Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1866-12-14

The colored people in Lynchburg are CIV
ing theatrical representations. q,
G.. A. Henry (the Eagle orator, Of Ten
nessee, has been pardoned by the President.
Pork is selling in Winchester at IS per
hundred, and the Times says it will be low
er.
There are rumors that Macmillan has ac-
ceded to the wishes of the conservative par
ty, and has returned to Mexico for the pur-
pose of carrying on the Empire.
Chief Justice Robertson, Of New York,
has decided that Southerners whose lives
were insured in Northern companies before
the war have not the right to renew their
policies on payment of the back premiums.
On one acre of ground at Deer Island, a
Mr.. Payson raised twenty-nine hundred and
fifty bushels of manzel wurzels-the greatest
amount ever raised in this country on one
acre.
An Irish washerwoman in Calaveras coun-
: ty, CAL, who was obliged to take share in
q newly discovered mine in payment for ser
vices her employer being unable to pay in
money, now derives an income Of $50, 900 a
year from it,. se
"Don't be foolish" You can make Six
dollars from Fifty Cents Call and examine
an invention urgently needed by every body.
Or a sample sent free by mail for Soc, that
retails easily for So, by r. L. Wollcott, ITO
Chatham Square, New York. -June15--1y.
A law has passed the Tennessee Legisla-
ture, appropriating the Hermitage property
and two hundred acres of the home of Gen
eral jackson to the General Government, to
be used as branch of the West Point Mill
tary Academy.
FREAK OF NATURE. Saturday last
3 DR.. j. W. Bronough, Of Manchester, Va,
!. delivered colored woman of female child
with two distinct faces, mouths, and four
eyes, the other part of the body of natural
formation. The child was said to have been
alive three days previous to its birth.
The Alexandria Gazette states that the
fine property of Mr.. w. N. McVeigh, in
that city, which, during the war, was ap-
81 propriated by the high minded Underwood,
e has been taken away from that worthy by
recent decree of the Circuit Court, and res
tored to the proprietor.
The first church for colored people ever
erected in the Valley of Virginia was dedi-
Gated at Harrisonburg on Sunday, the 25th
ult. It is called the John Wesley Church,
after the great founder of Methodism, and
the minister in charge is the Rev. Andrew
Edmundson, who was once a slave.
The interesting report of Dr. F. T. Strib-
ling, the able Superintendent of the Lunatic
Asylum, shows that since July, 1886, pc
Rod of thirty years, nineteen hundred pa
tients have been admitted to this Institution,
Of whom about nine hundred, or nearly half,
" have been cured.
The Legislature of Georgia proposes to
secure native teachers, by providing that ev-
cry Georgia soldier, under thirty years of
age, manned in the service, may be educa-
ted at the State University at the public ex-
pense, for such length of time as he will give
his obligation to teach after leaving the Uni
versity.
~ GUTTA PERcHA CEMENT. is made
z by dissolving the gutta percha in chloroform
= 80 as to produce honey-like fluid, which is
spread upon the articles to be veneered and
allowed to dry. The pieces are then warmed
until the coating softens, and are pressed to-
gether Patches Of leather may be thus put
Z upon boots in manner which defes equally
detection and dampness
- VIRGINIA MILITARY INSTITUTE. has
been resolved by the Society of Alumni of
the Virginia Military Institute that me-
mortal chapel" should be erected, in the cen
tire of which shall be a marble statue of Stone
wall jackson. and on the walls, tablets COM
memorating those scholars of the Institute
who fell in the war Just closed. Busts of
Gems. Rodes and Garland and Col. Crutch
held will also be placed in it,
"A bill has passed one branch Of the Geor-
ga Legislature to exempt from levy and sale
certain property of every debtor in the State.
The bull exempts 100 acres of land, or four
acres In city, town or village, provided the
same is not worth more than $4,000. It
excmpts two horses or mules, two cows and
calves, one cart and yoke of oxen, together
with years supply Of corn. bacon or pork.
Also, professional books, agricultural imple-
ments, etc., etc.
In jefferson City, Mo-, division has &C.
Cured in the Order of Good Templars which
has resulted in the formation Of two lodges
one styled Union, the other Rebel. The run-
ture arose from the persistence of the mem
bers OF the order with rebel proclivities in
tearing out the true colors in the insignia of
their order-which is red, white and blue
and preserving the colors of red and white
to which they were partial This proceed
ing was denounced by the Union members.
ana stoutly defended by the rebellious.
THE PRESIDENCY. Colorado Jewett has
memorialized Congress to declare ex-Vice-
President Hamin, the rightful President Of
the United States. He takes the ground that
at the presidential election in 1860 all the
States voted for OF against Lincoln and Ham
lin but in 1864 eleven Southern States did
not chosse electors either for or against Lin
coin rand johnson, therefore Mr.. Havl;n ;s
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