Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1870-06-17


is related by a gentleman as having occur
red during the decoration ceremonies A
little girl entered the cemetery carrying
wreaths Of beautiful flowers, and fastened
to the side where the Confederate dead lay,
and proceeded to place wreath on each
grave. A friend Of hers approached her,
says, ''But, Susie, those are the rebels
graves She replied, Yes, know it,
but my pa was soldier, and died in Libby
prison. and is buried down South; so
much hope some little girls they will strew
flowers on his grave l thought | would
bring these and put them on the rebels
graves. May besome ofthem have little girls
at home, youknow "-LafayeHc (hd) Dis
Chicago has a horse that chews tobacco,
and is regularly furnished with the weed by
his groom.
Eleven thousand eight hundred and nine
ty-two cmigrants arrived in New York last
week, 5000 of whom went West or to the
interior
A Louisiana negro who was paid his
wages in silver coin, was thankful that he
had "got some money that rats could
chaw F."
The Mississippi Legislators make good
thing of it. Besides drawing S. day,
one OF them keeps a butcher shop, and
another plays the fiddle at private parties.
A correspondent writing to the Wythc-
vile Dispatch from Bland county says -
''The' wheat looks better all through Bland
than it has for ten years 4 great deal
has been sown."
A great revival at Dayton, Ohio, has re-
suited in the addition of one thousand two
hundred to the different churches, of whom
two hundred and thirty united with the first
Luth eran Church
Paris annually sends twenty fye thousand
children into the country to the charge of
nurses. OF this number about eleven thou
sand die in the first year from insufficient
care.
A woman at Helena, Arkansas, was fired
at by her husband on Monday, and saved
by the ball embedding itself in her chignon,
the first benefit known to have resulted from
one of these adornmcnts. The intended
murderer then committed suicide.
1t was regarded as strong case of cir
cumstantial evidence in Pittsburg court,
the other day, when the plaintiff produced
the skillet with which his wife truck him,
and showed the jury how nicely the three
1aps fit in the hnlas in his hood
The U. S. Government, after occupying
the Jeff. Davis mansion for five years and
damaging it, has proposed to the Richmond
City Council to relinquish it if they are first
relieved of all responsibility for rent cor
any other claim whatever"
New TELEGRAPH OFFICE "A new tele-
graph Office was established yesterday by
the Western and Atlantic Union Company,
at Lovingston depot, Nelson county This
will be a great convenience to the people of
that station
TIE WHEAT The hot sun we have had
for the last three Or four days is bringing up
the wheat that was knocked down by the
late rains, and now promise a good yield -
The corn and oats are both Furnishing, as
also the weeds, which, however, will soon
be eradicated -PietlnaoM Vi,yiniian
AGREAr LAND MARr-Topeka, Kansas,
will soon be the largest land market in the
United States. In addition to the millions
Of acres now offered for sale there by the rail-
road companies and real estate agents, it is
estimated that one and half million of acres
will soon be placed in market there.
PUNISHMENT FOR GAMBLING AT FAIRS
The laws Of Indiana, backed up by decis-
ion of the Supreme Court, place all who
participate in the species of gambling usual
ly carried on at church and charity fairs on
the same footing as lottery gamblers They
are all liable to heavy penalties-fines and
The New York Sun says that "the White
Sulphur Springs, in West Virginia, promi-
SEES to be an important centre Of social inter-
course during present summer. A large
number of intelligent persons from the North
are expected to arrive simultaneously with
the thousands from all parts Of the South"
An exchange says that Capt. 3. D Farms
worth, Grand Sire of the Grand Lodge Of
the [. o. O. f. of the u S., who has just
returned from California, says he saw straw
berries in that State as large as Yankee
pumpkins, and that to ascertain when they
are ripe, they plug them as we do water
melons.
Cain, negro member of the South Caro-
lima Senate, has issued an earnest appeal to
the Radicals to purge out the thieves and
robbers who infest the party in that State. "
When this purging shall have been done
there will he about as much of the parry
left as there is of a key of gunpowder INTO
which somebody has thrust red-hot poker.
f. &C. R. R.-Four miles of the track
has been laid on the Fredericksburg and
Gordonsvile Railroad, and it is expected to
comnlete it as far as Charlottesville by the
4th of July, when an excursion will be made
to the battle field on that day.
THE PETROLEUM TRADE. During the
mast week four ships, seven barks, seven
briggs and one schooner sailed from Phila-
delphia to foreign ports with 2 S99, TIA gal
Ions Of refined petroleum, making the total
exnorts since the first Of January 1885,
$40 gallons; nine ships, nineteen barks and
c. br;oc ave chartered and loading with oil.