Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1867-03-29

' AZ AoAo'4nS w onii anouleo Iue HeSIOeS.
Ohio proposes to fine or imprison any
teacher in the State who fogs pupil.
BALTIMORE, March 21.-The MARYLAND
Senate has appropriated $780, 900 to the re-
lief Of the poor of the South.
A gentleman in South Carolina recently
sold tract Of land for $500 which he re-
fused $15, 900 for before the war
A barrel ofSouthern -four will make twen
ty pounds more bread than barrel of ILL
nois -four.
Meerschaum, similar in appearance to that
found In Europe, has been discovered in
Franklin county, Mo.
The Rochester On. W papers report a
breakdown in the butter market whereabouts.
Farmers are selling at % and retailers at rs
cents per pound.
1t is believed that Governor Brownlow Of
Tennessee, cannot live much longer His
present nervous disorder grows more and
more threatening.
HOG CHOLERA. fatal disease has
broken out among the hogs on several plan
tations in Appomattox county, and numbers
are being swept off by it.
News has been received at Georgetown
that the Potomac and Shenandoah rivers, at
Harper's Ferry, are so high as to interrupt
communication between Maryland and Viz
ginia.
SLEEp.-It is stated that a portion of a
raw onion, eaten just before retiring to rest.
will insure refreshing sleep to persons suffer-
ing with lungs overburdened with oppressive
and irritating matter
THE CoLD SNAP OUT WEsr-The Nebras-
ka City News Of the I'd says: s'The ice over
the Missouri at this point is 'as tight as a
brick We look for spring about the 18th
Of july"
A Vermont man recently bought twenty
six railroad tickets, intending to take his wife
and twenty-four children to the Vest
Among the two dozen are eleven airs of
twins-all boys.
A Fredericksburg correspondent of the
New York Herald mentions meeting of ne
groes in that city, at which the radical doc
trines Of Hunnicutt were denounced by a
colored orator.
"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. -Ju 15--1y
Governor jenkins and Mr.. Alexander Fl.
Stevens, of Georgia, counsel the people of
the State not to have hasty action on the po-
htlcal issues forced upon them, but to wait
and see what is finally determined upon by
Congress.
The FLooD AT THE WEsr.-Cincinnati
March l4.-Tho flood here continues to in
crease. The gas lamps along the river are
out Of sight, and the first stories of the
houses are completely submerged. Front
and Water streets are partially inundated
The river will rise two Or three feet more.
PHILADELPHIA, March ia meeting
was held at the Board of Trade rooms this
morning to inaugurate measures to relieve
the suffering in the South Mayor McMi-
chacl presided. Resolutions were adopted
expressing sympathy with the destitute pco-
pie of the South, and committee appointed
to collect money and supplies, and to super
intend their distribution.
No NEGRO SUFFRAGE IN New JERSEY In
the New Jersey Assembly, on Wednesday,
the report Of the committee in favor of
amending the State constitution SO as to al
low colored persons to vote was rejected
Inc Assembly is composed of majority of
Radicals. Congress should at once send on
an investigating committee" to that body.
to see II the State ought not to be s'terr;tori-
allied"
Masonic LODGE ROOM. The Masons Of
Winchester, Va, have purchased a lot there,
which is thirty feet wide by one hundred and
eighty-fve feet long, and cost them three
thousand five hundred and seventy-fve dol
lars. 1t is the intention of the fraternity to
erect upon it a large Lodge room. The work
will be commenced as soon as the weather
permits. 1t is estimated that the edifce will
cost ten thousand dollars.