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

General E. Kirby Smith has gone with
his family from Lynchburg to reside in Ken
lucky.
Bishop Early has sufficiently recovered
from his late serious injuries to be out again.
Eight and half miles Of streets and lanes
were burned over by the fire in Portland
The trial Of the implicated agents of the
Freedmen's Bureau at Raleigh is progress
ing.
Mrs. David Smith, of Lebanon, Tennes-
see, recently gave birth to four six-pounders.
An u S. regular is on trial at Richmond
for marrying negro washerwoman while
having a wife in Massachusetts.
Mr. John r. Stevens, of Nashville, Ten
nessee, was robbed of, or lost, a pocket-bo
containing S., 000in Fredericksburg money.
James Robinson, the great bare back ri
der was lost by drowning while out in a skiff
sailing, near Boston, a few days since.
Dr. Anderson Holcombe (brother of Pro
fessor Hocombe,) highly esteemed and
very intelligent gentleman, died IN Lynch
burg last Sunday.
Seven counterfeiters of the national cur
rency have been arrested in New York. A
large amount of bogus money, plates and
dies were captured.
Hon Caleb Gushing is expected to deliver
an address at the approaching Masonic cele-
bration in Newburyport, Mass.
A correspondent of the Petersburg Iader
says that better crops may be expected
throughout North Carolina than the most
hopeful anticipated.
Penfeid College, Georgia, has conferred
the degree of L. L. D. on the illustrious
President of Washington College, Virginia,
General r. &. Lee.
Mrs. John j. Hanson, niece of the poet
Oliver Goldsmith, it is said, is living in poy-
erty and suffering from disease in West Ho-
boken.-N. Y. Herald.
W. II. Milburn, the celebrated blind
preacher, has accepted call to the Temporal
ry rectorship of the Trinity GpiscopaD
Church in Chicago.
The All-Healing Springs report IS visi-
tors; the Rockbridge Alum, 265 the Rock
bridge Baths, 275; Warm, 40 :; Hot, 80;
Bath Alum, co. The White Sulphur has
so, and 81 at Stribling's.
RELIGIOUS APPOINTMENT. Bishop Magill,
of Richmond, has appointed the Rev Father
James O'Ferrall to the Fredericksburg
Catholic Mission, including the churches
of Warrenton and Fairfax
The Geological Garden at Dresden has
been destroyed. The smaller animals were
given away or turned loose the larger beasts
were killed; and the ground has been level
led for fertilization.
~~-1aen: G. Tochman is in Baltimore collect
ing funds to enable some of his fellow -coun-
trymen, Polish political exiles, to obtain the
necessary agricultural implements to farm in
Virginia, where they propose to settle.
INcEND1AR1sM. On the night of the 18th
ult. barn on the Baldwin estate, about ten
miles from Winchester, was burnt 1t con-
tanned about two hundred bushels of wheat,
belonging to Isaac N. Pangle.
A merchant having sent, in obedience to
an order, fifty barrels of -four to grocer in |
the Provinces, recently received anotherorder
which he thinks has malice in it, or else that
the man did not get what he expected, viz
"Send down fifty hogs to eat up that -four"
The capture of SLAYER in Pensacola Bay
has been reported to the Navy Department.
The SLAYER had on board one hundred and
fifty freedmen, and was bound for Cuba
Parties in Mobile. New Orleans and New
York are implicated in this kidnapping af-
fair.
Nearly all the participants in Picnic at
the place of Mr.. Samuel Davis, near Fred
ericksburg, were made singularlY i'll by
something either eaten OF drank on the occa-
sion. *s
WAsursGros, Aug John Ross, Chief
of the Cherokee Nation died here Yesterday