Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1867-05-31
Wears items.

The report that the government Of Brazil
had abolished slavery is now denied.
The Hon. Thomas A. R. Nelson is stump
ing Tennessee in behalf of the Democracy.
The Boston Post says beef hasn't been SO
high as it is now since s'the COW jumped over
the moon"
A subscription is on foot in Kentucky to
purchase home for the family Of John G.
Breckenridge.
Files, the ringleader of the Mobile riot,
has been sent to Fort Gaines by the militia
ry authorities.
Eating greens of rhubarb leaves poisoned
whole family at Michigan Centre last week,
the father fatally.
The New York Day Book dominates JEFF
ferson Davis and Senator Cowan, of Pa, for
presidential ticket on ''white mans plat
form"
Horace Greeley says the man who pays
more for shop rent than for advertising, don't
know his business Horace knows a thing
or two. NJ M
The use of tobacco has been prescribed by
the Vermont Methodist Conference. Here
after no person addicted to the habit will be
admitted to membership.
The Lynchburg News says that the hog
cholera has broken out among the hogs in
some portions of Amherst, and is very fatal,
but few recovering from it.
There is chicken in Lewisburg which
has four legs and four wings The feet on
one pair of the legs are turned in the oppo-
site direction from the other two.
Ex-member of Congress Riddle, Of Ohio,
has been engaged to assist the United States
District Attorney in the Surratt case. Mr..
Bingham declined to give his services.
Thad. Stevens talks about "a mild confs-
cation" Said an Irishman holding his hand
before the muzzle Of gun about to be fred,
''pull it off aisy ."--LoasisudNe Journal.
Stonewall Jackson's colored nurse died
lately in Madison county, Tennessee, at the
advanced age age of 118 years and nine
months. The General set her free twenty
five years ago.
President johnson says that he will give
plot of ground to the freedmen of Green
vile, Tennessee, to be used for school and
religious purposes, if the freedmen will Sc
lect the ground.
A colored candidate for the State conven-
ton in Fluvana county, Virginia, announces
himself in favor of low tariff, no taxes,
plenty of money at the South, and cheap
whisky especially.
The Lynchburg Virginian says there is
child in Montgomery county, Va, was
christened "Andrew Jackson Gordon James
Buchanan Raise The Flag And Fire The
Cannon Dobyns.'
A wisconsin lady has beard two inches
long, and her husband has not single hair
upon his face"
The wonder to us is, that the poor husband
has hair on his head.
Santa Anna, now an old man of seventy
years, has been spending the winter on Sta
ten Island. He is said to be worth a little
less than million and to have given up all
connection with Mexican politics.
Baltimore is going to have grand "NIon-
umental Hotel which will cover space of
Al ,004 square feet, and have front $40
feet on three streets. It will be five stories
high, will accommodate 525 guests, and cost
about $1,650,O00.
A Radical candidate in Georgia promises
forty acres Of land to every negro who shall
vote for him. The devil once made equally
brilliant promises, but, as in the Georgia
case, the cold boy" did't own foot of land
in the universe.-TaHey Spirit Pa,
"Don't be foolish" You can make Six
dollas from Fifty Cents. Call and examine
an invention urgently needed by every body.
Or sample sent free by mail for 50c., that
retails easily for Sc, by R. L. Wollcott, ITO
Chatham Square, New York June 15-1y
A Cargo of wheat recently passed west
ward through Syracuse which was originally
shipped from San Francisco for France, and
brcsght thence to New York city and sent
to Chicago. No wcnder times are hard when
the wheat region Of the west is thus import
ing grain.
The London tailors are now sending to
this country with their coats little glass bot
ties with pins attached, to hold the flowers
which would otherwise be stuck in the but
tonhole. By the use of these bottles filed
with water of course the flowers can be kept
fresh.
The Lynchburg Republican says eve
have it on the best authority that as high as
10 per Ct per month has been demanded
and obtained by the money lenders of this
city, and we have every reason to believe
that this is but representative instance of
charges equally or nearly as outrageous.
GREELEY OPPOSED TO CoNF1scAr1oN.-
The Rome Courier publishes the brief affair
below, written in reply to business letter
of J. R. Stevens, of Rome:
II wish the South were as free from dan
ger IN respect to famine, and other evils, as
from confscation. Yours, 80 gs-gz .
ragf7 lH3 Horace GREELEY"
SWINGING AS A REMEDY.-Dr. Brown Sc
guard, an eminent Psychologist and physician
to one of the Partisan hospitals, recommends
the use Of the swing as a preventive of ner-