Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1866-09-07
NEWS ITEMS.

NEWS ITEMS.
Belle Boyd is playing aaline at Mobile.
Rich tin mines have been discovered near
Lynchburg.
TheIe are<nearly six hundred prisoners at.
the Dry Tortugas.
The Republican State Committee Of Con
neeticut are nearly all johnson men.
A Petroleum and Mining Company has
been organized in North Carolina.
At the ratification meeting in Memphis,
Gems, Stoneman and Forrest sat side by side.
The hog crop in New York State viii be
heavier than at any previous time within the
recollection Of ''ye Oldest grower
"a new. church called the Pendleton Pres
byterian Church has been organized in Pen
dIeton county, West Virginia.
The Southern Presbyterian Church CON
tains. ten syn6ass, forttnsix Presbytelies and
nearly ninety thousand COMMITMENTS.
Governor Jenkins has sold half a million
Of Georgia bonds in New York, at ninety
cents in the dollar
The locomotives and cars belonging to the
Manassas Gap railroad carried into The
South during the war for safety, are being
returned. stg 4
A man and woman have been discovered
living IN a. hQtin the woods near Harrisburg,
who wear no clothing except a girdle round
their IONS. .4
It is said that Gen Forrest has leased for
ten years the fine hotel ia Memphis known
as the 0verton House. There is no doubt
about his ability to keep hotel"
Col johnson, Of Arkansas, whom the
Radicals refused to admit to his seat in the
present Congress, or even to the floor Of the
House, has been elected 20 the next Con
gress.
Over z, 600, 900 letters came to the Uni
ted States, and 2.200, 900 newspapers, from
Great Britain IN 1865, and 2, 800, coo let
ters and 2 300, 0o0 newspapers went hence
to Great Britain in the same time.
+ We regret to see it stated that the French
company which undertook the completion Of
the Virginia canal from ..Richnond to the
Ohio river, has failed, Of abandoned the en-
terprise.
Mr. Seward was denied the compliment Of
q Welcome to New York on Wednesday, the
the State Senate, by q vote Of is to 7, re-
fusing to place him with Grant and Farragut
It is run1ored that Col Coleman, Of Balti-
more, purchased the Capan Springs property
for $40 900. He IS at present proprietor Of
the Eutaw House, Baltimore.
The Chicago Times thinks Illinois viii
send eight, and perhaps nine, representa-
tives to the next Congress who support the
Presidents policy The Radicals likely to
be displaced arc Baker, Kuydendall, Hard
ing, I]Fownwall and Cullum
One Of tie Philadelphia papersstates that
Major Cyrus j, Haldeman, Of that city, on
Tuesday, presented President johnson with
a policy Of insurance against accidents du-
ring his trip to Chicago and back, in the
sum of $40, COO
Fourteen ministers have been indicted in
ore eoQnty. in Missouri, for preaching the
gospel without a license p And this, in this
country, II the year 1866. This State
licensing for preaching the gospel" with
the oaths annexed, is the work of the Mis-
souri, radicals
WHERE THE sHon P1xeHEs Alta CON
seryatlve mass meeting Of 20 600 persons at
lhhaburg, Indiana, last Wednesday, the
lion Geo. Ii. Pendleton, in the course of
bis address. said Indiana and Massachusetts
have ab6at the same amount Of taxable prop
erty, yet Indiana pays double the amoent Of
direct tax that Massachusetts does