Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1872-04-26
EDITORIAL BREV77ZES,

EDITORIAL BREV7TZES.
Chignons are discarded in Paris.
Cup-plates are all the style in Paris.
The W. Va. Legislature meets hereaft~ r
biennially.
A woman in Washington Territory has
shot and killed eight Indians.
Last Winter 700, 900. 600 feet of lumber
were cut in the forests of Maine.
The extra session Of the Legislature, ten
days session, cot the State $4,000.
The PeactI Crop in the South West it
is thought will be total failure.
Memphis felt the shock of an earthquake
on the Goth, lasting two minutes.
The Cuban Instruction, so says Havan-
ma letter, is far from being crushed.
Business is better this Spring in Rich
mond than at any time since the war.
R. D. Harrison, Chairman of Ohio Re-
publican State Committee, is dead.
London Physicians pronounce Conduran-
60, the pretended Cancer cure, humbug
Efforts are being made to establish a
Protestant Episcopal Church in Rome,
Italy.
Juarez says be will deliver Mexico to the
u. S. rather than let the revolutionists
rule.
A number of prominent Virginia Repub.
licans will attend the Cincinnati Conven.
ton.
Mr.. Charles Miller, aged u, a well
known Petersburg Merchant, died on the
10th.
Trumbull says Greeley is his candidate
for President and the only man who can
beat Grant.
There are 8,775 County and Township
officers in Va. and their salaries amount to
$1,1S4, 500.
The Court Of Appeals of Va. adjourned
at Richmond on the Goth, to meet al
Wytheville June 10th.
Col. Jno. S. Scott, Of New Orleans, the
well known scout Of the Army of Northern
Va died in that City recently.
Jno. r. Thompson, of the New York
Post, is on visit to his friends in his ma
tive city, Richmond.
Gov. Walker is strongly spoken of as the
candidate for Vice President on the Liberal
Republican Ticket.
A seller of indecent books, in New York
has been fined 5000 and sentenced to II
months imprisonment
The African Methodist Church, N. Y,
has discussed, without opposition, the ques-
ton of union With the white Church.
sup S.ans Johns and Whittle confirmed
!ei iVv peEaons aS-e,.es ss.ls. s.. Pe"l,7
Churches, Alexandra, on Sunday last.
A large Republican Mass Meeting wa
held at Vicksburg on the 22nd, and Dele
gates sent to the Cincinnati Convention.
Wendell Phillips, good Radical authority
says the Republican Party has accomplished
it's mission and must die, whether Grant il
elected or not.
There were l7S,975 negroes enlisted il
the u S. Army during the war and it vii
take So, 0OO,O to pay the bounty yet du'
them.
Gen. Bartlett, of Massachusetts,. says o
Grants administration "that it ought not tt
be above investigation, but rather abov
suspicion"
Some 45O, 900 Herrings arrived at Alex
andria up to 22nd. at 1915 to S. per thou
sand, and 5000 Shad at from So to So
per hundred. -.-
fGarrett' is the name of the new County
to be formed out of Allegheny, Md. Il
will cover 400 square miles and have 49,
900 inhabitants.
The Pope gave audience to 1000 citizens
Of Rome on the 21st and reproached the
italian Government for its usurpations Of the
rights of the Church
Che u. S. Supreme Court has decided
that bond given for slave is valid, there
by reversing the decision Of the Georgia
Supreme Court.
On the 22nd the Court of Claims decided
Cotton claims of $1,000, 900, against the
Government-being for seizures during
as well as after the war
The Richmond & Fredericksburg r. r.
Co. have completed their extension to
Quantico and will run to that point May LIST
and through to Alexandra by lst Of June
The people of Franklin have held meet
ing and resolved to unite with the citizens
of Bedford, in constructing Narrow Guage
Railroad from Liberty to Rocky Mount, at
cost of $780, 600.
Gov. Slockdale, Of Texas, has given $40
acres of land to the Texes Chair of Applied
Mathematics in W. & Lee University, ma.
king the cash endowment to the Chair $780,
900, which is to be raised to $50, 1000.
Gen. Grant allows but two regiments Of
cavalry for the protection of 1900 miles of
Texas frontier exposed to constant irraptions