Staunton vindicator and general advertiser. (Staunton, Augusta County, Va.) 1858-1860, 1858-11-13
ITEMS OF NEWS.

turning and spirit-rapping.
The assessors Of hogs in Kentucky report
the number in the State this season to be
1,1O7 ,843, against ], 44O, 1894, last year.
Rembrandt Peale has been lecturine in
Philadelphia on "Washington and his
Portraits"
~ A grand niece Of Oliver Cromwell
resides in Livingston, Madison county, Mis-
sissippi
re- The total amount ofproperty assess
ed for the city Of New Orleans, the present
year, is $107. 576,963 worth.
The purchaser of Dumas folly, Monte
Cristo, for $4,000, was the American
dentist Fowler.
SALE OF STocK IN NORFOLK. Thurs
day last, $1,000 Virginia State Skies 95a-
Exchange Bank 1o4a, was sold.
DEAD.-We learn from the Marion Visi-
tor that Mr. Jacob Wolfe died near that
place on Sunday last, aged 100 years.
The Ohio river is now in good navigable
order, and steamboats, are taking freights
to all the towns on the Ohio and MISSISSIPPI
pi rivers.
w A cotemporary says it is Just about
as sensible to undertake to get married
without counting as to do business without
advertising.
POCKET P1cKED.-The pocket of Mr..
Branch, of Jackson, Tenn, was picked of
book, containing $500, at the Charleston
Depot in Memphis, last week.
DEAD.-Thomas Thompson, Of Wake. N.
c., who was accidentally shot few DAYS
ago by Verbin Castlebury, died from the ef-
fects of his wound on Tuesday last.
DEAD.-Josiah Prescott, formerly editor
of the Lecel, an old and we'll known citizen
of Memphis, died suddenly Sunday night in
an apoplectic fit.
ACQUITTED. On Saturday, at the called
Court of hustings, Simon M. L. Arnold was
examined On the charge of stabbing Patrick
McMeeney, with intent to kill. The accused
was discharged.
The Premiums taken by Mr.. S. G.
Ludington, Of Greenbrier, at the Fair in
this city. on cattle, amounted to over $500.
His sales amounted to nearly $1,000
Very we'll for Mr.. Ludington.
ATTEMPT TO COMMIT SUICIDE. B
Sapp, confined in the Morgantown Jail, fol
the murder of his wife, attemted to cut his
throat with case knife few days SINCE
He succeeded in making CHASTITY wound in
his neck. which was sewed up and dressed
without material injury to the desperate
man.
EE The wife Of we'll known citizen in
Cincinnati in relating painful history of
her domestic troubles to the Police judge.
stated that not single word ofconversation
has passed between her and her husband
for the past tecenty gears! They have lived
in the same house together and part Of the
time dined at the same table.
! REMARKABLE ExHIB1T1oN.-A remarka-
BILE exhibition took place at the Hopkinsville
| Glenn. Fair Ten brothers named Brown
all mounted on iue gray horses, rode into
the amphitheatre, all being good horsemen.
The eldest was aged forty, the Youngest
twenty. They had not all been together
for fifteen years.. Their mother was pres
ent, and they refined up in front of the glo-
rious matron, and saluted, her while she
shed tears Qfjoy and pride, =
1W The Woodstock Tenth Legion says
1T is refreshing after so long and unmiti-
gated drought, to witness the fine and
thrifty appearance Of the crops Of grain sown
previous to the late rains Indeed we new
er saw grain promising better under the
circumstances. Many Of our farmers who
were delayed by the dry weather, are not
yet through with seeding; and we doubt not
from what we can learn, fully as large crop
Of wheat will be put out this year as last
The conduct Of our Minister to China
continues to form the theme of unmeasured
criticism anu abuse in England Mr. Reed
is represented as not only having allowed
himself to be the mere catspaw of Count
Putiatine, the Russian Minister, but as
having negotiated treaty less advantage
OPS to the commerce Of the United States,
than thot which had been negotiated by
Lord Elgin and Baron de eros, on behalf
Of the governments Of England and France.
HALF Town Po1soNEp. "A most fen
dish case of poisoning was perpetrated at
Milton county Court House, few days
ego. All in attendance at the hotel, and
all who drank at the hotel well, we're taken
violently i'll during the night At the
time our informant-Col. Simmons left,
none had died. The exact nature of the
poison, or the Gendish perpetrator of it, had
pot been discovered. Its effects were SINH
lar to that Of croton oil.-Augusta Geo.
Dispatch.
EARDoNEp. -Edward Dufell, convicted
about two years ago of killing woman in
Lynchburg, and sentenced to the Peniten-
tlary for SIX years, was yesterday pardoned
by the Governor and released. In addition
to the fact that he is quite a youth, and has
conducted lhaiilmsaselfin very exemplary man
ner since his confinement, there is reason to
doubt whether the killing was Intentional
We think it probable that the Executive
clemency was properly employed, though,
as general rule, We are averse to all in
reference With the awards of courts and
juries.
FIGHT WITH THE GIps1Es. For several
weeks past gang Of dirty, filthy Gipsies,
come twelve or fifteen in number, have been
hanging about our city, says the Lynchburg
Republican, and, on yesterday, having
o1oorod oil hon oooYo mir c<ro, o. =.