Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1869-09-17
Valley News.


The Winchester Ne,ss reports Railroad
meeting in that place to further the extern
sion Of the Cumberland Valley Railroad by
the Winchester route.
DEcArIrArED.-Miss Maggie johnson.
the excellent Postmistress at Charlestown,
has been removed from Office, and nan
named Taylor, almost total stranger to the
people, appointed in her stead Winches-
ter Times.
CIRCUIT CoURTs.-We are requested to
state that Judge Thomas S. largest, the
Judge of this Circuit, will hold the regular
terms Of the Circuit Courts of Highland and
Rockingham this fall The Circuit Court Of
Rockingham will commence on the 18th Of
October Old Commonwealth.
The capacious Touring mill at Harper's
Ferry is turning out daily 400 bbls. Of -four,
employing large number Of coopers, mill
siderable life and animation to business on
the Island The flour ranks with the very
best in the Eastern market. Spirit Of JET
1erson.
Since the war, many Of our farmers have
gone into the grape culture to a very consid .
cradle extent. The crop this season is a
moderate one, and now about rjpening. We
have learned of several who expect to man
ufacture wine, and in some instances en-
ployed skilled and experienced connoisseurs
in tho ort Na hono fba
prove in a high degree profitable Spirit
Of Jeberson.
PAINFUL ACCIDENT On Monday last as
Col. E. J. Armstrong was returning home
to Bridgewater. in this county, somewhere
between Harr.sonburg and Dayton, his horse
fell with him, fracturing Col. AS. leg below
the knee and otherwise injuring him. We are
very sorry to hear of this misfortune bcfall-
ing Col. A. and hope his injuries are not of
a character to permanently disable him.
Old Commonwealth.
THE Hon. J. BRocKENBRouGH- We are
grati6ed to meet with this distinguished gen
tleman on our streets again. His soourn at
the Springs seems to have re established his
health in its former v:gor. He will be found
in full readiness for his arduous duties soon
to be resumed as Law Professor in the Col
legc.
We are also grati6ed to learn that his
prospects for large class, are unusually
encouraging. Long life tothe Judge, and the
amplcst success to his efforts to train race
Of lawyers like himself, learned and skilful.
T G,,-ott,
ARREST OF A HoRsE HIEF.-Onc night,
week before last, q horse Of Mr.. G.. W.
Shields was missing, and also a negro named
Bill Howard. It seems, the negro started
for Lynchburg with the horse, crossing at
the Rope Ferry He offered the horse to a
Livery Keeper in Lynchburg for 5000, and
said he received the horse as pay for years
work. at SIS a month, but finally agreed to
take $40; whereupon an officer took Bill
and the horse also. The rogue duplicates
one Henry Clay, a negro known about town
as great rascal. Lexington Gazette.
REvIvALs. We learn that revivas Of con-
siderable interest have been 10 progress at
the Goshen and Natural Bridge Baptist
churches aH 44
Rev. DR.. Bagby, of King and Queen, has
been aiding Rev. Mr.. Ryland. the Pastor
at Goshen, and Rev. G. G. Thrashcr has
been aiding Rev. Mr.. Harris Pastor at
Natural Bridge
We learn that there have been consider
able number of additions to each church, and
the interest was unabated at last adyiccs.-
Lexington Gazette. s
The Winchester Journal, a radical paper
published here for more than four years, is
dead. Thus one by one, they fold their
tents like the Arabs and as silently steal array,
the impossibility of stealing anything else
having at length. became manifest The
editors valedictory felicitates his paper Oh
its having survived six others of the same
persuasion. The State Journal, at Rich
mond, is we believe, the last of its tribe .
and it will die with the grasshoppers. Is
this mortality to be ascribed to the success
of Grants policy?
1t will one day seem Incredible that half
dozen newspapers, conducted by as many
namcless Adventures from the depths Of New
England, should have been published in DIFF
ferent parts of Virginia, devoted to the de-
nunciation of nineteen twentieths Of her
white population as rebels, entitled to no le-
gal rights upon their own soil, and ftly de-
priyed Of every attribute of frcemcn in favor
of herd of barbarous blacks who never
can learn the alphabet Of salf-government.
That these anomalous journals should have
all Disappeared simultaneously with the de-
cline Of the military despotism which brought
them into life, is gratifying proof, that they
struck no root into the bosoms Of VirginiaDs,
and that VIC are yet one people Winches-
ter Nc1cs.
The losses by fire throughout the United
States during the month of August, just
passed, amounted to Sc, 438,000. This is
a startling statement The loss is nearly
double that Of August 1868, and much ex-
ceeds the total Of any month during the past
Or present year.
The mail coach from Helena, Montana, to
the railroads, was robbed on Monday night
about fifty miles north of Corrine, by four
road agents, of two treasure boxes, contain