Staunton Vindicator

MURDER.

On Thursday night last, Mr. Benj. Thacker, living a few miles east of Balesville, in this county, was shot and killed while asleep in his bed. He was an inoffensive old man, between 65 and 70 years of age, and deaf and partially blind. Pryor Wood, James Wood, alias Sprouse, and Mary Sprouse, a girl of 17 years of age, have been arrested and lodged in jail, charged with the murder. A called Court will sit on Tuesday next to examine into the charge. The principal witness against them is a little girl seven years old, who states that Thacker was shot with a short gun, (rifle.)

Central Railroad.

We understand that a paper is now in circulation in this community for the signature of the stockholders in the Central R. R., the object of which is to request the President and Directors of that Road to call a meeting of the Stockholders to take into consideration the matter of Sunday mails. It is proposed by this paper to inquire into and decide upon the policy of running the cars to Gordonsville, and then stopping them there on Sunday, and to discuss the expediency of discounting Sunday trains altogether, or if Sunday trains are to be run, to ascertain why it is they cannot be continued to Staunton, where the mails diverge more generally than at any other point between Richmond and Covington. Our people have borne this discrimination against them until it has become intolerable. We intend to act in the matter, and if the inconvenience cannot be remedied in one way it may be in another.

It requires one-tenth of the stock of the Company to call a meeting of the stockholders. This can easily be obtained, and then we can have a full discussion and examination into the matter.