Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1866-09-21

"Queen Emma shawl
One county in Ohio produces 4, 452, 500
pounds of cheese.
Kitchen girls are now termed young ladies
OF the other paror.
The mud is so deep in Galveston, Texas,
that the citizens promenade on stills.
Wives are bought and sold in Egypt
The price varies from six bits to fifteen hun
dred dollars
The corn crop this year will reach one
thousand millions Of bushels This will ill
the crops of the people.
Several of the Radical papers have raised
the names eff Ben. Butler for President, and
Parson Brownlow for Vice President
A general order has been issued from the
s. War Department to abolish the office of pro-
vost marshal of the District of Columbia.
J. Scott Harrison, son of President Har-
rison, and formerly member of Congress, is
the Johnson candidate for Clerk Of Court at
Cincinnati
A despatch from San Francisco states that out
ofnine counties heard from in California, sew
en- have gone in favor of the Administration
ticket.
There is negro in Philadelphia whose
feet measure twenty nine inches. We think
the Radicals ought to secure them for apa,ty
platform,
The jackson (MississippD Clarion says
that Joseph E. Davis, the venerable brother
Of the ex-Confederate President, has been
pardoned by President johnson.
The Houston Telegraph has good author
ity for stating that General Magruder will re-
turn to the United States shortly and become
a good loyal citizen thereof
There are three representative men in the
Convention now assembled at Philadelphia
Douglass, the niger, Butler, the Beast, and
Brownlow, the Devil What trio!
of you had avoided rum" said rum
seller to a customer. you would now ride in
your carriage" "And if you had never
sold rum" said the bacchanal, "you would
have been my driver"
Last week, sixteen pounds of tobacco. three
gross of Matches eight pounds of pepper, and
three bottles of whiskey were found under
the skirts of three females, by the Custom
House officer at Ogdensburg.
Exactly seventeen years elapsed from the ap-
pearance of the first Asiatic cholera in the year
1882 until its temperance in 1849 until the
visitation IN the present year, giving an inter-
val of seventeen years between each occasion.
New YORK, Sept. ia Toronto dis
patch says the Canadian papers urge that the
United States is responsible for the Fenian
troubles and demand that England shall de-
clare war if the Fenia Ire not suppressed
There is large and luxuriant field of cot
ton in side the city limits of Petersburg,
which, says the Express, is on Halifax street,
and is cultivated by Mr. Thomas Kirkham,
who expects to raise about eight bales of the
valuable staple.
M. W. Baldwin, very extensive manu-
facturer of locomotives, in New York city,
died at his residence, at Tacony, on Friday
evening. Mr. Baldwin built the first loco
motive ever run on a railroad in this country.
on model sent to him by George Stephen
son in 1929.
The Darlington IS. c. Southerner says
that there is movement on hand among the
freedmen OF that place, to get up petition
to the President, for the withdrawal of the
military, the abolition Of Provost Courts, and
putting stop to the interference of the Bu-
reau with the affairs of the blacks.
BY private letter received from London
we learn that there are but four of the
Shenandoah" officers left in Europe: Cap
tam Waddell, Paymaster Fred J. McNulty,
Assistant surgeon Lieutenant Smith and
Master Buloch A number of them have
gone to Mexico, and others to South Amer
lea.
A company of English capitalists, with
capital of $4,000, 900, are about to Start an
enormous cotton factory establishment for
supplying European trade at Charleston, S.
T. They design this to eclipse all others thro'-
out the entire sea coast. They are backed
by the wealthiest firms in England and
France.
ALBANY, N. Y, Sept 12.-Jno. T HoH-
man democrat, and present Mayor of New
tork, has been nominated Governor and R.
d Pruyn, of Albany, Conservative Repub-
hcan, } for Lieut.. Governor. The platform,
adopted by the Conservative Convention en-
dorses the Philadelphia Convention of the
l4th August, and declares the Southern
States IN the Union and entitled to represen-
tation in Congress.
The Boston Commonwealth, ''the organ"
of Sumner, has broken ground in favor Of
the abolition of the office Of President, and
exults IN the strife between the President
and Congress, on the ground that it will lead
to that result. The country can do very
we'll without Chief Magistrate !" is the con.