Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1872-09-13
EDITORIAL BREVITLES.

A young girl of Lee, Mass, sold the hair
on her head for $65.
Charles O'Conor tells reporter that he
will not 60 into politics.
The Underground railway in New York is
to be begun next month.
St. Paul allowed 1852 marriages and only
16 divorces during the year II.
A Michigan mans thirty plum trees netted
him sixty bushels Of plums this season.
A majority of the Republican papers pub.
lished in Arkansas are for Greeley and
Brown.
The St. Paul Pioneer has published over
1000 names Of Republicans who support
Greeley.
Chicsgo has dog which unties horses
hitched to posts, then jumps into the buggy
and barks until the thing starts.
Notices of seventeen applications for d.
vorce appeared in one days issue Of the
Providence R. - Journal lately.
W. W. Flanagan and family, of Char
lottesville, Va, sailed from New York for
Europe in the steamer Java on Wednes.
day.
Major R. II. Glass has been appointed by
Governor Walksr,nspector at Friends ware
house, in 1ynchburg, on the part of the
KDest wholesale dealer sells six Gree
ley and Brown badges to one Grant and
Wilson in the city, and three to one in the
county.
Chas. Hamlin, bloody home guard and
son Of Senator Hamlin, is one of the Maine
signers to call for Grant soldiers" con.
vention.
"The only hope we now have" says SEN
ator Morton in writing to friend, sis in
preventing Democrats from voting for
Greeley"
There does not seem to be many Grant
Germans in the Nineteenth Ward, of New
York. The club in that Ward numbers on.
ly twenty members.
Forester, the alleged Nathan murder,
has been arrested and is in Jail in New York.
He is perfectly nonchalant and asserts his
ability to prove an alibi. -
On Tuesday last gentle Dubuque dam
sci entered saloon, kicked over a table,
drew revol2aI h the bar. tender, and led
her father 10y the ear.
g, in what he knows about farming,
gives plan to remove widows weeds he
says good-looking man has only to say,
"Wilt thou ?" and they wilt
An American General was married re-
Gently to French lady; neither knowing
asyllable of the others language, an inter-
prefer has accompanied them on their we'd
ding tour.
1t is said that such is the character of
those who went to Louisville for the Duncan
Convention that the proprietors of the prin-
cipal hotels had extra police detailed to
guard the houses.
The Lynchburg (va) N;rginian says
that the work Of grading on the Lynchburg
and Danville railroad is progressing rapidly,
and it is thought will be ready for the track
within the next sixty days.
The trial of Mrs Fair or the murder of
Col. Crittenden, is again going on in Cali
fornia before the 18th District Court Sew
eral days have been consumed in empannel-
ing jury and not juror obtained
The Geneva Arbitration will award in
gross the amount claimed, excluding indi.
rect damages and the expenses of chasing
and watching Confederate cruisers which
escaped from British waters, over $15,0 00,-
900.
1t may be matter Of congratulation to
Gu6 10 kbOW LHab IGODD, Lu6
Ohio man who donated the bull-pup 10 Grant,
upon which the latter refused to pay ex
press charges, is one of Banton Duncan's
recruits.
DR.. Schoeppe, who has laid in the Carlisle,
(Pa.) Jail for two years under sentence of
death for the murder of Miss Steinecke, has
just had new trial and been acquitted He
is now prosecuting his claim for her prop
erty under her last will, devising it to him.
While the Steam Tug, Agnes, was tow
ing several boats down James River, On
Wednesday, her boiler exploded below City
Point, entirely demolshing the boat and
killing five persons, among the number,
Capt. Griffith Jones, Of Liverpool, who had
just arrived at Harrison's Bar with. cargo
eff salt.
Homestead Exemption not Good
Against Old Debts.
The Danville Times furnishes the follow
ing points decided by Judge Rives in the
Homestead Exemption law: