Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1866-08-31

Snow fell at Vienna, Maine, on the 8th
inst.
Santa Annals confscated property in Mex
leo is worth SIT 100000.
Grant and Farragut will accompany the
President to Chicago.
Basil Duke is writing history of the lii,
Of John H. Morgan.
Shreveport now has two ice machines ca
pable of turning out 5000 lbs. Of ice day
New ORLEANS, August 21.-The New
Orleans Tribune, negro organ suspended
publication to day.
1t is said that the chances are good that
the Democrats will elect eight of the eleven
congressman in Indiana this fall.
A live turtle was received in Rochester by
mail on the 9th inst, the stamp and address
being pasted on his shell.
The Examiner states positively that Mr.
Raymond did not write the Philadelphia ad-
dress, as has been generally understood.
John Park, Mayor of Memphis, was ar
rested and taken before the Recorder, some
days ago, and fined for Drunkenness
Forney says that the Proclamation of the
President, ''restores the civil authority, and
abolishes Martial law in every part of the
United States"
GEN. W1sE's PROPERTY The Norfolk
Old Dominion has reliable authority for sta
ting, that the property Of General Henry A.
Wise, "has not been restored"
WASHINGTON, August 81 The Treasury
Department has received draft en- Barring
Brothers, England, for the amount of ELL
844, at the proceeds Of sale of the surren-
dered vessel Shenandoah
Cincinnati has suffered seriously in its bu-
siness from the cholera. The hotels have
been deserted, and its business in almost
every department for several weeks has been
not only dull, but quite dead
Mrs. Lauretta j. De Caulp, who during
the war was known as Lieut. Buford of the
&c. s. Army" is now in Washington seek
ing an interview with the President in rela-
ton to the building of an asylum for the dis
abled and destitute of the South.
A physician writing from Cincinnati de-
clares that the cholera there is of the most
malignant form. Flies are dying in the
streets, the cutters are covered with green
scum, the atmosphere is dry, heavy and
sickening.
The Hannibal Republic says that within
the past year 1928 Radical political preachers
have been sent to the Penitentiaries of the
United States, and eight of them have been
hung. Political preachers should make a
note of this, and quit preaching politics.
Now that it has been proved that tele-
graphing across the Atlantic ocean is practi-
cal, arrangements are being made in New
York to connect Europe by second cable.
The route to be taken by this line is via
Bermuda and the Azores, thence to Lisbon,
o distance Of about twenty.one hundred
miles.
A telegram from Leavenworth, Kansas,
reports that the military force on the plains
is insufficient to cope with the hostile Indians.
The troops have fought the Indians four
times. Several trains have been attacked
and quite number of the escort killed-the
women and children being carried off into
captivity.
Two Elks recently brought to Troy from
the plains by cavalryman, were turned into
the park adjoining the court house, where
they attracted much attention. The next
day the female made plunge through the
window and alighted on the floor of the JUS
tees Court, much to the CONSERVATION of the
crowd.
KENTUCKY ELECTION majority for
Duvall, Democrat, for Clerk of the Court of
Appeals in Kentucky, will not quite reach
4O,OO0. 1t has been reduced considerably
by the returns from the mountain counties.
The Democratic majority in the old Ashland
District is 1852. This used to be the old
Banner Wing District in Henry Clay times.
AN IMMENSE CHEEsE-A cheese has been
maze IN Canada recently, weighing three
ana nall tuns. and measuring six feet eight
inches In breadth and three feet in thickness
Eight hundred cows furnished the milk used
IN It's manufacture, and the latter WEIGHED
.nlrty-nve tuns. This cheese will be exhib-
iteo at an agricultural fair to be held at To-
ronto in September.
The CorroM CRor.-A late letter from,
Macon "a, gives us most encouraging ac
counts OF the cotton crop in Georgia, and
200, 900 to 100000 bales, we are assured
may be relied upon. This crop, at the low.
est estimate Of 100000 bales, would weld
In money, at 80 cents pound, the hand
some total Of $33, $50, 900. Several new
cotton factories are in process of erection in
Georgia, and elsewhere at the South. and
English capitalists, it is said, are negotiating
tor the purchase of cotton lands on large
scale. They may now be purchased in large
blocks, and Of excellent quality, at 1926 an