Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1866-08-10
News Items.


News Items.
Brownlow has appointed a man who acted
as gunsmith to the Confederates, judge.
Senator John P. Stockton will be one of
the New Jersey delegates to the Philadelphia
Convention.
Mr.. VIM LANCE, near Fredericksburg.
raised over 800 bushels of wheat from fifteen
acres Of ground.
Mr.. G. Cole, of Fredericksburg, raised
stalk of corn sixteen feet high and nine feet
to the first year Of corn.
The business men of Houston, Texas,
have resumed specie payments. All trans
actions are based on specie estimates
The Shenandoah Herald says: So far as
we can learn, the quality of the wheat in
this county is better than it has been for
several years.
Mrs. Hutton, wife Of Mr. John Hutton,
living near Cedarville, in Washington coun-
ty, committed suicide on the 23d ult- In
sanity.
New wheat has been sold in this market at
So per bushel, forty days credit. It was
very fine, weighing over sixty pounds to the
bushel. -Rochinghams Register.
Charles Stewart, senior Rear Admiral of
the United States Navy, the naval hero Of
1912, celebrated the eighty eighth anniver-
sary of his birthday On the 2Sth.
The reported kidnapping of negroes on the
coast of Florida is now pronounced on the
authority of the Navy Department, to be en-
tirely without foundation.
The new wing Of the Virginia Military
Institute, Lexington, is being rapidly rebuilt,
and it is thought will be ready by the COM
mencement of the fall session.
A young coIored barber in Petersburg at
tempted suicide on Friday night at colored
ball, on account of trouble with his dulcinea.
He cut himself several times with knife
but killing was 'sno go"
Roanoke Times says fine rains have fallen
in that section during the past week. Corn
is looking remarkably WE'LL and promises an
abundant yield. The corn crops in Craig,
Montgomery, Franklin and Bctetourt are
also good.
Gen. Daniel Rugglos, Of King George,
had two valuable animals stolen from him on
Tuesday morning last-one Of them veter-
an war horse, rode by him at the battle of
'sShiloh," which name he bears, and in other
battles of the war.
Notwithstanding the wreck Of the Ephe-
sus, Col Lamb will proceed to Europe by
the first steamer, and will continue his en-
deavors to establish permanently direct COM
munication by steam between Norfolk and
Liverpool.
New ORLEANS, August 4.-The Grand
Jury has indicted twenty -six members Of the
revolutionary Convention. Several have
been arrested and bailed in 81 500 each.
By order of General Sheridan, martial law
is continued in force.
It is stated that the salt mines of Nevada
throw into the shade all others known in the
United States. One bed is reported to cover
1880 acres, yielding 1000, 000,0 900 tons
annually Of salt, per cent. fine. No bottom
to this salt bed has ever been discovered.
Justice Thomas Hopewood, Of Prince
Fredericktown, Calvert county, Maryland,
has been arrested and released on his own
recognizance, in the sum of one thousand
dollars, to answer the charge of refusing to
take the testimony Of negro against white
man.
SUDDEN DEATH OF MAJOR GENERAL NJ. L.
SMITH. This gentleman, who was, at the
close Of the war, chef engineer of General
Lees army, and recently appointed engineer
Of the railroad from Selma to Dalton, died at
the Tennessee House in this city, on Sunday
morning. He had a violent attack of in
fammation Of the bowels on Friday morning,
and no medicine had the effect to abate the
disease. -Rome Georgia Courier, july 81.