Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1866-10-19


ia small terrier dog, a great favorte among
49, the prisoners, and famous as rat-catcher.
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-s, Grant has fifty horses in his stable and
$l8, per annum.
SIR. Chicago is tunnelling her streets to accom-
SO modate her Increasing travel.
20 The people of New Orleans have now to
import sugar and moasses for home use.
Ice formed in Boston on Thursday night
to the thickness of half dollar.
Oysters in vessels at the wharf in Alex
= andria are selling at seventy-fye cents per
bushel
The Hon. James Buchanan, ex-President
Of the United States, is in Baltimore, atten-
y. ding to some private business.
La The estimate Of the tobacco crop of Vir-
ginia and North Carolina the present season
- is 10000 hogsheads.
New YoRK, Oct. 10-Upwards of fifty
,a- women Of i'll fame persisted by the laundering
e. of the steamship Erening Star.
~ Mr. John H. Crobarger has sold his farm
near Greenwood Depot, in Albemarle coun-
ty, to Mr.. Jas. Kyle of Baltimore, for S10,-
600, or $37 so per acre.
Mr.. George P Evans late of Richmond
will commence, on the LIST of November, the
publication of new paper in Liberty, Bed
4 ford county, Va, to be called the Citizen
sz9s There is plantation in Georgia that will
yield bale of cotton to the acre, which has
e always been considered worth S25 600, now
offered for $4,000 and nobody willing to
al buy.
Barnum's fat woman last week broke down
cab in Toronto, and tumbled out in the
mud, greatly exciting the respectful commits
seration of the news-boys The cabman Will
sue for damages.
LARGE YIELD.-From two bushels of Ken
lucky white wheat, sown last fall, Mr. John
Burns, of Jefferson county, had a yield of
sixty-two bushels and thirty pounds of mer-
charitable wheat gTl
TOBACCO TAx.-The Memphis Commercial
Speaking from data unknown to us) declares
that Virginia, Kentucky, Tennessee and Mis-
sour pay this year an Internal Revenue Tax
Of $40 900 900 on tobacco.
IL The Ottawas, a tribe of partially civilized
Indians are erecting a University for the ed
ucation of Indians in Kansas Their chief
John Jones, is thoroughly educated man,
and is the leader of the enterprise.
.a-1 General Averill, who gained such renown
as a cavalry leader in Virginia and elsewhere
during the war, has been appointed consul
general to the British provinces, to reside at
Montreal. .-..-...---
Don't be foolish" You can make Six
dollars from Fifty Cents Call and examine
{. .aninyention urgently needed by every body
Or a sample sent free by mail for Soc, that
retails easily for S., by r. J.. Wollcott, 40
Chatham Square, New York June 15--1y,
= The famine in India still reigns unassuaged
and the unfortunate people of the Valley of
the Ganges are dying by thousands. The
correspondents who write from Calcutta, tell
rheart-rendlng tales, and in the open country,
5Tyultures and jackalls feed almost undsturbed
upon the bodies of the dead.
SOUTHERN RELIEF FAIR AT ST.. LOUIS
The great fair for the relief of destitute South
ern families was inaugurated at St. Louis on
Wednesday night of last week Nothing in
the history of St. Louis, says the Democrat,
can compare with the grand and signal tri-
umph of this great enterprise.
&. Lieutenant Governor Cowper had some
difficulty in Portsmouth on Tuesday with
negroes who refused to give way to him on
the sidewalk. The negress threw a brick at
the lieutenant Governor, and he returned
the blow with a bar Of iron SPRAYING the
dusky maiden, and drawing the claret pref
,ty freely, @
Is TIE LARGEST APPLE IN AMERICA. We
nave on our table an apple presented us by
Colonel W. q. Burford, from the farm of
Mrs. Mary A. Milan, which we venture the
assertion cannot be beaten on the American
continent for size and quality 1t is of the
"plppln species and measures 153 inches in
circumference, weighing 20 ounces, and is
sione OF bushel and half, from the same
tree that averaged / J pounds each. Who
says missouri is not a fruit growing country.
HmrtsonriHe, no, Democrat.
e At meeting Of the Jeb Stuart Memorial
Association Of Gordonsville, composed exclu-
siyely of boys and girls, held on Sunday last.
the handsome sum of 1905 was collected for
lhe purpose VI AIDING In the erection OF the
proposed monument at that place to the mem
Dry Of tie gallant dead whose remains are to
he collected. and re-interred in the cemetery
lately purchased there. These little boys
:. and girls are doing noble service in the pat
r roty work of enclosing and caring for the
graves of our honored dead, which will
endear their names to the hearts of the whole
Southern people. 80