Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1867-08-30
.Ne2US Items.


An Isabella grape vine in Indiana, Pa,
produces this season l 200 punches ofgrapes.
Railroads in this country are being built
at the rate of one thousand miles per an
mum.
Tuesday was the hottest day Of the season
at Norfolk, the thermometer going up at one
time to 90 degrees.
The Japanese steamer Stonewall will car
ry from Norfolk twelve or fifteen workmen-
machinists and others.
Farmers in Wisconsin say wheat will be
as low as fifty cents bushel before the end
Of the year.
In Mississippi, since 1860, the white pop
ulation has decreased about 10, 900, and the
colored people about 5000.
Judge Hall, of New York, has decided
that married woman may be declared
bankrupt under the involuntary clause.
Ten persons lately died in Vandalia, ILL.,,
from eating corn boiled in brass kettle
which had not been properly cleanscd.
Among the late items of news from En-
gland is the announcement that the Prince
Of Wales has taken the temperance pledge.
Ex-Confederate General Breckenridge and
wife continue to live in Paris, as guests of
of the family of Mrs. Burbank, Of Kentucky.
On Tuesday severe thunder storm pass
ed over Portsmouth, Va. The Catholic
Church was struck by lightning, but not in
jured.
It is said that the late Secretary Of War,
Edwin NJ. Stanton, is native of Culpeper
county, Va, and removed to Ohio when
about II years old.
Miss Belle Boyd, who figured some what
during the late war, is in Baltimore, on her
way to st. Louis, where she has theatrical
engagement to fulfil.
Hindman is one of the foremost men Of the
South lin reconstruction, and Early is one of
the latest. It is written: ssThe first shall
be last, and the last first"
Philadelphia. August 21.-Ex-P President
Buchanan is lying seriously i'll in this city,
having been brought from Cape May yester-
day. Fears are entertained for his life
The Lymchbury Republican learns that the
James River and Kanawha Canal Company
have been required to show cause why they
should not go into Bankruptcy.
Charles Dickens is expected to come to
this country this fall and commence series
of lectures, in the principal cities, similar to
those he has delivered in England.
Generals Beauregard and Magruder visit
ed the New York stock exchange on Friday,
but were received so coldly that they made
only a brief stay. 1t is said they were in
suited.
r. M. Smith, late of the Richmond En-
quirer, has received the appointment of Presi-
dent of the Petersburg Female College, in
place of Professor Carr, who has removed to
Warrenton, in Fauquier:
John II. Reagan, postmaster general un-
der the Confederate government, writes that
he has received his pardon from the Presi-
dent, and will devote himself to securing
early reconstruction and restoring peace and
harmony to the country.
THE Maryland State Constitutional Con-
vention adjourned, sine die, on Saturday
last, having framed Constitution to be SUBJ
mitted to the people of the State, for ap-
proval or rejection The Constitution was
adopted in the Convention by vote of 80
to 4.
Too MUCH OF Coop THING. -Live stock
increases in numbers far more rapidly in
Australia than the population, and the great
question now is how to get rid of them. It
is proposed in one place to erect joint stock
establishment ''capable of boiling down 1O,-
600 sheep week."
One day last week, two of Mr.. VIM.
Peck's children, playing in the woods near
the residence of their father. short distance
from town, killed pine snake. Strange to
say, Immediately after killing it a large num-
Der Of small snakes ran out of its mouth -
Sixty of these were killed. -Ffncasle Her.
ald
1t will crafty his friends in Virginia, his
native State, to learn that General Price has
been rid of all the suits which had been COM
menced against him in the Missouri. courts
for acts done by him while engaged in the
late war. The St. Louis Republican says
they were all dismissed by consent of parties,
each side paying its own costs.
SILVER Found IN PocAHoNrAs- We learn
that within the last few days, there has been
found, by some experienced miners, who
have been exploring Pocahontas county, on
the premises of Mr.. G. Arbogast. in the up
per end Of the county, vein of silver, which
from the out-croppings gives Aattering
prospect of remuneration. -Greenbriey IN
dependent.
The Hagerstown Herald states that the
boldest horseman in Robisons circus, which
exhibited there last Friday, is negro boy
named Lewis Willis, born slave in Charles
town, Jefferson county, and when child
was sold to trader who took him to Missis-
sippi. After some time he became the prop
erty of Mr.. Joe Davis, and was at work on
his plantation, on the banks of the Mississip-
pi, at the breaking out Of the war.