Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1866-04-13
NEWS ITEMS.

NEGROES LEAVING GEORGIA.--Ihe Mil
Iedgcvillc papers say the negroes are leaving
Georgia by thousands, to labor in the west.
Mrs. Jefferson Davis is in Washington,
Mer brother, Dick Taylor, is also there en-
deavoring to obtain permission for her to
visit Mr.. Davis, at Fort Monroe.
The expense Of the fashionable ladies of
Paris is said to be enormous in the matter Of
dress nova days. Their latest finish of
ball and party CATERS is pure gold or silver
heels c3
The ladies Of Winchester realized So ,005
fo4n their Fair in Baltimore which amount
they have equally divided between the Lu-
theran Church and the Soldiers Cemetery
The Southern Relief Fair in Baltimore is
one of the greatest successes Of the day.
Dense crowds filed the Hall Of the Maryland
Institute during the whole of Tuesday and
hundreds could not get inside of the build
ing.
NEw York, dprt7 3-The Eryrcss has
ruanor of the equipping and putting to sea
Of a feet of vessels, commanded by expert
enced officers and that certain prominent
Fenians are absent from their accustomed
posts.
There is lawyer in Stafford, New Hamp-
shire, who, in addition to doing comfortable
law business, carries on farm, claim agen-
cy and two stores, i'll which goods are sold
annually to the amount Of about S25, 600.
Eight thousand COWS have died of the dis
ease called rande,pest, in Herkimer county,
New York, within the last year. 1t is said
by the State Agricultural Society of New
York, that the disease is steadily increasing.
The Salt Lake Videtter SAYS that ''funny
freaks occur in Utah" A short time since,
Mormon was frozen between two wives.
He was engaged in hauling wood between
the respective cabins of his first and second
wives.
The Louisville, Ky, Journal says that in
1861 and 1862 there were in cultivation
1000 plantations in sixteen parishes of Lou
isiana, on which 389, SAT hogsheads of sugar
were produced. In 1864 and 1865 there
were only ITO plantations worked, pradu-
cling 6,755 hogsheads of sugar.
In the case of Bradley T. johnson, who
was recently arrested in Baltimore, and held
to bail on an Indictment for treason, found
against him by the Grand Jury Of the Uni
ted States District Court, President Johnson
has ordered that the bail be released and the
prosecution discontinued.
To BIZ CONTINUED 1t is reported to-day
that the Republicans in Congress, after pri-
vate consultation, have agreed to continue
the session until December next, in order to
prevent the President from removing certain
officers, and for other purposes, of course.
Their majority being SO large, they can eas>
lily do this. BY relieving certain number
each month, they can manage to keep quo
rum and a majority on their side ALWAYS
present Wash. Cor. Philadelphia Age,
april I'd.
REMARKABLE ELopEMENr. One of the
most remarkable cases of elopement that has
come under our observation in long while
has just transpired in the village Of Groqs.
beckville, adjoining the lower part of the city.
A man named George Rosenbeck, aged
eighty-fve, ran off with a German woman
aged seyenty-6ye. Both are married and
have large families. What could possibly
incite this pair to such step is indeed a
mystery, But such is life. albany KaicA.
erbocker 7ghs1E 81 sqE~6
A WALKER. The Indianapolis GaseAc
notices the arrival in that city of most re-
markable walker by the name of Frederick
Shaffer, German, whose pcregrinatious
have extended all over Europe and the
greater part Of Asia and Africa, and is now
on his way across the plains to California,
ula Salt Lake City and thence to Japan and
China. He is making the tour of the world
on foot. Mr.. Shafer is about thirty, and
J is far below the common stature, being only
about four feet SIX inches in height, owing.
to disease Or deformity of the spine He is
said to be very intelligent, and conyerScs
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