Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1867-01-25


President johnson and family worship at
the Methodist Episcopal church.
The city institutions of New Orleans are
supplied with beef at four cents per pound
Twenty five farms have been sold in one
section Of Alabama for the low price of 81
per acre.
Rev. Dr. Stiles is preaching every night
at the Presbyterian Church in Fredericks-
burg.
Mr. Thomas R. Rixey has left at the Office
of the Culpeper Observer ,ohite c,oao, killed
by his son near Rixeyvlle.
Rev. DR.. Stiles has accepted a call to la
Dor the present year as an evangelist in
the churches of Missouri Christian o.
server.
A lazy fellow down South spells Tennessee
after this fashion-10sc, and spells Andrew
Jackson-&ru Jaxn. He will suit prima-
ry school.
Four young lads, under twelve years Of
= age were discovered in Boston church on
Sunday playing uchre for ''the beer for the
crowd"
Snow fell to the depth of five inches at
Enterprise, Alabama on Thursday last.
Such jan occurrence, it is said, has never be-
fore been witnessed in that region by ''the
Oldest inhabitant.'
The latest business out is an agency for
the purpose of furnishing forlorn bachelors
and widowers with wives at prices ranging
from So to $40. 1t is in operation in the
West
GENERAL WAsu1NGToN's Pew IN CHRIST
CHURCH, ALExANDRIA.-This pew having
become an object of historical interest, it is
worth mentioning that its original cost was
thirty-six pounds ten shillings. -,Somhern
Charchnsan.
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
retals easily for Sc, by R. L. Wollcott, TO
Chatham Square, New York June 15--1y
The days seem short enough here at this
season of the year, in all conscience, but just
think of the days in Russia. At St. Peters
burg, the capital, the sun rises at presant al
quarter past 8, and sets at a quarter be-
fore three ; and at Archangel, city of &c.
0OO inhabitants, the day lasts only frem "a
minutes past 10 to "a minutes before
AT WoRK-A Charleston, S. G. letter
says: ''Many Of the sons Of families for
merly wealthy, and still proud, fill the places
OF conductors on the cars, and seem reioiced
to obtain paying occupation. The city 20
lice force, too, is filled up with young men OF
respectable connections, who before the war,
would have deemed themselves too good for
many less humble vocation"
FROM MExIco.-The latest news from
Mexico, is to the 28th ultimo, VIA New Or
leans, and it is stated that the French troops
are moving EN- naasse, to Vera Cruz-that
Macmillan is to abdicate in twenty days,
and leave the country, -tEat the carly cap
ture of the city Of Mexico by the Liberals is
expected-and that the Liberals are taking
possession Of the abandoned cities.
The Washington correspondent of the
Charleston Courier, in his letter dated the
Eth instant, says: at is certain that Con-
gress will enact law providing that the con-
stitutional amendment shall, after receiving
the assent Of twenty one States, be held as
a part of the Constitution. But will the Su.
preme Court sustain such proceeding :? The
President thinks not"
One HUNDRED AND THTRTY-SIx YEARS
OLD aunt Milly," colored woman for
merly belonging to Capt. James NJ Morris,
residing near Rockfsh Gap, in Nelson coun-
ty died at the residence Of this gentleman
on the 7th instant, in the one hundred and
Mity-siath gear Of her age. She was born
in l73l, III the beginning Of the reign of
George II. She was cotemporary of
Pope, Swift, and Boiling though prob
ably she never heard Of them.
James g. Campbell, whoever that NAV
be,-wriSes to the New Ycrl Times, that he
was in Calcutta in July. 1866, and saw a
bet made and the money put up, for five
hundred pounds sterling aside, that J.
w likes Booth was alive, and would be so
! proved in six months; and that the person
( who maintained the affirmative was Lieut..
William Martin Tolbert, Of the Confederate
war steamer Shenandoah.
Would it not be well to send a committee
( Of Congress out there to inquire into the
matter.
A sistcr-in-law of the Radical member Of
Congress from the St. Joseph (NIissouri)
District during the war gratifed her malig-
nifty by going out to see four Confederate
youths hanged in cold blood by jayhawlzers.
The woman was en- ceinte at the time, and
soon after son was born her whose tongue
lois continuously from his mouth, and whose
neck bears the frayed appearance and goes
through the convulsive motion Of one in the
final agolies Of sGgocat;on -.Ne,c York
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