Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1867-02-08

New I Ork has 80 Oh more women lnaH
men.
Florida and Cuba are to be connected by
telegraphic cable.
Radical Governor Cox, of Ohio, has de-
clined to be a candidate for reelection.
It is rumored that Jenny Lind will again
visit this country
A youth in Burlington, Iowa, has married
his step-mother.
The snow drifts on the Allegheny noun
tains are thirty feet high.
A pair of shad, the first of the season, sold
in the Wilmington market, on Monday, for
$40
The MARYLAND Legislature has passed
bill restoring Confederates to the right of
suffrage.
Colonel Burton N. Harrison, formerly
private secretary of Jefferson Davis, is prac-
iicing law in New York city
Fresh behring's, the first of the season,
were in the Norfolk market on Monday, and
sold at forty-fve cents per dozen.
The Freedmen's Bureau in Richmond is
now issuing rations, fuel and clothing, to the
INDECENT whites as well as blacks.
A fire at Hagcrstowo Sunday night de-
stroycd the Eeagle Hotel, the Mail office, two
clothing stores and drug store. Loss $780,
600, mostly insured.
It Will surprise some people to learn that
the Federal military. still occupy the Execu
tive Mansion at Raleigh to the exclusion of
the Governor of the State.
Ronalds is great skater, in Louisville,
KY, He has no legs, and uses three skates
He sits upon one, and uses the other two
with his hands.
Cattle in Texas are said to be in excellent
order. Fine beeves are selling at from four
teen to fifteen dollars each, for specie. Sheep
are selling at one dollar and half per head,
and pork at two and half and five cents per
pound.
The Ashtabula Sentinel says: ga highly
respectable lady Of Detroit has on three
Christmas days out Of the last four, presen-
ted her delighted husband with little &c re-
soonsibility." Date of births-December %,
1868, 1865, 1866"
A CURIOSITY. Knoxville Tenn.
MESSENGER tells Of negro child which was
born there on the 10th Of January, having
only one ear, no nose, 16 fingers, 16 toes,
and single eve in the centre Of the forehead.
twas still born.
"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
retaiis easily for Sc, by R. L. Wollcott, 40
Chatham Square, New York. June 15--1y
DECLINE IN F1oUR.-Consumers will be
glad to learn-or would be if retailers ever
heard of such news that during the week
the best grades OF -four have declined from
thirty to fifty cents, and lower grades some
what less.-Ncso York Enpress,
CHANCES OF FUNDAMENTALLY Wash
ington correspondent Of the Springfield
(Mass. Republican, reputed as accurate in
his observations and statements, estimates
the chances Of impeachment as being one in
hundred, and Of conviction as one in a
thousand.
A leading dry goods merchant Of New
York said to us yesterday: Il would will
lingly draw my check for a hundred thous-
and dollars as bonus to any benevolent in
stitution if the House would tomorrow dis
miss the subject Of impeachment "-Albany
Journal (Padical, J 10Th.
THE AMENDMENT IN Mississippi. -Nem
Orleans, January 29.-General Alcorn,
United States Senator elect from Mississippi
has addressed both branches of the Mississippi
pi Legislature advising them to accept the
Constitutional amendment as the least of
Congressional evils A unanimous vote re-
jecting it was the response.
THE WESTERN Pork TRADE.-A CORES
pendent of the Springfield Qll) Journal
gives the number of hogs packed in the West
this season to the 18th instant. The total
number is put down at 1 ,406.239 against
1, S91 .51S, last season. Chicago claims to
take lead, having this season packed 1872, 900
while Cincinnati has packed 800, 900, St.
Louis 1916, coo, and Louisville 100000.
A dispatch from Richmond. Published iu
the newspapers, says: Elm consequence Of
the prolonged cold weather, there is great suf-
fering among the poor whites and freedmen
in this State. 1t is reported that over two
freedmen have been thrown out of
employment by the suspension of work in the
tobacco factories. The Freedmen's Bureau
is issuing rations to the destitute, and Gen.
Oh. Browne, assistant commissioner of the
Bureau, is in Washington endcavoring to
procure relief for them"
DISASTER ON THE NORTHWESTERN VIRGIN
IA RoAD.-The Eaton tunnel, on the North
western Virginia Railroad, about thirty miles
cast of Parkersburg, fell in on Thursday. |
Two men we're killed, third supposed to be |
MORALLY wounded, and nine others more or
less badly injured Since the first fall there
have been others, until at this time, it is said |
the tunnel is pretty well gorged. Workmen
are reported as refusing to enter it for the
purpose of clearing away the ruins, and the
probability is that it cannot be re-opened be-
fore March, or until the weather becomes
settled - IFbee7ip1 Re0jstcr