bride was a seven-row pearl
necklace, fitty-fve inches long with dia-
mond clasp.
Mrs. Mary E. Lease, lecturer, preacher,
politician and lawyer, of Wichita, Kas..
went to Kansas City last Friday night to
lecture on 'Christ or Caesar" AS she was
sitting in the hotel parlor, constable hand
ed her papers showing that her baggage-a
trunk and valise-had been attached for $51
to secure payment of dry goods bill, con-
tracted several months ago. The small
grip contained four copies of her lecture, a
package of hairpins, some face powder, a
curling iron, slumber robe and other gar
ments. Mrs. Lease says the articles are
not worth more than $40 and that the Off
GERS can have them.
A fat, gray opossum which had been
pursued through the cemetery of the
Baptist church at New Brunswick, N. j.,
Wednesday night, dashed right into the
midst Of the congregation which had just
come out, creating panic among the fe-
male members. Several ladies climbed,
screaming, Oh fence, and two scurried up
trees near them. The 'possum, which
proved to lie blind, was killed after biting
two OIL three of his men assailants on the
legs.
The law of heredity has been firmly es-
tablished by statistics furnished by Prof.
Pellmann, who has been able to trace the
career of 700 descendants of a woman, a
drunkard and thief, born in 174O. Of these
LOG were born out of WedlOck, 2OS were
professional beggars, ISL wholly immoral,
rs, including Z murderers, got in jail, and
all within space of IS years. These per-
sons cost the state more than 100000
marks.
Emanuel Ninger, for seventeen years
known to the secret service men only as
''Jim the Penman, because all of his work
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was doue with the pen, has been captured
in New Y ork. Merely with pen, ink and
paper he has made counterfeits of United
States bills of large denominations SO ex-
eelient in execution as almost to defy de-
lection except by al expert.
Mrs. David 7. Tucker who, during the
Alliance craze III kt.nsas III 1880, led the
meetings and who was the first woman to
sing "Good-by Old Party, Good-by, >
which set the prairies Oh fire and elected
PETER u. S. Senator, last week tied her
husband up and whipped him for gambling
away $6i she had trusted HIM with to put
in bank. Mr.. Tucker has gone home to his
mother at Minneapolis.
DOtI uOubEc VI JIG ooic tdf e
passed a law imposing a fine Of from So to
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$40 upon q manager of any theatre. concert
uail OF other place Of entertainment, " wherever
all admission fee is charged, for permitting
a woman to wear hat sufficiently large to
obtruct the view of persons sitting behind
her. Every hat permitted to be worn in
violation of the law will constitute a sepa-
rate offense.
Rev. VIM. X. Marshall of Lewisburg,
W. Va, who withdrew from the Methodist
church at the Roanoke session of Balti-
more Conference. OF which he had been a
minister for eighteen years, was confirmed
by Bishop Peterkin, Protestant Episcopal
Bishop Of West Virginia. on Easter Sun
day, and will act as assistant rector of a
parish near Lewisburg at once. His ordi-
nation to the deaconate will follow shortly.
Richard Ringer. local merchant OF
Friend, Nebraska, vas bitten by dog sew
eral months ago. Afew days since be was
stricken with apparea tly severe case of
grippe. Friday, the physicians agreed
that it was hydrophobia. The victim i'm
medlately seized razofspd almost severed