Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1868-01-24
sNeaUs Items.


A colored lawyer has just been admitted to the
Memphis bar.
Shad are selling at Goldsboro', N. c., at 49,.
50 per pair.
Henry Ward Beecher made $37, 900 out of his
farm last year.
There were nine bridal parties at a hotel in
Dayton, Ohio, on Christmas Eve.
66l,548h hogs were packed during the past sea-
son in Chicago.
Gen. Fremont is stated to be opposed to Gen.
Grant, and in favor of Chief Justice Chase, for
the Presidency.
Rev. Henry W. Beecher now breaches in a pull
pit made from wood brought from the Mount of
Olives, in the Holy Land.
A young Illinoisan, aged twenty-five years,
owns fifty thousand acres of land in his native
State and twelve thousand in Nebraska.
The Indiana Democratic Convention have
nominated Senator Thomas A. Hendricks as their
candidate for Governor.
Fred Douglass recently became excessively in
dignant at a Connecticut landlord, who refused
to allow him to eat his meals at the public table.
The Boston negro Bradley, who assaulted an
editor in Savannah, has been sentenced to $1l0
line or three months Imprisonment.
Two negroes in South Carolina were drawn as
jurymen. They thought was some terrible thing
and took to the swamp to escape it.
Belle Boyd, the Confederate spy, and Mr.. R.
Johnston, a Federal lieutenant, are playing prin-
cipal parts in perfect amity at one of the New
York theatres.
Lawrence Fuller, a negro preacher at Macon,
Georgia, was committed last week in default OF
bail for stealing seven hogs and a beef, parts Of
all of which were found in his possession.
Wade Hampton, late Lieutenant General IS.
A., is reported to be one of the editors Of the
Charleston Mercury. An able editor and noble
man he is.
1t has been thought that people are degenerat-
ing, because they don't live as long as Methusa-
lah. But nobody can afford to live long at the
current prices.
The bogus Tennessee Legislature has voted to
"abolish all distinctions of color" The ques-
tion now is, whether the blacks are to be bleach
cd, or the whites to be painted.
A boy, sixteen years old, who had run away
from home at Lake City, Mimi, to Boston, was
recently expressed from that city, with a label to
his back, and was in every way treated as a piece
of baggage.
A FaUIryUL ANIxAL.-A COW, the property Of
John ?. Dodge, who keeps the tavern this side
OF Harlem Bridge, gave birth Friday morning to
three ball calves. "Mother and sons' doing
well.-N. 7. Express.
Brigham Young, in his ''scarlet Letter. - urges
the young men of Utah to get mari led, and by
way of hurrying them says that all the young
women that ''are left after a certain date he
will marry himself.
The Philadelphia Press triumphantly states,
as showing how low "Andrew Johnson" has
fallen. that at his New Years reception, t'there
were no colored citizens present" The Press
calls this "anothsr significant fact"
PRESENT FROM BRIsHAM YouNo.-The President
has received from Brigham Young a New Years
present of a magnificent otter-skin robe, of grand
dimensions. 1t is probably the largest and one
OF the most valuable robes in America, and a full
half dozen of Brigham's wives might at one time
find comfort under like covering in such frosty
weather as We have here Cor. Journal of Com
merce.