Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1869-11-12
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Floating ice has already impedsd naviga-
ton on the upper Mississippi
Potatoes are SO cheap in Iowa that many
acres are left undug.
Il is thought that the receipts Of cotton at
New Orleans will be 5000 bales greater
than they were last year.
Spectators are buying up potatoes 70
from twenty-five to forty cents per bushel in
! Vermont
The loss of frozen apples in Michigan by
the recent ''cod snap" is estimated at ST.
| 100000
Twelve inches Of snow fell in Northeast
ern Indiana between Friday night and Sat-
urday morning.
Cotton blankets, with a good body and
nap on each side, are being manufactured
in Columbus, Ga.
Oranges are abundant in Houma, La, at
70 cents hundred, and oysters the same
price.
It is rumored that Ex-Gov. Henry 8.
| Foote intends returning to Mississippi and
will make Aberdeen his future home.
Gen. Wade Hampton and D. H. Hill are
getting up a Military Institute at Charlotte,
N. C.
Ex-Governor Peirpoint was elected to The
Legislature of West Virgiain last week from
| Marion county.
Joseph Freeman has been appointed post
master at Lexington, Va, vice Robetr
| Campbell, suspended.
Mrs. Edward A. Pollard is about to 90 into
the hotel business Washington. She has
rented the Heradon House, and is fitting it
! up in handsome STYLE
THE Corn CRop.-Our country friends in
this section who have gathered in their corn
inform us that the crop is not more than a
third Of the usual yield.-Lyhchburq Neaos.
The Illness of Napoleon is evidently gen.
uine, and it would seem that the nearer he
| gets to his last account the more willing he
is to be at peace with the people.
R1cuMoND, Va, Nov. -Four inches of
| snow fel! to-day at Covington, Va, and at
Greensboro, n. G. The snow storm seems
to have followed the mountain range.
| Mr.. Neadham Brown of Duplin county
raised from about p acres of land, which
cost him only eight days blowing, forty-two
barrels of very large and heavy corn.
A writer in the New York Times charges
that the practice of indulging in "private
bottles at home is fearfully on the increase
among respectable ladies in New York.
''six clergymen" in Bucyrus, Ohio, are
opposed to dancing Then tho six clergy
mem of Bucyrus, Ohio may be gratifed to
know there is no law in Ohio compelling
them to dance! Let them "lpalk around :"
sr.LoU1s, Nov. 6-The Republican of
this city gives the following as the complex
ion Of the State Constitutional Convention
Of Illinois, as shown by the latest returns
| Republicans AZ, democrats 40, conserva-
tives 2, independent |.
At King George Courthouse, Va, on the
10th inst, the ladies of the King George
Memorial Association will dedicate the monu-
ment which they have raised to the memory
Of the Confederate dead
At a sale of autographs, letters, &C., in
New York, last wesk, those Of John G.
Calhoun sold for 80 cents, Reverdy johnson
and Charles Summers Is cents, J. W.
Forney's 10 cents. Abr.ham Linooln's 81
to 81, and George ashingtons s25.
THE RESULT IN WEST VIRGINIA The
Democrats twenty-four members the of
House, the Republicans nineteen, and the
Liberals thirteen. We are well satisfied
that the final figures will cause this classified
ton to vary very little if any Wheeling
Register,
The Virginia PcnI tentlary, tits announced
is about to commence boots and shoes-a
Boston manufacturer having proposed to en-
ploy three hundred of the convicts in that
business, and having agreed to invest $780,
600 in permanent machinery and the same
amount in the purchase Of leather stock:
The snos that fell at Kokomo, Indiana,
last Saturday measured eighteen inches in
depth Much of it still remains The
weather is good average for January The
snow has inflicted severe losses on the people
Of the town and surrounding country Fruit,
fruit trees and ornamental trees suffered
greatly.
| The Griffin ga Star says "Nlr. Dis
nuke, our Ordinary, assisted Mr.. S. ".
Bloodworth yesterday in measuring the corn
that grew on his brag acre, and it amounted
to one hundred and thirty=seven and one-
seventh bushels. Mr.. Dismuke will make
oath to the correctness of this statement.
Kansas City, Mo-, has a peculiar bylaw
of etiquette. When lady is to make a
morning call the driver stops before the door
and knocks. If no response is made, he
hurls a brick through the window. When
the visited lady returns home she ascertains
the number of calls by counting her bricks
and broken psncs Of glass.
The Bstou Rouge Sugar Planter, of the
30th, says:
Sugar making may be considered as hay
ing fairly set in for the season. In this re-
spect several parishes are ahead Of Us, new
sugar and molasses having been received in
New Orleans some days ago We do not
expect to be in full operation here before the
middle Of next month although two or three
have eenlma i. e
JAMES JErrR PH1LL1ps.- A petition, of
which the following is copy, has been sign
ed by two hundred and fifty persons;
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