Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1866-07-06

And beggar that has good woman,
With more than the world he is bless'd."
;sa Jack Magruder is hard up at Havana.
- Baltimore has 700 pound turtle.
= Ten tobacco factories are in operation at
Danville, Va.
Robinson, the 'sbare-backed" circus rider,
gets an. annual salary Of $24, 900.
"A fashionable party lately arrived at New
port with 800 parcels Of luggage.
T. You can have a man neatly murdered in
Chicago for $12.
The great fault Of the Freedmen's Bureau
is that it has so many 'nobs. - Sunday
Herald. IE
A Pensylvanian drove pair of horses 100
miles in 81 hours, and then refused $50, 600
for them
Chapel hill On Co. University has con-
ferred the degree Of LID. upon President
johnson.
Messrs, Reed & Brady, Davis counsel,
half Of the Memorial Societies.
q A little girl in Michigan tried to poison her
papa for preventing her elopement with her
lover.
Mr.. James Miller, of Amsterdam, Bote-
tourt county, says the Fincastle Herald, hung
himself in his stable last Wednesday.
Col. Henry i. Hopkins, prominent citi-
), zen Of Petersburg, is about to remove to Alb
ingdon, Va.
The official returns Of the cattle plague in
England show up to this time 224 ,073 deaths
from the disease, and 76, 1922 killed for Sc
curity. - 4'2
A New York religious sheet says that
'StonewalP' jackson was the best beloved
of all Americans who followed Washing ton
to heaven
= At a meeting of negroes in Alabama, Sam
DO bound himself not to work for less than
two dollars per day during harvest, on pen
atty of receiving fifty lashes.
/ At criminal trial in New Orleans the
prisoner was acquitted, while the counsel on
both sides were sent to jail for contempt of
Court.
A writer in the Massachusetts Pzoun,an
says salt is not necessary for horses and cat
tie, and. that the fine Arab horses will not
touch it,. r. a., --gf
Mrs. Anna Cora Mowatt Richie is living
in England by her pen. She resides in Ken
slngton, not far from the late home Of Thack-
cray. .rfr s4.E
Up to the 10Th instant the receipts from
g customs since the 1st Of July, 1865, amount
ed to the enormous sum of one hundred and
lsaaty-tzree millions IN gold.
az The Northern ladies who were teaching
the young freed ideas in Wilmington have
departed, leaving their photographs with
their pupils and charging them 81 a piece
for them.
Elias Howe, the inventor and patentee of
the sewing machine needle, has declared his
purpose not to apply for an extention of his
patent, on the ground that he has made a
million and a lfdollars on it already, which
he regards as fortune enough for one man.
80 GEN. JOSEPH E. JOHNSTON. The Demo-
polls Neao Era says Gen. Joseph e. John
ston has positively accepted the Presidency Of
the Alabama and Tennessee River Railroad
He arrived in Selma On last Monday. and
will made that his future home.
Gov. Morton, Of Indiana. does not seem
to be deeply impressed with the value of the
proposed amendments to the Constitution
IL IS announced that he will not call an extra
session OF the Legislatures to ratify the con-
: stltutlonal amendment, whatever the Gov
errors of the other States may do.
The New York Herald says: "OAicials at
washington seem to be attempting to shift
the responsibility Of the order putting Mr..
paws IN irons: 1t appears that the Presi-
Dent had nothing to do with the matter. and
that the order has been traced to the door of
Secretary Stanton"
At an immense temperance gathering in
London, 1t was stated that the consumntion
OF intoxicating liquors costs S4OO 900 900
yearly, OF which sum two-thirds is spent bv
the working classes alone; and that nine.
tenths OF the crimes committed are traceahlo
to strong drink,
A young girl named Molly Mahon. accom-
panied one of the Fenian regiments from Wis
eonsin to the field as its daughter" She is
sixteen years old, the daughter of a soldier
who died of wounds received at the battle Of
/. South Mountain. She is said to be biohlv
educated. She wears short WOODEN dress
and trousers, on which is embroidered the
Irish harp i'll silk