Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1867-08-16
VeaUS Items.

.VeaUS Items.
Illinois has one cotton factory
Saratoga has ffty-two taverns of all sorts.
War is said to be impending between
France and Prussia.
Col. Louis T. Wigfall has opened Texas
emigration Office in London.
New corn can be engaged for twenty-five
cents bushel in Texas.
The great bridge across the Ohio at Lou
isville has been commenced.
Thessoriginal meaning of chignon is cab
bage. Heads Of cabbage-oh, ladies.
Macmillan is said to have measured six
.eet three inches after he was shot.
Gen. Pillow says his corn crop will amount
to 200, 900 bushels this year. A good boil
ster for the Pillow.
Horace Greedy has been rendered the pres
idency of the Society for the Suppression of
Gambling.
Mrs. Jefferson Davis, who is sojourning
in Augusta, Ga was serenaded on Friday
night last.
The names of W. H. Surratt and Annie
Surratt appear in the published list of those
who sailed for Europe last Saturday.
The widow and daughter of Gen. Stone
wall jackson, are spending few weeks at
Monticello, Sullivan county, N. Y.
Eighteen hundred chickens are consumed
at breakfast in one Of the Saratoga hotels.
says correspondent.
According to New York paper. that city
contains $50 men who make their living as
decoys for the faro table.
Letters have been received from Santa An
ma by his friends in New York, dated the
18th ult At that time he was prisoner
in Campeachy.
An Ohio editor, who has received cake
of sugar, made from the sap of the black
walnut tree, pronounces it superior to maple
sugar.
There is said to be man living at Chat
ham, N. Y, who drinks ga lion of rum
day, and has done so for the past eight years.
What splendid subject for temperan ce So
ciety.
An Ohio paper gives the nam of three
prominent radicals who have committed sui
eide during the past year-an example which
the entire radical party is following with a
certainty of success.
Josh Billings is specializing on foods He
arrives at the conclusion: Thar amt no
doubt in mi mind but that the flood was
perfect success, and have thought that an.
ether just such one would pay well now in
some ecktions of the country.
The New York Commercial Aduertiser
says that contracts are being made for the
new crop of wheat, in the western part of the
State, at prices nearly one dollar lower than
our millers have been paying this week for
what they need to keep their regular custo-
mers supplied.
Corn FIFTY CENTS A BusHEL.-The
Charleston Mercury says that several parcels
Of the maturing corn crop have already been
sold in the upper sections of that State and
in Georgia at fifty cents bushel, to be de-
NtCICu Ill DCCCluUtI uCAG.
It is related that nervous old gentleman
recently attempted to remove large bug
from the bonnet Of lady who sat in front
of him at theatre in New York. The re-
suit was, he unroofed all her back hair, the
bugs office being to hold head and hair to-
gether.
Tits stated in the Frederick (Id } Repub-
lican, that banks the in Frederick have institu-
ted suit against the corporation for 5000, 900
claimed to have been paid by them for ran
som, when Gen. Farley captured the place
during the late war, July, 1867.
Corn Crop OF MIDDLE ALABAMA.
Selma Times learns from gentleman who
has recently travelled over the greater part
of Middle Alabama that the crop is magnif-
cent. That entire country looks like land
of promise. There is no doubt that the corn
crop this year will be one of the finest ever
raised in Alabama.
FAMINE IN THE WEST OF IRELAND. In
the last number of the Universe we find an
editorial statement to the effect that griev-
GUS famine is now prevailing in the west of
Ireland, and that some Of the people there
ore falling dead with hunger. We have seen
other notices of the existence of great dis
tress for want of the necessares of life in
some Of the western districts of that country.
These facts are worthy of the attention of
the benevolent, and especially Of the coun-
trymen of the afflicted people. Ireland has
never called for relief from this side Of the
Atlantic in vain, for there are too many of
her children's children herr to admit of that.
Phil Ledacr