Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1866-11-16
NEWS ITEMS.


Alexander Smith, son Of the original Joe,
Z is trying to convert Mormons. y ~.
Five thousand little negroes 60 to school
in Washington, D. 9. a..s
The Orange crop Of Louisiana this year
is pronounced magnificent. ,.o
Three tons of steel are daily manufactured
into hoop skirts in one New York establish
ment. .r,......, .e, sgsg.,4- ~ ~
Pork fell four dollars barrel, and corn
and wheat eight cents per bushel, in New.
York, last week. a 10 =
A thoroughgoing business man who adver-.
tises largely, says that he regards the propri-
etors of papers as partners in business.
A subscription is being taken up in Mis-
souri, to relieve the wants of Sterling Prices
family, who arc in destitute circumstances.
r. A Detroit man recently sold his wife for
5000 to sailor, and applied to a Justice to
marry him to girl Of seventeen. ~
It was with a great deal Of difficulty that a
clergyman in Detroit baptised by immersion
the other day young lady with her crinoline
on.
The Raleigh IN. CO. Sentinel estimates
the present cotton crop Of North Carolina at
$4,000 bales, which at present prices will
sell for $17 100000. s q
New York, November 5s-Afidavits to,
prove the innocence of the Rev. Mr.. McMa-
hon, now under sentence Of death in Toron-
to, have been forwarded to Washington.
Two hundred and twenty shares of stock
in the Orange and Alexandra Railroad Com
pany, were sold in Alexandria, on Monday,
for $15 per share. The par value is $50.
The negroes in Botetourt county have in
creased three or four hundred in number
since the last census This is the only in.
crease of this population we have noticed in
any country district in this State.
GEN. A. S. JOHNSTON. Legislature
of Texas has appropriated $4,000, and ap-
pointed a committee to remove the body of
General A. S. Johnston to the State Gene
terry at Austin.
Since the process Of photographing upon
silk or linen has been perfected in France,
many persons have their portraits upon their
linen instead Of their names or initials
They are not injured by washing.
Don be foolish" You can make Six
dollars from Fifty Cents. Call and examine
an invention urgently needed by every body.
q Or sample sent free by mail for Soc, that
retails easily for Sc, by R. L. Wollcott, ITO
Chatham Square, New York u unel bly,.
AS General Wise was concluding his elo-
quent illusions to the future greatness and
destiny of Virginia. at Winchester, large
bald eagle came sailing from the North, cir
cled near the earth over the crowd, and then
repluming his wings. departed in South
ernly direction.
Negro suffrage has already been practical
ly established in Ohio. In all those locali-
ties where the Radicals had control of the
ballot-boxes, the votes of the negroes were
received at the recent election, the Radicals
claiming that the Civil Rights Bill, passed
by the last Congress, gave the negroes the
right to vote. 80 -
1t is said the expenditure of two dollars
and half would probably have saved the
Evening Star and the lives of her passengers
the assertion being based on the theory that
the sheave in which the rudder chain worked
was cheap one, not guarded with iron, and
that, therefore, the chain slipped out and the
vessel became unmanageable.
DECLINE IN PRICES New York pa
pers announce the breaking up of various
specializing movements in the necessaries of
life in that city, which has caused decline
in prices. Pork has fallen four dollars
barrel. wheat from five to eight cts. bush
Ell, and corn eight cts. bushel. Buyers,
it is reported, even at these reduced figures.
are very scarce.
DR.. G. E. Lippitt, of Berryville, Clarke
county, has reformed remarkable surgical
operation upon little child of Mr.. VIM. A.
Castleman, which had by the carelessness of
the nurse received fall upon it's head, by
which it's neck was dislocated In skillful
and surgeonlike manner the neck-bone was
adjusted; at first it appeared very doubtful
whether the child would ever breathe, but
soon respiration commenced, and the Clarke
Journal learns is doing very well, and every
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