Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1868-09-25

ANEcDorE OF GENERAL EARLY-Col. Fl.
K. D., of Stonewall Jackson's staff sends an
anecdote Of cold Jubal, from Hagerstown,
Md.
In January '65, left the army about Pc
tersburg, on short furlough, for the pur-
pose Of standing beside several Of my fellow
officers, who were bent on marriage in spite
of the disjointed times In my trip I
visited Staunton, the headquarters of cold
Jubal," and the remnant of the gallant little
army Of the Valley The day after my
arrival being bright Sabbath morning,
Gen. Early surprised his staff by announc-
ing his intention going to church, reques-
ting their company. It was novel sug-
gestion on the part Of the commanding Gen
eral and chiefly for that reason, fear, met
with ready assent.
The sermon was good one, earnest and
impressive--the General and staff devout
listeners Towards its conclusion, where
the exhortation usually comes in, the clergy
man closed his book emphatically, and rails
ing his right arm with emphasis, exclaimed:
''Suppose, my Christian friends that those
who have laid for centuries in their graves
should arise now and come forth from their
quiet resting places, and marching in their
white shrouds, should pass before this con-
gregation, by thousands and thousands,
what would be the result? .........-
"Ahw exclaimed old Jubal in stage
whisper, ''Pd conscript every ID one of
them"
1t was an unfortunate suggestion on the
part of the preacher, for General EARLY re-
membered the great host Of Sheridan and his
own little band, and he would willingly, for
reinforcements, as General Grant said,
shave robbed both the cradle and the grave"
And such is our natural depravity, that I
have Forgotten the text of that day, and
and all of the sermon, except what was
pinned to memory by that irreverent mot of
old Jubal.-Land We Lone.
A LIVING CHILD W1ruoUr A HEAD.-In
the vicinity of Spoon river in Illinois, is a
child which was born and has lived five years
without head Mrs., the mother, is
widow of soldier, formerly living in Mar
shall county, who enlisted in the Sixty fifth
or Scotch regiment, and was killed at the
battle of Devington, Mo. She was standing
beside her husband during the engagement
when cannon ball carried his head complete
ly away, his body falling into her arms and
covering her with blood This shock afec-
ted her greatly when, in seven months af-
forwards, her CHILD was born, there was not
the semblance of head about it, The limbs
were perfectly developed, the arms long, and
tue shoulders where the head and neck should
be, smoothly rounded off.
But the most surprising thing Of all is that
the face is situated in the breast. Ofcourse,
there being no neck, the power of turning
its head is wanting, but this difficulty is over
come by the singular faculty it possesses Of
turning it's eyes in their sockets, enabling ii
to see quite as we'll on either side as those
more perfectly formed.
There is again considerable excitement
in Washington and this neighborhood in re-
gard to gold ore in the wash of some of the
Fairfax county streams which empty into
the Potomac river A piece of quartz rich
enough in gold to well repay the cost Of
crushing and washing was exhibited in
Washington yesterday.-Alen. Com. Ad-
verttser.
The Ohio State Journal, a rabid Radica
sheet, admits the danger its party is in in thu
following frantic appeal: "For Heavens
sake, friends, work Work from this day
until the election or we are beaten in Ohio
in Indiana, in Pennsylvania, in New York
and in the whole countryP'
We have no more right, wantonly O.
causelessly to wound the mind than to wount