Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1867-04-26
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o7a} @ .TeeUS Items.
:, Mrs. J. C. Fremont has been actively can
wasting for contributions to the Southern Re-
lief Fund.
At a recent ball in Paris an American la
dy wore dress trimmed with $40, 900 worth
of laces.
Minors can marry in Louisiana. The le-
gal age for the bridegroom is fourteen, for
the bride twelve. -a
The old Sweet Springs in Virginia have
been rented by Mr.. Carroll, of Maryland,
formerly Of the New York Hotel.
The First National Bank of Selma, Ala,
government depository, was robbed on
Monday night Of $l60, 600.
Fourteen hundred and thirty-eight barrels
Of -four were shipped from Richmond to Bra
I'll for the quarter ending 31st Of March. ].
It is estimated that there are 900 profess
sional thieves in New York of which num-
Der 2, 100 are males and 400 females.
- Gen. Forrest had thirty one horses shot
under him during the war, twenty eight of
which were killed outright; and the others
disabled.
A female seminary was recently started in
Salt Lake City, which succeeded very we'll /;
until the principal eloped with and married
the whole school,
If g freedom shrieked when Kosciusko
fell" she must have given an unearthly yell
when the military bill became law.-Na-
shaa CIV. H } Gazette.
An order has just been received by the
publishers, from California, for five hundred
copies of Partisan Life with Mosby," by
Major John Scott, of Virginia.
! ARTIFICIAL L1MBs.-Three hundred and
ffty-eight applications have been made by
Virginia soldiers for artificial limbs, and up
wards Of three hundred granted.
A negro school teacher has been appointed
register of voters under the Military bill in
Alabama, on the recommendation of the
prominent white citizens of jackson county.
To get round the prohibitory law in Mas
sachusetts they sell mince pies with lots of
brandy in them about one drunk to each
mince pie. The opposition are getting up
what they call anti-brandy pies.
About 100000 pounds of good quality
of sugar made from beet root have just been
received at Springfield, ILL.,, from manu-
factory recently established in Livingston
comfy In thet Stato
It was stated in the Rentpayers' Associa-
ton meeting in New York on Friday eve
ming that Mr.. Astor owns real estate valued
at $65, 900, 900, and that he never sells pro-
perty, but with the interest of his wealth
continually buys more.
"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 5Oc., that
retails easily for Sc, by R. L. Wollcott, 40
Chatham Square, New York. June 15-1y
A patent corn husker is advertised in Ohio
which will husk sixty ears minute, doing
the work of ten men. It takes off the outer
husk, then the inner and fairer portion
laying each by itself and then strips the
silk perfectly clean and deposits the ear in
its place.
At the recent election in Connecticut, an
Old veteran named Lawton Babcock, now
lO3 years old, was present at the election in
the town OF old Lyme and cast democratic
vote He has voted at every election for
President from the formation of our Govern
ment to the present time and always with
the Democratic party.
The General Assembly of the Old School
Presbyterian Church will hold it's next meet
ing in the Central Presbyterian Church in
Cincinnati on Thursday, the 10Th day of
May, and will be opened with a sermon by
hey. robert l.. Stanton, D. D., Moderator
OF the last Assembly. The &C Declaration and
Testimony will come up for action.
AN INDIA RUBBER ToNGuE.-A writer
from Paris speaks Of meeting a Partisan
coachman to whom misfortune had oivcn q
curious celebrity. Some time since cancer
in his tongue rendered amputation necessary
This operation was performed by the surgeon
OF the Hotel Dieu, who shortly afterwards
replaced the lost tongue by one Of India
ruDDer. Although he cannot speak, he tastes
swallows and smokes his pipe with apparent
enjoyment. After eating he takes out his
tongue-as one takes out a sot of teeth-to
clean it; and between his repasts he gener-
ANY ands it more convenient to carry it in
hls pocket. s,qss ses "a