Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1867-09-06
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A woman in St. Louis poisoned two young
sisters and her brother last week.
Judge Black is mentioned as Secretary of
the Interior.
Putman's Magazine is to be resurrected,
green cover and all.
Louis Napoleon is individually in debtsome
six millions of francs.
Hon. John l.. Helm, Governor elect Of
Kentucky, is seriously i'll.
A forty-five pound chunk of gold was recent
ly found by some Cinnamon in California.
Among the arrivals at New York, from
Europe, is Mr.. Rogers the eminent sculptor.
The receipts of wheat in Chicago are quad
ruple the amount at this time last year.
The Norfolk papers record the death of
the Rev. j. H. Payne, Of the Methodist
Episcopal Church.
There is not toll-gat in all Switzerland
The roads are fine and belong to the govern
ment.
The coolies continue to arrive in New Or
leans. They are shipped at once to planta-
tons in the interior.
Colored detectives are now employed In
Richmond, by appointment of the military,
to aid the police.
Three English regiments have been sent to
Canada, to oppose an anticipated Fenlan IN
vasion.
Over one thousand head of sheep and 200
fat cattle from Southwestern Virginia, went
North over the Orange railroad on Wednes-
day.
A Hartford author is engaged on a histo-
~ of woman's progress from the earliest ages
to be entitled 'sFrom the Fig Leaf to the
Crinoline." A comprehensive subject sure
Major John H. Gee, formerly Confederate
commandment at the Salisbury N. c., prison,
is reported dying of consumption near Talla-
hassee, Florida.
A man in Cairo, ILL.,, while overheated
last week held piece of ice in his hand until
he was chilled, in consequence Of which he
died.
General Grant is smoking calmly in the
War Office the earth performs its revolutions
undisturbed, and it is splendid corn weather.
Springfield Republican.
There is an editor in Minnesota who weighs
642 pounds. His name is Frank Dagget.
and he derives sustenance from the Wa
bashaw Herald.
Zion's Herald advertises two colored
preachers, ''of superior parts" who want
white congregations. 1t says, ''now, breth-
rem, let us practice as we preach"
The cholera is making terrible ravages in
Ia'y. During the first half of 1867 there
have been no less than 80. 074 deaths, among
them the ex-Queen of Naples, who died at
Rome, August 9Th.
DEATH FROM LocKJAw.-The friends Of
Bishop Johns, of Virginia, will be panied to
hear that his grandson, Henry Peyton, a
youth of fifteen years, died last week, from
lockjaw.-NoyoH Journal.
The hog cholera has broken out among
the hogs in some sections of Amherst and
Bedford counties, and many are dying from
III. Lie ulScdSC ID uOU 81 SCLtCICIy pIOfdACAo
as it was the last and preceding year.
There has recently been discovered on the
lands of Mr.. j. 3. Marks, near Fairfax sta
ton, on the Orange and Alexandria railroad
an extensive mine Of natural polish pro-
nounced by those who have tried it, equal to
emory or any preparation at present used
for cleaning metals Or putting a fine edge Oh
cutlery.
ESCAPED FROM PRISON Information from
Savannah states that James Duncan com.
missary of the Confederate Wirz at Ander'
sonville, escaped from Fort Pulaski last week
He was in confinement there, serving tern
of fifteen years imprisonment, to which HI
was sentenced by court-martial convened
at Savannah Immediately after the close 0
the war;
DEvELEpopMENT OF RESOURCES OF VIRGIN
lathe people of Fauquier county, Virgin
Ia are elated over the discovery of what the,
deem to be gold bearing quartz. Porcelain
clay of good quality, has been found in tn
anne county. Very recently gold was dis
covered in digging we'll in the city of Rich
mond, and we hear of Of gold and cope
throughout the State.-Smr.
A New COUNTERFEIT "A new and dan
cerous counterfeit national currency--of tn
denomination of five dollars has just beer
mt in circulation. On the left end Of tn
note the wrist of the left arm of Columbus il
scarcely visible, whereas in the genuine it Ii
distinct. At top reads: "This note is Sc
orrad bv bonds s The letters ''B" and ''Y'
are too far apart, and the ''O' IN .bonds
is under the 'Y' whereas the "b" IN the
same word is Immediately under the "Y" IL
the genuine, The general appearance OF the
bill is close imitation Of the genuine.
Philadelphia Age.