Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1867-09-20
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Paul Morphy is in Paris.
Snow has already fallen in Western New
York.
Yellow fever is rapidly increasing at Pen
sacola, Fla.
The appearance Of frost in a mild form is
mentioned by newspapers east and west.
A colony of coIored people in Michigan are
seeking good farms in Virginia.
Minnesota Touring mills are turning out
nearly six thousand barrels day.
A new disease, resembling dyptheria, pre-
walls among the hogs in Botetourt country
Maximilian's adopted heir, young Itur-
bide, is living with his grandmother on
Georgetown Heights.
Seven Fights of the deaths from yellow
fever in New Orleans are Of foreign or un-
acclimated persons.
HAVANA, September Santa Annals
son is contemplating an expedition into Mex
leo to release his father.
The last lineal descendant Of the last Irish
King is working in Liverpool as stone ma
son.
Three couples elopcd from Orange court
house last week, and were married in Wash
ington. Names not reported.
The Democrats of Worcester, Mass, fired
national salute on Saturday last in honor Of
the great Democratic victory in California.
A young woman blew out her gas in
Chicago hotel, went to sleep, and her funeral
took place the day after.
There are now forty-two colored persons
in jail at Norfolk, charged with various
crimes, from murder to petit larceny.
"A recent compilation shows the amount
Of life and accident insurance in this country
to be nearly 81 200, 100000.
An establishment has been erected at Cedar
Keys, Florida, for canning green turtles, to
be shipped North.
Cincinnati September 9.-The drought
continues, and all accounts from the interior
regarding the corn and other late crops con-
tinue to be very discouraging.
A woman eighty years old has just been
committed to the House Of Correction at New
Bedford, Mass, for drunkenness. She was
accompanied by another woman over sixty.
An explosion took place Thursday night
last, at Mr. G. 3. Little's distillery, near
Scottsville, blowing the still into atoms and
landing it in the canal.
The English Parliament house clock is Of
such magnitude that the time required to
wind it up is two hours The dials are twenty
two feet in diameter, and the hour bell weighs
fifteen tons.
A French agency for matrimonial allan
ces concludes an advertisement with: chap
piness guaranteed for one year. How ma
anteed for one month!
An additional pardon list is being prepared
in the Attorney Generals office, at Washing
ton. 1t will contain about 10000 names,
showing total of Is, 900 pardoned up to the
9TH inst
The improved drainage Of many cities and
towns in England has led to considerable
reduction of the total mortality, in some cases
amounting to one-fifth and also to an unex-
pected result, a diminution, more or less con-
siderable, Of cases Of consumption.
A portrait Of Washington, painted by
Stuart in 1888, inheritd by descendant O
the first President Of the United States, nov
living at Fredericksburg, Va, in reduced
circumstances, is on exhibition and sale il
Baltimore.
Lieutenant Gov. John W. Stevenson, act
ing Governor Of Kentucky, since the deatl
Of Gov. Helm, is a native of Virginia, bu
for many years a resident of Kentucky
which State he formerly represented in Con
gress.
Big BEAR KILLED.-An enormous bi!
bear was killed a few days ago in the suga
camp Of John Argabrite, On Muddy creek
in this county. He measured FIVE and hal
feet from the end Of his nose to the tip of hi
bob tail.-Grecnbrier Independent.
APRoHIB1ToRY TARIFF Senator Grimes
of Iowa, has written letter declaring hi
hostility to prohibitory tariff. He says tina
he is not aware that the Republican part
has ever taken any position On the tariff, an
that he believes that the people Of Iowa wi
unwilling to destroy their revenue fror
imports by prohibitory policy.
DIAMONDS IN NORTH AMERICA. tn
present time Brazil furnishes a large proper
ton Of the diamonds of commerce, the cele
brated mines Of Golconda being SO nearl
exhausted as to rent for a few dollars year
Other localities in India, are however, rattle
more prolific. In the United States the,
have been obtained in Rutherford county
North Carolina, and in Hall county, Georgia
and very recently quite number have bee
found in California: principally in 81 Dorad