Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1867-03-15
NEWS ITEMS.

S~-a-s NEWS ITEMS.
Half million valentines were sold in
Chicago.
Mrs Jefferson Davis is on a visit to
Charleston, S. c.
ley. W. u. Margrave, Baptist clergy
man, died recently at Lewisburg, Va.
Captain John Tee, soldier of the war Of
1872, died in Portsmouth, Va, few DAYS
ago.
Thirty Arab emigrants arrived in New
Orleans last Friday. They will settle in
that city.
Strawberries are beginning to make their
appearance in the New York markets, Thew
have also several inches of snow.
Holders of season tickets to the Paris Ex-
position are to be photographed and the like.
ness put on the ticket
Judge Barnes of North Carolina. has de-
cded the stay law enacted by the late Legis
lature OF that State to be unconstitutional.
a portion of Helena, Arkansas, has Just
been swept away by another inroad of the
Mississippi.
Little boys should be seen and not
heard" replied youngstcr, when he didn't
know his lesson.
The Democrats have carried the city of
Syracuse, making gain of 1853 in a single
year.
w. Montgomery, a son of an ex- Con-
gresham, tried at Washington, Pa, on
charge of murder, has been acquitted.
The Legislature of West Virginia ad-
journcd sine die last week. The Legislature
Of North Carolina has adjourned to meet
again in August next.
The church built by the NJ. E. Church
South at Lewisburg, West Virginia, has
been sold to Father Walters, priest of the
Catholic Church, for the sum of ST. 400.
The Paris and New York papers announce
that ''short dresses for spring YEAR. are to
be the fashion. Filters" have gone cup
the spout"
- A beautiful tunnel was discovered not
long since under river in the interior of
Peru, the work of the old Inca Indians, and
a lasting proof Of their civilization.
An old woman in Michigan, few days
since made death-ded confession Of COM
plicity in murder committed twenty-si
years ago, at Watertown. N. Y.
A war of the 'pathies is raging in the Mich
igan Legislature, growing out of PROPOSE
10 establish obo1r Of
connection with the medical college of the
university of Ann Arbor.
A Boston actor had his clothes burned off
with a turpentine thunderbolt, which descen-
ded on a theatrical ship, of which he was the
romantic and desperate commander during a
sheet iron tempest.
ia A boy in Chicago was bitten last Novem-
Der by mad dog. The wound healed, ev-
.erything went well, and he was thought out
of danger; yet he died Of hydrophobia last
Thursday night, after three days suffering
"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 50c., that
retails easily for Sc, by R. L. Wollcott, 10
Chatham Square, New York.-Jun 15--1y
BR1GADIER GENERAL GOVERNORS ASSIGN
ED.-At the Cabinet meeting yesterday, it
understood the subject was discussed of APP
pointing officers to take command of the five
Military Districts under the Reconstruction
bill. In Virginia, (the first Military Dis
trict) General Schofeld, and in the fifth
Iouisiana and Texas,) General Hancock
are assigned. - Washington Union.
DIsrILLERY.-The present tax law enacted
by Congress IN no wise alters the tax on dis
tllleres or distilled spirits. The only alter
alton made in the old law in respect to them
is that the Office of local inspectors of distille-
ries is abolished by the new act, and the
Commissioner is empowered to provide such
other means of detecting frauds as he may
find adequate and proper.
A SPECIMEN REB.-Mr. Gerard Melon
aldson, Confederate soldier living near this
place, who lost his right arm in battle, is
now engaged in cutting wood with the left
he can cut the trees and make 100 rails per
day. lie also makes coal-cuts the wood
stacks it, burns and draws it. We vouch for
the truth of this statement upon the author
ity OF Mr.. David Eller, respectable gentle
man Of this neighborbood. - curisonburg
Commonwealth.
A BLACK Duck EGG-Not an egg from
black duck, but black egg from duck.
Mr. James o. Harris has left at our Office a
perfectly black egg laid by duck. He
states that last year his ducks laid in tire be-
ginning of the season number of black
eggs. and that gradually they laid lighter
eggs, until they became pale blue Mr.
Harris asked of US the explanation of this
1t seems to us that the ducks have niger on