Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1867-04-05
NEWS ITEMS.

NEWS ITEMS.
The Richmond, Times thinks that moth.
ing is more certain than that women will be
permitted to vote in less than ten years.
The Athens Watchmam and other Geor-
gia papers say the wheat crop in that State
was never more promising.
''Brick" Pomeroy has inaugurated an as
ISOLATION in New Orleans for the erection Of
9 monument to the memory Of Artemus
Ward.
John B. Cough has received an offer from
England Of 81 ,500, gold, for one lecture a
week in London, the course to be kept up
for year. That would make him $62, 400.
The New York Legislature has stricken
out the negro suffrage clause from the bill
calling for State convention to frame new
constitution.
LARGE YIELD. MIR. Benjamin Speck,
near Hedgesville, secured eighty weight bush
els OF good buckwheat from one bushel of
seed, last fall. We don't think this can be
easily beaten --lNartinsburg Era.
An Indiana exchange says it is reported
that large numbers of turkeys, geese, ducks
and chickens are dying on the farms near
Jacksonville and New Albany from dis
ease known as the chicken cholera. 81
Surratt's trial, it is thought, will be com
menced at an early day. He continues in
good health and talks confidently of an ac-
quittal. Several witnesses against him have
already reached WASHINGTON
CINCINNATI, March 81 The annual report
of pork packing in the West shows the to-
tai number packed is 2, 425, 254 against / :
7O5, 955 last season. General average weight
2S2aa pounds. against 231 $40 last season
The Houston Telegraph says: "The
man who shall attempt to murder citizens
of Texas by military commissions in Vi
olation of the laws of the land, will have a
"sweet time of it, OF we are no prophet"
A rebel soldier, while in an Indiana pris-
on, whitfield out a model of cotton press.
He claims that with the help Of a good gin
he can gin and pack bale of cotton, weigh
ing five hundred and twenty-five pounds, in
two hours.
MAxIMILIAN.- Reliable information has
been received at Washington that Macmillan
only waits in Mexico to make the best pecu-
mary arrangements that he can, and that he
will certainly leave the country before the
LIST Of July.
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, 170
Chatham Square, New York .-June 15-1y
The Raleigh Standard has been shown by
Senator Richardson, of Moore county,
mos. beautiful nugget of gold recently found
in an undeveloped mine in Montgomery
The value of the nugget is said to be S55 in
The records of the Post Office Department
show that in the Dead Letter Bureau there
have been 600, 900 dead letters DESTROYED in
the last year, in which were inclosed $780,
600 in drafts, which were returned to the
owners thereof. 500 s'.e
A family without a newspaper is always a
year behind the times in general information !:
besides they can never think much nor
find much to think about. And then
there are the little ones growing up with
out any taste for reading Who, then, would
be without newspaper?
The Boston Traveler says that Massachu-
sets has six candidates for the Presidency
Summer, Wilson, Banks, Butler, Boutwell,
and Andrew-and as many more men who
would not object to the second place on the
Republican ticket-Elliot, DAVIS, Hoar, Bull
lock, Bigelow and Devins.
Robert G. Winthrop, Of Boston has con-
tributed $500 to the Southern Relief Fund.
In letter accompanying the donation, he
says: " fear that our people are not sufi-
GENTLY alive to the danger of starvation
which is impending over many parts Of the
South" @fd- ~'
Some two years ago woman at East Lul-
worth, Mass, lost her wedding ring while
engaged in her domestic duties. A few days
ago she was peeling potatoes, and on diyi-
ding sort Of double potatoe she found in the
inside OF the potato the lost wedding ring.
which she was able to Identify. The potato
was grown in field some half mile from
the cottage.
We placed on our subscription list yester-
day the name of the largest man in Ohio. if
not the largest in the United States. Noah
Orr, of Marysville, Union county, measured
six feet seven inches in his stocking feet and
weighs about five hundred pounds. He was
born in Union county. is about thirty wears
old, and will probably increase in weight
He is sound Democrat and genial gentle
man.-Colon'Jus Statesman.
Salt LAKE C1TY.-A CORRESPONDENT wv;
ting of Salt Lake City, says: :. This sinpu-
lar town covers an area Of about nine sonare
miles-that is, three miles each way. It's
one of the most beautifully laid out cities in
the world. The streets are very wide, with
water running through nearly every one Of
them. Every block is surrounded with beau
tltui shade trees, and almost every house has
Its neat little orchard of apple, peach, apri-
cot and cherry trees. In fact the whole nine
square miles is almost one continuous or
chard." u. "