Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1869-09-03
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Items.
The receipts from Internal Revenue this
year are estimated at 5000, 100000.
The political campaign in California is
getting exciting. The main issue is the Fif-
tenth amendment.
I Twenty Christian missionaries are known
70 have been massacred in the province Of
Szchreu. in China.
/ ST. Louis, August 27-Colonel Lake,
proprietor Of Lakes circus, was shot dead
last night by person whom he elected from
the canvass. The murderer escaped.
The drouth in Maryland is almost as bad
as IN Virginia, and is moreover general. 1t
is feared that not half crop of corn or po-
tatoes will be raised if it continues.
The Philadelphians have succeeded in q
plan to overcome the present scarcity of wa
ter By the use Of steam fire engines water
is pumped form the Schuylkill into the res
ervolrs, and this expedient will answer un-
I'll the river runs dry.
The Richmond Wing says I'VE learn
that prominent Radical, who was elected to
the Legislature, avows his purpose to refuse
to take the iron-clad oath. believing that its
exaction will be breach of faith towards
the peopl. of Virginia.
Tho Supreme Court of Nevada has deci-
ded that the telegraph is a branch of COM
mcrce, and therefore under the control of
commerce, in the same manner as other kinds
OF commercial intercourse among the several
States.
James Grant. implicated in the Pollard
tragedy, and who left Richmond, it was said
at the time, to become member of the Rich
lngs- Bernard opera troupe, turns up now in
New York as one of Bryant's Minstrels.
Mr.. VIM. King Heiskell, prominen. and
influential citizen of Washington county, was
shot within two miles of his residence, on
Friday last. by a man who lay secreted in
thicket The wound is thought to be fatal,
the ball having passed through Mr.. Heiskelrs
body. sas
The great railway bridges over the two
branches of the Cape Fear river, in North
Gan DINA, have been finished and the railway
connection established over them. They
were built in Baltimore by Bollman and
shipped to North Carolina in sections.
Mr.. Robert L. Written, an insurance
agent in Pittsburg, recently became blind
after having himself shaved in the barber
| shop OF the Monongahela House of that city.
The barber had wiped his face, after shay
ing him, with towel which had been used
in The application of arsenic to whiten the
complexion.
The suspension of agents who prosecute
claims before the Pension BureaOfor over
charging their clients, is matter of almost
daily occurrence. The law fixes the fee at
slQ, and whenever it comes to tho kAowl-
edge of the commissioner that an agent is
charging more, bis name is suspended from
the roll.
| 1t is intimated that Congress will be petit
toned this winter by the military authori-
ties here to re-establish the Feedmens Blu
reau in Virginia. In view of the failure Of
the crops. it is very certain that some meas
ure OF relief will have to be instituted to save
the poor negroes from starvation. Esams-
ner d Enquirer.
1t is stated that since the war, the State
Library has been robbed of many valuable
relics, and thousands Of volumes have been
carried off, nobody now knows by whom
Of75,30O volumes which ought to be in the
library, it is said that not 10000 can be
found. There is not even 0 complete set of
the acts of the General Assembly in the Of
fec Of the Clerk OF the House Of Delegates
Commissioner Delano is said to be on.
posed to the repeal of the income tax law.
Mr.. Delano's plan is to relieve the manu-
fauturing and producing interest as far as
possible. In his opinion the income tax is
the most just and equitable that is collected,
and therefore when the reduction is made be
will try to have 1t on some other source, and
leave the income tax last to be stricken off.
Secretary Boutwell, is said to agree with Mr..
| Delann.
On the 18th ofSeptember about $4,S64,-
125 in coin will be taken from the Treasury
Department to pay the semi-annual install
ment Of interest on the 10, 40 bonds, which
falls due on the first Of September and first
Of March respectively. The amount Of these
bonds outstanding is $194.467 800, and
bear interest at the rate of five per cent. per
annum in gold No further payments Of
gold interest will fall due after this until the
first Of November next. e,.1 81; go