Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1866-12-21
NEWS ITEMS.

! COuT COutueTu HeeQlnen are III the Con-
nccticut jails for alleged murders.
The unconditional Union men of Louisiana
have nominated for Governor Mr. Rondinez,
the colored editor of the New Orleans Trib-
unc.
Caleb Lyons. formerly Governor of idaho,
is the gentleman who was robbed of SAT 900
on Wednesday, in the train from New York,
while on his way to Washington.
A New Orleans dispatch states that Gen
eral Sedgwick pleads that he acted merely
under the private general instructions of his
superior officer in his movement against Mat
amoras.
+ Wendell Phillips is out in last weeks
Anti-Slavery Standard in favor of Fred.
Douglass as United States Senator from New
York, in place of Hon. Ira Harris.
The United States government has paid
500, 900 in gold for cable dispatches to Mr..
Bigelow relative to Mexican affairs.
Maximilian's last dollar is on exhibition in
San Francisco brokers' office.
| Hon -Fohn Hogan, member of Congress
from o5 Louis, has commenced an action
against the Chicago Tribune" for libel,
laying his damages at $50, 600 This makes
$725, 600 now pending against that paper on
similar suits.
The trial Of Mollie Trussell, for killing
George Trusscll. commenced at Chicago
some weeks since, was concluded on Satur-
day The jury rendered verdict Of man
! slaughter, and she was sentenced to one year
| in the peniteutiary.
There is a lady in her eighty fourth year,
residing near Gettysburg, learning the to-
bacconist trade. She has lately commenced
stripping tobacco; and then to prepare and
roll segars. She is said to be quite active in
all she does, and can do good days work
for SO old lady
Hon. VIM. johnson, President Of the
Charlotte and Columbia Railroad, has dona-
ted to Miss NJ. A. Buie, of Columbia S. c.,
plantation"of one hundred acres, on high
and healthy ridge. with a cool and gushing
spring Of pure water, for a proposed school
or college for isent orphans.
The Louisville journal says that alady
of that city has examined all the latest fash
ion reports and visited all the principal milli-
merry stores. to pick out winter bonnet.
She reports as the result Of her examinations,
that there are now eigLty-six different styles
! Of bonnets.
The niggers, Eve place them first as the
more respectable of the batch) in the Dis
trict Of Columbia and The radicals headed
| by Forney, are in ccstacies at the passage of
the District Suffrage BILL The poisoned
chalice may yet be commended to their own
| lips.
CONVENTION OF SOUTHERN GoyERNoRs. -
'Data" Of the Baltimore ''Sun" says that
proposition to hold convention of the Gov
errors of the Southern States to consider the
political situation and determine what course
should tie pursued in order to meet the legal
demands of Congress and the Radical party,
is row under consideration by prominent
Southcrners, who are and have been in cor
respondcnce with the Governors above
named.
The Alexandria Gazette" has been in
formed by Dr. Paul Gregory that he has
specimen Of gold and a small quantity of
quartz found on land within six miles of that
city, weighing two and BALI ounces. which
Professor Henry thinks is pare article
On the farm adjoining the one on which
this specimen was found, the Doctor says he
washed out seven ounces of gold inside Of
two days, and he is under the impression
that this gold is found in the vein which runs
through Maryland, Virgini', North Carolina
and Georgia. He has leased q large guam
tity Of land in the vicinity of where his spcci-
mems were discovered.