Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1868-11-13
BreyifieS.


Eighteen inches of snow now cover the
summit of Mount Washington, N Il.
The corn crop of Ohio this year is estima-
ted at al 900, 900 bushels.
Mddling cotton is worth 223c in Atlanta
Ga.
sc. 900 sacks of wheat were shipped for
Liverpool from San Francisco last week.
A farmer in England sowed one peck of
wheat to the acre, and gathered 5O bushels.
Sotch plaids it is said will be the thing for
ladies' walking suits this winter.
Brick Pomeroy is grandson Of Gen. Ho-
ratio Gates.
President johnson has lost twenty one
pounds of flesh since he became President,
Brigham Young is the third largest de-
positor in the Bank of England
The fellow who can SANDER Ashley must
have genius for lying that would beat the
devil.
1t is confidently expected that railroad
communication will be opened with Salt Lake
city by January LIST, 1869.
The Rome (Ga) Courier says new corn
can be bought i'll Floyd county for fifty cents
per bushel.
There are 25 900 women in the city of
New York who do literally nothing except to
dress. dwadle, eat and sleep.
Mrs Leonidas Polk has formerly opened
her select school, for young ladies', in New
Orleans
The champion drinker of lager beer in
Cleveland has accomplish 106 glasses in
one day. and invites any one to beat it.
A man has just died in Paris, whose uni
que method of earning livelihood was the
invention of cries for street pcdlars.
A plantation in Mississippi which cost
$50 900 ten years ago was sold lately for
$3.50.
John G. Breckenridge the other day made
a speech, to an agricultural society, on the
Canadian side of the Niagara.
1t is estimated that the farmers of Allen
Co. Ohio, will realize 100000 for apples
sold this season.
Canada has young lady Of twenty three
who is seven feet seven inches al and weighs
$40 pounds.
Before marriage the man is very much
struck with the woman and afterwards the
woman is very much struck by the man.
One hundred and sixty-six persons have
been murdered in Louisiana during the past
year.
Two thin shoes make one cold---two colds
one attack of bronchitis attacks of
bronchitis one mahogany coffin
A carrier of the New Yerk Sun, Abram
Henderson, has made by his own occupation
in the last seventeen years $780, 900. So
says the Sun.
The Australian colonies have 600, 900
horses, and 1000, 900 cattle, $500 900
sheep, 10000 600 pigs and $500, 900 acres
of cultivated land.
GRAPES We are glad to learn that MIR.
P A. Dawson expects to plant 8 900 grape
vines in addition to I 900 already planted on
his farm. -Lenington Gazette
recently sold eleven hundred head of cattle
at an average of s. currency, to Mr. Rilliet,
of Dakotah Territory.
In Connecticut, boy of twenty has just
married widow of fifty, who has seven chill
dren. The eldest is six years older than his
new papa"
The daughter of Juarez, Felicitat was
married in the City Of Mexico on the 9th.
Miss Juarez, ''that was" had many acquain-
tanees in Washington, Aq
A sporting man remarked, of a belle, in
the habit of wearing low necked dresses who
carried off matrimonial prize in the shape
of rich old widower, that ''she won the race
by neck"
A gentleman in the Bank of England has
calculated that if all the English shllings in
circulation were piled one upon the other, the
column would be eighty-seven and quarter
miles high.
The Louisville Journal ungallantly says
that woman, with all her beauty and worth,
should remember that man was the chief mat
ter considered at the creation. She was on
ly a side issue,
In England. hereafter, at weddings, the
groom is to receive presents as well as the
bride As soon as the fashion is introduced
on this side the water, we intend to get mar
ried.
By recent law in England, parents who
neglect their children may be sent to prison
for six months, and similar penalty is at
tached to the husband who fails to maintain
his wife.
1t is said that a poor German mechanic
of New York city, has just invented sound
ing board which solves the long sought pro-
blem of the prolongation of sound in a
piano.
Il like Grant" said german the other
day, because he don't blow "-Chicaqo
Journal
Ifhe would blow his horns more and swal-
low them less, he would better deserve to be
liked
The wheat imported into Great Britain
from the United States during the seven
months ending July 3lst, 1868, is valued at
ST. ,382, 965. This is q large increase over
the corresponding periods in the preceding
two years, the value in 1867 amounting to
$5,l82, 255, and in 1856 to $3.50, 05O
1t is said that in England there are many
farmers who more than support themselves
and large families on the product of six acres,
besides paying heavy rents Agrieulturists
in Germany, who are proprietors Of FIVE acres,
support themselves, and lay up money =
Wing.
It is stated that the radical Mayor Of Wash