Staunton vindicator and general advertiser. (Staunton, Augusta County, Va.) 1858-1860, 1858-10-23
ITEMS OF NEWS.

Mrs. P. G. Pollard, wife Of the late Maj.
Richard Pollard and sister of the Hon. w.
G. Rives, died in Nelson county last week
James Goings has been convicted at
Columbia, S. c., Of the murder Of 3.
Medlin.
The Charleston Mercury says that the
cotton crop will be distressingly short this
year.
The health of Bishop Simpson has not
improved, and present indications do not
promise an early covery.
Col. J. F. H. Claiborne is engaged on a
history Of the Life and Times of the late
Gen Quitman.
+ Jas. J. Magee has been appointed an
Assistant Surgeon in the Navy, vice Sur
geon Macoun, promoted.
Mr.. John Morrissey, late editor of the
Nantucket Inquirer, has purchased the
Old Colony Memorial, at Plymouth, Mass.
The St. Louis papers notice terrible
hailstorm which occurred at New Bedford,
on the Illinois river, on the 9th inst.
News reaches Gibraltar now in two days
from England, by means Of the electric
telegraph through France and Spain.
Mr.. VIM. O. Ormsby, formerly editor
and proprietor Of the Southern Statesman,
died on the Goth ult.
DIR. Ralston and Rev. r. w. Trimble,
of the Kentucky Conference, Church South,
recently, it is stated, joined the Episcopal
Church.
The corner stone Of new Baptist Church
in South Nashville, Tenn, was laid, on
Wednesday last The Rev Reuben Ford,
formerly of Va, will have charge.
Reuburn Buckland, convicted Of the man
slaughter of Martin Wheeler, in Monroe
county Va, has been sentenced to five years
in the State prison. s
The Rev. Francis Burns, recently chosen
Bishop of the Methodist Church in Liberia,
has arrived in Baltimore, to undergo the
ceremony Of ordination.
The Scotsman announces the death, IN
Edinbarg, Of M. Gabriel Jaques Sureene,
the author of much esteemed French and
English Dictionary. His age was 50.
The Mayor Of Vicksburg has published a
card in the Wing. Of the I'd, requesting
unacclimated persons to keep away from
that city until notice shall be given that the
yellow fever has subsidized"
Mr.. W. j. Lenox, of Natchez, commit
ted suicide on the LIST inst. He was af1ict-
ed with cancer; his physicians had given
him up, and in despair he put an end to bis
life.
The Hon. Thomas Swami, American cam
didate, was reelected Mayor of Baltimore
on Wednesday last, by upwards Of 10000
majority, over Mr. Shut, the independent
candidate.
I Ben. Paul Akers, the sculptor, has re-
turned from Rome, after an absence Of four
years, and taken up his residences at New
port. He brought fifteen peices Of marble
with him, and many other works.
The home farm, belonging to Mr. A. ]
| Wood, of $50 acres, situated near Medium
river, Albermarle county, Va, has beer
purchased by Mr., Ira Mauphin, for $25. St
per acre.
Mrs. Taylor and negro man, both tried
for the murder Of the womans husband, al
Louisa G. H., have been acquitted. A free
negro implicated in the crime, was sentenced
to two years in the penitentiary; but the
| COnrt granted him 4 new trial
The aldermen composing the Hastings
Court Of Richmond City, have received anc
formally accepted, an invitation to visit the
National Agricultural Fair, to be held neal
Richmond, during the past week common
cling 25th inst.
On Friday last. Mr.. Jacob Borden, &
helpless cripple, while alone in his brothers
house, in Shenandoah county, Va, BY some
means his clothing caught fire, and he was
so badly injured as to survive but few hours
after the occurrence.
Coal has accumulated on the wharves al
Alexandria, Va, in large quantities in con
sequence Of the scarcity ofyessels. Freights
in consequence. have advanced, and are still
advancing, so that vessels command now al
most any rate they choose to demand.
a company Of FIVE young men left St
Louis, on the 18th, for Pixies Peak golo
digging, s or to 60 one or two hundred miles
further South, whence to return to the
digging early in the Spring. They are
St. Louisians.
The Atlantic Telegraph Company have
sold their lead mines in Newfoundland t.
parties for 5000, 900. Several cargoes 0
the metal have arrived and are on their way
to New York It is stated that itaverages
eighty per cent, esteemed equal, in richness
to any in the world @
At the Court Of Oyer and Terminer
held at Hudson, N. Y, last week, the ole
nan, Dennis Tanner, pleaded guilty to the
charge Of murder, and was sentenced to b.
hung on the 22d day Of November next
It will be remembered that he murdered
his wife in Undertook, last winter.
| Mr.. Walker Savage Landor has taker
up his residence at Genoa, where his family
which is numerous, possesses a fine estate
one of the curious effects of the late trial is,
that it has led to reconciliation between
the aged poet and his wife, after a separa-
ton Of forty years.
DIRECTIONS FOR SEEING THE COMET. In
order to see the comet in its full glory, take
a good glass. If this fails. take two glasses.