Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1867-05-03
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Strawberries are plenty in the New York
market at 25 cents each.
The Atlantic cable receipts now average
about FL $50 per day.
The Boston subscription in aid of the South
will reach, it is expected, $4,000
A gold mine in Lampkin county, Georgia
yields from $500 to $1,000 per day.
HAnR1sBURG, Pa, April 24-The snow
was four inches deep here last night.
There is a very general exodus from Ire
land to this country.
Mr. Buchanan, whose fortune is reckoned
at 100000 is the richest of our surviving
ex-Presidents
Judah P Benjamin has been compliment
ted from the bench, in London, for his legal
learning.
General Howard estimates the number of
deaths among negroes, within four years, at
half million.
The first through freight car from Boston
arrived at Council Bluffs, Iowa, not long
since, after a journey of twelve days.
A man near Chambersburg, Pa, sold his
wife the o,her day to a peddler for S17, and
executed a regular bill Of sale for the goods.
Negro suffrage in Jamaica has been abol-
ished. The island is now governed by Gov
ernor and Council appointed by the Crown.
An Ohio editor, who has received a cake
of 10 +bo &c IL
walnut tree, pronounced it superior to maple
sugar.
A negroes life is not valued very highly
in Connecticut. An Irishman killed one at
. Newtown the other night, and has been put
under bonds Of $500.
1t is estimated that the late overflow will
reduce the cotton crop one million of bales,
or in money from forty to sixty millions of
dollars.
The Masonic fraternity Of the city Of New
York have decided to expend $1,000 in
- building home for the widows and orphans
and disabled Masons dependent on the order.
Capt. j. NJ. Brook, Professor at the Vir-
ginia Military Institute, has been presented
with splendid gold medal by the King of
Prussia, as testimonial of the appreciation
by the royal donor, Of his high scientific at
tainments
NEGRO TESTIMONY. The testimony of
number of negroes was admitted yesterday
in Mayo's Court, wherein both the parties
in the suit were white. It is the first case
under the new law passed by the General
Assembly on Saturday last.-Eraminey.
''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 Sc, by R. L. Wollcott ITO
Chatham Square, New York June 15-1y
A Paris letter to the Chicago Republican
says Head Centre Stephens is living comfort
ably in that city with his wife and brother
in-law He complains of poverty, yet has
money to pay for long rides in hacks and
makes secret visits to the English embassy
g Gen. Grant has been petitioned to direct
the removal Of General Beauregard from the
presidency Of the New Orleans, jackson and
Great Northern railroad, to which he has re-
Gently been reelected, and also to remove
Col. Thomas r. Adams from the position of
chief of police of New Orleans.
BANK op BERKELEY NOTES .-The Presi-
dent OF the Bank of Berkeley, at Martins
burg, notifies the holders of the notes of said
bank that he is prepared to redeem them at
par-and unless they are presented for pay
ment within six months from this date their
redemption is prohibited under an act of the
: Legislature of Virginia.
Augustus Brow, of Waterloo Township
Fayette county, writes us that a colt was
ioaled upon his premises, that had six perfect
legs, from the knee down, also six perfect
boots. The colt is five hours old; gets IN
and suckles; has healthy appearance, and
no doubts are entertained but it can be raised
Nestern (Ind. } Mirror.
In 1860 the total colored population :;
Ohio was 36,673. This population Is yerv
unequally distributed; two thirds of the wboie
numper beng found in twenty counties in
southern and eastern Ohio, and very nearly
one-half OF the whole number in ten count;e:
> Len OF the counties containing the smallest
number contain but So blacks, and the navt
ten Dut oil, making 399 in twenty counties
. Lynn, Mass, is the headquarters Of tbo
shoe trade in this country. The tax assessed
tor business done there during the month If
March was $3l, $40, 81, which shows a lar
ger business than was ever done before n
month The value of shoes sold in that o;tu
during the month of January, accordna -
the returns, was 1896, 1878: in FehrnSs ~ W
$l'Oll BIB; and in March al 255 ~ ny
The total value of the goods Sold dnr;na 10
last three months was So, 6ea $40 'l'
STRUCK lLE.-A friend Of ours ;nforns ,,a
that the celebrated well at Terre Hante ha 90
been bored to the depth of 1910 feet and ''' 10
again flowing oil. Some 16 Barrels Of crndo
OIL being pumped out every "a hours This
IS remarkable well. At the depth of (loo
feet oil Was stuck and flowed freely "a A.
the depth of / 300 feet salt water was struol NV
Now at the depth of GAO oil is again stru ,ck'
and the proprietor. Rose, intends to cont;n
ne to bore until he strikes China. we snn-
pose.-0hio Paper.