Staunton vindicator and general advertiser. (Staunton, Augusta County, Va.) 1858-1860, 1858-11-27
ITEMS OF NEWS.
NJ HOME AGAIN Senator Jefferson Davis
has returned to his home in Mississippi

HoME AGAIN Senator Jefferson Davis
has returned to his home in Mississippi
Sen. FLoYD Secretary Floyd, it is
stated, has been confined to his bed for sew
eral days past by severe illness. III
Il EE The Rappahannock Bank, at Tap
pahannock Essex County, Va, has been
organized Mr.. Calvert elected President,
and Mr. Spain, Cashier.
EW The President has officially recog-
missed George Moore, as Consul Of Great
Britain for Virginia, to reside at Rich
mond.
GovERNoRsH1p OF KANSAS Washington,
Nov. 2O.-Ex- Governor ,Medary has signi-
fed his willingness to accept the Governor
ship Of Kansas, which was rendered him a
week since. ~#s} 'tHa sAe'S&f&
BAPTIsED IN THE RIVER JORDAN An ac-
complished young lady, from Albemarle,
Virginia, was baptized, recently in the Riv-
er Jordan, by DR.. James T. Barclay, mis-
sionary in Jerusalem. 4r.t Al t
VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY. There have ten
more students m atriculated at the UNIVERSE
ty ofVirginia, this season, than ever have
matriculated on the corresponding day of
any previous session.
FIRE AT BERKELEY SPRINGS On Tues
day morning last a fire occurred at Berkley
Springs, Va, which consumed the store
house of easier and the houses Of John
Cross, George B. Dyche and DR.. L. S. AL
len. Mr.. Casters loss is $4,000.
MURDER AT HARLEM, N Y.-New York,
Nou. ia young man named Daniel
Stackpole was murdered yesterday at Har-
lem by some members Of company Of tar
get excursionists from this city. Three per-
sons were arrested.
A DEEP Coal Pr The deepest coal pit
in Great Britain, and probably in the world
has after twelve years hard labor just been
completed and opened at Dukinfeld, The
shaft Of this pit is $685. yards deep, and the
sinking Of it has cost nearly 100000.
DEATH OF GEN ROBERT HANNA. -hdi-
annapolis, Nou. 20.-Gen. Robert Hanna
an old citizen and the last surviving mem
Der of the Indiana Constitutional Conven-
ton Of 1916, was killed yesterday while
walking on the track Of the Peru and Indi-
annapolis Rail Road. aifYf
EXECUTED. The negro man, the proper
ty of Mr.. Wiley Riddick, Of Gates county,
North Carolina, who was convicted and SEN
fenced at the last Superior Court Of that
county. for attempting a rape on Mrs. Will
kins,, was executed at Gatesyille. on Friday
the 18th inst.
DEATH OF AN HoNoRED C1r1zEN.-Au-
gusta, Ca, Nov. 20.-Mr. Scheley, resi-
dent of this city, but native Of Md, died
here this afternoon aged u. He was an
able lawyer and good citizen. He was at
one time Governor Of this state and has also
represented the State in Congress.
ASILENr PRINTING OFFICE. In the town
Of Zablagen. Wurtemburg, there has been
lately opened new printing establishment,
by NJ Theadore Helgerad. All the com
positors and pressmen are deaf and dumb,
to the number Of one hundred and sixty !;
eleven Of the former are women. ,.rna.s
The HOMICIDE BY A POLICEMAN Police
man Cairnes, who, in hectiy Of New York
shot Hollis, his prisonsr, who had beaten
him and was running away, has been re-
leased from arrest. The grand jury ignored
the bill against him for manslaughter on
the ground that the homicide was justiia-.
BILE. Z a4 hsieaF9afl I7lit 1o 9t To
Professor Silliman in his lecture at the
Cooper Institute, New York, on Tuesday
night. expressed his belief that the difficult
ty experienced in working the Cable was
owing to some defects which were caused
BY its exposure to the great heat Of the sun.
while it lay coiled in the factory at Green.
witch, England. s0
A Cure FOR BuRNs-We have never tried
it, It is simple and may be easily tested.
The Gazette lNedicale of France says, that
charcoal has been discovered to be cure
for burns BY laying piece ofcold char
coal upon burn the pain subsidies immedi-
ately By leaving the charcoal on one hour
the wound is healed, as has been demonstra-
ted on several occasions.
GoNE TO LOUISIANA Charlottesville
.'Jefersonian" says: ''Our fellow citizen,
Col. Paul Goodloe, with some sixty or more
Of his negroes, left this place on Monday
last for Louisiana. We are sorry to lose SO
good citizen, but trust he may realise a
fortune by growing the sugar cane, and
enjoy happiness to as great an extent as is
allotted to man."
A SINGULAR VorE AT the late election
in Massachusetts, the town Of South Danvers
voted as follows for Governor:
Banks, Republican, 444
Beach, Democrat, si ei~ 444
Lawrence, American, 444
| That town was very impartial in its ia
vote, and was determined shat no party
should have cause to complain Of it.
NARROW ESCAPE OF GEN. Tw1Gas. The
San Antonio Herald states that Gen. Twiggs
had narrow escape of his life recently
He was standing on the street in converse
ton with some gentleman, when musket
in the hands Of a Mexican carman, some
distance off, was accidentally discharged, the
ball striking the Genaral on the back, but
the ball being spent in striking the ground,
the only damage done was a severe bruise
NOVEL BEoTEsT The will Of the late
Judge VIM. Jay, Of Westchester county,
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