Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1869-03-12
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The Montreal streets are buried under nine
feet Of snow.
Corn, peas, onions, radishes and lettuce
are gladdening Newbern, N. G.
The reyolutionists in Cuba have now some
~, 000 men under arms. with a reserve Of
40 900 more.
NoTHINe OF 1r-Of the reported attempt
to shoot Brownlow at Charlottesville, the
Chronicle Of that town says:
The Pass Lynchburg Ecening
Press, (Radical, } made its debut on IFednes-
day afternoon.
". i Edwards, Esq, a distinguished
lawyer, died at his residence at Fairfax
Court House Wednesday morning.
A schoolmate Of John and Charles Yves
ley, aged one hundred and four years, is liv-
ing in Brooklyn.
An American ex-brgadier general of vol
unteers is giving drawing lessons in Hcidel-
berg.
The New York Post heads the senatorial
confirmation of batch of Mr.. Johnson's ap-
polntments on Monday GA Wanton Insult
to Grant,
Among the appointments to Office in this
county there is one, as magistrate, vAo ca's
neither read nor arrite - bristol Ncaos.
Col. Edward A. Cabel died at Norwood,
Nelson county, on Wednesday last, at the
ripe old age of seventy-threc years.
Patrick Fleming was killed near Glasgow
station, in Amherst county, on Wednesday.
last.
The sale Of horsehesh as food increase ~
France, but by no means so rapidas the more
wish
III Otsego, New York. an estate of 49,
800 has just been settled. The heirs get
three dollars apiece. The balance went to
costs and the lawyers.
It's said that Mr.. Stewart has now pend
ing suits against the Treasury Department.
for upwards Of four millions of dollars duties
paid by him under protest
LAND SALE-Two hundred and forty three
acres Of land, three and half miles west of
Gordonsville, belonging to Mrs. Cole, to a
gentleman of Alabama. Price, thirty dollars
per acre.-Natice N;ryinian.
There is authority for stating that the pre-
carious condition of the health of Mr.. George
H. Stuart alone prevented his nomination to
the Senate by General Grant for a place in
his Cabinet.
A dispatch Washington says that DR..
Sharpe, postmaster at Richmond, Va,
connection of General Grants, is named in
CONNECTION with the marshalship for the
District Of Columbia
The H@ james McChain. the very able
minister ofpthe Presbyteria church at Alb
ingdop, died a few days since. He was
gentleman Of considerable distinction, and as
preacher was popular. -Bristd News
ave don't know anything of this here,
and cannot find even the slightest foundation
for the story, though we have enquired of
persons who were near the cars during the
whole time they stopped at this depot.
WASHINGTON COLLEGE, VA-It is stated
that seventy students have matriculated at
this college since the first of February last.
The number of matriculates is now three
hundred and fifty.
SIeNs.-Thcre are signs, says the Pitts
burg Dispatch, of great emigration south
ward in the early spring. Many families are
preparing to leave Pittsburg for Virginia,
Kentucky and Georgia.
Rev Thomas t. Preston commenced his
ministry at the Fist Presbyterian church, and
preached twice to large congregations His
style of preaching seems to be original and
popular, without any effort at effect, and it
seems to be generally conceded that he will
fill with credit the pulpit to which he has
been called. -Richmond Dispatch.
Governor Senter, of Tennessee, has mod
flied BroWnlow's martial law by directing
that the courts shall continue to exercise their
ordinary powers, and that the military
shall only aid the sheriffs in the discharge Of
their proper duties. The new Governor is
to be opposed to the whole military
Of Brownlow, and will soon re-
woke it.
A spring wagon has been invented by
gentleman in MayslicA, Ky, which he pro-
poses to run without any kind of animal or
steam power. He has already perfected a
small model, With runs up Or down hill very
rapidly. The power is received from an
immense coiled steel spring, which will run
for half an hour without being wound up
In going up hill the spring exhausts itself,
but in going down the hill it winds itself up.
The inventor claims that he can carry very
heavy loads over an ordinary road.
Gen. Sherman was the recipient, on the
18th inst, of the deeds making him the owner
of the private residence and furniture Of
General Grant at Washington. Mr. A T.
Stewart, of New York. made the presenta-
ton speech. to which Gen. Sherman rcspon-
ded, assuring the contributors that their
present ($100, 900 in all, should be held by
him for the special benefit of his family and
in the education of his children, and beyond |
this purpose lie intended never to touch for
himself one dollar of it.
AMERICAN CLAIMANTS TO ENGLISH EsTA-
rEs. Hon. J. P. Benjamin, formerly of
Louisiana, butnow residing in London, and