Staunton vindicator and general advertiser. (Staunton, Augusta County, Va.) 1858-1860, 1859-06-04
ITEMS OF NEWS.

The Vanderbilt brings intelligence that
Mr.. Ten Broeek's American mare Prioress
won the Queens plate at the New Market
races in England.
It is reported in New York that Gen.
Scott has made bet of 500 bottles of cham
payne that Louis Napoleon will never re-
turn to Paris.
@ The President has appointed George
Lee Brent to be Secretary of the legation of
the United States to the Argentine Confed-
Grafton.
CONFESSED colored girl has confessed
to setting fire to Mr.. Shackleford's house,
which was destroyed by fire few days
since at Culpeper, va.
WThe salary Of the Rev W. J. Hoge,
of Virginia, recently installed as assistant
pastor of Presbyterian congregation in
New York City, is $4,000 per annum;
Professor Morris, Of William and Mary
College, Va, has been in New York re-
Gently, where he received liberal subscrip-
for William and Mary College.
F1Rs.-fhe large blacksmithing and
wheel-right establishment of Brosius &
Blankenship, at Liberty, Bedford. was con-
sumed by fire on Wednesday last. Total
loss.
THE NEwBERRY Po1soN1NG CASE. We
learn from the Columbia papers, that none
of the persons poisoned at Newberry, S. c.,
have died, and that Mr. Stuart il impro-
wing.
EY- The richest woman il New York is
Mrs. Tucker, widow of the late Hon. Gideon
Tucker, and grandmother of the present
Secretary of State. She has about three
fourths of a million besides her interest in
her late husbands immense estate
The Teas Democratic State Convention
has nominated H. r. Runnels for Cover
nor, b. r. lubbock for lieutenant Cover
nor and =. NJ. White for Commissioner
Of General Land Ofice-all three the pres
ent incumbents
MURDER Or 4 SLAvE.-On Sunday last, a
very valuable negro man belonging to Mr..
Samuel Booker, of Cumberland Va, was
stabbed and instantly killed in that county
by a free negro named jenkins, jenkins
was arrested and is in jail
| SAILED ron EuEorE. -Amone the pas
sengers for Europe, FROM New York, last
Saturday, were Smith O'Brien, Mrs South
worth the authoress, Mr.. Raymond, of the
New York Times, and Hon LAWRENCE NJ.
Lett, Of South Carolina, With his bride.
The Fredericksburg Herald says: We
regret TO learn that the Joint Worm is at
lacking the wheat crop in, Spot.sylvania,
Caroline, &c. One farmer said that if their
rayages ceased, now he knew of many acres
Of wheat that would be injured I'd tie ex-
tent Of three bushels.
THE AMERICAN f,h5oT Soc1E1r. Hon
r. G Winthrop declines to be a candidate
for reelection to the vice presidency Of the
| Boston Tract Society, fol- the rea on that it
favors Tie publication of anti-slayery tracts,
a thing with which il rghtflly Should ha ye
nothing to do.
). Senator Douglas has authorized one Of his
| friends to state that he has had nc meeting
with President Buchanan, and that che re-
pudiated and denounced all propositions for
a compromise by which he would have to
concede an iota Of the principles he had all
along avowed. SO that we have tie diplo-
matte IA statu quo.
SroRa:-On Friday efeaing last, there
vas 4 storm of wind and rain, onpanied
by much thunder and lightning. The wind
for time was very high, and some trees
and fences were blown down, and other
damage done A section of the roof of the
engine house az the depot of tie alexandria
T.oGdoun and Hampshire Railroad vas tori
off. ,e-
IN old 'trapper named JOIN Brewer re-
Gently came into ST. Louis with pack of
beaver skins. which he had carried on his
back more than 700 miles. He sold the
skins, laid il a supply. ofammunition with a
part of the money received for them, got
drunk on the rest, and kept SO for a week,
than got sober, and started off for another
long and lonely trapping tour.