Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1867-01-04
NEWS ITEMS.


!. NEWS ITEMS.
There are now seventy-eight manufacto-
ries of cotton, calico and wooden goods in
Georgia.
Massachusetts, has three negroes in her
Legislature and three hundred and fifty-four
in the State Prison.
The Manassas Gap Railroad will be COM
pleted and the trains running to Piedmont
10 the course of Eve weeks.
Among the noticeable features of the day
is the collapse of crinoline. 1t is visable to
the most careless observer on the streets any
fine day.
A special Washington dispatch says chat
the President will hereafter refuse the use of
troops in the Southern States. except IN case
of riot
Dr. e. W Bagby is the Washington cor
respon lent Of the Charlestown Mercury, over
the Signature of Hermes He filed the
same position before the war.
A medical gentleman Of Richmond has
discovered that rubbing with Kerosene oil
is valuable remedy for rheumatism. 1t is
cheap remedy and well worth trying. It
can do no harm,
A diminutive specimen of the genus homo
in Evansville, Indiana, weighing ninety -four
pounds has just taken unto himself wife
weighing upwards of two hundred pounds,
whose maiden name is Fanny Ophelia Rags
dale.
H. B. Lewis who was convicted in King
George county, Va, of manslaughter, for
killing DR.. Rose, and sentenced to the PEN
it,nitentiary for three years and six months,
was on Saturday pardoned by the Governor
of this State.
Hon. ALEXANDER H. STEPHENS.
have information that this distinguished gen
tleman is engaged on work to be called
The History of the war between the States"
and that arrangements have already been en-
tered into for its publication.
The Cabinet at Washington has decided
that the decision ofthe Supreme Court in the
Milligan case-pronouncing military COM
missions and courts illegal-must be recog-
nized, sustained, and obeyed in good faith
b. all parties.
Don't be foolish" You can make Six
dollars from Fifty Cents. Call and examine
an invention urgently needed by every body.
Or sample sent free by mail for Soc, that
retails easily for IS, by r. L. Wollcott, 40
Chatham Square, New York.-June 15--1y
An application was made on Wednesday,
before Chief. Justice Chase for haJeos corpus
in the case of Dr. Mudd, one of the Lincoln
conspirators by A. Sterrett Riogels, of the
Baltimore bar. Hon. Revcdy johnson is
retained in the case.
The negroes of DR.. O. B. Early, of Mem
phis, returned to him last week, and claimed
and received their former situations Lured
off by Bureau agents, they stated that they
had been told they must work for So month
which left them the alternative either to steal
starve, or 60 back to their master
The town Of Coburg, in Canada West,
was on Saturday night last lighted up with
new gas made froln pine wood, bones and
refuse vegetable and animal matter. The
manner of manufacturing this gas is not sta
ted, but the light produced by it is represent
ed to have been quite brilliant.
Two children, aged seven and nine years,
persisted of cold and starvation in Cincinnati
last Friday. Their mother was intoxicated.
and their father is serving out term in the
State prison. for attempted murder. If that
had occurred in the South. and the children
had been black, what ahuc and cry Congress
WOuld have made
The fredericksburg Herald says: 1.-The
wonderful profits Of the grape may be gather
ed from the experience Of Mr. Marcus Buck,
Of Warren county, Va. We are informed
that MIR. Buck planted ten acres with grape
cuttings just about the breaking out Of the
war. Last season Mr.. b. sold in Baltimore,
fresh from the press, IS, 900 worth Of wine !
Nearly 81 ,OCO per acre."
Mr.. Elliott, of the Montana Post. is the
fortunate possessor of a remarkable fossil.
which was accidentally discovered by some
miners in Bivin's Gulch, Montana aud for
which Mr.. Elliott has already refused one
thousand dollars. 1t is moler tooth taken
from fragxEt of jaw bone FIVE feet in length
rnd weighing Fifty seven pounds. The
tooth itself weighs about three pounds. and
is described as of curious confeuration. not
uni - ascluster of four beavers claws over
lyin Fah other It is believed in Denver
to Pie largest fossil Of the kind yet dis