Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1866-06-29

s''Green peas in Baltimore-33 cents per
bushel ~.Hai2
Mrs. 'Fillmore's diamonds attract attention
in Paris. . - ~ ~@
Gen. Cass was estimated to be worth from
four to five millions.
E President johnson subscribed $4,000 to-
wards the new NJ. E. Church in Washing
ton. @
The Springfield Gil. } penitentiary built to
accommodate four hundred inmates. now
contains nine hundred and thirty three pris-
'oners. =
COMMODORE MAURy.-It is stated that
Commodore M. T; Maury has become nat
nralized Mexican citizen, and is to receive a
high appointment in the Mexican navy.
New York, June 15.-Fears are enter
tanned for the safety Of the clipper ship Mon
arch Of the Seas, now forty days over due
from Liverpool She sailed from that port
on March Goth with 700 passengers.
Mr.. Darlington, Of the Exchange Ho-
TEL announces that he has Telescope on
the observatory Of his hotel for theuse of his
guests. Mr.. c.. always was the Prince of
LANDLORDS $3.50
A man in California has made preparations
to hatch sixteen thousand chickens by steam
during the coming season. Washington
hep. Why is he like Forney? Because he
knows how to feather his nest.
Col. Thomas. T. Preston, of Charlottes-
vile, and Captain Samuel Watts, of Ports
mouth, have been appointed Visitors to the
University Of Virginia, instead Of Hon. Alex.
hives and Thomas c. Tabb, resigned.
TEMpERANcE CAUSE IN New YoRK.-Be-
tween the 18th of May and the 18th of June.
instant, the Board of Excise of New York
city received over one million (S1 ,OO1 ,31O)
dollars tor licenses to sell liquor in that CITY.
The. g.. following slanderous paragraph goes
..1unnrebuked: A wag has invented a new tele-
graph. lie proposes to place line of women
thirty steps apart, and commit the news to
the first as secret! s,.1
INSTRUMENTATION is currently reported
IN the city that negro named Henry Eu-
rope married yankee school marm' one
Gay last week; and left for the land of nut
megs to spend the honeymoon. -INobize Req
aster, 9th. -,
An old bachelor proposes the following
sentiment for the thirteenth regular toast
on the 4th.of July .sd r ~ - I'll
lis tsThe Fair-May their virtues exceed the
MAJ. magnitude of their skirts, while their faults
are still smaller than their bonnets.
The Franklin Tenn Reyieao saws that
the Confederate dead from the battle field
and for five miles about Franklin, have been
re removed ~ rec, and reinterred in the McGavock
cemetery: The number inferred is 1856.
Head and foot boards are placed to each
grave, and very few are unknown. r,4g>
4. s. Forde, who was tried and convicted
!, here, for the killing of Mr.. Dixon Clerk Of
the confederate House of Representatives is
dead. lie was awaiting new trial at the
Z Time OF the evacuation of the CITY and the
generaljail delivery which followed. -Ea-
squprer 81 bon. NV"
!. The Jonesboro' Union Flag Of the 1st
INST. says: cit is singular thing to behold
ene mountains around Jonesboro' wrapped in
mantle of snow in June, and vet it's 50 -
For the past week the weather has been
singing cold, with several heavy frosts ma
terlally injuring vegetation
CoSFEDERArE CoNrRAcrs-In case be-
lore Io the Circuit Court, Judge Marshal ruled
mat contracts made for money during the
war were to be settled at the price Of Con.
1ederate money at the time the contract was
made This is in accordance with the act Of Of
Assembly relative to such contracts nassed u
at the last session of that body. -Lmuchbuya
Neacs 0y''''o0'y
Or. T. W. Bell, an eminent physician Of
Louisville, makes these observations in 70 -
gard to cholera ssThe cause of this d;soaso
acts alone at night and upon sleenino nor.
sons. No amount of exposure in the worst r
localities of the distemper, imperils the wake
ful, moving individual. [ have seen hun
dreds Of instances of this fact without one
. alteration from the statement of the nrono-
sltion. I have myself spent many night
IN these localities during the ravages of the
epidemic, and never felt that I was in anv