Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1869-04-02
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Green peas have made their appearance in
Savannah
Plttsburg has man with beard eight
feetlong.
1t is now far from certain that the eff
teentl Amendment will be ratified by the
requisite number of States
The Legislature of Pennsylvania has rasi-
ned the Fifteenth Amendment I'm both
houses BY strict party vote.
$50 far eleven States have taken definite
action on the Fifteenth Amendment, nine of
which have ratified and two rejected it.
+ The French. custonl-house returns show
that a million francs worth of veloei pedes
have been exported within the last twelve
months.
President Grant was SO ill on Monday
that he received no visitors and transacted
no public business
| Hon. Edward Bates, United States Attor-
hey General under President Lincoln, died
in st. Louis Friday afternoon. He was d.
native Of Virginia.
| Mrs. Fanny Morse, of New Hampshire,
is over 100 and attributes her longevity to
the fact that she has been married three
times
A factory owner in Maysville, Kentucky,
lately advanced the wages Of all his work.
men and made each of them present of rs
pounds ofsugar.
The Culpeper Observer says that seventy
| five thousand dollars worth of real estate on
the Orange railroad have been sold within
the past two weeks.
| The question Of priestly celibacy has come
up once more in Naples, and the right Of
priests to marry is now res ddjudlcata in
italy, outside the States of the Church.
From Havana dispatch says thatit is
known that several armed expeditions from
the United States in aid of the reyolutionists
have safely landed in Cuba
! Encouraging accounts of the crops are
received from all parts Of California. The
/ yield Of wheat and barley promises to be
largely in excess Of any former year.
james NJ Mason, of Mason and Slidel
fame, will leave Canada in day OF two
and expects to be at his old home in Win
chester, Va, by the middle of March
Vermont paper
A negro woman forty-two years OF age
living seventeen miles from Athens, Ala,
gave birth to twins on the 18th instant-one
a white infant, and the other as black as the
ace Of spades. -.-.. ~.
AN OPENING FOR THE "CoMM1rTEE OF
NINE. THE rehcarsals have begun for the
''Great Peace Jubilee" to take place in Bos-
ton next June. Our xix MUSES." had bet
ter go there at once.-Enquirer. aai.r
Secretary Cox says the President has full
ly determined on the policy Of sending Qua
kers to deal with the Indians, and will soon
begin appointing prominent members of that
society as superintendents and Indian agents.
The oldest Mason in the world is supposed
to he resident of Giles county in this State,
Mr. David Eaton He was born in Ire
land, is upwards one hundred years old, and
has been Mason about 80 years.
Bernard and General Peyton, brothers to
the Peytons who run the great White Sui
phur, have leased the Rockbridge Baths,
and will open them in style in May. They
will continue to keep the Lexington Hotel,
Lexington.
A flying machine, it is announced, has
recently been invented by citizen Of Har-
rishurg, Pa, and the model is said to ex-
hibit great ingcnuety. The wings are ff-
teen feet in length each, and together will
cover nine hundred square feet of surface
On Saturday an order was issued from the
Navy Department, ordering two iron elads
the Galena and Seminole, from Ports
mouth Navy Yard, to report to Rear Admir-
al Hof, on the West India station immedi-
ately.
There is but gap now of one hundred
and twenty-six miles between the advancing
| ends of the Union Pacific and the Central
| Pacific railroads. The Government Com
missioners, however, certify that both roads
are alike incompletely constructed,
A delegation of Friends from Philadel-
phia have had consultation with the Pres
ident, Secretary Of the Interior, and House
and Senate Committees on Indian Affairs,
as to the best means Of Christianzing and
civiizing the Indian tribes, and bettering
their condition generally.
Miss Mary Grant. of Richmond, was mar
ried in that city on Thursday last, to Mr..
Ford, Of Goochlaud county. It will be re-
nembered they were the subjects of the ar
article in the Southern Opinion which re-
suited in the killing of its editor, H. Riyes
| Pollard.
l would have ceased to indulge in that
impious belief, once my favorite, that, had
Adam and Eve been Yankees, they would
not have waited for the Lord to expel them
| from the garden of Eden, but would have
emigrated long before and gone to specula-
ting in wild lands--Don Piat .iis
A fatal epidemic prevails at Sanderson-
Vile, Georgia, From Sunday to Tuesday
evening there were seven deaths in the Will
age, all children The doctors say that the
disease is an inflammation of the membrane
covering the BRAIN the symptoms resembling
very much those observed in congestive
chills.
General Malone has been elected Preai-
dent of the Virginia and Kentucky railroad
/ (from Bristol to Cumberland Gap0 in place
Of R. W. Hughes, resigned. The Lynch
burg Neacs says this gives General Malone
the control of four railroad lines, and of
course he will have his hands full. We do
not doubt, however, but that he will be
found fully equal 10 tiaoir euoenssfnl GO
laent.