Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1872-07-19

portion OF our Trip IL longer tnau VIC oAP0o''
ed, we defer till the future to speak OF the
conclusions derived on the Excursion.
EDITORIAL BREVITLES.
The Sumach season has opened.
Peach trees in Illinois are full of fruit
Chicago prohibits quack medicine post
ers.
Sturgeon are plentiful in the Alexandria
Market.
The trial of VIM. M. Tweed, Of New
York, has commenced.
Mrs. Mary Twtty, recently died in Ten
nessee, aged lis years.
It is said the La Crosse Democrat has
been sold to pay debts.
Thirty-one million dollars are invested in
the wine culture of California.
Six thousand men and boys day patron.
ize the New York public baths.
Henry Ward Beecher's Silver Wedding
comes off on the 10th of Octobsr.
All the New York Republican State Sen
ators are for Grant and Wilson.
The wealth Of Iowa equally divided would
give $60103 to every person in the State.
Twenty Thousand persons attended the
Concert of the German Band in Baltimore.
The Petersburg Daily Progress has been
sold to COL W. R. johnson for $12 900.
There was a hung jury in the Stokes tri-
al and he was remanded to Jail, bail being,
refused.
The City debt of New York is $127,-
100000, and the taxes this year $751;
100000.
An Chic hen hatched out mixed brood
of chickens, and deliberately killed all the
black ones.
The gold in the bracelet given to Queen
Victoria by the Burmese Embassy weighs
seven pounds.
Peter H. Watson, has been elected Pres
dent, and Alex. Diven, Vice-P President of
the Erie Railway.
1t is rumored in New Haven that ex-
Governor English is to be candidate for
Congress this year.
G. i. Conway, Of Fredericksburg, has
been appointed a State cadet in the Virgil MIA
Military Institute.
On Wednesday hail.stones as large as
walnuts, fell in the vicinity of Manassas,
Prince William county
General A. P. Hovey, of Indiana, pre-
sented Grant with an Ibex robe, worth 5000
and hasn't received an office.
The hay crop is almost as good as last
years and has been secured in excellent
condition Pa. Watc7naan.
Nearly FIVE thousand palmetto hats have
been manufactured at Fernandina, Florida
and shipped North this season.
The seed of the blue grass, which has
made portion of Kentucky famous, sells
for twenty-five cents bushel.
There were fifty thousand people at Long
Branch on Tuesday, the day Of the race be-
, tween Bassett and Longfellow.
Jno. Robinson has sued the New York &
New Haven R. R. for $50. 600 damages in
wrecking his Circus and Menagerie.
The Democratic and Liberal Repu blcan
State Committees of Illinois met on the
10th and selected full electoral ticket
Lieut.. Gov. Pinchback, (colored) of Lou.
isiana, who has heretofore favored Grant,
has come out unquali6edly for Greeley
Donnely declines the Republican Con-
gressional nomination in the First Minnesota
District and announces himself for Greeley
General Fitzhugh Lee has sold tract Of
land adj joining Fairfax station, containing
POI acres, to John 3d. Mitchell for 81 900
Ulysses Grant ORR has sailed for Eu
rope. If he had waited until next summer
he might have taken his father along
The dying gift of Bennett, of the New
York Herald. was $4,000 towards com.
pleting the Catholic Cathedral in New York
city.
A SUGGESTIVE INCIDENT, that of hearse
going down Governor street, Richmond, on
Saturday afternoon, with trunk behind
the dash board
Rev. DR.. j. B. Jeter, Editor of the Re-
ligaous Herald. Richmond, is making pre-
parations to leave for Rome, as the head of
the Baptist Mission in Italy.
Five columns Of deaths, obituaries and
funeral notices is good deal, and yet that
is only what the Philadelphia Ledger fur.
nished its readers on Saturday.
SAN Francisco, July 12-Edward Stan
leg, provisional Governor of North Carroll
ma under President Lincoln, has been strick
en- with paralysis and is dying.
Solomon City, Kan, is hard place for
husbands. One day last week FIVE wives
left their better halves without adieux, and
went back East to ''live with mamma "