Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1872-05-17
EDITORIAL BREVITZES.

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Out West they call whiskey grain ele-
,ator.
Wilmington N. G. has green peas at 5octs
! peck.
Thos. Buchanan Read, the poet and pain
Ter is dead.
Fifty deaths from smallpox in Philadel-
phia last week.
The price Of Rye is rising, owing to the
demand for Rye flour.
One half Of the town Of Somerset, Pa,
has been destroyed by fire.
Another colliery explosion at Scranton.
Monday, and three persons killed.
Petersburg has had large and enthusi-
astic Greeley and Brown ratification meet
ing.
The Carlists are reported surrendering,
in large bodies to the Government troops Of
Spain.
Fahnestock's Lead Works, Pittsburg,
were destroyed by fire Oh the 13th-loss
100000.
stThe Old Reliable Theatre" with Helen
D'Este as the Star, is drawing crowded
houses in Lynchburg.
The municipal elections in North Carroll
ma have resulted in Democratic victories in
nearly every instance.
The New York Herald says the majority
of its exchanges, Republican and Democratic
90 for Greeley and Brown.
The Gar proposes to decorate Gen. Sher.
idan with the order of the White Eagle, fol
learning Alexis to shoot Buffalo.
The Maryland Democratic papers prefer
Greeley to Grant, but some of them want
straight-out Democratic nominations.
The Havana students, sentenced to the
Chain Gang for violating the grave of Cast
anon, have been pardoned by royal de.
cree.
The Tennessee Democratic Convention
passed resolutions against Democratic nom
nation and favoring Greeley and Brown,
by vote Of 721 to 1872.
1t is thought that emigration from Ire
land to this country will be greater this
year than for number past. Let them
come, they make good citizens.
Judge Wexford, Of the Richmond Cir
cult Court, has decided that the coupons of
State bonds should be received for taxes, not
withstandipg the repeating act Of the Leg
islature.
The State Executive Conservative Com
mittee is called to meet in Richmond, on the
18th inst, to morrow, to consider the State
action with reference to the National Demo-
cratic Convention.
Mace and O'Baldwin are booked for a
prize fight, for the champion pugilistic belt,
somewhere in Virginia on July 10th next
Then WIN be the chance to bag whole
gang Of outlaws.
Cassius M. Clay proposes, that the Dem
ocrats assist in the election of the Liberal
Republican Candidates and they will, in
turn, assist the Democrats to elect their
members Of Congress.
The Radical National Executive Commit
tee have been officially advised of the ap-
pointment of $50 delegates to the Pbiladel-
phia Convention, 1858 of whom were instruc-
ted to vote for Grants denomination.
Morris Jasper, living with F. F. Triplett
Of Fairfax, is perhaps the only surviving
servant of Geo. Washington. He was six.
teen years old when Geo. Washington died
and is now feeble and rapidly declining.
Grant has requested Casey, Collector of
Customs at New Orleans and his Deputy to
resign, they say, after the investigation by
the Congressional Committee Wonder if
they found them leaning towards Greeley ?
The County of Albemarle has appealed
from the decision of Judge Wexford, of the
Richmond Circuit Court. in the noted Mil.
Ter will case, and has employed Judge Rob-
ertson as associate Counsel with Judge Mer-
edith.
From the Dansville, IN. W Advertiser,
we learn that the Northern people all along
the route, are taking great interest in and
making great preparations for the Excursion
Of Southern Editors, who will start from
Richmond on June 18th.
Hon. John Goode, Jr., Of Norfolk, the
Virginia member Of the National Democrat
ic Executive Committee, in correcting the
N. Y. Herald, favors Greeley and Brown
and opposes nomination at Baltimore. on
the ground that Democrat can not now be
elected
Among the Germans in the West there
was great dissatisfaction with the Liberal
Republican nomination imm ediately after
the Cincinnati ticket was promulgated, but
the reports now state, that, although there
is still discomfort. they are more favorable
to the ticket.
Summers Civil rights bill was again tack
ed on to the Amnesty in the Senate on
the 9th, and the whole rejected. Some of
the Republican lawyers in the Senate op.
posed tie bill on the ground of unconstitu- !
tionality, but Sumner, Morton and Co. car,
ried the dav.