Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1872-06-07
EDITORIAL BREVITIES.

JAS Gordon Bennett, Proprietor Of the
New York Herald, is dead
Hon. S. S. Cox, of Ohio, who has been
seriously i'll, is rapidly recovering.
A deluging rain storm passed over Gen.
trail Illinois Sunday night, doing much dam
age.
Yankee Allen, the great Radical strate-
gist of Prince Edward has been indicted for
dealing Faro.
Carl Schurz is said to show the effects of
the hard work and constant excitement of
the past winter.
From the reports received, the II per
cent clause is stricken from the Constitution
by large majority.
The people of Bedford are enthusiastic
in the effort for narrow guage railroad to
Rocky Mount, Franklin.
The Princess Alexandra, it is reported,
is becoming deaf Her mother, the Queen
ofDenmark, is afflicted with the same in
trinity.
Senator Buckalew, of Pennsy lvania, has
been unanimously nominated by the Demo-
cratic State Convention as their Candidate
for Governor.
A dog belonging to Mr.. Fizer Of Liberty
went mad last week, and, before he was
killed, bit two other dogs and came near
biting his owner
Gen. Heldenstein, the officer who direct
ed the bombardment of Strasbourg, during
the late Franco-G German war, died at Berlin,
Prussia, ON the 3rd.
John Fl. Surratt was married quietly in
St. Mary's Church, Washington, on the
23rd ult., to Miss M. Victorine Hunter, of
Montgomery County Nd.
The Southern Claims Commission has sus
pended the oral hearing Of testimony till
October, and will proceed to decide cases
heard before special commissions.
One year ago the site Of Huntington WesI
Va was corn field. To-day $50 buildings
have been erected and others going up and
the population is between 1900 and 200G.
President Grant is extremely anxious to
extend the law suspending the habeas cor
pus, but the House of Representatives have
been unable, thus far, to see through his
glasses.
1t is rumored that the Alexandria and
Fredericksburg R. r. Co. will take possess
sion of the Alexandria and Washington rail.
road, but whether as owners OR lessees is
not stated.
James Buchanan is said to have descend.
ed from an Irish noblemsn of the eleventh
century named Anselm Buey Okyan pro
nounced Buey O'Kane, and uItimateIy
corrupted" into Buchanan.
Ex-President Jefferson Davis denies hay
ing ever favored the election of Greeley and
Brown. He asserts that he never express.
ed an opinion on the subject We felt Ger.
tain of this when we saw the staten ent
made.
Experiments have recently been made to
ascertain the amount of loss that coal under.
goes when exposed to the weather. Anthra.
cite and camel suffer least, but ordinary
bitumipous coal loses nearly one-third in
weight, and nearly one-half in gas-makipg
quality.
A severe hail storm passed over the
vicinity of Hagerstown, Nd, on Monday,
9th ult., destroying the growing wheat and
corn, vineyards, trees, the windows of a
number of dwellings &c. 1t passed. over
section about i miles in breadth and m a.
ny miles in length.
Prof. Atkins, who was attached to the
circus which exhibited at Decatur, Alabama,
on Monday, assembled with hot air balloon
during the afternoon, when the balloon be-
came detached from the windlass fixing its
altitude and assembled to the height of half
mile and then rapidly descended into the
1CuucSSGG river TUl. AIkIlS was drown
ed though every effort was made to save his
life.
Mrs Anna NJ. Fitzhugh has flied the
largest claim before the Southern Claims
Commission at Washington. Tt amounts to
1915, 900 and is for wood and timber taken
from her estate, "Ravensworth," Fairfax
Va She held protection papers from Gen.
Grant, of date June 18th 1861, which re.
citing, that she is lady of excellence, also
speaks of her connection with the Father OF
his Country, and gave outright protection.
THANKSGIVING, June, nd.-The radical
party has changed its determination not to
hold convention and nominate candidate
for Congress in this district. A circular
has been issued calling convention Of that
party TO meet in Staunton on the 18th of
July, for the purpose of appointing an cleo
tor aud nominating candidate for Con.
gress. G. Douglass Gray, Of Rockingham,
seems to be the most prominent candidate |
for the latter position - Baltimore SIN.