Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1866-09-14

& n little love speech from Max to Carlotta
over the cable. cost him $4,000.
At Michigan squirrel hunt more than
5000 squirrels were killed in a day.
The largest seed garden in the world is on
the Delaware river, belonging to David Ian
dreth &; Son, geo acres.
The Presidents Delmonco's banquet
speech was telegraphed to England at an
expense of $5,Gl9, and it was worth it.
A female cbila has been born in La Crosse
with two perfect tongues. Ifsshe lives and
marries won't her husband catch it. ~
LIT. Gen. a. P. Stewart has been rendered
the presidency Of Cumberland University,
Lebanon Tenn.
Major General Wool, an old army vete
ran, has written letter to President John
son, warmly and heartily endorsing his pol
icy. 1e sds
Chas. Butt, Of Halifax county, has an
English calf, ten months old, which gives
about pint Of milk at each milking.
=. The proposed new Constitution for North
Carolina has been rejected in that State by
majority Of j 1882,
Gen. Hafdee was, at latest accounts. in
st. Louis, concerned in the responsible d.
rectlon OF certain important railroad interests
between Ficksburg and Selma { = '.'5
During late thunder storm at St. Louis
all the FIRE bells were rung by the electric
fluid which passed along the telegraph wires.
A Stafford farmer expects to make al. 900
this year on sumac. A lame darkev. saw;
the Fredericksburg News, can make 81
per day gathering it.
For six weeks not drop of rain has fallen
on the city of Chattanooga, Tennessee, and
during all the time the thermometer has
ranged during the middle of the day. from
80 to 100 degrees.
G. W Gusts Lee, son of Gen r. E. Lee.
who was the chief Of President Daviss staff.
has been elected the professor of civil. engi-
nefe ap in the University of Georgia.
= At the National Convention of Spiritual
lists in Providence. the Christian religion.
Sunday schools, animal food, and Andrew
johnson, were resolved against
The, body of a white female soldier was
unearthed- at the crater, near Petersburg. a
few days since. She had been shot tbrough
the head ~Hto3
- The New York evening Post saws that a
sewing machine which in New York costs
Z 800, in Paris costs only 1918 in gold. or
Hhout Slo IN currency and that costing
Sll5 in New York only S14 in Paris. or
about S22 in currency the Paris machine
being in every respect as good as the Ameri-
can.
Ehe latest notion of the Radicals is to
abolish the Office of President Of the Tinted
States and let Congress run the machine or
at least to dispense with the office until # con
be filed with one of their own stripe. vide
Boston Commonwealth newspaper.
Hen PRTcE.-We were informed weston
dav. says the Norfolk Times nv oont,a,3,an
n nsg IN our sister city. Portsmouth, that
nftv cents per'bucket is charged for water TO
drink! In Norfolk they charge from FIVE TO
ter ten cents per bucket-and the demand is
very great.
GOLD ON THE UPPER PoroNAc. We were
Yesterday shown several very rich snecim4ns
OF goa--hearlng quar- and some cold wash
ing taken from the Virginia shore of the
potomac river. only two miles and a half
from the Chain bridge Experienced mi
! NJ ncrs report that rich veins Of gold course
throueh nearly the whole Of that reo5iion a.
So that the bed of the Potomac abounds with
I the precious metal.-Ghronicye. -
PETITIONS FOR THE RELEASE ar ~
MUD. Petitions are said to be in c;rcu1a
ton IN the Southern counties Of Marvt,nd
ana obtaining many Signatures. aszino for
the pardon of Dir. Mudd, convicted as one IF
the ASSASSINATION eanspiraters --Fhe ne+itions
set up the unsatisfactory character Of The av-
g1ence. upoa which he was convicted and
a a tbs known sympathy wit, tbe
South, express the belief that he was who'll
ignorant of the crime charged until after its
I'd s5aog 81 ~ 4a5i. ~
-s4aa 9 - 4rho al III