Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1867-08-02
TeaCs Items.

A hall-StOrm IN central AentucKy last
week destroyed $50, 1000 worth Of property.
The beggars in New York are noticed as
wearing large number of inger-rings
A single county of Ohio yields 700, 900
bushels Of wheat, valued at 81 100000
Sumner is color blind He recognizes
nothing but black
Conover has been CREASED by somebody,
and will slip through the law.
"A lady was before New York justice for
the 10th time for drunkenness, recently.
It is estimated that Montana will yield
$4,000, 900 worth Of precious metals this
season.
Josh Billings says: :" Margin for love
may be little risky but it is SO honest that
God kant but smile at it,"
There is boy in Minnesota twelve years
old, whose legs are only ten inches long and
are without bones.
Coop YIELD.-The product Of three pear
trees was sold for the handsome sum of 1913
IN the Norfolk market.
A fractional currency note Of the denomi-
nation Of fifteen cents will be issued In few
weeks by the Government.
The weekly mortality report Of New Or
leans shows nine deaths from cholera and on
ly two from yellow fever.
There are over twenty thousand acres of
land in Alabama planted in sweet potatoes
Al x,,;11 ,,rod,1ca ai(rhf h,,p6ra1
thousand bushels.
There are now 1870 convicts in the Hi
nois Penitentiary, 700 of whom earn about
ten cents per day more than it costs to keep
them.
Some Of the New York papers are discuss
ing the expedicncy of that State selling out
it's public works to get rid Of the State debt,
which is now $50, 00O,0 900.
u. P Suvoong, native Chinese student
in the Kenyon (Ohio) College, has carried
off the prize for the greatest proficiency
among the Seniors in the Greek Testament.
A Rose county (Ohio) farmer, from hill
near his house was able before harvest to see
more than $500 acres of wheat and better
and plumper grain was never ''put in shock"
Dan Rice, the other evening, in his circus,
said that he was not going to defle the fair
record of thirty seven years as respectable
Snowman by becoming member Of Congress.
An attempt was made to get up an cal
bemarle meeting" in Bedford last Monday,
that being court day, but owing to 'the
manner in which the farmers expressed
themselves" it did not come off,
The friends of Mr.. Davis have purchased
house for him in one of the most aristocratic
streets in the city of Montreal, near Montreal
Mountain, and he contemplates making this
his future home.-Neac York Herald
The number Of colored people in New York
city, which seventeen years ago was Ii, 900,
is now only 10000.
The same story will be told throughout the
South before many years.
WHAT NEXT ?-The newest expedition of
New York illicit whisky distillers to cheat the
government is to construct and work their
s'stills" on board vessels in the harbor. One
of these was seized on monday, and the de-
tectives are on the track of others
Aaron Sweat, free born colored man, in
'Cheraw District, South Carolina, has an
nounced himself candidate for Congress in
that Congressional District He is now ac-
lively engaged prosecuting canvass with his
eolored brethren, and urging his election.
A gold mine excitement prevails in Richland
county, Ohio. Mr.. E. S. Wayne, scientific
man, Of Cincinnati, has examined the matter,
and reports extensive deposits of gold ORE
The best specimens have been found near
Belleville Who has land for sale in that
section?
An Iowa paper states the being troubled
with rats, he caught one, and poured kero-
sene oil on it, and then let it 60. The re-
suit was the rats all left for parts unknown,
and have not been heard from since The
experiment is worth trial.
New WHEAT Chattanooga Union
quoted new wheat as selling at that place for
81 SO per bushel In some parts of Cen
trail Alabama it is said to have sold for 81
The yield is very great, and we see no reason
why breadstuHs should continue high much
longer.
THE WHEAT CROP OF MISSISSIPPI The
wheat crap Of Mississippi is now being har-
vested. The yield is large. A correspon-
dent is assured that the wheat crop already
harvested in the South will sustain the entire
population for the next two years, while the
corn crop promises even more abundantly
There is great need Of this, for the condition
Of the poor in that State is horrible.
How much space a fashionable lady re-
quires to pack away her garments for asunl-
mer tour to the watering places has never
been satisfactorily determined The Boston
Traveller tells of young lady who arrived
in that city from New York, few mornings
sinee' on her way, probably, to the White
Mountains, who had seven large trunks and
two good sized boxes, in addition. to her ret
icule, parasol, &c. She occupied. q seat all
alone in one Of the stage coaches during her
trip across the city, and the rack and roof of
the coach were completely filled with her
paraphernalia.