Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1866-09-28

VIII LIFT UP a man when he's " down.
Minnesota raises 10000, 600 bushels
wheat this crop. !
The Philadel phia burglars have construct
ed and patented a lever warranted to open
any safe in three hours /
A Galveston Texas, merchant, the other
day, on a bet, consumed eighty dozen raw
oysters, and he survived. @ @
Seventeen men have Just returned to
Iowa from Montana with 700 lbs of gold |
dust 210, 600. @
An asylum for colored lunatics is about to
be erected in Tennessee. It will cost TWEEN
ty-seyen thousand dollars. f5
The wooden shoes worn by peasants of
both sexes in Belgium are purchased at from
four to seven cents pair, and never wear
out. ~t
Longworth's celebrated wine cellars, con-
tanning 10000 gallons, have recently over
flowed, and the champagne bottles went off
in deafening fusillade.
It is estimated that there were during the
late war l, 012 churches burned in the South
ern States, involving a loss of about S.
100000.
The loss by the great fire in Newbern will
reach 100000, and her people are very
destitute. A subscription has been set on
foot, however, for the homeless.
The Catholic Archbishops, Bishops and
Priests of the United States will assemble
in convention at Baltimore on the first Sun
day of October.
The Alabama negroes have managed their
own crops badly, and do not know how they
will make bread for their families during the
coming winter and spring.
An Englishman in India was Mortified at
receiving telegraph despatch from England
that his wife had been delivered of five
daughters. The message should have said
a fine daughter.
FRosr.-There was frost in some Of the
lowlands throughout Illinois and adjoining
States on Friday night Of last week, doing
considerable damage to vegetation. At
Cleveland, Ohio, there was heavy white
frost that night.
The grasshoppers have appeared in Kan
sas after the fashion in Egypt. They fill
the air like snow storm, obscuring the sun,
deyouring the vegetation, and stopping the
trains on the railroads by causing the wheels
to slip.
In the municipal election at Alton, Ill,
on the 18th instant, the Democrats swept
the city, carrying the mayor, register, col
lector, treasurer, attorney, marshall, harbor-
master, street commissioner, assessors, and
city council. The majorities ranged from q
to 43O. William Post is the mayor elect,
It is reported in Providence, R. T., that
the wife Of a very distinguished United States
Senator is about to apply for divorce.
Can it be that gay and festive youth,
Billy Sprague, the ever smiling little joker
of the United States Senate, and son-in- law
of the Lord Chancellor
A young lady now employed as a com
positor in the Montgomery Advertiser had
300 bales Of cotton burned during the war.
Instead of repining over her misfortune she
now goes to work at business most congo
genial to her intellectual taste. Her heroic
self-reliance is truly commendable.
A Mrs. Cox, residing in New London,
Conn, was found in her house, on wednes-
day, nearly dead from starvation 1t APP
pears her husband left her about week
since without means Of support, and it is
supposed she became discouraged and locked
herself into her house, determined to die.
She had not eaten any food for three days
New Y ork is doing an extended and brisk
trade with Southern merchants. Dealers
are offering extraordinary inducements to
purchasers and leaving no stone unturned to
reap rich harvest. The recent conduct of
Philadelp hia has driven these merchants
away from the Quaker City, where they had
been making large purchases.
The Knoxville Commercial informs us
that large numbers Of negroes from Georgia.
Alabama and Florida, are pouring into East
Tennessee, and that upon inquiry, their pur-
pose is found to be to settle there at the in
stance of Brownow and his agents, with
view Of controlling the State elections in ia
vor of Radicalisn. EEg e sw8 Fl
Gen. Grant, through his aid, declines an
invitation to attend the Pittsburg Soldiers
Convention, saying "that it is contrary to
his habits and 10 his convictions Of duty to !
attend political meetings of any character
whatsoever, and that he sees with regret the
action Of any officer of the army taking
conspicuous part in the political dissensions
Of the day.
Hail STORM. Westminster, Md, was
visited With another remarkable hail storm
On Friday afternoon of last week. Large
quantities FELL much Of about the size of
hickory nuts, often larger, round and solid
like pebbles. 1t was severest at the lower
end of town, where not less than two thou
sand panes of glass were broken in windows
which happened to be exposed to the north |
and, est Westminster Dean /
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