Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1866-04-27
NEWS ITEMS.

The Southern Express Company was rob-
bed at Brazos, Texas, last week, Of twenty
five thousand dollars
10 A vein Of metal Is inches thick, contain
ing SO per cent. Of pure silver, has been dis
covered in jackson county, West Virginia
Beau Hickman doubts whether under the
Civil Rights bill whiskey can be banished
from the Capitol
A, single woman at Lacrosse has three
good houses, besides some hundreds in gov
eminent bonds, to show for eight years of
+ steady devotion to the wash tub ayr.
~ General Beauregard, in company with
other persons, has bought the aCarrollton
Oa.) Railroad. )ga eF:ET
q The friends of Admiral Raphael Semmes
have placed him in nomination for Judge of
the Probate Court of Mobile county He
will, of course, be elected.
The North American says, if johnson
policy prevails, General Lee will be the next
Democratic candidate for President with a
fair prospect of an election. gfz
A newspaper correspondent who has tray
eled over several hundred miles in Pennsyl-
vania, Delaware and Maryland, reports that
excepting, perhaps, one field in Twenty-Five
the wheat is in fine condition.
A Galveston paper says Cotton is up and
promising. The silk cotton, approximating
the Sea Island is largely planted. Corn crops
are dressed out and the wheat is admirable
and promising. % II se1s.g
Over seven hundred cases of measels and
other diseases have recently occurred at Aus
tin, Texas, Of which large per centage ter
minated fatally. The epidemic was at last
accounts on the decrease, only for want of
material to work upon 8 y = A'&S-<..st't5
There are only two States in the Union
!, where the negro is allowed to vote without
property qualification, They are Vermont
and New Hampshire, the former Of which
has eighty negro voters, and the latter one
hundred and ninety. s5-e.a hea
HARD TO c1DE.-Taking fair, square,
unprecedented view of the situation as it is
now presented, about the most difficult ques
ton to decide is, whether the abolition party
belongs to the negro, or whether the negro
belongs to the abolition party. Which is it !?
The laws Of Pennsylvania prohibit the in
termarriage Of negroes and whites; the ne
: gro equality bill which the: disunionists in
the United States Senate have just passed
/ over the. Presidents veto will if put into eff
feet, virtually annul that law, and allow of
all the amalgamation that debased and bru
fish creatures could desire. +, sota aas
All the recent local elections at the West
show heavy Democratic gains. ST. Lou;s
deemed a stronghold of Radicalism, has lust
gone Democratic by 5000 majority. In
Cincinnati the heavy republican majority has
been cut down by over $1,000. In Indian
aapols the Democrats have gained from sly
to seven thousand votes se,r"
DIRECT TAX ON THE SonTu 1rnss r u,,a
The amount of direct tax levied on South
8 err States by act Of Congress 5th August
1901, IS enumerated as follows, with the
amounts paid and unpaid 80 -. -
u Virginia levy $685. 1S 06, paid s1o3. :
: 69o q amount unpaid 1904 ,227 81
North Carolina levy $4s9 ,765 II, tax paid
$73 1896 10, unpaid Sale, 1869 81; South
Carolina levy 5000 ,035 OF, tax paid s245 :
~ ~ PPaiV SPoo 20 HI: tennessee levy
$ $oo9 'oSS 80, tax paid $36O,OOO, unpaid
$ooY, o1S 30 Arkansas levy 1920, SOB 70,
.l tax paid s53,3e5 80, unpaid $l6e, POS 50.
e. The largest Sunday School in the world is
IN Stockport, England. In one building
/. there are now over 4 900 under the same e
ROOF o adylded among Sc rooms There are
over 5oo teachers, and all except FIVE of
these have been scholars What is remark
able is that over 2,o00 of these scholars are
past IL years Of age, and more of them are
boys than girls, and more of the teachers
are ARENA males : than females. 4 Besides instruc-
nons IN Scripture, they teach wi writing and
elementary book Keeping, with no books used
:ccpt the Bible A great portion Of the
scholars are operatives in factories. and have
no Other. means Of c1luoa4;o.>. -