Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1896-06-26


! she replied, with smile, " had nilie sons
and nine systems; there never were two
children who could stand identical treat
ment."
| David Robertson, New York brick.
layer, who claimed to have knowledge OF
the existence of valuable gold mine in
Manitoba, was fatally injured by a fall a
few days ago, and died with his secret un.
revealed. He tried to tell what he knew
for the benefit of his aged father, but brain
and tongue were unequal to the task.
Capt. W. II. Fowle, U. S. Internal Rev
enue Collector for this district, has appoint
ed Mr.. Laurence Washington (son of the
late John Augustine Washington stamp
deputy in the internal revenue Office in AL
exandria, to fill the vacancy caused by the
death of MI. George Washington.
Madame ToIrangin. a woman physician,
has just been appointed chief physician of
the Fenelon Hospital IN Paris. She had
been first assistant to- Or. Beaumetz the
chief, and at his death was elected to his
place. She is thirty-seven years of age
and her husband is an eminent surgeon.
E. A. Graichen,l the founder of the
Graichen glove factory at Winchester, Va,
| died there last week in his sixty-ninth
year. He was born at Altenterg, Germany,
but had been living in Winchester, of
which town he was once Mayor, for forty
four years.
1t has Just been decided after long legal
fight, that livery stables cannot be built in
strictly residence districts in Chicago. The
property owners are now preparing, under
the same ordinance, to proceed against bar
rooms, Oil factories andgas works. as COM
ing under the head of '.nuisances. ,"
Miss Marie Marshall tort twenty years a
patient in the Williamsburg, Va, insane
asylum. whose income is 100000 a year
has, by consent Of her committee and Judge
Andrews of New York, given $4,000 to
have old Bruton church at Williamsburg
restored as it was in revolutionary days.
S. w. Corbin of Spottsylvania county,
has just sold $500 bushels of his last year,
corn at thirty cents bushel. Soon after
the war closed lie sold his corn crop of 800
bushels at $1.25 per bushel. just four times
more.
This morning at o'clock, several old
Confederates, with Sergeant w. G. Payne,
will ''fall in'' in front Of the post-office at
Charlottesville, and start thence on foot to
Richmond, to be at the reunion. They
carry four days rations.
The Paris Gaulois says that Ii Hung
Chang carries about with him on his trip
to Russia an oak coffin, lined with satin and
adorned with pictures, in which his re-
mains are to be returned to China in case
he dies abroad.
Miss Josie Richardson of Harrisonburg,
has been elected sponsor for Turner Ashby
Camp, Sons of Confederate Veterans, and
WILL attend the reunion at Richmond in
that capacity.
The Rockingham Register says that, as
a rule, the wheat in that county has thin
stand and is heavy in the head, with a
strong tendency to lodge and make harvest
ing difficult.
DR.. T. D. Herman, aged sixty-four, for
seven years assistant physician at the
Marion, Va, Lunatic Asylum, died of
apoplexy at the breakfast table of the asy-
lum Friday morning.
A friend, who Withholds his name, has
just given $500 to the Lutheran Orphanage
at Salem, Roanoke, which will be used by
the trustees towards enlarging the present
building.
'Clover Hill, the old home-place of the
Robinson family, near Natural Bridge, in
Rockbridge county, has been sold to MI.
J. T. Jennings, of that county, for $4,000
The farm contains $40 acres.
Justice.-s'l GU are charged with steal
ing Col. gulep's chickens. Have you any
witnesses 2'' Uuele Moses, with dignity !:
II heb not. I dom steal chickens befor'
witnesses. '-Tit- Bits.
When the college year Of the University
of California opens, on the 18th of next
August, there will be chair of divinity
for the first time, and 1t will be filled by
Prof J. M. Jefferson of Virginia.
Judge William Mclaughlin has appoint
ed Ex-sheriff r. 3. Witt, Clerk Of the Cir
cult Court Of Rockbridge to fill the unex.
pired term of the late j Ohm G. Boude.
A bear seven feet seven inches long, and
weighing three hundred and fifty-nine
pounds, was killed near Headwaters. High
land county, few days ago.
| Nominee Mckinley and bis mother went
as usual to the Methodist church in Can
ton, Sunday. The pastors text was MAKE
your calling apd election sure"
The Convention Of the Protestant Episco-
pal diocese of Michigan decided Saturday
| to permit women to vote upon election Of
vestryman AND other church matters.
Mr.. B. G. Flanagan the we'll know bank
er of Charlottesville died there Wednesday
in his eightieth year.
The peril of G loud profession is that a
man may say he is good until lie believes
it himself. }'A''~
Wheat was cut in Page county on the
] 10th of June, earlier than was ever known
there beflre.
Mckinley and Hobart.