Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1866-10-26

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Kossuth, old and worn, is dependent
upon the worlds charity.
There are 20 acres of glass in the Paris
Exposition building. e7aaTs 2alft wa
Two hundred and eigety acres Of land in
Georgia sold for $25. gHey
About four hundred students have matric-
ulated at the University Of Virginia SO far.
It is stated that Gen Magruder is about
to give up his residence, in Mexico, and will
return either to New York or New Orleans. .
A trout, d feet long and weighing 70
pounds, has been caught in Lake Erie, near
Dunkirk. 1t is the largest on record.
The Agricultural Bureau at Washington,
estimates the cotton crop, for 1866, at t.
S35 ,483 bales This is above the usual es-
innate
Professor Bledsoe, formerly of the Con-
federate War Department, will have book
out in few days, entitled, ''Is Jefferson Da-
Wis Guilty Of Treason -
Among the passengers on the alfated
"Evening STAR" was Wylde Hardinge, of
the late Confederate privateer Shenandoah,
and husband Of Belle Boyd, who is now in
New York city. t,s III, s1.ss e~ as
SLAUGHTER OF SQUIRRELS squirrel
hunters of Scion, Ohio, had squirrel hunt
on the 18th. One party returned with s.,
855 scalps and heads, and the other party
with 4,165 scalps and heads.
= A pill-box factory in Bristol, Vermont,
use up 5000 cords Of birch per annum.
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And the pills create demand for as many
more cords for collins.
The Mayor of Lynchburg was caught RI
ding upon the sidewalk by policeman, who
reported him to the Mayor. The Mayor
heard the evidence, and fined himself one
dollar. ~
The two beautiful blooded horses-white
and black-driven by Mr. Thos. E. Ballard,
of the Ballard House, Richmond to his pri-
vate carriage, were drowned in Crump's
creek, near Hanover Court house, Sunday
We 6CC lIOLl CllC correspondence Ill t1c
Cincinnati Enquirer that negroes voted at
Xenia and Cedarville, in Ohio and at Rich
mond, Indiana the judges of election hold
ing that the civil rights bill gave them the
right to vote.
Mrs. Ford. of Monroe county, Kentucky,
gave birth, on the 10th ult., to three chill
dren, all boys, weighing seven and half
pounds each. All are living and healthy
Names-G. D. Prentice, Gen. Lee, and
JEFF Davis @
"Don't be foolish" You can make Six
dollars from Fifty Cents. Call and examine
an invention urgently needed by every body.
Or sample sent free by mail for Soc, that
retails easily for Sc, by r. L. Wollcott, 10
Chatham Square, New York j une 15--fy.
The Virginia Annual Conference of the M
E. Church South, will convene in Norfolk
on the 21st Of November next The session
is expected to be one of extraordinary inter-,
rest. Several questions of much Importance
in regard to certain changes ia the polty Of
the church will come up for the consideration
and action of the Conference.
New York, October IA convention
of the colored citizens of New York assem-
bled at Albany yesterday to discuss the prop
er policy to be pursued by that class Of our
population. The nomination of Governor
Fenton was endorsed, and the 5000 negro
voters Of the State were urged to support
the ticket.
Gen. Banks talks about the Radicals hay
ing "enemies in the rear" The chiyalric
Banks had plenty of enemies in his rear,
when he turned TAIL and, at the head of his
forces ran for life from the far inferior forces
of Dick Taylor. He should be known in
history as the Banks of Red River Louis
riUe Journal.
L. A plank has just been brought to New
York from California, which is believed to be
the largest n n seen in the United States
1t measures u live feet long, eight feet four
inches wide I'D is three feet thick. This
plank was cut from tree known as the red
wood tree, an inhabitant of the Sierra Neya-
da Mountains. A few OF these planks would
make platform much stronger than any
political one that has been formed of late
days.
A letter from NJ. F. Elioin, one Of the house
hold OF Macmillan, and now on mission in
his interest to Europe, directed to the pre-
tended Emperor, says that Napoleon's aid,
General Castelnau, is charged with urging
the abdlcation of the Mexican throne before
the departure of the French troops. Gen
eral Castelnau is, it will be remembered. e,,
route to Mexico with special instructions from
the French Court.
The Keokuk Gate City thus describes
snake found by an Iowa lady ms hens egg.
lat first it was seven inches long and
about as large round as pipestem, of some
what brownish color. Mrs. Burt, the ladv
who found the snake, put it at first into wa
ter, after standing some five days, then into
n'nety-fve per cent alcohol. The egg was !
common hens egg; the contents were all
natural and good, with this exception. It
lay eoiled up in the white of the egg. This
serpentlne specimen is now in DIR, Bartlctt's
possession.