Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1867-05-17
Wears Items.

Orleans IN 80 hours.
Snow is two feet deep in some parts of
Aroostook County, Me.
Beefsteak is selling at Tampa, La, for
nine cents per pound.
Armies of caterpillars are desolating the
forests in some parts of Tennessee.
Two whales were captured in Beaufort
harbor, N. G on Thursday
North Alabama farmers are planting two
thirds more land in corn than in cotton.
A man in Pennsylvania owns a gal1ows
and hires it out to counties when any of
their citizens require hanging.
Charles B., youngest son of Frederick
Douglass, has been appointed a clerk of the
Freedman's Bureau
In Arkansas, Gov. Murphy has issued
proclamation, based on an order from Gen. |
Ord, dissolying the Legislature of that
State
The mayor Of Mobile has appointed
number of colored policemen, who are spe-
cially charged to preserve order about the
colored churches.
Ten thousand packages of -four arrived at
New York from California on Friday. Ex-
ira flour is selling in San Francisco at 81
per bbl., gold.
Seventy thousand Germans are coming to !
the United States this season. MANY of them
leave their country to escape the Prussian
conscription law
The Emperor of Brazil has abolished
slavery throughout his dominions, the slaves
now living to be free at the end of 20 years,
and all born of slaves hereafter to be free
from their birth.
France obtains fifty per cent. more wheat
per acre than the United States, and En-
gland more than one hundred per cent.
greater crops than ours, and the secret is SUI
perlor cultivation and manuring.
The N. Y. Herald learns that Secretary
Seward has decided to retire from private life
as soon as the Southern States are represen-
ted in Congress. or, at the latest, with the
present administration.
WHAT NEXT False ears Of flesh color
India rubber--have been invented for the
use OF ladies with large ears They are
used IN front of the real ears, which are
drawn back and concealed under the hair.
New Hampshire has three millions of dol
lars invested in horses, four and half mil
lions IN cattle, two and half millions in
mich cows, two millions in sheep, and
six hundred and seventy-four thousand in
swine.
A company has been formed in Meriden,
Conn, for the manufacture of hats by ma.
chine which weaves them whole. The capi-
tai stock is $500, 600. and it took 1875, 900
to buy up the different patents used in the
machine.
Granite is now being extensively shipped
from the quarrles on the James River and
Kanawha canal, Virginia, to the North,
from Richmond. One hundred and fifty
tons were sent to Washington the other
day.
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 Soc, that
retails easily for Sc, by R. L. Wollcott, ITO
Chatham Square, New York. June 15-1y
Among the curious things of the EXPOSE
ton is bar of iron about as long and as
thick as the pole of carriage, tied in knot
as though it were ribbon, without YES
tlge OF crack or flaw, and the visitor is as
sured that it was tied when cold.
The seventeen year locusts will make their
appearance in Greenbrier county, and the
adjacent country this year. Millions of them
are now only few inches under ground,
working their way to the surface. Fears are
INDUCED that they may be very destructive
to the crops.
Eggs with iron shells will be the fact at
the Paris Exposition A Berlin chemist
caused his hens to produce them by feeding
them on a preparation in which iron was
made to take the place of lime The eggs
may 40 very well for transportation, but how
about the chickens?
The peach growers of Delaware and Ma
ryland as well as of New JERSEY. antici-
pate full crops. The shippers of peaches to
the New York market, it is said, have made
arrangements with the railroad companies to
senu seventy -hVe cars OF peaches daily during
the season.
ELEPHANT ON A RA1D.-A baby elephant,
attached to circus, became frightened near
Phoenix, Rhode Island, on Friday. broke
away from his keeper, and ran into the prime
lpal street. He made raid upon fruit
store, went into saloon and emptied the
contents upon the landlord and customers.
and was proceeding to demolish grocery,
when he was secured by his keeper
Zachariah Wood, recently on trial before
the Circuit Court of Nelson county for the
murder of j. G Driscoll on the 7th of De-
cember last, was found guilty of murder in
the second degree, and sentenced to the pen
itentiary for five years. For the Common
wealth, Robt Whitehead for the accused,
Messrs. W. G. CabeE J 4. McCue, Camm