Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1866-08-03

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General N. B. Forrest, Confederate States
Army, is in Washington.
Thread is made in New Orleans from the
stalks of the cotton plant.
1t is estimated that the receipts Of Gus
toms at the Southern ports will amount to
nearly ST., 900, 900.
Gen. Jubal A. Early arrived at Halifax
Nova Scotia, on Wednesday last, en- route
for California.
Petroleum is said to have been used with
great success in cases Of asthma, exhibiting
1t by rubbing on the neck and breast
a residence for Gen. Lee. and a chane,
for the College, are both to be built at Lex
ington, Virginia.
- Inc ot. Louis Democrat and Chicago
Tribune advocate the removal of the Ma
honal Capitol to some more central locality
George Davis, of North Carolina, Attor-
ney General Of the Southern Confederacy at
the time Of its collapse, has been pardoned
~ uHe IeSldenG.
Rev. John Clark, Of Halifax, has re-
turned from the North supplied with money
to build church for his former slaves. He
also intends to establish school for them.
An immense wigwam or tent, capable Of
holding ten thousand persons, is to be built
lor the accommodation Of the Philadelphia
Convention.
Baltimore, July 26-The great railroad
bridge over the Susquehanna river at Hayre
de Grace was destroyed by tornado last
night. Loss, one million Of dollars.
One hundred packages Of gold and silver,
belonging to the royal family of the Hano-
verlan government, have reached the Bank
of England in safety. This is preparing
for rainy day"
The richest men in Chicago are mechan-
les 6. Shutter, wagon maker, income
$50, 701; G. H. Mccormick, manufactu-
rer Of reaping machines income, S153,
1876.
A man in Portland told Boston mer.
chant day or two since that the fire in Port
land was good enough for them; and that all
New England ought to be served in the same
way for their treatment of the South.
On the 9th of next month there will be in
the United States 1855 money order postfices
OF which FIVE are in Virginia, namely: At
Richmond, Petersburg, Norfolk, Old Point
and Alexandria.
Two former citizens of Berkeley county
have returned from California after an alb
sence OF seventeen years, during which their
families heard nothing of them. One of
them found his wife married to another man.
A special dispatch from St. Joseph, Mo-,
states that the Indians are massing for war,
and that as soon as the corn is ripe they will
start on the war path. They are well sup
piled with arms and ammunition.
All soldiers on furlough in Russia, have
been called in, and every day military trains
were starting from Warsaw to the frontiers
of Silesia and Gallacia. Russia NAV take
hand in the game yet.
WASHINGTON, July 26.-The Secretary
OF State gave dinner party to-day to the
Tennessee delegation. Among those pres
ent were Governor Sharkey and Gov. Par
sons, of Ala.
Col. W. L. Broom has been elected Pro
fessor of Natural Philosophy and Astronomy
in the University of Georgia Col. B. was
formerly in charge Of the ordnance Office,
G. S. A., at Richmond.
Miss Fannie Forrest, niece of General
Forrest, burned fatally few days since by
the explosion from which she was pouring
coal oil at the time upon burning wood in or
der to kindle the fire more rapidly, lived on
ly few hours after the accident
NEGRO RIOT In KENTUCKY. telegram
from Cairo, July "a, states that riot be-
tween whites and negroes, occasioned by a
railroad conductor attempting to cut a button
off negro's coat occurred at Columbus,
Kentucky, On saturday Three or four ne
groes were killed and several whites are
missing. 1t is not yet known whether the
lattef were Killed.
GENERAL J. G. WALKrR.-An English
paper states that Major-G General J C. Walk
er, OF the late Confederate army, has been
appointed Colonel Of an English regiment.
Gen. Walker commanded division in the
army of Tennessee, serving with distinction
through all its campaigns, and especially dis
tinguishlng himself at the siege Of Nashville,
in 1864
GREAT MORTALITY IN PHILADELpnIA.---
There were seven hundred and sixteen
deaths in Philadelphia last weel-something
unprecedented for that city OF these eight
were caused by cholera and forty-four by
sunstroke. This unusual mortality is as
cribed to the extreme heat, which was great
er than has been known there since 177S.
The deaths for the corresponding week last
year were not so many By tso hundred and
as,reniT-ii7e.