Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1866-05-25
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r. 97m07 & NEWS ITEMS. ? gr1e2
General Dick Taylor is going into gold
mining in Georgia.
More, than million of emigrants have ar
rived in the United States since September.
Is The receipts from Governor Wisc's lecture
in Alexandria for the benefit of the orphans. |
was over 5000. 5...
8 The wool crop of Michigan viii reach 12, I
/, 600, 600 pounds this year. z.a 1886
p Sweden is going to send the world anoth-
err nightingale equal, it is said, to Jenny
r Lind-Marie Taskatt.
DR.. Gwinn has been released from Fort
jackson.
Mayor Monroe, of New Orleans, has been
. sworn into Office.
a.. Gen. Stoneman's report Of the Memphis
riot has reached Washington. He charges
the negroes with originating it.
Alexander H. Stephens estimated the cot
ton crop for 1866, at three million bales
A new steam wagon for common roads has
Just been tried at Quincy, H., the papers
say, with fair promise Of success.
e--. A woman weighing only II pounds is ex-
hibited in Danville, Va. She is from North
Carolina 4oa~ t5a aa,.aa u
Hon George W. Summers is spoken Of
as the Conservative candidate for next Gov
ernor Of &C West Virginia"
~ Governor Walker, of Florida, by procla-
;o4.D oP &ho
il courts in all cases restored by the Presi-
dents peace proclamation.
-1 The United States garrigons in Virginia,
5. outside of Fortress Monroe, consists of forty
four companies Of regulars, numbering in the
aggregate about two thousand men.
Captain J. M. Hudson, of Philadelphia,
is going to cross the ocean in metallic life
boat, twentysix feet long and six feet wide,
g ship-riggea, land with but one companion.
: The Danville Times states that an officer
Of the United States army having advertised
81 for recruits in that town, several young men
from the surrounding country have entered
the service. 49, @.1.. ,.....'. .@4,.]...
Judge Gholson, of Petersburg, is now re-
siding IN villa near Liverpool. Gen. Ran
g. dolph, at one time Confederate Secretary of
War. is living in the same neighborhood
e.a Shelton f Leake, Esq, gave notice at the
last Albemarle court of his intention to test
the new fence law in behalf of those opposed
to the measure.
EFFECT OF A PARDoH-In the United
States District Court at Louisville, Kentuc-
Nv - Tobp ,.J. + r..
n against the United States government, plead
ed parole from the President, and was dis
charged. ID ae.s...e
Some of the property holders in Atlanta,
z are selling and Offering building lots on ex-
ceedingly liberal terms, such as will enable
men of small means to secure for themselves
bome,- and will identify them with the
prosperity Of the city. = -g5
4 The young halter who saved the life of the
Russian Emperor is decidedly in luck The
sum Of 10000 francs has been subscribed
tor him, and large tract Of land has been
given to enable him to support his new dig
nifty as a nobleman.
Nashville papers complain Of rust in oats
and wheat in Tennessee. The disease has
also made its appearance in Northern Ala
bama, and in some places in Kentucky.
. Brigham Young says if any of his wives
wish to leave him, they are free to 60 This
!, is liberal, but he does not allow them to mar
e1 ry anybody else. This is illiberal.
s-s A call has appeared in Indiana, signed by
several thousand men who voted for Lincoln
and johnson In 1864, for convention on
the 3Oth, to sustain the Presidents restora-
ton policy.
- PRoABLE REMOVAL OF GENERAL Hoy.gp.
The Philadelphia Press of the 10th states.
under the head Of its Occasional Cores.
pondence," that information upon which
full reliance can be placed proves that An
drew johnson is resolved to remove Gencr
81 Howard, the Christian Chief Of the Freed
mems Bureau, if he can find an excuse for
so-aoing.'' Il = r
NEs YoEK, May i6.--The steamer SEQ
tia sailed st noon for Liverpool, taking three
- million of dollars in specie. The steamer
Kangaroo, also sailed to-day taking out
three hundred and seventy five thousand dol
lars IN specie p-..--
=. SENTENCE OF BANK RoBBnRs. The three
l. men who recently robbed the bank at Caaiz,
Ohio, have been tried and convicted Two
~ OF fhens Richard Roe, and B. MO'Connell.
were sentenced to the penitantiary for thir-
teen years, and the other, A. J. Jones, FOR
steven years .N~sasi ~sdmorge2
4 We hear that a new time schedule will
shortly be introduced on the Richmond and
Danville and Piedmont Railroads, and that
Ell passenger trains will make the run through
from Richmond and Greensboro, in eight
hours. = That speed 'woald. bring them from
Richmond to DanyiI!e IN Stout six hsuEs
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