Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1867-07-19
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Over seventy cotton factories have been
built in Georgia since the war.
The wheat crop of Western New York
will be heavier than it has been for years
Forty-fve pairs of twins were born in
Rhode Island last year.
A little boy in New York made a kite Of
his fathers 7 Dos Governments never went
so high before.
A young wife in Indiana, aged SIXTEEN
has just presented her husband, aged eigh-
teen, with three bouncing boys.
Mississippi sent Is, 900 men into the Con-
federate army, 5000 more than her white
vote, and lost 20, 900 of them.
jacksonville, Fla, is riotpg in watermel-
ons at ten cents, and peaches by the cart
load.
A single county in Delaware expects to
send 800, 200 baskets of peaches to market
this season.
The Chicago Republican counts on a
wheat crop of 225 900, 600 bushels, of which
Illinois will produce one tenth.
It is said that the Emperor Napoleon
charges the church party Of Mexico with the
death of Macmillan
A young lady, Of Montgomery, who was
recently caught smoking cigar, gave it as
her reason for the act ''that it made it smell
as though there was man around
Brownlow has disfranchised, by proclama-
tien, Giles County, making the thirteenth
county DISTINGUISHED since the 9Th Of April.
President johnson has pardoned three
thousand persons under his Amnesty procla-
nation in North Carolina, South Carolina,
and Mississippi.
BRIGHAM YOUNG is preparing to abdicate
in favor of Young BRIGHAM, but the elders
all want his place for themselves, and there
is a squabLle imminent,
Massachusetts, has musical prodigy in a
little girl Of three, who plays on the piano
and melodeon and sings correctly the most
difficult music
Upwards of two millions Of acres of land
belonging to citizens of Mississippi were for
feited to the State for non payment of taxes
during the years '61, '62, '63 and '64
The newspaper is sermon for the
Thoughtful, library for the poor, and
blessing to everybody. Lord Brouham
called it 'the best public instructor.
The Pittsburg 'Post," a Democratic pa
per, advises it's readers, in case Grant is
nominated for President by the Republicans,
to disregard party ideas and vote for him.
Sixty farms in Montgomery county, have
been applied for by emigrants from Penn
sylvania and New York, to a land agency
in Christiansburg Lynch. Neaos.
Prentice says It's pity that the elections
in the South cannot take place at this time,
for although the negroes there are strong
now they will be stronger in the dog days.
A southern farmer advises the use of the
sunfower as green fodder for horses and
mules. He saysit will yield eight tons of
fodder to the acre, and is eaten with ayldity.
The wheat crop of the United States is said
by experienced farmers and dealers in the
West to be the largest crop ever grown in this
country and it is estimated at the enormous
amount of 225, 900, 600 bushels
A beloved pastor of congregation out
West, last year. received as remuneration for
his services $3.50 from an eastern missionary
society, and from his afectionate flock a bar
rel of whisky and keg of varnish.
Mr.. STEVENS is stated that Hon. AL
exander H. Stephens, of Georgia, is in worse
health than ever. He suffers from neural
gia, but works at his book about the late war
whenever he can.
g. S. Baxter, ESQ, is out in an ''opinon'
in which he undertakes to show that the act
of the Virginia Legislature consolidating the
railroads on the south side of the James, is
unconstitutional
SAVED BY A WATERFALL.-The Peters
burg Express reports the case Of lady who
fell down fight Of steps, and whose life
was saved by an enormous s'Waterfalr' she
wore.
LOUISVILLE, KY, July IA reliable
despatch from Ellis's Cliffs, twenty miles be-
low Natchez Mississippi, says the army worm
has appeared two months earlier than usual.
threatening to destroy the cotton on the ever
flowed lands.
CIGARS BY MACHINERY 1t may interest
smokers to know that cigars, which have I'M
til now been made by hand, may hereafter
be made by machinery, at considerable
saving in cost, if we can believe reports. A
cigar-making apparatus has recently been in
vented in Germany and patented in this ccun-
try, which can, it is said, turn out one hur-
dred and fifty thousand cigars week.
The BANKRUPT LAw.-Crhder it imprison-
ment for debt ceases throug bout all the States
and Territories BY it all stay laws, prefer
ences, voluntarily agreements and secret at
tachments are set aside Five hundred dol
lars worth of household furniture, the wear
ing apparel of each family and such other
property as is by law exempted in the differ
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